Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rune Øygard
The language in which stories about the subject are written is irrelevant. Being mayor of a municipality of 3,500 is in itself way below the threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia. Being accused of a sex crime is also not enough for WP, and he has not even been convicted . What happens in the US is happily not the determinant in an international encyclopedia; much time is spent in discussions explaining that to US based editors. So the issue has to be whether he passed the notability test prior to the criminal allegations. There are several suggestions in the article that he did so, because of his prominence on the national scene, but since I do not read Norwegian I am not in a position to find the right sources to establish whether that is correct
— User:AJHingston, 08:53, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:CRIMINAL (Wikipedia:Notability)