Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ethan Sonneborn
to the election per E.M.Gregory. Every candidate in every election always gets media coverage, so the notability test for an election candidate is not just "media coverage exists" — because, again, it never, ever ''doesn't'' exist. What needs to be shown, rather, is "the volume of coverage has exploded so far beyond the bounds of normal that his candidacy has a credible claim to being ''special''", which is not being shown by the number of footnotes present here. The determining factor is not |current newsiness, it's |will people still be looking for this article ten years from now — and there's no substantive reason to believe that the answer to that test would be yes
— User:Bearcat, 05:54, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEWS||WP:10YT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)