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The result of the debate was Keep Kotepho 19:00, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Palmiro and Arre suggested back in March on the talk page that the article be deleted as it is biased, inaccurate, and just generally "absolute crap." Not much has changed. I suggest we delete the article and start a new one with the correct nomenclature of Palestinian terrorism. Wikipedia is not ruled by the EU. KI 14:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- We don't delete articles because they're biased. We delete them because they're not notable or original research or vanity or POV forks. Speedy keep.--Urthogie 14:49, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep this title. The idea that the term Palestinian Terrorism is somehow more neutral and less prejudicial that Palestinian Political Violence is utterly moronic. -- GWO
- Delete, and delete almost-equally-bad Zionist political violence as well, and all articles created in order to show that group "x" or ideology "y" is evil. That said, this is my ideal vote, but several other people noted on the talk page that some or all of these articles had been nominated for deletion previously and survived. Nevertheless, even if other such articles survive, this one still doesn't deserve to exist. It combines factual inaccuracies with whopping POV and original research issues. I agree, however, with Gareth Owen that Palestinian Terrorism would not be an improvement. Palmiro | Talk 14:54, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Question: If the article is biased, why don't you edit it? If you don't like a sentance, discuss its modification or deletion the talk page. If you want a new sentance, add it and source it!----Urthogie 15:01, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Keep - This is a waste of time. --Irishpunktom\talk 15:39, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep the article seems very complimentary to the Zionist political violence article. I've actually watched a documentary or two that made contentions that Zionists in effect launched the modern era of terrorism (against the British). That said I wouldn't be surprised to find this AfDed article needing work to render it more NPOV. Netscott 15:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. The content can be edited, or the page can be renamed. It doesn't seem reasonable that an encyclopedia should not have an article on this subject. Tom Harrison Talk 15:54, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- What is the subject? The article, as it stands, is trying to draw a historical parallel between political - and not-so-political - violence perpetrated by Palestinians across various different points in history, and it is full of bias and errors. As for Zionist political violence, it looks rather like it too was created to help prove that Zionists are evil. Wikipedia can certainly do without articles that only exist to prove a political point. Palmiro | Talk 15:59, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- The page has been named at various times, Palestinian terrorism, Palestinian political violence, Palestinian militancy, and Palestinian terrorism and militancy. What is the subject? It looks to me like it's Palestinian terrorism. I think that's a legitimate topic for an encyclopedia article, under whatever name. Tom Harrison Talk 20:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- What is the subject? The article, as it stands, is trying to draw a historical parallel between political - and not-so-political - violence perpetrated by Palestinians across various different points in history, and it is full of bias and errors. As for Zionist political violence, it looks rather like it too was created to help prove that Zionists are evil. Wikipedia can certainly do without articles that only exist to prove a political point. Palmiro | Talk 15:59, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Especially since there is Zionist political violence. Merge into Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? -Justin (koavf), talk 16:05, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep bias is no reason to delete; edit it. Carlossuarez46 20:21, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per most of the above. An article on Palestinian terrorism (e.g. against civilians) would also be fine, but not all violence is terrorism (e.g. against an occupying military). Or, at least that depends on your POV. So, there is room for an article of this title. Simply edit the contents to match the title. Brillig20 01:01, 13 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep as per reason specified by Carlossuarez46. This is not the only article with doubted neutrality etc. Constanz - Talk 13:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was redirect to Small office/home office. Natalie 00:41, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Barely discernible from a computer network. Topic is not notable. Kevin Walter 00:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to local network - Richard Cavell 01:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to local network. The first sentence calls it that. --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@ 01:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect per above. /Blaxthos 05:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete redundant per Small office/home office. Guy (Help!) 14:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry, this is a definite Keeper - a SOHO is a particular, distinctive type of local network. It's not synonymous with it. I think that some of the above participants in this vote are not aware of that. Merely to redirect to local network would be to misinform readers. jamesgibbon 18:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Small office/home office, then. — Pious7TalkContribs 20:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to local network, then add a section called SOHO in that article. -- Wenli 00:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to local network. Captain panda In vino veritas 00:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Delete.--Húsönd 04:00, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thug (hip hop slang) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
This is simply cruft. WP is not a dictionary for slang. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 00:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - If any of this can be verified & sourced (which I doubt it can), then any meaningful bits should be moved into another article if one exists. The term thug has been around a lot longer than the "hip hop" era, so already the article is incorrect. The article smells of OR & as the nom said, Wikipedia isn't a dictionary. Delete. Spawn Man 00:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as OR. I would also recommend deleting the original thug article/disambiguation claim and making it a redirect to Thuggee, because there's really not much more than dicdefs that can be added for it. JuJube 00:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as OR. We have an article on "thug", and an article on "rap/hip-hop", to boot as well. --Haemo 00:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. It may be a poorly written and unsourced article, but the concept is real and encyclopaedic enough. A quick academic journal search on "thug" did turn up plenty of sociological articles on hip-hop culture. As for already having an article on "thug", obviously the subject of this article is very different from thuggee. FiggyBee 01:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:OR. We already have a thug article. --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@ 01:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete WP:ATT /Blaxthos 05:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - This should be deleted as OR. Also it does not cite any of its sources. --Cyrus Andiron t/c 14:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete To parahrase: "thug in hip-hop slang is pretty much the same as thug in normal usage, only much more interesting because it's said inna hip-hop stylee" or something. Guy (Help!) 14:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete dictionary definition desperately stretched out to article length, including bits about "restored cars from the 40's-70's" (no, really). Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delizzle my nizzle. M.C. OR & Diccy D in da house, yo. — Krimpet (talk/review) 19:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - no evidence of notability and it's original research. — Pious7TalkContribs 20:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - It seems very unimportant in an encyclopedia. -- Wenli 00:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Wikipedia is not a dictionary. -- Chairman S. Talk Contribs 02:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Kill it like Tupak -- SakotGrimshine 18:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:NOR and WP:NOT#DICT Captain panda In vino veritas 00:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Although sort of interesting Wikipedia is not a dictionary and this idea is essentially unverifiable. --Hydraton31 14:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete pretty much nonsense. Artaxiad 21:07, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was redirect to White Spot. Natalie 00:48, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Whitespot_Restaurant (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – This article smells of both OR, Copy Vio's & NN. The article reads as though someone has stripped it from a book & we all know how we hate copy vio's. Delete, if not speedy. Spawn Man 00:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Correction - Thanks to Charlene below, this article is now confirmed to be a copy violation. Spawn Man 04:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge and Redirect to existing White Spot. A definite notable family restaurant in canada, and this new article have some of the history available. HOWEVER, it is possible Copy Vio, since I thought I saw some of these in the restaurant. George Leung 00:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to White Spot - the actual content looks like it's copied and pasted from somewhere. — Pious7TalkContribs 00:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment We're (coincidentally) going to White Spot in about 15 minutes. I'll print this out and take it with me - if it's a copyvio of anything there I'll report back. If so, Speedy Redirect. --Charlene 00:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Redirect as copyvio. This article comes straight out of a brochure produced by the company. --Charlene 02:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect - It's not wikified and reads as an advertisement. - Richard Cavell 01:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect -Already an article on it, and looks like a copy and paste. --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@ 01:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge and redirect per George Leung semper fictilis 01:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment since 1) it's copyvio 2) It's edited by one contributor, can we talk to the editor, then invoke the WP:SNOW and/or put a copyvio tag? George Leung 04:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- In my experience, any article which is on afd & is found to be a copy vio is speedied right away. If parts were copy vios, then that would be different & rewritable. But this is the whole article & it is so obviously either OR or a Copy vio. What's the editor going to say when you message him? Okay, I commited copy violation, silly me delete it. Normally I would have left a note, but this blatantly CV. Spawn Man 04:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Okay, i invoke the WP:SNOW and go speedy redirect.George Leung 05:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect per George Leung. Incidentally I'd been under the impression for a long time that we had to delete these kinds of articles to get the copyvio out of the history first, but I guess that's not true as per Wikipedia:Copyright violations on history pages. cab 05:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Merge to Amélie (soundtrack) (done, edit history taken care of). utcursch | talk 12:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comptine D'Un Autre Été: L'Après-midi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
The article has not assessed its notability as a stand-alone article. The information could well be added into the main Amélie article, as no content has been added since its creation in November '06. The author has been notified for a week and no modifications have been made. ALTON .ıl 01:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge with Amélie per nom. — Pious7TalkContribs 01:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge & Delete-(edit conflict) Small enough to be in the article of the film. Don't even redirect as no one would even bother to type this name out. --TeckWiz ParlateContribs@ 01:15, 21 March 2007 ( UTC)
- Merge & delete per above. /Blaxthos 05:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of France-related deletions. -- STTW (talk) 15:56, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. If merged, GFDL requires the edit history of this article to be preserved (see WP:MERGE#How to rename a page). In any case, redirects are cheap. -- Black Falcon 05:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 02:20, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Unsourced, non-notable neologism. Belongs in Wiktionary. Chevinki 01:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as nn neologism semper fictilis 01:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. I'm not even sure it belongs in Wiktionary. — Pious7TalkContribs 01:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Teabagging. FiggyBee 01:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as unsourced and pointless. Bridgeplayer 04:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per all above. /Blaxthos 05:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete abject nonsense Guy (Help!) 14:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, doesn't belong here or in Wiktionary. Besides, it's called "skullfucking". Recury 14:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment why not just prod this thing? Hasn't been prodded before, nothing remotely controversial about this. --Xyzzyplugh 14:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. Scienter 18:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete and set the perps on fire. fails WP:NEO, WP:ATT. Christ on a crutch, who in the hell felt it necessary for there to be an encyclopedia article on this subject? Ravenswing 20:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Doesn't even belong in Wiktionary. --Seattle Skier (talk) 22:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete following transwikification to Wiktionary. WjBscribe 05:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thick and thin (phrase) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
The creator moved this from a perfectly decent disambiguation page here. It will never have enough substance for a stand-alone article. Wiktionary is not a home since it is a phrase not a word and the Wikiquote would only be suitable if a specific quote is found (the example is just made up). I see no merit in a redirect since the article title will never be the search term. If deleted, I will restore the previous version of Thick and thin. Delete. TerriersFan 01:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment You created the page Thick and thin, someone changed it, and now you want Thick and thin (phrase) deleted so you can restore your original version? Just revert. But now it's here, Delete. The disambiguation page isn't much better either, there is little point in creating a disambiguation page when no articles by that name even exist yet. Croxley 03:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete all pointless/useless/nonsense. /Blaxthos 05:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete all for the same 3 reasons stated by Blaxthos. Speedything 11:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I had not realised that it should have appeared in the wiktionary - sorry. So you should revert to [[1]] - Curious Gregor - Synthesis for all 13:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]- Move to Wiktionary - I had not realised it was possible. - Curious Gregor - Synthesis for all 15:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Move to Wiktionary Just a quick reply to the nom, but the number 1 bullet pointed policy of Wiktionary is that "it is a dictionary, thesaurus and phrase-book. So a phrase like "thick and thin" is perfectly acceptable as a Wiktionary entry. Dugwiki 17:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Transwiki to Wiktionary per above. — Pious7TalkContribs 20:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Transwiki per above. -- Chairman S. Talk Contribs 02:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Let Wiktionary write its own, it's rubbish. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 23:13, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:WINAD after the article has been transwikied. Already tagged as such. As for the disambig page, a selective revert to a previous version should do. -- Black Falcon 05:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It has now been transwikied. Jobjörn (Talk ° contribs) 16:25, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Delete. The issue here is not whether this is self-promotion or not -- the issue is lack of multiple non-trivial mentions from independent sources. utcursch | talk 12:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Michael Charles Smith (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
- Keep, but reduced links to it. Presuming he appears on a ballot anywhere, he should be able to be found here, because people will be curious who he is. But he doesn't need to be given the treatment of being a full-fledged candidate, by having all other articles about the primary or candidates link to him along side the real candidates. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.143.31.101 (talk) 12:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]
- Comment: Does not meet WP:BIO for notability in political figures and violates WP:SOAP for self-promotion. Merely filing FEC papers does not qualify for notability. See User:Mikesmth. Djma12 (talk) 01:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Self-promotion. Mr. Smith has not demonstrated his own notability. Just filing with the FEC is insufficient basis for inclusion in Wikipedia; filing carries no guarantee of ballot status. —Sesel 02:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Non-notable candidate campaigning in one state for a nationwide office. This has resulted in failing to gain other than local media coverage. Article reads like a campaign brochure, non-encyclopedic. - Nhprman 03:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Non-notable. Yaf 03:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong keep, but cut most of the content. Article contains two citations from mainstream press. Smith may not be notable when judged on a nationwide scale, but his Oregon campaign appears just as notable to Oregonians as numerous articles of local significance. In addition, his approach to the Presidential race sounds unique, notable for its contrast with other candidates. I agree the current article reads way too much like a campaign brochure; the Platform section should be cut in its entirety, and much of the other sections as well. (Disclosure: I'm from Oregon, but know nothing about Smith beyond what I found via this WP article.) -Pete 04:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Self-promotion. /Blaxthos 05:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Not notable, slf promotion an he wants to be president? uuuuurgh. --Zedco 08:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- User's 3rd edit. Tyrenius 09:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC) [reply]
- Delete Self promotion, and basically just his points of view on some issues and his ambition. Not worthy of an article. Bensmith53 09:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete self-evident campaign page, and doesn't stand a snowball's chance in the race. Guy (Help!) 14:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - While he does not meet the criteria for notability that in itself is not a criteria for deletion and should not stand alone. However, this article also does not adhere to Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living people. That is why I believe it should be deleted. --Cyrus Andiron t/c 14:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Can any of those supporting deletion please comment on my remarks, and on whether my deletion of about 2/3 of the material impacts their position? -Pete 14:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment It's certainly shorter, but the (true) phrase in the article, "Smith is unknown outside of Oregon, and has no previous experience in political office," proves non-notability. An article on a movie actor who simply said he was an aspiring actor who hoped to be a movie star, but admitted he wasn't even actively seeking film roles, wouldn't meet muster for an article here, either, for the reasons Djma12 cited above. - Nhprman 15:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Incidentally: How should we deal with the John H. Cox article? Djma12 (talk) 16:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Of course, another article's possible lack of validity is irrelevant to this one's possible deletion. That said, this is an eggregious and obvious case of a non-notable non-candidate with zero exposure nationally, while Cox is an increasingly irrelevent candidate who is at least making pretentions about campaigning nationally, and at least has done it in the past. But deal with that one on its own merits, and not just because this is a bad article. - Nhprman 04:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I see my position is rather shaky, but the whole discussion seems perched on a slippery slope. Self-promotion? Much of politics is essentially self promotion. If you adopt that criteria, you need to be prepared to remove John Cox, and Michael Savage, Mike Gravel, Al Sharpton and probably all the Third Party candidates.
I would propose you think more in terms of a broader wiki “mission.” Although it’s not practical to publish an all-encompassing catalogue – it should be the objective to capture meaningful perspectives and serve as a resource for voters to assess candidates on the basis of political philosophy. From that perspective it could be argued that my presence is more meaningful as a philosophical contrast than the myriad social conservatives who offer little meaningful distinction between their positions.
The internet and wikipedia hold a promise of increased information and “democracy” of ideas and access. You seem to be working contrary to that objective, ironically falling into patterns established by the conventional media that wikipedia aspires to replace.
Mikesmth 18:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment You raise some good points. On the other hand, Wikipedia isn't here to provide a platform for your philosophical contrast. We're just here to write a really good encyclopedia. As far as self-promtion, well, "That other guy over there is doing it" doesn't really hold water as an argument around here. Since interested third parties are involved, I would suggest you refrain from editing your own article and discuss any changes you want to make on the article's talk page. Katr67 20:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak Keep per Pete. Comments like "doesn't stand a snowball's chance in the race" don't do anything to support the Delete argument. Scienter 19:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per Pete, with the caveat that outside editors maintain the article and not the candidate, per my comments above. (Full disclosure--another Oregonian here, but it's rare I vote for anybody of Smith's party.) Thinking in terms of Wikipedia being a useful resource, I would expect that interest in outsider candidates would be strong enough that a person searching for this candidate might expect to find an article on him, especially since his candidate profile is listed in the Baltimore Sun. Heck he's even got several interlanguage wikilinks. Or alternatively, a redirect to the page on 2008 Republican candidates that has a paragraph on him. Katr67 20:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment I agree with the caveat Katr67 has attached to their Keep opinion. Scienter 12:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. It doesn't look like this fellow's thought of as notable IN Oregon either, given that a directed search has only 125 (not entirely relevant) G-hits [2]. To address Mr. Smith's altogether-too-familiar rebuttal, Wikipedia is a private website with the right to decide what it is. The Wikimedia Foundation has decided it is an encyclopedia ... not a blog, not a soapbox for self-promotion, not some fuzzy New Age outreach program. Many of those exist, and I suggest that this is less about What Wikipedia Could Become than in hijacking a popular and highly visible website for promotional purposes. RGTraynor 20:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak Delete. There are a lot of minor presidential candidates who have no chance to win, that shouldn't be a reason to remove this article. If this candidate has enough coverage to have a fully-cited non-stubbed article, then keep. I will change my vote if this is rewritten according to that and I am notified on my talk page. Without this, anyone could run for president with no campaigning/notability and not even try to win just to get a Wikipedia article. — Pious7TalkContribs 21:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Article is better with Pete's cuts (less violation of WP:SOAP), but still fails to meet WP:BIO notability. --Seattle Skier (talk) 22:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete "has minimal background as a politician," If he gets the party nomination, he'll be notable. DGG 04:10, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Official and potential 2008 United States presidential election Republican candidates (which actually does not have a paragraph on him, though he's link in the template at the bottom of the page). His name is a possible search term, and if we're going to remove the stand-alone article, at least send readers somewhere useful. Lyrl Talk C 18:37, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep He's a declared and active (campaigning) candidate for President of the United States. The fact that he isn't a current office holder or subjective determinations that he "doesn't have a snowballs chance" are completely irrelevant. Smith has received press coverage and a lot of attention on the internet, and is embarking on a novel endeavor. Subjective determinations on how much press coverage is needed to justify an article are shaky at best, as the mainstream media tends to focus on the horse-race aspects of an election. Active campaigning is enough, and the "self-promotion" claim is basically irrelevant when it comes to political candidates. I'll close with this: when in doubt, keep it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 172.164.116.249 (talk) 19:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC). — 172.164.116.249 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
- Comment Active campaign is one thing, but his strategy of campaigning for a national office in one state (the equivalent of wanting to be a professional boxer but refusing to get into a boxing ring) makes him non-notable, and it can hardly be seen as "actively" campaigning. His coverage has been limited mostly to local papers curious about his Quixotic run. I'm extremely sympathetic to anyone who wants to run, and if he became notable for his longshot run, that's one thing, but many other candidates are putting efforts into all early primary states and have gotten coverage for doing so, making them notable. - Nhprman 19:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Official and potential 2008 United States presidential election Republican candidates per Lyrl. I do have a question, though: how does one conclude this is self-promotion? The article was created[3] by an account that is not a single-purpose account and generally edits articles related to the Western United States.[4] It's possible that somewhere along the way, Mr. Smith actually edited this article to promote himself, but should that claim be made so lightly and without evidence? If incorrect, that claim may be offensive both to Mr. Smith and this article's creator. What happened to assuming good faith in the absence of evidence to the contrary? Have I perhaps missed some obvious evidence linking User:Stlom to Michael Smith? -- Black Falcon 05:34, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:11, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Heartbreaker (Pink song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
This is non-notable Pink song. It was the B-side to Stupid Girls, and was never released in it's own right. It is not going to be released. User:FergieFan101 created this article, and is linking to it as if it will be released. I nominated it for deletion and this user removed my deletion notice without giving any reasons why the article should remain. Guylikeu 01:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - or redirect to Stupid Girls. Looks like FergieFan101 is on a roll of creating these articles. Possibly connected to Weirdo1717. Masaruemoto 01:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nominator. /Blaxthos 05:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Delete. There is no chance this song will become a single and the article is written terribly. A redirect wouldn't work because the song is different. It may be a B-side to the first song, but it isn't the same. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bensmith53 (talk • contribs) 09:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]
- Delete - This is a very confusing article. Not only is it poorly written, but it also seems to be about a song that does not exist on any album yet. A complete overhaul would be needed to salvage anything, and that would be pointles given that the article is about a non-notable song.--Cyrus Andiron t/c 14:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. The song isn't scheduled for release as a single, the article establishes no other notability about it (not surprising, given it's a B-side), and there's no useful content to merge into another article. Extraordinary Machine 16:40, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. — Pious7TalkContribs 21:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Very bad article, and it isn't really a notable topic. -- Wenli 00:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- List of romantic leads with actress older (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Delete - indiscriminate list and directory seeking to capture examples of any film where the lead actress is older than the lead actor, regardless of whether the age difference has any significance either in the film or in the real-life relationship between the two. The entire intro is POV/OR, a number of the listed relationships are not clearly "romantic leads" which thus requires POV judgment in deciding to include them and the standard for inclusion can never be anything but arbitrary. Whoever made the list apparently decided that a three year age difference was the cutoff point since that's the closest in age that's listed, but there is no possible objective reason for setting the age gap at any number. Otto4711 01:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete listcruft. How incredibly arbitrary! --Action Jackson IV 03:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete In most of those films it's not even significant to the plot, and List_of_films_featuring_May-December_romances#Older_Woman.2F_Younger_Man deals with that subject. Interesting fact: There's the same age difference between Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta as there was between Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman, I'll have to remember that one Croxley 03:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom much arbitrary and in most of them age diff is not in the plotline.--Paloma Walker 03:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete get your list on. /Blaxthos 05:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete completely non-notable. Wikipedia is not a place for random lists. /Callix 21:18 21 March 2007 (EDST) (Aus)
- Keep Ageism against women in Hollywood casting of romantic leads is a frequent topic in the news. A list of movies, with stars and their age differences, which defy that trend is an important resource. The List_of_films_featuring_May-December_romances does not address the same issue. A call for deletion needs a discussion at Talk:List_of_films_featuring_May-December_romances since if these entries were added to that page, it would be distracting to people seeking intended May-December romance films and not ones due to casting. Ignoble 13:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per Ignoble. This is hardly an "indiscriminate list"; the criteria for inclusion are clear enough, and can be verified by linking to the pages about the actors in question. If differences less than two years should be added, let them be added. The data compiled here are of interest to some folks for the reasons related by Ignoble, among others. The list helps interested people find and compare them, and as such serves a valuable indexing function. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- What, specifically, quoting from the article, are the clear inclusion criteria? Otto4711 14:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- ". . . (W)here the actress is older than her leading man. . . " It's hard to get more algorithmic than that. - Smerdis of Tlön 15:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- How much older is old enough to warrant inclusion? The editor who started the list seemed to feel that a three year difference was the cutoff point, but did not offer any explanation as to why. You have suggested that age differences of less than three years can be included. What objective standard is there for choosing any age difference? Otto4711 16:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The fact that a list is incomplete, or that the original author chose not to add to it any more after some point, is not grounds for deleting it; much less does it turn it into an "indiscriminate list" as the nominator claims. - Smerdis of Tlön 18:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The question that I asked was "what objective standard is there for choosing any age difference?" Do you have an answer to that question or not? Otto4711 20:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- By now I haven't a clue what you're continuing to argue about. The criterion is as simple as could be: if the figure from column A is greater than the one in B, it belongs. The fact that the creator chose not to go deeper than a certain point does not change that, and doesn't need to reflect an "objective standard"; it's just a point where they chose to stop writing, that is all. We should delete the article on pi until the final digit is reached, right? - Smerdis of Tlön 22:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, yes, actually, that's exactly what I'm saying, I'm saying exactly that pi should be deleted unless it's calculated to the last number. Oh wait, I'm saying nothing even remotely similar to that and have no idea why you even bring it up! Otto4711 22:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete how much older? Is it stated in the script, or do we have secondary sources? Is it significant to the plot? Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson? Oh, that last one might be a quote. Guy (Help!) 14:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:NOT. The specifics are pretty well covered by the above. Arkyan 15:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom and Arkyan. Sheesh. JuJube 17:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete this list as a topic completely unsuitable for a serious encyclopedia. Mr. Berry 17:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - per WP:NOT#IINFO and OR/POV: the list is clearly trying to promote an agenda, which is hardly the purpose of Wikipedia. Of minimal, if any, encyclopedic value. Moreschi Request a recording? 18:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per above arguments. Wikipedia doesn't need a list for every single obscure topic. — Pious7TalkContribs 21:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Merge with Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley. utcursch | talk 13:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- List of actors who have played Elvis Presley (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Delete - actors play dozens or hundreds of parts in the course of a career. There is nothing so significant about playing Elvis Presley that warrants an article. Otto4711 02:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley. I agree there's nothing significant about this list of actors, but Elvis is an icon. If Elvis becomes the focus, rather than the actors, then it could be improved.
- As it stands the current Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley doesn't seem to know what it is, and the first five sections don't even belong. (I was actually going to suggest renaming to Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley, before I realised an article with that name already existed) Croxley 03:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete listcruft. WP:NOT a collection of lists. Categorize the notable ones if you must. /Blaxthos 05:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep As per List of actors who played President of the United States, this has nothing to do with importance of the role within listed actors' careers. Like the U.S. President, Elvis is a cultural icon and it is notable which actors have seriously portrayed him in notable films and television series. --Canley 07:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- See, this is exactly why the rationale given for keeping the POTUS article is bogus. There is nothing culturally significant about playing either Elvis or a president. People advocating to keep the POTUS article did so on the basis of the POTUS being such a special case. Now here's another such article and the arguments about this being a special case start up. If every case is a special case, then there doesn't appear to be anything all that special about any of them. Otto4711 11:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Two cases in which a rationale may apply does not make "every case a special case". As I've said before, I believe in judging each case on its merits, and accepting the consensus of the community. I do not see one or two AFD keeps as setting a precedent, or violating policy. --Canley 13:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- All well and good to say, except that you cited the POTUS article being kept in your opinion to keep this article. You know as well as I do that people look to similar closed AFDs in evaluating new ones, and should another of these lists come up for deletion then just as sure as God made little green apples this AFD will be pointed to just like you pointed to the POTUS one. Otto4711 18:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Fair point, I was actually citing the POTUS example because I believe that your deletion rationale there was equally as questionable - that playing the President is not an important acting role out of many - not because it was kept. As you've correctly pointed out though, it looks like I'm citing a precedent and saying it's not a precedent! --Canley 21:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Which points out yet another problem with these sorts of lists being kept under the premise of "the person being played is a cultural icon" or "the person is a special case." It requires editors to make POV judgments as to what historical characters are "icon" or "special" enough to warrant articles. There can be no objective definition of what historical personages have achieved that status so looking to such alleged status is problematic to say the least.
- Nor, I have to say again, does keeping the article under the theory that people will use it as a research tool on how actors approach the role make any sense. These lists tell us nothing about how actors approach the role, only that they did. The same argument could be made for any role or character type and unless we want bloated lists of every actor who ever played a cop or a bank teller the argument should be put down as well. Otto4711 21:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- OK, but Wikipedia pretty much requires editors to make POV judgements on "cultural icons" and "specialness" every single day, especially on AfD, due to a little thing called "notability". Once again, you're conflating something notable with non-notable slippery slope portents like "unless we want lists of every actor who ever played a cop or a bank teller" - I would agree that such lists should probably be deleted (including last week's Nazi one): anyone, actors or otherwise can play many such roles - so I definitely see your point, but I don't agree that it applies in a small number of cases. --Canley 00:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley per first unsigned "Merge" comment. Old american century 08:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I did sign my "merge" comment. Croxley 02:02, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge as per above. Unnecessary fork of an already existing topic. 23skidoo 13:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley, redundant, fork. Terence 15:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Note that in my opinion this probably passes the relevant section of WP:NOT, "Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics", since the list's entries are directly associated with a specific topic (Elvis). As an example of how this could be useful, consider if someone is researching or writing about Elvis and wants to look at how various people have portrayed him. The first obvious course is to find a list of either movies and shows that have included Elvis as a character or to find a list of actors who have portrayed Elvis. Both lists would produce the same general list of entries for further study.
- However, all that being said, I am concerned that the list appears to be original research as it is relying on an original collection of inclusion criteria not apparently found in previously published sources. So I'd only be willing to keep or merge the list if the consensus is that this list isn't a form of original research. Dugwiki 17:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge per everyone. JuJube 17:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley per everyone else in favor of merging. This needs rewriting once merged. — Pious7TalkContribs 21:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Listcruft. --kingboyk 21:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Cultural depictions of Elvis Presley, neither article is so large that the page would be overlong. And you do NOT mess with The King. Don't you know that? Noroton 17:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge to Cultural despictions of Elvis Presley Captain panda In vino veritas 00:28, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Speedy delete g4 per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Satter. NawlinWiki 21:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. -- Vanity page. Individual is not widely known. Yaf 02:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am also nominating the following related pages because it is a duplicate of the nominated article:
- Michael (Mike) Satter (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Bridgeplayer 17:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Include in the list the page Michael Satter SmartGuy 19:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete non notable [5].--Paloma Walker 03:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as not particularly notable - just a regular guy doing a regular good job. His photo should go from National Institute of Corrections as well because he is not notable in that context. In fact, if you look here his photo has been plastered everywhere! Bridgeplayer 04:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete WP:N /Blaxthos 05:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete does anone want to knw im? not notable --Zedco 10:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Non-notable, fails BIO/N, vanity page. - Denny 13:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete with fire, entirely the work of single purpose accounts, looks so much like vanispamcruftisement that it's hard to reach any other conclusion. Guy (Help!) 14:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom SmartGuy 15:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - we have User:Dr.Shartell, User:Gregwolen and User:Seaninwashington all promoting the same guy with similar text and pictures! Bridgeplayer 16:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete for the obvious reason jamesgibbon 18:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Delete {{db-repost}} per all the reasons from the first time --Onorem 19:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment and maybe look into any other users created by NateinFlorida (talk · contribs)...I mean Gregwolen (talk · contribs)...I mean Seaninwashington (talk · contribs)...I mean Carlostexas (talk · contribs)...I mean Gregsteres (talk · contribs)...I mean Timwiller (talk · contribs)...I mean Glenwolling (talk · contribs)...--Onorem 19:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - and don't forget Parkermax (talk · contribs) (Satter is also a rapper it seems!) Bridgeplayer 19:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - well spotted; Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Satter refers. I have tagged all three pages for speedy. Bridgeplayer 19:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment and don't forget Billrusslen (talk · contribs) who inserted a Michael Satter reference into a picture caption (vandalism) in the Police article. Yaf 20:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Is Joeinalabama (talk · contribs) listed here yet? --Onorem 21:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Burnsvillemike (talk · contribs) & DeaninDetroit (talk · contribs)...yawn --Onorem 21:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- NickOwnes (talk · contribs) - OK, I'm just going to stop looking for connections. I hoping there's enough here to justify a CheckUser... --Onorem 21:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- 66.41.155.45 (talk · contribs) - Another one... WP:RFCU anyone? Yaf 21:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 02:29, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Pawel Plaszczak (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Not notable. Reads like business advert/cv. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 02:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Self-promotion. /Blaxthos 05:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Member of the Ian Foster' Globus Project and author of very first book for managers concerning Grid computing /Paladin1979 11:52:21, 21 March 2007 (CET)
- Delete worked in some cool places, did some cool stuff, no non-trivial secondary sources. Not notable per Wikipedia standards, which is not in any way a reflection on his worth as an individual. Guy (Help!) 14:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Classic self-promotion. Biruitorul 20:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Unless the article is re-written, it is blatant self-advertising. -- Wenli 00:54, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as it does not assert notablity per WP:BIO and violates WP:SOAP. --Roswell native 03:40, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep he's among few people mentioned in Grid computing article. If you would like to look for second sources, here's an interview with P.P. in PrimeurMagazine. So why keep the articles of others listed in biography of Grid computing term? /Paladin1979 13:40:21, 22 March 2007 (CET)Please do not vote multiple times.--Seattle Skier (talk) 23:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]- Rather Keep And I've just found some better article about that guy on GridToday /LukeWolf 14:40:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC) User has no contributions other than this vote.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 17:06, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Self promotion, not notable. Note: multiple keep votes above are from same account. --Seattle Skier (talk) 23:05, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. OK. If the majority see that topic in such a way so delete it. But will it last empty ?? Note: I didn't know that I cannot answer your arguments more than once. --Paladin1979 16:19, 22 March 2007 (CET)
- You can comment as much as you want, just note that the vote is 'comment' and don't begin this with 'keep' or 'delete'. If you change your vote, delete or strike out the old one. It's all described here.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 17:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I'm still very curious why there can't be article about this guy and there can be articles about others, mentioned in Grid computing topic. If this guy is the author of the very first book form managers concerning grids, so he done something as first right? So it should be notable fact, right? And please don't right it's self-promotion because I am not Mr. Plaszczak and that's funny. --Paladin1979 20:56, 24 March 2007 (CET)
- Please read WP:BIO and show here that this person indeed fullfulls the criteria of our policy.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 20:35, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Move to Grid computing, the savvy manager's guide - considering the number of reviews I come up with on a Google search (EnterTheGrid, Globus Consortium Journal, GridToday, and that's just on the first page of hits), I think this may qualify under Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Academic books. If there was only one author, I'd say just keep the author article (and not have one on the book), but there's not enough notability to justify having an article on both authors. Lyrl Talk C 20:43, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 02:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Marcin Chumiecki (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Not notable, advert/cv. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk 02:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete no assertion of notability. /Blaxthos 05:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete non notable [6], no attempt to prove notability.--Paloma Walker 17:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete No evidence of work, 2 Google hits. - PoliticalJunkie 21:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as it does not assert notablity per WP:BIO. --Roswell native 03:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per evidence above. Artaxiad 21:06, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Delete, no assertion of notability, how-to, nonsensical, made up in the pub one day, and several other things Wikipedia is not. Guy (Help!) 14:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Non-notable drinking game. Google returns nothing relevant, beyond an urbandictionary entry. Neologism, WP:NOT a dictionary, WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE, WP:NFT Action Jackson IV 02:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, no WP:RS for WP:A. Leuko 02:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete textbook WP:MADEUP Citicat 04:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. /Blaxthos 05:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. Old american century 08:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:12, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Likely a hoax. Google search for "Nigel Keller"+MIT came up with nothing, and neither did a search for "Neuro-incisor" (or any of its variants). Contested prod. Delete due to lack of verification. ... discospinster talk 02:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Most likely hoax. Seems to be talking about the Gamma knife, invented by Lars Leksell. -- Selket Talk 03:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Hoax it is. Citicat 04:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete WP:HOAX /Blaxthos 05:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Hoax. --Seattle Skier (talk) 23:10, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Speedy Delete (the band). No assertion of notability, WP:CSD#A7. Guy (Help!) 14:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The article asserts no notability per the guidelines of WP:MUSIC. Nv8200p talk 03:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete WP:MUSIC /Blaxthos 05:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. StaticElectric 07:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Majorly (o rly?) 13:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The wood whisperer (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Non-notable per WP:BIO, WP:CORP, and WP:WEB. Leuko 03:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. It would take significant cleanup to keep the article, and is written in a way to seem like an advertisement. --Sigma 7 03:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, just delete it. I have no desire to jump through hoops. Rtwpsom2 03:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete NN /Blaxthos 05:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete common newbie error, userfy if the creator wants it, but does not meet the guidelines and policies for inclusion. Guy (Help!) 14:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: An anonymous post on Talk:The wood whisperer claims notability: -- intgr 19:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have only suggested an edit a couple of times in wikipedia (once where someone had spelled my wife's name incorrectly as she is a notable person but just barely) thus if I am doing this incorrectly forgive me. A couple of things about Marc, his podcast is #1 in the catagory of hobbies on iTunes, He made the best or podcasting list on iTunes for 2006, his podcast was featured on television in Canada, he has been sponsored by Finewoodworking.com and has been featured in their print publication, he has also been sponsored by Festool and Powermatic which does not come easy. Within the woodworking (online) community he is very well known and well regarded.
- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.137.30.2 (talk)
I have added a link to the article published in WoodCraft Magazine. Rtwpsom2 21:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep: Article needs work, but with the recent "appearances" section, appears to pass the (vague) threshold of notability. -- intgr 02:50, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was speedily deleted by FCYTravis. MER-C 08:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
WP:CRYSTAL. Article is full of nonsense - the album is coming out in either "late 07", "August 07", or may have already gone platinum. I say delete this, and recreate it when the album passes from quantum uncertainty to reality. Action Jackson IV 03:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete borderline hoax, it's written in the past tense about future events. -- Selket Talk 03:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Hoax. Possibly can be speedied under " vandalism if the article is obviously ridiculous" Citicat 03:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as obvious tomfoolery. /Blaxthos 05:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was page reverted to redirect and nomination withdrawn. WjBscribe 05:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This page led a happy little life as a redirect until someone decided to use it for something they made up it school one day. It's possibly speediable as patent nonsense as well Citicat 03:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Revert back to the redirect It's a real term, but this article is clearly written for the author's buddies and no one else. - Richfife 04:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I did revert it[7] and it got put back. Needs to be protected. Citicat 04:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Oh. Try this page: Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. - Richfife 04:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Okey-doke Withdrawing nomination Citicat 04:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was redirect to Military deception. Veinor (talk to me) 15:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
del unnecessary russian language dicdef which is more than adequately rendered by the term military deception. A quote from Russian military encyclopedia is a definition of the Russian langauge term, which is exactly how "military deception" is defined. We are not going to have articles such as oborona (defense) Nastupleniye ("attack") just because the Russian military encyclopedia defines them. `'mikka 03:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Categorizing debate: S: Society topics. ◄Zahakiel► 05:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Term is used in many English language essays.[8] Having an explanation of the term here seems okay to me, although the article needs some expansion. Citicat 03:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep and expand with more usage examples --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete I agree with the nominator... an encyclopedia isn't the place to define every foreign language word that may come into use in English. Bad precident. /Blaxthos 05:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Military deception. WP:UE is only overridden in two cases I know of: WP:NC(CN) (as in concrete objects whose names have no widely accepted equivalents in English, where inventing a translation would be WP:OR), and the self-identification, e.g. of an ethnic or religious group. This is neither. However, deletion doesn't seem appropriate given that the term has 219 GBooks hits (unlike oborona or nastupleniye), including some which discuss it non-trivially. [9] I truly despise these "flavour words", like Chinese Guanxi, Japanese Wa, etc. that are used by authors to show off rather than inform; unfortunately, we're not the Academy of the English Language, and don't have the power to proscribe useless words. (Incidentally, see p32 of Chizum's Soviet Radioelectronic Combat for a justification by one author of why he uses the Russian word instead of an equivalent English word; IMO it's weak, but he published about the topic, and I haven't). cab 05:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Military deception per cab. And I was going to quote Chizum's Soviet Radioelectronic Combat too, but cab got there first ;) Croxley 06:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Military deception per cab. Old american century 09:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect. Agree with Blaxthos and cab, there are more and more foreign words creeping in WP which have perfectly fine English equivalents. -- P199 16:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletions. -- Carom 16:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect per Cab. Just because this term shows up in a few military adventure/spy novels doesn't make it anything more than a dicdef. RGTraynor 17:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to Military deception per cab. Despite having a source, this is still a (somewhat lengthy) dicdef. However, its use in English-language sources justifies a redirect. -- Black Falcon 05:40, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Majorly (o rly?) 13:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
One of many people to lose their job over offensive personal blog postings. Does it suck? Yes. Is this particular case notable? Not really. Richfife 03:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak Keep - Did a search and he seems at least a bit notable--SUIT 04:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep and add more references --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Recentism that isn't truely WP:Notable. /Blaxthos 05:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Does being the subject of a news story mean notability? I don't believe so. Googling "Matt Donegan" + "Dover Post" + fired = 277 results, and most of them are blogs (not surprisingly). Croxley 06:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. More references are needed. StaticElectric 07:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Non-notable person fired for blogging, only real claim to fame was appearning on the local news (which is not notable). TJ Spyke 08:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete is ths realy the srt of thing for bein on here? not notable enough--Zedco 10:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as breathless overdramatization of local minutiae. All eyes are watching to see what happens in the final analysis! -- Dhartung | Talk 11:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as per nom and Blaxthos. -- P199 16:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Many employers in the United States can fire somebody for any reason - including no reason. If this person has, in a legal action, been the subject of a case that set a precedent for blog posts in conjunction with employment, we'd have something. But not this. --Dennisthe2 01:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as it does not assert notablity per WP:BIO--Roswell native 03:43, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Not notable enough. Article is primarily the work of single-use accounts to push POV after the firing. Should have been caught and deleted a year ago. --Seattle Skier (talk) 23:19, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. The NBC 10 article is the only active, reliable, non-trivial link. I think a standard of "precedent-setting legislation" is unreasonably high, but this article does not even meet the common/general/primary requirement of at least 2 independent, reliable, non-trivial sources. -- Black Falcon 06:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was speedy keep. MaxSem 16:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The Princess Diaries Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
I'm completing a nomination for an anon who's attempted two separate PRODs. According to the message left at my talk page, "It is hardly a noteworthy book. Rather it is a book that is part of a noteworthy series. This page provides nothing except blatant plot summary and does not benefit Wikipedia at all. Clearly nobody has bothered to improve on it. Instead they create new pages for other books in the series with only one sentence descriptions. If someone needs a summary of every single book in this series, they can go to Google." The edit to the prior debate is here. Keep in mind, this was recently kept as a unanimous keep in February at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess in the Spotlight.
- My personal opinion is keep as before. One of the most noteworthy series in young adult literature, highlight notable author, parts of the book were used for the second film in the series, it's a bestselling novel, plenty of reviews can be dug up, etc etc etc. badlydrawnjeff talk 04:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Keep Too soon for another AFD. Possible bad faith forum shopping by nominator. - Richfife 04:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Keep No valid reason for deletion given. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 04:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Keep If it's kept, there's no need to go to Google. Gardener of Geda | Message Me.... 04:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Keep Bad faith nom by an anon. If it's been through an AFD last month, there's zero reason to PROD it. Cheers, Lankybugger 04:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Keep in light of recent previous AfD. Maxamegalon2000 05:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The following comment was placed on the previous AfD. I have no opinion, just copying moving it to where it belongs DMacks 05:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete or Merge I think deletion and/or a merge is necessary but you continue to delete any nomination for deletion I post. It is hardly a noteworthy book. Rather it is a book that is part of a noteworthy series. This page provides nothing except blatant plot summary and does not benefit Wikipedia at all. Clearly nobody has bothered to improve on it. Instead they create new pages for other books in the series with only one sentence descriptions. If someone needs a summary of every single book in this series, they can go to Google. 137.238.121.34 03:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy keep. Professionally published novels are inherently notable per the Novels WikiProject. If we start picking-and-choosing what we consider to be notable works then there are hundreds of other articles that might as well go to AFD, and to decide which ones should go would be a violation of WP:NPOV. 23skidoo 13:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Keep Any of the books in the series is notable up through the present, as author Meg Cabot... is notable, as is the fact... her series has spawned two major Hollywood releases so far. - Denny 13:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy keep notable author, series and therefore book. Proposed deletion and AfD are not cleanup. --Canley 13:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy keep very obviously notable book, and part of a very notable series. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Keep, obviously notable, no proper reason for AFD, do not use AFD for poor quality articles that desperately needs cleanup. Terence 15:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Taken from Wikipedia:NOT: Plot summaries. Wikipedia articles on works of fiction should contain real-world context and sourced analysis, offering detail on a work's achievements, impact or historical significance, not solely a summary of that work's plot. A plot summary may be appropriate as an aspect of a larger topic. As it stands now, this article is just a plot summary. While that in itself is not a criterion for deletion, the article is in need of some repair before it becomes respectable. How long can it exist in its present state before action should be taken? --Cyrus Andiron t/c 15:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- When I'm feeling rowdy, I usually remove the plot summaries until the articles can be expanded otherwise. I've been dealing with other things rather than the Princess Diaries as of late, but it's something that can be dealt with via editing - the article is still a functionally acceptable stub. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:13, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Michael Chrisman (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Delete What makes this man notable? Avi 04:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Non-notable person--SUIT 04:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete WP:N /Blaxthos 05:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete self promo and no refs--Zedco 08:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- User's 4th edit. Tyrenius 09:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC) [reply]
- Delete per SUIT's comment. —Old american century 09:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as this person is not a suitable subject for an encyclopedia. Mr. Berry 19:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as it does not assert notablity per WP:BIO. --Roswell native 03:44, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak keep As a published author he does seem to fit WP:BIO, unless the books are self-published. However the article needs massive cleanup. It lacks sources. If no one steps forward to clean up the article before this AFD finishes, then I have no objection to a delete.TheRingess (talk) 17:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I am not sure I agree with that reading of WP:BIO. Per Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Special cases, authors would have to:
- Received notable awards or honors.
- Be regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors.
- Be known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.
- Create a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, which has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
- Have their work (a) be displayed in a significant exhibition or as a monument (b) won significant critical attention, or (c) is represented within the permanent collection of a significant gallery or museum of more than local significance.
- Does this person conform to any of the above? -- Avi 17:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I am not sure I agree with that reading of WP:BIO. Per Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Special cases, authors would have to:
- Delete self promo, non-notable person Truthbewithu 00:22, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Speedy deleted by Wile E. Heresiarch at 23:42, 20 March 2007. ◄Zahakiel► 04:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Non-notable biography, only source is IMDB, where he has very very minimal credits. Not written in an encyclopedic manner, very close to advert. Prodded by myself, de-prodded by author. Delete. Mak (talk) 04:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete -- Fails WP:BIO. Longhair\talk 04:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speed deleted Reason: vanity/personal promotion, no claim or evidence of notability. Wile E. Heresiarch 04:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was merge into Lord of the Flies. Natalie 22:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Lord of the Flies in popular culture (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Yet another cruft filled article that isn't very useful. Trim the section in the main article, instead of just branching off to these crufty "pop culture/cultural references" articles. RobJ1981 04:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Categorizing debate: S: Society topics. ◄Zahakiel► 04:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete paging Dr. Cruft, please pick up the white courtesy phone. /Blaxthos 05:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Indiscriminate information, plus much original research - "People have found many similarities", "has been speculated that", "is similar to", "It is claimed that". Croxley 05:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per indiscriminate OR concerns. Otto4711 11:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge back into Lord of the Flies. Do not fear to convert the list into paragraphs analysing these several allusions on the bogus grounds that the analysis needed to turn the lists into running discourse is "unreferenced" or "original research". Only allusions in notable works should be included, and in a notable work, a Wikilink is all the reference you need; and the fear that the brief synopses needed to explain allusions are "original research" is just silly. The *Lord of the Flies is a work of fiction, originally written to entertain: it already is popular culture, even if it is taught. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I'm starting to feel like a broken record saying how these things violate WP:NOT and are devoid of encyclopedic content, et. Arkyan 15:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]- Does not fail WP:NOT#IINFO, but does appear to be OR and unreferenced This does not appear to violate WP:NOT#IINFO. That section of WP:NOT is very specific about what it prohibits, and lists of popular culture references are not part of that section. (See previous discussions on the incorrect application of WP:NOT#IINFO on the archived talk page.) However, it does appear to be largely unreferenced original research. Therefore the article should probably be trimmed down to clear referenced entries and, space permitting, merged back into the Lord of the Flies main article. Dugwiki 17:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And, P.S., "cruft" is never a reason for deletion. Dugwiki 18:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. It could be useful. StaticElectric 18:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - per WP:ATT, completely unsourced: possibly WP:OR, and, yes per WP:NOT#IINFO. Just a glorified plot summary, which NOT prohibits. Moreschi Request a recording? 18:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Except that it's not summarizing a plot. In fact, it's specifically talking about real world references to the plot, which is explicitly what WP:NOT#IINFO says is supposed to happen. Dugwiki 19:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge into Lord of the Flies. The book is already popular culture. It is very appropiate to discuss the influence of the book on other elements of poplular culture. In this case, why would you want to split them? -- Michael Johnson 23:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep lack of deletion rationale. Too long for lord of the flies article. SakotGrimshine 18:42, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge. This is not indiscriminate information per WP:NOT#IINFO as Dugwiki has noted above. Nor would I say that it is indiscriminate per the common definition of the term; there is a clear discriminating criterion, namely, reference to LOTF. Also, this is not unsourced: it is sourced by primary sources. For instance, the reference to LOTF in Hook (film) is sourced by the film itself. However, despite the fact that a nomination based merely in the vague accusation of "cruft" is just begging for a "Strong keep", this article violates WP:TRIV and should not remain as a stand-alone article. Most of the entries in the article are merely passing mentions, but some are more significant. Per Smerdis of Tlön, I will trim the article so that an admin may easily merge it if that is the consensus. -- Black Falcon 05:58, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Rewritten. I have rewritten the article: deleting most of the content, converting the remainder into prose form, and adding some references (see diff). I have made statements that tie the various elements together, but also deliberately limited their scope to keep them factual: I can't say that LOTF has greatly impacted future literary works, but I can say that it "has influenced or inspired multiple cultural works". Any additional cleanup would be appreciated, as I'm rather tired now and may have missed something (spelling, grammar, sentence structure, content organisation, etc.). I feel this is short and selective enough (and also sourced) to be merged back into Lord of the Flies. -- Black Falcon 06:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree, the rewrite is good enough to merge back in to the parent article. Arkyan • (talk) 14:10, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Rewritten. I have rewritten the article: deleting most of the content, converting the remainder into prose form, and adding some references (see diff). I have made statements that tie the various elements together, but also deliberately limited their scope to keep them factual: I can't say that LOTF has greatly impacted future literary works, but I can say that it "has influenced or inspired multiple cultural works". Any additional cleanup would be appreciated, as I'm rather tired now and may have missed something (spelling, grammar, sentence structure, content organisation, etc.). I feel this is short and selective enough (and also sourced) to be merged back into Lord of the Flies. -- Black Falcon 06:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was speedily deleted by Bobo192. MER-C 08:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Droid (album) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Future album of a band whose page was already deleted. No apparent notability. --Wildnox(talk) 04:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete (does this qualify for speedy?) /Blaxthos 05:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Tagged for speedy - no assertion of notability. Moreschi Request a recording? 18:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:13, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Samuel Gamboa Potter (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Notability is questionable; primary edits appear autobiographical; Google searches seem to return only Wikipedia references Travisl 04:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete no assertion of notability. /Blaxthos 05:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete self promo an refs not inependnt enough. dont say i sed so tho as i note hes got a gun!!!!!!!!!--Zedco 08:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- User's 6th edit. Tyrenius 09:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as it does not assert notablity per WP:BIO --Roswell native 03:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak delete, it does assert notability of a sort, but I think it falls slightly short of passing WP:BIO. The television show he co-hosts seems to be limited to Pacific Northwest (so far), and as for being "the first person to effectively capture the behavior of salmon and other fish in freshwater striking lures and baits with underwater cameras", that's moderately impressive, but not quite enough, IMO. But mainly I'm concerned by the weakness of the references. Two seem to be mostly press-releases, and the third appears to come from a blog. And much of the personal information appears completely unsourced. Seems like someone who could easily achieve sufficient notability, but unless and until there's better coverage from more independent sources, I think this has to go. Xtifr tälk 08:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Speedy Deleted CSD A7. kingboyk 21:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Non-notable group. Has been speedied once. -- RHaworth 05:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Categorizing debate: M: Media and music. ◄Zahakiel► 05:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy delete Article makes no claims of notability. OhNoitsJamie Talk 05:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please do not delete this articleMarvinwillis 05:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong delete Not notableGazMan7 11:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy delete as A7, group bio with no notability presented. Beyond that, there's also a "Copyright 2007" at the bottom, suggesting the author does not understand the GDFL and doesn't understand the legal implications of posting it here. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Yet another up and coming. Try again when you've up and come. JuJube 17:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. - Mailer Diablo 10:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
List of Korean family names (2nd nomination)
- List of Korean family names (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
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I previously closed Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of names as "delete", but it has been noted that that AFD was weak on consensus, having only two users other than the nominator commenting. Therefore I have undeleted the article and opened a new AFD. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-21 05:23Z
Merge andDelete - An interesting list, but 'interesting' does not validate its own space on Pedia.The data should be kept, especially the figure regarding Kim. It should merge into Korean name if at all possible.Extant inside article already. ALTON .ıl 05:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]- Absolutely, positively, without doubt keep. Korean name is an article about Korean names (both given and surnames) in general, and is not meant to house all the surnames, thus this article is the logical one for this data. We do, in many other subjects, have articles covering the broad subject (such as Johann Sebastian Bach), as well as other articles listing Bach's compositions, which provides an excellent and valuable reference that could not be easily contained in a single article. It is a waste of time and energy to nominate this for deletion a second time, and does nothing to advance Wikipedia's aims to be the best and most comprehensive encyclopedia. I frequently refer to the List of common Chinese surnames and this article is equally useful. Badagnani 05:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Korea-related deletions. -- cab 05:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- keep interesting and useful list. --Melanochromis 05:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep List has South Korean population figures, and readers can look at the list and compare population sizes between different surnames. That makes it encyclopedic. Plus, article has room for expansion. I'd like to see the number of Bon-gwans listed for each surname. Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 06:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Contingent keep. The list is somewhat more useful than List of names itself, as there are a limited number of Korean family names. However, for consistency sake, if List of names is deleted by consensus, I'd say delete this article as well. --Nlu (talk) 06:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: at Wikipedia, I believe *reasonableness* is more important in such cases than stringent, legalistic rulings like "delete all lists of names." The fact that there are so few Korean (and Chinese, and Vietnamese) surnames makes it possible to list, and explain them, and I, for one, use these articles as a reference. Cutting them out to fulfill the stipulations of some sort of severe ruling does not advance the cause of knowledge, nor our encyclopedia. Badagnani 06:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per Badaghani. Also, bring back all the other lists of names. - Peregrine Fisher 07:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: don't you think a list of, for example, European surnames (with all their infinite spelling variations) would be unworkably huge? I think that's been largely agreed on by consensus, with the exception being for the Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese surnames since there are so few of them. Just my comment. Badagnani 07:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Chinese surnames may be relatively few, but they're not that few. The Hundred Family Surnames are not comprehensive, and there are many, many rarer surnames that nevertheless are used. I suspect that to be the case with Korean and Vietnamese names as well. I do believe that they're few enough that a list will still have some use, but I think that if the other lists are all deleted, this should go, too, for consistency. --Nlu (talk) 13:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- With regard to Korean surnames, this list is fully comprehensive, as it includes all surnames registered in the South Korean census. The only thing it leaves out are a handful of names which are attested historically but are not carried by any living person (or at least not by anyone in South Korea). -- Visviva 14:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Chinese surnames may be relatively few, but they're not that few. The Hundred Family Surnames are not comprehensive, and there are many, many rarer surnames that nevertheless are used. I suspect that to be the case with Korean and Vietnamese names as well. I do believe that they're few enough that a list will still have some use, but I think that if the other lists are all deleted, this should go, too, for consistency. --Nlu (talk) 13:05, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: don't you think a list of, for example, European surnames (with all their infinite spelling variations) would be unworkably huge? I think that's been largely agreed on by consensus, with the exception being for the Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese surnames since there are so few of them. Just my comment. Badagnani 07:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep this interesting and useful list. --Mumun 無文 10:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, encyclopedic though still needing improvement. Thanks to Quarl for kindly re-listing. -- Visviva 10:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. I don't see a valid argument for deletion. --LambiamTalk 12:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per Badagnani --MerkurIX(이야기하세요!)(투고) 12:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep and also WP:SNOWRaveenS 13:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong keep. The page makes sense because there are so few Korean names. There have been two occasions in the past when I needed to refer to this page for my research, so I can attest to its usefulness. -- Dominus 13:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - As a foreigner living in Korea, and trying to learn to read (both hangul and hanja), this is a great collection of information. -- Otebig 14:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - straightforward purpossful list which serves navigational purposes and can easily be its own article. WilyD 15:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - and more of the surnames should probably be turned into links. (Redlinks, and then bluelinks at some point). This will make the article usable for purposes of developing Wikipedia (one of the criterion of WP:LIST under which the existence of list is justified) Given that sites like rootsweb.co.kr are able to write non-trivial text (e.g. history) about many of the surnames, we should be able to as well. cab 10:39, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, but remove any material which is not properly sourced using reliable sources. Burntsauce 17:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Jegal 00:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - Is there any good reason to delete this list? I don't understand why. Good friend100 13:25, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - Je suis d'accord. This list is a very useful and important list for a person who is researching about the ancestral history of Korea. Orthodoxy 20:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Majorly (o rly?) 13:31, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Walter Bosley (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Appears to be violation of WP:COI, does not assert notability, does not cite reliable published sources, contains many unverified statements about working for clandestine organization. Jokestress 05:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. For some reason, I can never follow the byzantine instructions to make these work. Please check the other parts of this, especially the log. Jokestress 05:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Notability: main claims seem to be thinking that a nine foot tall person could leave no mark on the genetic record and books about transgender Amazons. Whether or not COI, it's not a list of world's biggest idiots just yet. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Callix (talk • contribs) 10:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]
- Delete and bury under jungle tumulus: Alright, let's start. First off, according to Amazon, the most popular (self-published) book this fellow claims to have written (and I emphasize "claims," since there is no attribution to "E.A.Guest" being Walter Bosley) ranks a whopping 1.8 million on Amazon's sales rankings [10] . There are only 110 Google hits (excluding one of Bosley's own websites), most of which are genealogical posts [11]. A search of the Air Force archival section shows no evidence Bosley was ever in the service [12]. The Redlands Daily Facts article he cites doesn't exist [13]. Need I go on? Fails WP:ATT, WP:COI and probably WP:HOAX as well. Certainly fails WP:BULLSHIT. RGTraynor 17:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, at best WP:OR; more likely a hoax, with completely unverifiable sources. --MCB 20:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, you all seem to have reached the consensus that I'm a liar. I suggest you call the Redlands Daily Facts ( and ask for STEVEN SABEL who wrote the article himself which ran on THURSDAY 12 JANUARY 2006 on PAGE C1. You might also want to ask DIANE SHOLLEY of the INLAND VALLEY DAILY BULLETIN who wrote the article about me that ran TUESDAY 3 OCTOBER 2006. The reason your lazy research efforts can't find the article is because it is cleared off the internet after so many weeks, and obviously you do nothing BUT the internet. Also, I recommend you research the AFOSI; do real research and make a phone call. I carried BADGE NUMBER 1911, from April 1994 to June of 1999. In fact, I recently received a call from an AFOSI agent in Los Angeles who knows me: NELSON FINK, assigned to LAAFB, El Segundo, AFOSI Detachment 110, as does SPECIAL AGENT DAVID HARPER. Call the FBI HQ and ask to contact SA LES SZASZ, he'll tell you who I am. Better yet, call my ex-wife LAURA EIMILLER, MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE for the FBI in Los Angeles (That's a good task for you, Jokestress). She hates me, but she'll tell you who I worked for. You can also contact General FRANCIS X. TAYLOR, retired AFOSI commander, former Ambassador at Large for Terrorism at the U.S. State Department and ask him to tell you who I am. You can contact my last commander LT COL JAMES MCDONOUGH. I can provide each of you with a copy of my DD214 discharge paper. What access do you have to USAF records? Oh, you don't have access to AFOSI records??? You may also contact author GREG BISHOP who has checked on my bonafides as a journalist. Oh and Miss Jokestress, you may contact a writer named CINDY ROBERTS who worked for ALIAS, because I was referred to her by the FBI in Los Angeles, and she has used me as a source for a couple of years now for that show and other scripts she has written. If she uses a different last name when writing, I'll gladly provide you with her phone number. And also talk to KEVIN SMITH at kevinsmithshow.com because he's checked me out. Do you people do ANYTHING but internet searches??? That's why you haven't even gathered the basic facts because if you can't find them on the web, you give up! Some encyclopedia! Why couldn't you just ask me? Because it's more fun and makes you feel more significant to be cocksure. You guys really need to get out more often; there's a lot more in the world besides your Google. Go ahead and make fun of the theories about nine-foot-tall men. I'm perfectly OK with that. Go ahead and make fun of my publishing company and the fact that, among OTHER authors, I publish my own works. I'm OK with that, too. Contact CHRISTOPHER SPELLMAN at SPELLMAN PAUL ENTERTAINMENT in LA or New York, he's my agent. Ask me to provide contact numbers for these sources, or ask me to provide better backup for the archeology stuff. But don't be morons when it comes to professional things I can prove or YOU can prove by doing more than a Google on so-called USAF 'archives'. Someone who works for me thought it would be a good idea to have this page up on me, because they believe what I do is interesting enough. I don't need to be on Wikipedia to serve my ego, believe me, but I do not like being called a liar where my professional credentials are concerned, especially by the likes of what I see in your profiles.{Lostcontinentlib 07:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)lostcontinentlibLostcontinentlib 07:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)}[reply]
