Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/List of California public officials charged with crimes

Failure to merge encylopedic content

The following block of comments are on the project page:

• Delete per WP:CRIME. - Jorgath (talk) (contribs) 14:17, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
  • Additional note: I fully support having a list of California public officials convicted of crimes, and I assume there is one. I simply think we shouldn't have lists of, or articles about, people who have been charged unless they have also been convicted. - Jorgath (talk) (contribs) 15:08, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
    • Eight Californian officials are included here, List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes and any of the 237 that were listed here that were found guilty of anything that are not included there can be merged over. - Youreallycan 17:14, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
      • Totally cool with that kind of merger. - Jorgath (talk) (contribs) 17:36, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
• Merge per the previous comments. This article, as it stands, is a violation of the BLP policy and in my opinion also is discouraged by WP:CRIME. Drmies (talk) 18:13, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
  • Just to make matters clear: merge those entries pertaining to people who have articles and are otherwise notable--per convention for lists. Drmies (talk) 18:22, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

As best as I can tell, none of the appropriate entries were merged to List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes at the time this article was deleted, 28 March 2012, and there are still only 7 or 8 convicted California politicians in that list.[1] --Hjal (talk) 07:54, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes, there were comments to merge but the general consensus was to delete unilaterally - if you dispute that, then you should be discussing it with the closing admin or at a Deletion Review. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 11:56, 6 April 2013 (UTC)