Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stan Jones (mystery writer)
A fine example of what you get out of the community's "consensus" that only certain parts of the encyclopedia are fair game for active collaboration while the remainder of entries are merely the vanity project of some individual editor or another, otherwise described as a popularity contest.  Something which is not very popular around here is the fact that a typical Google search will not tell you a whole lot about what was notable in the 1980s.  Jones's website biography offers one very important clue: "After Kotzebue, I lived in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and then Anchorage again, working as a newspaper journalist.  I won several major national awards for investigative stories that led to impeachment proceedings against one of Alaska’s governors, and for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill."  The Alaska governor in question was Bill Sheffield.  That story and the oil spill (as well as a host of other stories coming from Alaska in the 1980s which have received little or no acknowledgement on the encyclopedia) were both very significant.  If the Sheffield impeachment story is not as obvious to the average person compared with the oil spill, the most basic of Google searches turns up contemporary stories from the ''New York Times'', ''Los Angeles Times'' and UPI.  That this article does not acknowledge any of this and dwells too much on a series of mystery novels is evidence that collaboration is lacking on this website, enabling someone's POVish exercise in myopia instead.  If it's been tagged as NN for 12 years and my watchlist shows regular evidence of editor who have ample time for Wikipedia, I would think that someone could have arrived at this conclusion long ago.  At the very least, the nominator could have performed the necessary amount of  other editors are obviously performing.  Clearing a maintenance category backlog merely for the sake of clearing a backlog ≠ a net benefit to achieving "the sum of all human knowledge
— User:RadioKAOS, 22:44, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BEFORE (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion)