Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacob Hornberger
People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates in elections they did not win, but this article is not |reliably sourcing that he had preexisting notability for other reasons independent of the candidacy. The references are overwhelmingly |primary sources, such as his self-published biographical sketches on the websites of directly affiliated organizations and pieces of his own bylined writing — exactly zero of the footnotes represent ''reliable'' sources writing ''about Jacob Hornberger'' as a ''subject''. Conversely, ''several'' sources represent Jacob Hornberger ''writing'' content about other ''things'' — but he has to be the ''subject'' of a source, not the bylined author of it, for that source to count as support for his notability. People are also not exempted from having to have any media coverage just because they happen to be "representatives of minority viewpoints" — even there, the notability test still requires reliable sources to analyze and contextualize his ''significance'' as a representative of those viewpoints, so it still comes down to the fact that we're still batting zero for evidence of reliable sources
— User:Bearcat, 17:02, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)