Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Isaac Fine
This is a toughish one, because there is some decent coverage of this man, for instance in the California Bar Journal http://www.ca.calsb.org/state/calbar/calbar_cbj.jsp?sCategoryPath=/Home/Attorney%20Resources/California%20Bar%20Journal/December2007&MONTH=December&YEAR=2007&sCatHtmlTitle=Discipline&sJournalCategory=YES&sCatHtmlPath=cbj/2007-12_Discipline_Feature.html&sSubCatHtmlTitle=Feature here and the LA Times, reprinted via the local news, http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/theissues/ktxl-news-issues-judicialbias0607,0,206146.story here.  (Most of the coverage, though, is in spurious and non-reliable sources.)  I think, though, that this is basically a  case:  to the extent he is notable, it is for just one "newsy" event—getting disbarred and chucked in the slammer.  Whatever the merits of his crusade against the local judiciary, he hasn't received any reliable-source coverage for it except in the context of explaining why he was thrown in prison.  I find especially instructive here the concern expressed in BLP1E that "biographies in such cases can give undue weight to the event and conflict with neutral point of view."  My understanding of the history of this article is that it has largely been used by a few editors as a vehicle to express solidarity with Fine, to argue for his liberation, and to promote his theories about the L.A. judiciary.  That issue leads me to vote for deletion, especially when I consider that having garnered a handful of news stories would still only make Fine a quite minor figure of local notability anyway
— User:Glenfarclas, 23:30, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BLP1E (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)