Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Barros (2nd nomination)
without prejudice against recreation if the basis for notability changes in the future. Literally by definition, ''every'' candidate for mayor ''everywhere'' will ''always'' be able to show some evidence of campaign coverage in the local media of the city where they're running for mayor, precisely because giving equal time to candidates in local elections is literally local media's ''job'' — so if the existence of campaign coverage were all it took to give candidates a GNG-based exemption from having to pass NPOL, then ''every'' candidate would ''always'' get that exemption and NPOL itself would never actually apply to anybody at all anymore. So no, |run of the mill campaign coverage doesn't cut it — you need to demonstrate that either (a) he already had preexisting notability for ''other'' reasons ''independent'' of political candidacies (the Cynthia Nixon test), or (b) he could credibly claim that his candidacy was markedly more ''special'' than other people's candidacies, in such a way that even if he loses the election and never accomplishes another thing in his life, his candidacy itself would still pass the |ten year test for enduring significance anyway (the Christine O'Donnell test). But this article demonstrates neither of those things, so just having campaign coverage in the context of running for mayor isn't enough as it isn't any different from what every other person who ever ran for mayor of a city also has
— User:Bearcat, 19:10, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:MILL||WP:10YT (Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill)