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Delete. As always, unelected candidates for office do not get Wikipedia articles just for being candidates per se — if you cannot demonstrate and
reliably source that he has preexisting notability for some other reason besides being a candidate, then he has to win the election, not just run in it, to clear the notability bar as a politician. But not only does this article not demonstrate any preexisting notability for prior endeavours, it doesn't even try.
Bearcat (
talk) 16:53, 5 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete fails
WP:NPOL; no other source of notability found in searches of his quite unique name.
E.M.Gregory (
talk) 13:53, 6 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. Some new sources have been added, including a mention of Silveira in the Modesto Bee. Silveira is a minor candidate, but unlike some of the others mentioned in the Los Angeles Times article he is the nominee of an actual political party. The
American Solidarity Party article shows that in the 2016 presidential election, the party's nominee was certified as a write-in in eighteen states (including California), and on the ballot in
Colorado. So while not every candidate is notable, being the nominee of this party in California suffices for notability. — Lawrence King(
talk) 22:12, 7 May 2018 (UTC)reply
The mention is in a letter to the editor: hardly significant, and your assumption would make most if not all minor candidates presumptively notable.
SportingFlyertalk 05:50, 8 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete candidates for governor are not default notable, nothing else makes him notable. Even being a nominee of a major party is not normally enough to make someone notable.
John Pack Lambert (
talk) 21:30, 8 May 2018 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
California gubernatorial election, 2018, the primary reason Silveira has any coverage at all. There is no significant, third party coverage in reliable, independent sources. The Modesto Bee source is a letter to the editor. Primary sources (e.g. interview in Imago Dei Politics) do not count towards notability. Being included in a list of 27 gubernatorial candidates does not establish independent notability.
--Animalparty! (
talk) 22:52, 11 May 2018 (UTC)reply
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