Deletion of Wilfred Roy Cousins, Sr.

Comment: per , 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Deletion policy (WP:POLOUTCOMES||WP:SNOW)

Comment: He was definitely a member of the Texas Senate, and is therefore presumed notable per . More sources can be added. The name of the article is wrong - the father was William Roy Cousins, and the son was Wilfred Roy Cousins (if the son doesn't already have an article, he should). It would have been simpler to move Wilfred Roy Cousins, Sr. to William Roy Cousins and create Wilfred Roy Cousins than to bring this to AfD
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)

Comment: State senate is an office that passes  #1 right on its face. That criterion is not limited to the state governor, but most certainly ''does'' include members of the state ''legislature''. Yes, this needs some referencing improvement, but for a person who held office beginning over 100 years ago and ending in 1934, the bulk of the sourcing will be in news archiving databases rather than out on the Googles — but we don't judge the includability of a person like this solely on the state of sourcing already present ''in'' the article, we judge it on the state of sourcing ''available'' in the ''world'', and the simple fact is that ''no'' state legislator in the history of US state legislators has ''ever'' gone completely and totally uncovered by any reliable sources. Further, the discussion the nominator alludes to does not "establish" that Cousins is non-notable; it merely questions the utility of a city's list of notable people always listing everybody who ever represented it in the state legislature when there's ''also'' a category for people from the same city already
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NPOL)