Deletion of Brendan Williams

Comment: Former member of the Washington House of Representatives. Passes . (Adding signature
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: The Washington state legislature is not a "minor office" — state legislators have a straight pass of  #1 as articles that we ''must'' have, and the notability of a state legislator is ''not'' dependent on whether he's ''currently'' still in office or not.Given that nominating this for deletion was the nominator's first-''ever'' Wikipedia contribution under this username (not to mention the nominator's username itself), I frankly suspect that this nomination is actually a |conflict of interest attempt by Williams himself or a colleague to sweep the sexual harassment allegations under the rug — but while we do have a responsibility to be ''careful'' to address those in a |neutral way, we do not have any responsibility to participate in simply making them disappear entirely.  The article has existed since ''2008'' without anybody attempting to have it deleted until ''after'' the edit war commenced over the inclusion of the allegations. Article does need sourcing improvement, because it depends too much on |primary sources as written, but the base notability claim fully passes our inclusion standard. Anything beyond that is a ''content'' issue, not a deletion issue
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL||WP:COI||WP:NPOV||WP:PRIMARYSOURCES)