Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan McDougle
Yes, the article needs some improvement, so by all means tag it for {{tl|refimprove}} — but state legislators have a straight pass of  #1. For a person who's been in office since 2002, not all of his potential sourcing will ''Google'' well — Google is not a good way to find any media coverage older than the past couple of years, and is a complete waste of time for even ''attempting'' to find coverage that would have existed 15 or 20 years ago. But we don't actually have any rule that our sources have to be web-published — rather, we ''are'' allowed to cite print-only sources, such as 20 year old newspaper or magazine articles or books, without hotlinking them anywhere. When it comes to politicians, we do have a tendency to be somewhat lazy about actually writing substantive or well-sourced articles, and too often just rest on "s/he exists as a politician, the end" — but we also consider it part of our core mandate to be as complete as feasibly possible a reference for all NPOL-passing officeholders rather than just an arbitrary subset of them. And we don't have a deadline, either: the fact that the article hasn't been worked on ''lately'' is also not a deletion criterion. So the current quality of the article is not controlling: the fact that he held an NPOL-passing office is
— User:Bearcat, 18:30, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NPOL (Wikipedia:Notability)