Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sema Hernandez
While it's certainly possible for a person who runs as a political candidate but loses to still be notable anyway, this article isn't showing that at all. There are two ways that condition can be attained: either (a) she was already notable for other reasons that would have gotten her an article ''anyway'' (e.g. Cynthia Nixon), or (b) her campaign has received such an unusual explosion of media coverage, far beyond the scope of what every candidate in every election always gets, that she has a credible claim to being ''special'' (e.g. Christine O'Donnell). But this article demonstrates neither of those things: it makes no claim of preexisting notability for other reasons, but is just the completely routine campaign brochure (complete with a "her opinions on the issues" section) that could be written about absolutely any candidate, and its references are not |reliable sources for the purposes of anointing her candidacy as special — it's referenced almost entirely to |primary sources and Reddit threads and Twitter tweets and YouTube videos that are not evidence of notability, and the only three references that actually count as ''reliable'' sources are not substantively ''about'' her, but all just glancingly namecheck her existence within coverage of other people. This is not how you make an as yet unelected political candidate special enough to clear the notability bar despite not passing  — if she wins the seat in 2020, then she'll obviously get an article at that time, but neither the substance nor the sourcing on offer here are enough to already get her over the bar today
— User:Bearcat, 16:00, 13 March 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)