- To the above: please understand that notability and importance are not the same thing. Contacting primary sources requires resources that not all people have access to, so primary personal sources do not, sadly, meet the requirements of Verifibility. No one doubts that you exist, but in order to have a properly sourced wikipedia article, multiple, secondary, reliable sources need to be found; ones that talk *about* you, not merely confirm your existance. Without that, there just isn't enough verifiable information for a wikipedia article. Also note that in general subjects are discouraged from writing their own wikipedia articles, under the grounds of Conflict of Interest issues. Please remember importance, existance and notability are not the same. The standards of Notability apply to all articles of wikipedia, they're our last protection against spam in many cases, unfortunately people can and do get caught by that standard, but they're very important to the project. Wintermut3 08:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- oh, and also, please refrain from personal attacks, they're unconstructive, may hurt your case and are generally a bad idea. If reliable sources do exist however, feel free to add them to the article, drop me a line at my talk page or mention them here so they can be added. Wintermut3 08:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: I can think of no reputable encyclopedia that exists that would take someone's naked, unsupported word for a damn thing (or, alternatively, "call up my friends and they'll vouch for me"); if Mr. Bosley doesn't believe that, he should feel free to contact the Brittanica or Encarta with the exact same information and the exact same lack of verifiable sources, and see if they'd be any more likely to give him his own article. RGTraynor 13:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I didn't think you'd take the time to really verify anything beyond Google. My sources are officials who can verify the fact of what was entered about me, but because they don't splash it all over the internet, it's not valid. Because they don't 'talk about' me in internet articles, I'm not valid. I didn't write the article. An employee logged on with my email address to create it. Sorry that person violated the 'standards'. I see now. You essentially Google for your facts and go no further. It's sort of like television. Higher ratings mean 'better', rather 'it must be good'. It's all based on popularity, really. Yes, I get it now. By the way, very funny Mr Traynor, putting yourself and Wikipedia in the same class as Encyclopedia Britannica. Remove the article, if you want. It really doesn't matter to me at this point. I recommend you read 'Atlas Shrugged', if you can understand it. Oh, and RG, you state on your own page that grammar and punctuation are peeves of yours? For crying out loud, learn how to spell 'Britannica' correctly in a public forum, OK? That alone makes your contributions to an encyclopedia suspect already.{Lostcontinentlib 15:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)}[reply]
- Comment: Leaving the personal attack aside (I'd recommend a peek at WP:NPA myself), suppose you review the provisions of WP:BIO (governing notability) and WP:ATT (governing verifiability). In particular, the mandatory policy expressed in WP:ATT runs "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is whether material is attributable to a reliable published source ... The burden of evidence lies with the editor wishing to add or retain the material. If an article topic has no reliable sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." (emphasis mine) Further, "Reliable sources are credible published materials with a reliable publication process ... Material that is self-published is generally not regarded as reliable ... Any unsourced material may be removed, and in biographies of living persons, unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material must be removed immediately." As someone who claims to have had a career in the military and law enforcement, you cannot be unaware that rules and standards exist. Meeting these thresholds are fundamental to Wikipedia's standards, and working to meet those standards is a far more productive use of your time here than chastising or insulting us for following them. RGTraynor 15:37, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Per all the comments above, I will ignore the personal attacks to note one thing. In one of the few published sources cited, the Redlands Daily Facts, you are merely quoted. It is not a biographical interview about you. The threshold for notability is multiple non-trivial works. See WP:N. Please add more published sources where you are the subject of the article. It's a more producitve tactic than attempting to insult people. Thank you. Jokestress 16:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- comment as to the accusations of using only google as a source I can assure you that most of our best articles, in fact many of our articles period, cite published books and scholarly journals. Google is used, along with things like Alexa pagerank (for websites) or Amazon rankings to determine the likelihood of the existance of sources. In an AfD debate, we don't often care what the sources are (beyond the requirements of reliability and verifibility) simply that they exist or could be found to improve an article. For a biography it's not always accurate, but in the abscence of compelling sources, a low number of gHits (especially when news articles are often indexed by Google) is oftentimes indicative of non-notability. This doesn't mean it's a foolproof test, but it does often allow us to either say "woah, this subject has a solid web presence, maybe it's more notable than the article leads on" or confirm that no sources exist. Wintermut3 23:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep as major improvements made to ensure compliance of verifiability. - Mailer Diablo 15:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Rajan Sankaran (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Despite confident assertions to the contrary in the last AfD, the article still doesn't assert notability, and no evidence for his notability has ever been provided. Indeed, it's practically at speedy delete level at the moment because of this. Certainly, if there's actual evidence that fits WP:RS and so on that shows he's notable, and we can use them to improve the article, he shouldn't be deleted, but no such evidence exists in the article, and, even in the last AfD, none was ever provided.
Allow me to summarise the current article, because it might help anyone objecting to the deletion see why it needs improved:
Rajan Sankaran is educated as a homeopath, and has a business he inherited from his father. He developed a few theories about homeopathy, and self-publishes books [14] (note the company site is a subpage of his website) and has a computer program for sale [15]. He has learned an effective way to get information from patients - just like every new practitioner of any form of medicine, conventional or alternative, does after a time.
If there's more about him that makes him unambiguously notable, please, please, add it to the article. Because the current article is not showing it. Adam Cuerden talk 06:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
NOTE FROM NOMINATOR: Since this nomination (and after most of the votes), Abridged has improved the article significantly. The deletes and comments will need judged to see if they still apply. Adam Cuerden talk 19:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Seems notable. Thanks RaveenS 13:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom. It had its chance to improve since the last AfD. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom's reasoning. An issue was raised on AN/I about another homeopath - can we trust pseudoscientific references when a person's notability is only demonstrated by references within that area? I'm not sure present notability guidelines address this problem. However, this is a clear delete - nearly all sources come straight from the author as self-publications. Skinwalker 15:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nomination --Roswell native 03:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete not reliable soruces--Sefringle 04:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- 'Weak keep To determine notability among homeopaths, we judge in comparison with other homeopaths, just like all similar fields. We are not judging his medical credentials or his scientific knowledge. If he publishes more books than the others, and they take the books seriously enough to review them, then he's N. I don't think books of the sort he seems to be writing would earn him a positive reputation among ordinary physicians, but each group is entitled to their own standards.DGG 04:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't suppose you have links to reviews? Adam Cuerden talk 22:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)Reviews are used as references now, which is what I wanted 'em for anyway. Adam Cuerden talk 01:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep but needs work. Give it a chance. (and by the way, What's up with deletion of pages on homeopaths? Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Vithoulkas (Second nomination) [16] I find this a bit strange and unexpected in an inclusive project like Wikipedia) The bottom line, however, is that this case meets criteria for notability described in Wikipedia:Notability (people)#special cases under "creative professionals: scientists, academics, professors, authors, editors, journalists, filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, engineers, and other creative professionals":
- The person has received notable awards or honors--NO
- The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors--YES
- The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique--YES, new miasms and kingdoms analysis
- The person has created a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work (YES, see bibiolography) which has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews (YES--many book reviews cited in the ext links section. All of his books have been reviewed in major homeopathic journals). Abridged 19:28, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Arr, just needs massive improvement, then? Adam Cuerden talk 19:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per DGG and the substantial improvements to the article by Abridged (see diff). -- Black Falcon 06:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Majorly (o rly?) 10:13, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong keep A very notable homeopath. His books are widely distributed and influential[17]. He lectures to sold-out audiences around the world. He is frequently cited in other publications in his field. His writings have been incorporated into the main homeopathic databases. Note that he's far more notable than Anthony Campbell, a virtually unknown critic of homeopathy that Adam Cuerden, Skinwalker and others have supported in an AFD. It is especially fascinating that the points they used to support Campbell (i.e. editor of a homeopathic journal, prominent member of an association, author of a number of books) are, in Sankaran's case not given any validity. The only discernible difference between the two (other than Sankaran being obviously more well-known and respected) is that one has criticized homeopathy and one has promoted it. There has been an obvious effort to remove articles about extremely well-known and well-regarded homeopaths (the AFD for George Vithoulkas was a striking, even breathtaking example) and to promote articles of insignificant critics. --Lee Hunter 16:29, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. DGG has a good point in that we probably should be comparing notability to the notability of others in the field. But this begs the question then: despite insistence otherwise, would this actually make notability subjective? --Dennisthe2 18:55, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep following improvements to article. Notability needs to be assessed as against other homeopaths, not the medical profession generally. This person appears sufficiently notable in that field. WjBscribe 20:00, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletions. -- Agεθ020 (ΔT • ФC) 20:48, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - per Lee, there seems to be a systemic predilection to homeopathy.Bakaman 17:20, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Delete. Cbrown1023 talk 01:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- 30,000 pounds of bananas (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
A song with little to no media coverage. They only importance this song seems to have is it's inclusion in a notable albumn. Mr. Berry 07:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, or else merge with Yes, We Have No Bananas — I remember this song and I think it's at least mildly notable. — RJH (talk) 14:55, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete or merge. It's a funny song, for sure, but notability is not claimed. YechielMan 18:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. No real assertion of notability - no sign of media coverage or placing on any chart.--Kubigula (talk) 03:27, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per below
