Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janaka Thissakuttiarachchi
according to our article on Provinces of Sri Lanka, those provinces are the first tier (the equivalent of "states") and "districts" are the next tier down (2nd tier, equivalent to local councils) which are then divided again (into  Divisional Secretary's Divisions) and then again (into Grama Niladhari Divisions). There are 256 third-tier divisions in the country, which sounds about equivalent to an Australian local council or a council of aldermen. It's obvious that the system doesn't really have "natural" equivalences in the UK, US, Australia, etc making comparisons more difficult. But if we accept what our articles say they he is the equivalent of a state assemblyman in the US or state MP in Australia. Even as the second-least-populated province in the country, the province this fellow sits in the legislature for has 1.2 million people. Some of our states and territories (Northern Territory - 250,000, Tasmania - 500,000) have their own functional legislatures and their MPs are considered to meet . That said, needs sources per BLP and such sources would make a decision here much easier
— User:Stalwart111, 05:19, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:POLITICIAN (Wikipedia:Notability)