Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David L. Englin

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The result was keep. Missvain (talk) 22:51, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

David L. Englin

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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 unsigned comment added by Dlenglin96 (talk • contribs) 06:26, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:59, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Virginia-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:59, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Clearly meets WP:NPOL as a member of a state-level legislative body. ST47 (talk) 17:04, 14 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes WP:NPOL as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Best, GPL93 (talk) 03:45, 15 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Clearly meets NPOL. We can probably remove a bit about his family if the subject requests it. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 04:30, 15 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 (talk) 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 (talk) 06:07, 16 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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