Deletion of Paul Petersen (politician)

Comment: Not notable under  and the crimes lend themselves to a negative  per . Delete it
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:BLP||WP:PERP)

Comment: While {{u|ErieSwiftByrd}} makes a cogent if  point, I would contest that Petersen's position in Maricopa County is not within the scope of  notability. Montgomery has notability thru the AZ Supreme Court, Penzone is Arpaio's replacement (and even that is a shaky argument of notability), and Purcell has the legal notability. Petersen would not meet  for his municipal government work, and would be a case of  for the adoption controversy. For the IP who voted, it is not Wikipedia's responsibility to be a  or . If you'd like to add more information about adoption reform in the United States, you can add that to the existing article on Adoption_in_the_United_States#Adoption_reform|Adoption in the United States
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions (WP:OSE||WP:NPOL||WP:NPOL||WP:1E||WP:SOAPBOX||WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS)

Comment: County assessor is not a role that would have gotten him a Wikipedia article on  grounds, so we have to stick with  — and per BLPCRIME, if a person wasn't already notable enough for an article for other reasons, then he has to be convicted of, not merely charged with, a crime before he might have a valid claim to being notable as a politician. Even if he is convicted in the end, an event article about the adoption fraud ring might be more appropriate than a standalone BLP of him as a person — but the time to evaluate that one way or the other will be after there's been a conviction, not today
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:BLPCRIME)

Comment: the question is whether being a county assessor makes Petersen a public figure. If not, per , he hasn't been convicted and should have no article. But even if he's considered a  because he was elected to an office (minor office, county level), he wasn't notable enough before the crime to support an article, so I think the right thing to do is defer to BLPCRIME and delete
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLPCRIME||WP:PUBLICFIGURE)