Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brian Maryott
without prejudice against recreation on or after election day if he wins. People do not get articles just for being candidates in elections they have not yet won —  requires ''holding'' a notable office, not just running for one — but being mayor of a small town in the 33K population range is not "inherently" notable either, so that doesn't get him over the "preexisting notability for other reasons independent of the candidacy" test, and the depth of media coverage shown here is nowhere near enough to get him over the "his candidacy is more special than everybody else's candidacies" test either. But we also don't keep articles about candidates in draftspace ''pending'' the election results, either, because that just turns ''draftspace'' into the repository of campaign brochures for unelected candidates that our rules were intentionally designed to prevent mainspace from becoming. If he wins in November, administrators have the ability to undelete the article at that time with one punch on one button, so "don't lose the work because he might win" is not a compelling reason to waive our rules
— User:Bearcat, 11:28, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)