Deletion of Larry Sanders (Green Party)

Comment: WP:NOTINHERITED is an essay, not a policy.   is irrelevant because we use it in cases like people elected to major offices about whom no profiles have been written.  The standard Sanders passes is the : "If a topic has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject, it is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list."  It does not matter what prompted that coverage. When those sources exist, as they do here in the form of in-depth profiles and interviews in major media both in the U.S. and Britain, we accept that as evidence of notability.  It is not a question of whether you or I think Larry Sanders has notable accomplishments.  The fact that the BBC, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Rolling Stone  and other media write him up at length means that he passes 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:GNG||WP:GNG)

Comment: When I first knew of the page and the AFD discussion, many months ago, I felt "fair enough, delete it, I can't be bothered to get involved" - nothing about his political role in England made a really clear-cut case for him to have a page, even if on balance I might have kept it myself.  But looking now at , I see that "People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject."  He ''is'' receiving significant coverage - the fact that just at the moment it is in largest part in connection with his brother does not mean that he is not receiving it.  It wasn't until today that I made any connection between him and his brother, but I looked today at the Larry Sanders (Green Party) page ''precisely'' to find out whether the person that was about to be interviewed on BBC Radio4 is the same as the Green Party politician that I ''already'' knew of (and as it happens the appearance on BBC Radio4 ''did'' mention his standing for the UK Parliament as a Green Party candidate).  If connection with a news story means somebody who is already at least close to notability gets further "significant coverage" in RS, it seems to me that there isn't real scope for debate.  And yes, I know : but "news coverage of this individual does go beyond the context of a single event" - Larry was ''already'' close enough to being notable without the connection to his brother for an article about him to be reasonable
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BASIC||WP:NOTNEWS)

Comment: Most of the keep arguments above are irrelevant (notability is not temporary, articles aren't kept just because AfD templates look bad, yada yada), and most of the third-party coverage of this individual appears to be mostly in connection to his brother, which makes this a pretty borderline case. He was, though, on the Oxfordshire city council, which is a political office at the level of a non-metropolitan county, which I assume is roughly similar to a state- or province-level office (see  #1) although I guess an argument could be made that it's more like municipal.  indicates that municipal offices aren't usually considered enough for notability unless there's additional coverage beyond that; in this case I think the borderline political office plus the extra attention through his brother is maybe enough to qualify as substantial coverage. Special:Contributions/Rjanag|rʨanaɢ&nbsp
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:POLITICIAN||WP:POLOUTCOMES)