Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hal Parrish
without prejudice against recreation if somebody can put the emphasis where it belongs. A person does not get a Wikipedia article just for being a ''candidate'' in an election — either you show and properly source that he was ''already'' eligible for a Wikipedia article for some other reason ''independent'' of his candidacy, or he has to ''win'' the election, not just run in it, to clear the bar because of the election itself. Campaign coverage, further, does ''not'' assist a candidate for office in clearing GNG just for the candidacy — ''all'' candidates for office ''always'' garner campaign coverage, so such coverage is , not notability-building. If campaign coverage built notability in and of itself, we would always have to keep an article about every single candidate for any office at all. But we ''don't'' do that.Accordingly, in order for Parrish to get an article ''today'', the substance and the sourceability would have to be shifted onto his role as mayor of Manassas — and even then, Manassas is ''not'' large enough that he would get an automatic ''presumption'' of notability for that in the ''absence'' of a demonstrated  pass, so there aren't grounds for an automatic "keep because mayor" either. I'm willing to withdraw this ''if'' the substance and the weight sourcing are transferred onto his mayoralty — but until that actually happens, nothing present in ''this'' version of the article qualifies him to keep it ''now
— User:Bearcat, 19:24, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:ROUTINE||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)