Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Adams (judge)
per . He is in newspapers worldwide in a burst of coverage of an alleged 2004 videotape of the whipping of a child with a belt by a cursing man. Before the release of the tape, he was just a county judge of little note. That level of judicial office has not been taken as inherently notable in previous AFDs I have seen. Google News archive shows only passing references and very routine and run of the mill coverage of his judicial actions,  not sufficient to satisfy . If the alleged beating somehow gains significance, as the subject of plays, movies, books, or it it motivates the passage of some new law, or has other societal effects beyond one news cycle, or it becomes a notable crime, then an article could be created. Stating that he video and the article are an attack is ironic, in light of what the video shows. News articles now say that Adams has http://www.chron.com/news/local_news/article/Police-investigate-judge-over-online-video-2248539.php acknowledged the authenticity of the video, while saying it wasn't as bad as it looks
— User:Edison, 23:04, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:BLP1E||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons)