Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Storobin

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 18:29, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

David Storobin

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This article is about a State elected official who served for 11 days of legislative session and less than a year in office in a district that was eliminated. Not a noteworthy individual. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.97.104.30 (talk) 16:28, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Completing nomination on behalf of IP editor--above text is copied from article talk page. As for my own view, in spite of the brevity of tenure he clearly meets WP:NPOL in particular and sources were easily found to address WP:GNG concerns in general. Looks like a clear keep to me. --Finngall ^talk 18:16, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. --Finngall ^talk 18:21, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. --Finngall ^talk 18:22, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Meets WP:NPOL as a member of the NY legislature. --Enos733 (talk) 20:48, 27 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Our notability standards for state legislators do not impose a time limit on how long the person has to have held the office before qualifying for an article — the mere fact of holding the office at all is the pivot point on which the notability of state legislators hinges. When it comes to political officeholders, our goal is to be as complete as possible a reference for all of them, not to pick and choose some while excluding others on the basis of some arbitrary cutoff. And no, a state legislator's work doesn't stop happening just because the legislature isn't sitting, because there's still constituency and community and policy work to do — so the number of days the legislature did or didn't sit within the legislator's term is irrelevant to our notability criteria for politicians as well. Bearcat (talk) 18:30, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. He was a member of the New York State Senate. The duration of his term doesn't matter. The fact that he occupied the position, is enough to warrant an article for him. LefcentrerightTalk (plz ping) 18:16, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep our ideal goal is to have articles on every state legislator ever. The minimum length of service is one day. It is not even clear that the legislature has to have been in session at all during their service.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:33, 30 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Clearly passes WP:NPOL. Best, GPL93 (talk) 15:27, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes WP:NPOL as a member of the NY legislature.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 18:24, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per NPOL and WP:SIGCOV. Even serving six months as a legislator matters, and the New York State Senate meets throughout the year (for one- and two-day special sessions) to give advise and consent to the Governor's many appointments, as well as a lot of constituent work back home in their districts. As we are reminded daily during this pandemic, state officials can make decisions that have life and death consequences. In any case, he is well known as a gadfly in NYC politics, and has garnered significant coverage over several years. Not to put too fine a point to it, but I strongly disagree with many of his policy choices; my advocacy of keeping his article is not an endorsement of the subject or his politics. Bearian (talk) 17:10, 2 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Served in senate - duration irrelevant. ~riley (talk) 05:47, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.