Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Elfving
mdash;Per .  Whether or not judges are inherently notable, this is a notable judge.  He sits in Santa Clara County (CA) and has decided many important cases in tech law, receiving extensive coverage for them.  See e.g. ConnectU#Facebook_lawsuits, which Elfving decided at the superior court level http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=doc&p_docid=136FFE76CCFF6C50&p_docnum=4&p_queryname=1 (story here).  I would usually list more sources here, but in this case, the searches linked to by the Find Sources template above need no tweaking whatsoever to establish notability.  Also there is http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_field_base-0=&p_text_base-0=%22William+Elfving%22&f_submit_search=Search&p_params_base-0=&p_bool_base-1=and&p_field_base-1=&p_text_base-1=&p_params_base-1=&p_bool_base-2=and&p_field_base-2=YMD_date&p_text_base-2=&p_params_base-2=&p_sort=YMD_date%3AD&p_product=AWNB&p_theme=aggregated5&p_action=search&d_loc=world&d_fieldcount=3&f_lastaction=explore&f_dateparams=B%2CE&d_place=&d_selLoc=&d_selLoc=North+America this newsbank search, with 99 hits.  This coverage is mostly discussion of his decisions, but it's discussion of them, and not just mention.  Since California state superior court judges are elected, #2, ''Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage,'' also applies, and the coverage easily satisfies that, even if the lack of biographical information available makes it seem as if the GNG doesn't apply.&mdash
— User:Alf, 03:36, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:Notability)