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This article should be deleted for lack of notability. I am the subject of the article, and I have been a private citizen for many years. I was an officer in the US Air Force for longer than I was a member of the Virginia House, and have been out of public life for longer than I was in it. The article contains references to my private life and my family that are incomplete and misleading. As a non-notable private citizen, I have a right to privacy, as does my family. — Preceding
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Dlenglin96 (
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06:26, 14 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. We can certainly reconsider how much information the article needs to contain about your post-political activities or your private personal life — but our job is to have articles about everybody who has ever held a state legislature seat, not just the current incumbents, so the fact that you're not still in office today is not a valid reason to delete any record of the fact that you ever held the office in the first place. Again, we can discuss and review how much information the article actually needs to contain about other aspects of your life outside of politics — but like it or not, the fact that you did hold a state legislature seat means that we have to keep an article about at least that aspect of your life.
Bearcat (
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21:30, 15 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep Passes
WP:NPOL. While there are community standards for when a semi-notable person can request that a page about themselves be deleted, an elected official in a state legislature will always be notable. All information in a BLP must be sourced to reliable and independent news outlets, and there are policies, including
WP:WEIGHT, that seek to ensure appropriate balancing in the article. --
Enos733 (
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06:07, 16 January 2020 (UTC)reply
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