Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Keatley
Local coverage of local elections ''always'' exists, so ''every'' candidate for ''any'' office could ''always'' claim to pass  if coverage of the election campaign itself were all it took. To get an as yet unelected candidate into Wikipedia ''before'' he's declared the ''winner'' of the election, what you need to show is one of two things: either (a) he was ''already'' notable enough for an article for some other reason ''before'' throwing his hat in the electoral ring, or (b) the coverage of his candidacy is exploding to Christine O'Donnell proportions. But simply including a ''bibliography'' of his academic publications in the article is not what it takes to get him over  — it takes ''media'' coverage ''about'' his work as an academic, of which none has been shown here at all — and the amount of campaign coverage shown here is ''not'' demonstrating that his candidacy would somehow deserve special treatment over and above all the non-winning candidates in last year's election who ''didn't'' get articles for that fact in and of itself. Campaign coverage is , not notability-conferring in and of itself, because ''no'' candidate in ''any'' election ''ever'' fails to garner at least as much coverage as has been shown here — our guiding notability principle is |"what will people still need to know ten years from now?", not |"who happens to be in the news today?", so politicians get Wikipedia articles for ''winning'' election and ''holding'' office, not just for ''running'' in an election
— User:Bearcat, 22:00, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:ACADEMIC||WP:ROUTINE||WP:10YT||WP:NOTNEWS (Wikipedia:Notability)