Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of California public officials charged with crimes
The http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_California_public_officials_charged_with_crimes&oldid=483179872 last version of the full article was not a BLP violation, nor did it violate any policies.  Every individual mentioned had an inline source (I added three to the one person with a cn tag); there is nothing that suggests that that the article violates  or  (almost every entry is cited to a major California daily newspaper--the LA Times, SF Call, SF Chronicle or the San Jose Mercury News--I used three books to cover the final cn problem); and the article does not fail .  There is nothing in the article content or talk that suggests that the article's creator and primary contributor has some kind of bias against politicians in general, or against politicians charged with a crime and subsequently released. It is difficult to provide information about people convicted of crimes without making them sound "bad," but the language used was relatively neutral.  References to various guidelines are not convincing.  just recommends that editors "give serious consideration to not creating an article on an alleged perpetrator when no conviction is yet secured." Individual articles about such people were created by others--listing them here is not a violation of this guideline or of any policy.  The criteria even screen out some individuals whose crimes are infractions that have nothing to do with their time in public office. Also note that criminal actions by and corruption of public officials is "notable" beyond what one might suspect based on the number of people involved or the amount of money--look at the biographies of Earl Warren and his memoir, which I cited in Burton Becker.  GeorgeLouis did not find newspaper coverage of this person and his crimes, but it clearly existed at the time of the events and it shows up in every biography of Warren that covers his early carrer as a District Attorney in Alameda County.  Corrupt sheriffs, county supervisors, mayors, councilmembers, and road commissioners are encyclopedic and suitable for inclusion in such a list, although not necessarily an individual article, especially if no other information about them is provided.  There are hundreds of them in California who are clearly encyclopedic, mostly WP "notable," and sufficiently referenced in this list--how would you merge them to a national list? Finally, around half of the 200+ people on the list are dead and no legitimate BLP claim has been made about any of the others still listed.  Here's a current link to Richards and the Lynwood story http://articles.latimes.com/2006/mar/21/local/me-lynwood21. Editors should work on improving the article, clarifying or refining the selection criteria, and weeding out BLP issues with specific  entries, if there are any. People might also remember to be civil and to assume good faith when responding to the creator and to any other Keep posts
— User:Hjal, 22:59, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:V||WP:NPOV||WP:CRIME (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)