Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ian G. Walker (2nd nomination)
People do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates in elections they didn't win — if you cannot demonstrate and reliably source that he was already notable enough for an article for some other reason before becoming a candidate, then he has to win the election, not just run in it, to become notable as a politician. But this article cites no |reliable sources at all, instead merely |linkfarming a directory of |primary source links to directly affiliated "references" like his own campaign website and the websites of organizations he was employed by, and it makes no claim of preexisting notability that's "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have reliable source coverage. I don't know where the OBE claim in the original discussion came from, because the article text doesn't state or source that Walker has an OBE, and didn't even state or source that at the time of the original discussion either — and even if it were actually verifiable at all, we still only accept the ''higher'' ranks (CBE and above) as a notability claim, not the lower MBE or OBE ranks
— User:Bearcat, 02:49, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:NOTLINKFARM||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)