Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larry Kelley (Kentucky politician)


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The result was   delete. Per WP:BLP: this needs to be deleted quickly. Peter Symonds ( talk ) 18:10, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Larry Kelley (Kentucky politician)

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Per discussion at Talk:Steve Beshear. This article has been tagged for notability and other concerns since May 2009. Possibly fails WP:POLITICIAN. Consensus on notability is needed to resolve edit war at Steve Beshear. In an unusual move, I as the nominator am neutral; I just want to get the community's consensus. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 16:25, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Setting aside any BLP concerns, "County Attorney" is not a high enough position to warrant coverage under WP:POLITICIAN, the criminal activity isn't significant enough to warrant coverage as a notable criminal, and the business activity isn't significant enough to warrant coverage as a notable business figure. – iride  scent  17:16, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Neutral, lean delete. County Attorney is a high enough office to warrant such inclusion (see Irv Maze).  With Maze, he was a candidate for Lt. Governor at the time, but we have established that being a candidate alone doesn't "guarantee" an article (see Wanda Cornelius, which was deleted.  We didn't delete the Maze article after he was no longer a candidate for LG.  This article meets notability requirements under WP:N and WP:POLITICIAN (in particular, two of those last three, but all that has to be met is one).  The guy was County Attorney in two separate jurisdictions, which is notable in itself as they were in completely different parts of the state.  However, the article has some significant WP:BLP violations, which is why I'm ambivalent about keeping it. I am particularly weary that the article (and the info added to the Beshear page) was added by User:Lkelley1944. TylerKnew (talk) 17:41, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, and note: I have substantially revised the article to deal with the most egregious of its issues. This is a WP:BLP disaster zone. The entire article should be deleted as failing both WP:BLP1E (for the conviction) and WP:POLITICIAN (for general notability). I weighed doing so unilaterally, under the BLP enforcement provisions given the magnitude of the BLP issues, but since this process is already open I will hold off. MastCell Talk 17:28, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: Disgraceful. --MZMcBride (talk) 17:43, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per those above and BLP. Only notable for one event, fails POLITICIAN. لenna  vecia  17:59, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree with irridescent, and others that this person's elected postition and crime either alone or together do not make him notable for the purpose of inclusion in an encyclopedia. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 18:13, 22 June 2009 (UTC) (Deleted while I was adding my delete comment).
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