Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merrill Gay
Being an as yet non-winning candidate in a future mayoral election is not a notability claim that gets a person into Wikipedia in and of itself, as the creator wrongly claimed when removing the prod notice a few hours ago: if you cannot demonstrate and |properly source that he was ''already'' notable enough for some other reason ''independent'' of his candidacy, then he has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to get an article because of the election per se. But neither serving on a school board nor being executive director of a non-profit organization constitutes a notability freebie either: school board is not a level of office that satisfies  at all, and the organizational work is referenced to the organization's own |self-published content about itself, not to any reliable source coverage ''about'' his work in that role which would get him past  for it. So no prejudice against recreation on or after election day if he wins, but nothing here already gets him an article today
— User:Bearcat, 19:40, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:NPOL||WP:SELFPUB||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)