Deletion of Steve Benson (cartoonist)

Comment: to Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Whilst the topic may, minimally, meet , he is not so obviously famous, nor the material on him so extensive, that it is reasonable to ignore his request for deletion -- especially when a redirect target, containing information to his main reason for prominence, is readily available
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:CREATIVE)

Comment: I don't think there is any question that this individual satisfies  and .  I think that most Pulitzer Prize winners automatically pass the notability bar.  The fact that the author himself is requesting the deletion of the article because of frequent vandalism is also a concern, however with all due respect to Steve, the fact that the subject of a |BLP has requested the deletion of their article is not really anything that we can or should take into consideration when debating whether an article should be deleted.  If you truly have concerns about the vandalism of this article, you may want to contact the Wikimedia Foundation and/or read Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject).  With that said, I have added the article to my watchlist and I will keep a lookout for vandalism in the future, and I encourage other regular editors to do the same.  We have many tools available to us to fight vandals, including page protection (so that anonymous editors can't edit it), blocking vandal user accounts, blocking vandal IP ranges, and more.  I fully understand why you would want to have this article deleted, but I feel that we have the tools available to us to ensure that this article stays here unvandalized, and grows into an accurate account of you and your work.  After all, deleting the article would mean the Mormons have won, and no one wants that. {{;)}}  I'll keep a lookout for you, and feel free to contact me on my talk page
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:ARTIST||WP:BLP)

Comment: Benson is clearly notable, so there's no basis for removing the article. The Pullitzer is conformation of notability, not the ''reason'' for it; the reason is his body of work. However, we absolutely ''must'' enforce , with no excuses. If the semi-protection doesn't work, I recommend indefinite Full Protection. This article is not being actively worked on, so the overhead of occasionally asking an administrator to make a change requested on the talk page is going to be minor in comparison to the BLP violation risk. I believe that being fully locked down is sufficient to assuage the subject's very reasonable concerns with compromising on the content of Wikipedia
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP)