Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arik Bjorn
Unelected candidates do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates — if you cannot demonstrate and source that he ''already'' qualified for an article under some other notability criterion ''independent'' of his candidacy (e.g. preexisting notability in another field of endeavour, already having held a different notable political office, etc.), then he has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to get over . Our role on Wikipedia, when it comes to politics, is to keep and maintain articles about ''holders'' of political office, not necessarily every ''candidate'' for it — some candidates in some circumstances can be notable for other reasons ''besides'' the candidacy itself, but the candidacy itself is not a valid reason for an encyclopedia article. And the ''number'' of votes a person did or didn't get in the ''process'' of ''not'' winning the seat makes no difference, either. But this makes no credible claim that he had any preexisting notability, and the sourcing is nowhere near strong enough to claim that he passes  anyway: it's ''far'' too dependent on |primary sources and |blogs, with not ''nearly'' enough evidence of |reliable source coverage. As noted, Rob Miller (South Carolina politician) may not actually be eligible to keep that article either — but that will have to be determined by evaluating ''his'' article for whether ''he'' has a credible claim of notability or not, as ''neither'' article has ''any'' bearing on whether the ''other'' article is keepable or not
— User:Bearcat, 18:25, 22 November 2016 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL||WP:GNG||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:BLOGS||WP:RS (Wikipedia:Notability)