Deletion of Steve Christian

Comment: Pitcairn Island is not an independent country, but it is a dependency of its own -- one of about 70 that has its own entry in the CIA World Factbook. It's also the subject of international public attention due to its connection to the Mutiny on the Bounty and its status as (I think) the least populous dependency with a permanent resident population. So Steve Christian, as Pitcairn's head of government, would arguably have qualified for an article under  even before he became the subject of a criminal investigation. But the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 made the news ''worldwide''; I was able to find articles about him through a Google search from every continent except Antarctica. See http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article30472.ece, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6323696/ for example. To delete the article about Steve Christian -- a head of government who was convicted of rape and sentenced to three years in prison -- in hopes of maintaining his privacy would be a misapplication of 
Stance: keep
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