Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David M. Dodson
People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being as yet unelected candidates in future elections — if you cannot demonstrate and |reliably source that he was ''already'' notable enough for a Wikipedia article for some other reason ''before'' becoming a candidate, then he has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to pass . But this shows no evidence of preexisting notability at all: outside of his campaign-related coverage itself, this is referenced ''entirely'' to |blogs and |primary sources and glancing namechecks of his existence in coverage of other things, which are not support for notability at all, and the couple of pieces of campaign-related coverage don't automatically hand him a  pass, because ''every'' candidate in ''any'' election could ''always'' show some of that. We are not a free publicity venue for aspiring officeholders to post their campaign brochures — if he wins the election in November, then obviously he'll clear NPOL as an actual elected officeholder, and the article can then be recreated as his basis for notability will have changed. But no, nothing here qualifies him to have an article just for being a ''candidate
— User:Bearcat, 22:33, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:NPOL||WP:BLOGS||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)