Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes
Wikipedia offers no "right to be forgotten". All of the state and local politicians listed here are included because they have been convicted of crimes, accompanied by the reliable and verifiable sources to back up the claims. Barring the ability to wipe these sources off the face of the Earth, the ability to support these claims will exist as infinitum.{{pb}}From a matter of public policy, people hold elected officials up to a higher standard than they do gardeners or even journalists. No one claims that all politicians are crooks, but some are. The effort to liken this to "List of African Americans convicted of crime" is patently absurd.{{pb}}The list *is* incomplete. Wikipedia is fine with that. California has 40 million residents and Los Angeles about 4 million; New York (state)|New York has about 20 million and New York City about 8.5 million. List of people from California and List of people from Los Angeles are both incomplete, falling far short of the list under consideration; same with List of people from New York (state) and List of people from New York City (though I will note that in both cases, the city articles counter-intuitively and against all logic have more entries than the state lists). There are far fewer politicians in the United States since its formation than the number of people in either city or state; the number of convicted state and local politicians is orders of magnitude smaller than the pool of people in any of these places and is unlikely to become unmanageable in the years ahead. Should this list get too large, creating sub-lists by state would be the method to follow, emulating the rather logical approach to explain why there is no List of people from the United States.{{pb}}Per , this is exactly the kind of topic that is appropriate for a standalone list and https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&ei=h3xWWqCiL8aF_QbwobLwDw&q=political+corruption+united+states&oq=political+corruption+united+states&gs_l=psy-ab.3.o..6190.23137.0.23374.63.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..63.0.0.0...0.wV_3zwPEh0c this search shows more than a handful of books devoted to the topic; similar searches of newspaper articles and scholarly works also turn up sources by the thousands.{{pb}}Appeals to  and  are similarly specious. This is an article that needs to be retained and -- sadly -- expanded
— User:Alansohn, 20:59, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:LISTN||WP:NOT||WP:UNDUE (Wikipedia:Notability)