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The result was keep. WP:SNOW. (non-admin closure) Curbon7 ( talk) 23:15, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
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Fails WP:NBIO, no Independent Sources WP:IS seem to mention this person in a web search. --- Avatar317 (talk) 01:11, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Authors, Politicians, Military, New York, and Virginia. CAPTAIN RAJU (T) 02:36, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep. Article does need improvement, but state legislators are inherently notable per WP:NPOL #1 — they're exactly the type of topic who are so important, so mission critical, for us to have articles about that we have to keep them even if the sourcing is inadequate — the only way to actually get an article about a state legislator deleted is if the article might be a hoax because it's impossible to verify that he even held a state legislature seat at all. But for a politician who was first elected to office 20 years ago, it's incredibly unlikely that their best sourcing would Google well — just because he isn't getting coverage now, when he isn't in office anymore and thus wouldn't be expected to be getting much coverage today, doesn't prove that he wasn't getting covered 10 and 15 and 20 years ago. You gotta get into the archives (ProQuest, Newspapers.com, etc.), not just the Google, to find media coverage from that far back. Bearcat ( talk) 04:54, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep Person automatically meets WP:NPOL as a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates. KidAd • SPEAK 08:15, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep We have a long precedent of keeping articles on every member of a state legislature we can verrify existed. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 13:44, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep Having been an elected member of a state legislature, he passes WP:NPOL. Sal2100 ( talk) 15:13, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep clear WP:NPOL pass. The part about his book and the "Professional Experience" need to be removed because they are clearly promotion, though. Best, GPL93 ( talk) 17:13, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
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