Deletion of Kenneth Dickson

Comment: You obviously have a long and distinguished record of contributions, so I'm willing to be corrected here -- but what am I missing, exactly?  He was a lieutenant colonel, but that hardly makes him Patton; he on his town's ''school board'' fercryinoutloud, he's got http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22kenneth%20dickson%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn nothing in major news . . . and this article contains totally unencyclopedic lines like "Judge Turrentine told the North County Times that Dickson did a 'great job' as a law clerk"; and "Col. Rakowsky said that Dickson was an expert in contract law, and a hard worker, noting, 'He was very much a team player, always asking, "What else can I do to help?"'"  I mean, "His children graduated as valedictorians from Murrieta Valley High School, in 1995 and 1996"?  One or two fawning pieces in the local press aside, I don't see anything at all to indicate that Kenneth Dickson is a major local political figure who has received significant press coverage" per .  And you've got to admit that this article reads like complete campaign advertising . . . so really, what am I missing
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN)

Comment: meets |notability per  due to the references provided in the article
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NN||WP:GNG)

Comment: This article is ''extremely'' well cited with reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. As Cirt points out above, that satisfies much of the general notability guidelines outlined in . Most of the sources are from reliable news organizations, which is satisfactory according to the Wikipedia:Reliable#News_organizations|section of WP:Reliable dealing with those sources. Regarding Glenfarclas' comment above about "major news" coverage, that policy doesn't state all the sources have to be ''The New York Times'' or ''The Washington Post'' or some other national paper, just that it be a mainstream media source. And furthermore, I don't think the fact that this article is of more regional interest than national interest should preclude it anyway. This is a comprehensive, meta:Wiki is not paper|paperless encyclopedia, and I think it should have ''more'' of these articles, not less. And finally, any problems with the encyclopedic writing of the article can be improved as we go along, or via a eer review|peer review
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:P)

Comment: Satisfies , has |''received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTE||WP:NOTE)

Comment: although he's not held high enough office to qualify as a politician, he easily passes the |GNG
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)