Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Gotto
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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was keep. WP:SNOW close, overwhelming community consensus that members of US state assemblies are notable, per WP:NPOL. (non-admin closure) Goldsztajn (talk) 12:20, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
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Elected local official with no significant coverage; fails notability criteria for politicians and WP:GNG. – Ploni (talk) 19:12, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Tennessee. Ploni (talk) 19:12, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep: Meets WP:NPOL as he served in the Tennessee House of Representatives. U.S. state level politicians are notable per WP:NPOL. ColinBear (talk - contribs) 21:16, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- You're absolutely right—not sure how I missed that. I'd happily withdraw the nomination. –Ploni (talk) 23:31, 16 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep since state legislators are notable. However this really feels like a relic of extreme presentism from 2005 where a knee jerk reaction to possible violence that seems to have never gone anywhere is given very undue weight by the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:35, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
- Keep Meets plank #1 of WP:NPOL. Sal2100 (talk) 19:02, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
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