Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hector Birchwood
without prejudice against recreation on or after election day if he wins the seat. As always, being a candidate in an election the person has not already won is not a notability claim that gets a person into Wikipedia in and of itself — the notability test for politicians is ''holding'' a notable political office, not just running for one. But the sources shown here are not mounting a credible claim that he had preexisting notability for any reason that would have gotten him an article independently of the candidacy: four of the eight footnotes are |blogs, which are not reliable or notability-supporting sources ''at all''; three of the four media hits tangentially verify stray facts about other people without ''ever'' mentioning Hector's name ''at all'' in conjunction with them; and he is not ''himself'' the ''subject'' of the only reliable source that actually mentions his name at all, but is merely a provider of soundbite in an article about something else. This is ''not'' the kind of sourcing it takes to demonstrate that he was notable enough for an article ''prior'' to running as a candidate for political office, so he still has to ''win'' the election before he gets to claim notability as a politician
— User:Bearcat, 14:32, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BLOGS (Wikipedia:Verifiability)