Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Walsh (British politician)
The nominator is rather more dismissive of the subject's political career than is really warranted - the only reason that the subject probably does not meet #1 is that we do not regard any level of English government outside the major cities as being (major) sub-national - and thus his thirty years as a West Sussex county (population 800,000) councillor, and the years in leading positions both in West Sussex and more locally, do not count as automatically notable. And his four years as a South East England regional representative on the Committee of the Regions only (probably) fails to meet #1 because, while the Committee is clearly international, we presumably do not regard it as a legislature (though it does in fact have some weak legislative powers). I would, though, expect someone with a forty-year political career with this variety of near-misses of  to stand a good, though not certain, chance of meeting  - but whether we can find the relevant sources, given the subject's relatively common name, the length of the period needing searching and the absence of the Google news archive search, is another matter
— User:PWilkinson, 18:36, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN||WP:POLITICIAN||WP:POLITICIAN||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)