Redirect to Yes, We Have No Bananas.There's really nothing to merge that isn't already contained in the latter article (one sentence), but as it's a plausible search term, I think a redirect is fitting. -- Black Falcon 06:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I'm not sure I agree about the usefulness as a search term. Wouldn't someone who searched this term be looking for information about the actual song rather than for a trivia item in another song? I don't think we would do much of a service to a seeker by redirecting them to a different song.--Kubigula (talk) 22:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmm. You make a good point. If it was the other way around, it would make more sense: a person searching for "Yes, We Have No Bananas" might be looking for this song, which uses the phrase in its chorus. The reverse, however, does not apply. Thanks for pointing this out. Cheers, Black Falcon 00:39, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Majorly (o rly?) 13:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like the article is here to promote a new game rather then report on a well known game. I see no references or citation and I doubt very much there will ever be any found. Mr. Berry 07:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. There is evidence that this version of poker does indeed exist [18] [19] [20] to name a few. It's a little problematic however as there seems to be no "official" set of rules and this article does indeed appear to be one person's version of it. In need of more than a little cleanup though. Arkyan 15:30, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- None of those look like sources that an encyclopedia could rely on to build an article. Can you find any notes in a book? What about any news stories? Does Britannica cover this? Mr. Berry 17:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes. Poker Is the Name of the Game by Walter Gibson has a chapter on six-card poker hands. Arkyan 19:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Then why not give it a mention in poker then? Mr. Berry 19:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Given the narrow scope of the article I would not be opposed to a merge/redirect to poker or a related page - but not outright deletion. Arkyan 19:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- IIRC the Bicycle book on poker also gives rules for a 6-card variant using all six cards to make the hand. I don't believe the rules match this, but I can't be sure because I can't find my copy (curse it all!). At any rate, the bit on increasing "fairness" is POV, and sort of irrelevant. — Gwalla | Talk 05:46, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Then why not give it a mention in poker then? Mr. Berry 19:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes. Poker Is the Name of the Game by Walter Gibson has a chapter on six-card poker hands. Arkyan 19:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- None of those look like sources that an encyclopedia could rely on to build an article. Can you find any notes in a book? What about any news stories? Does Britannica cover this? Mr. Berry 17:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep or merge into poker, per the source Arkyan has located. Crypticfirefly 03:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak keep or strong merge per reasons given so far. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 04:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep, cleanup and source, no merge. Since poker almost always implies 5-card hands, it seems silly to give this uncommon variant its own section in that article. Not even seven-card stud and Texas hold 'em get their own sections like that, just links! If you must merge, List of poker variants is a far more suitable destination. — Gwalla | Talk 04:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Merge/Redirect. utcursch | talk 13:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Unsourced article, lacking real world context as required per WP:NOT, on an insufficiently notable fictional location. Contested prod. MER-C 07:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - Does not seem to meet WP:FICTand as the prison is currently not mentioned in Suikoden IV, I would not be sure about a redirect. --Tikiwont 14:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge / request speedy close. I've been working on the Suikoden articles lately, and this article somehow slipped my notice back when I was looking through the categories. This (and everything else in the recently created Category:Places in Suikoden) should clearly be merged and redirected to Geography in the Suikoden series with no need for debate on each one, although frankly it's still a little over-detailed considering that the "Falena" section (where Agate is) is currently about 2 lines long. SnowFire 05:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I have been bold and redirected it. SnowFire 02:03, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge. As noted, a merge/redirect option is the most appropriate and has already been carried out. -- Black Falcon 06:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete as non notable. Natalie 01:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Logolite Entertainment (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Non-notable production company, possible vanity/advertising page. Google search on name brings back only 17 unique on 24 returns total. Company is somehow listed on IMDB, but no films linked, another red flag. Delete. MikeWazowski 07:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, per lack of independent sources. --Tikiwont
- Keep Just heard a pitch from this company. Thier company agenda is great. J jons
— J jons (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. --Tikiwont 23:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per above. Scienter 19:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Retain I have been to the company, it is credible and has several prospective projects with major studios entering into production this year. The company has 14 projects listed in development on IMDBpro--regular IMDB does not allow users to access projects in development. The article is one of the better written articles on this site, and an encyclopedia by and for the entire world should promote independent art whenever possible. Peety1 19:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
— Peety1 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. --Tikiwont 23:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Peety1 claims that IMDBpro shows multiple films in development - unfortunately, this is either a lie or fabrication. Since a direct link is impossible, due to the pay nature of IMDBpro, this image, captured this afternoon from that site, shows that Logolite has no films listed in development on the IMDB. I repeat, absolutely zero films. My original assessment of non-notability stands. MikeWazowski 00:31, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, neither "their agenda is great" nor "has several prospective projects" are reasons for keeping an article on an obscure company that clearly fails to meet WP:CORP. As for the article being "one of the better written articles on this site", allow me to disagree. This is an uncited, unsourced stub with spammish overtones. And if my own quick searches are any indication, there's no reliable sources out there to expand the article with. Xtifr tälk 08:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Having written "there's no reliable sources out there to expand the article with" where "there's" is a contraction for "there is," making the sentence "There is no reliable sources our there...," I'd hardly consider Xtifr the authority on good writing. An encyclopedia is meant to inform the world and community at large. If I was considering submitting a screenplay to Logolite Entertainment, the more I can read about the company the better. If you find any of their statements to be false, edit the page--who are you to judge who might benefit from the information given. Give the company a call, I checked their website, the phone number is listed. — Sepul101 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
- Comment - Twice now, comments detrimental to Logolite's claim of notability have been removed by anonymous editors. The first, 74.10.5.226, resolves to Marketshare Partners whose address is 11100 Santa Monica Blvd. in Los Angeles, coincidentally the same address listed for Logolite Entertainment. The second anonymous IP, 76.166.26.252 resolves to RoadRunner HoldCo LLC. While the IP owner is based in Virgina, the page states Allocations for this OrgID serve Road Runner residential customers out of the Honolulu, HI, Kansas City, KS, Orange, CA and San Diego, CA. According to the WHOIS information for logolite-ent.com, the registrant (and Logolite founder) lives in Orange, CA. I'm not going to directly say that we're seeing a meat/sockpuppeting campaign by Logolite or people acting on their behalf, but it seems likely, based on the evidence. MikeWazowski 02:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Vandalized twice more by 63.249.90.31 and 216.59.169.98, both California based IP addresses. MikeWazowski 16:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- ""Comment"" It seems to me that the only thing [MikeWazowski] has demonstrated is that users up and down the california coast disagree with his unfounded comments. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of objection to the entry, otherwise. Peety1 20:03, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - vandalized again (here and here) by 216.59.169.98. For Peety1 (who last edited within four minutes of 216.59.169.98, I would remind the editor that if my comments are unfounded, please show evidence otherwise. Everything I've presented can be backed up, and I will also remind the other editors that comments are not allowed to be removed from AfD discussions. MikeWazowski 20:08, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per Mike Wazowski. TheRealFennShysa 15:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was merge to Open Source Geospatial Foundation. WjBscribe 06:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- GeoNetwork opensource (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Non-notable software. Contested prod. MER-C 07:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. I was hoping that would be a cute software pun, but it's the word we use anyway. Not notable. YechielMan 18:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge and redirect to Open Source Geospatial Foundation. The OSGF article is currently far from long enough to justify content forking. Lyrl Talk C 22:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge all content to Open Source Geospatial Foundation as a separate section. As noted by Lyrl, there's no need to keep separate related articles of this length. -- Black Falcon 20:35, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have trimmed the article somewhat (see diff), so it should now be easier to merge into the OSGeo article. -- Black Falcon 21:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak keep. Would be strong keep if you can document somebody notable that uses it (for example, a national or state government agency). 38.100.34.2 22:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep Natalie 22:56, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Kodiak tobacco (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
POV issues, lack of citations, & disorganized content Old american century 08:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete A massive cleanup might save it, but it's not worth the bother. YechielMan 18:07, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Rewrite It's certainly a notable company, and I think it deserves an article. It should, however, be rewritten. It even appears there may be original research in there. If nobody else wants to, I would be willing to try rewriting it to give it another chance. --BennyD 23:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per YechielMan reasoningOo7565 21:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - being in bad shape is not valid grounds for deletion. Being in bad shape and unable to be fixed is valid grounds, but this one seems fairly easy, and considering the existence of similar article in better shape (Category:Tobacco companies of the United States) there is obviously editor interest in the topic. The copyvio of the CDC has to go, though. Lyrl Talk C 22:33, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I've cleaned it up a little bit. Lyrl Talk C 22:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- delete per WP:RS--Sefringle 02:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per Lyrl's cleanup and the 1,300 Google news results. Also, this should be under an alternate title. I will try to introduce some sources now. -- Black Falcon 20:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Some of the text was still a copyvio from another source. I have rewritten much of the article and have also added two references. I will also attempt to incorporate the CDC report as a reference. -- Black Falcon 20:50, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I have added the CDC reference. The prevalence of information proves the subject's notability and we should keep this short, but sourced stub. The search "kodiak AND tobacco -wikipedia" yields 213 results in Google Scholar, 255 results in Google Books, 1280 results in Google News, and 115,000 results in a regular Google search. -- Black Falcon 21:03, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - I just edited the article as well. Looks sooo much better, thanks for the help y'all. --old american century (oac) | Talk 21:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Majorly (o rly?) 13:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Dissident Sound System (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Non-notable group. Do not even claim to create any original music. -- RHaworth 08:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Non-notable group; googling reveals no useful sources. -FisherQueen (Talk) 13:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, fails WP:ATT, WP:BAND. Only 21 hits on UK Google [21], several of which aren't relevant. So they're an (admittedly) faceless bunch combining with several others to play background music at parties and clubs in the Bristol area. That ain't notable. Ravenswing 16:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as it does not assert notablity per Wikipedia:Notability (music). --Roswell native 03:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Did you miss the mention of dissident's Jungletek Movement record label, on its 5th release of a 4 track EP featuring original music? A notable contributor to the UK party scene, one of only a handful of soundsystem's that represent the UK on an international level at the European teknivals. People calling for deletion would do well to research freetekno rave culture before shooting their mouths off calling for deletion. Claims of "background music" are ridiculous, have you ever heard background music on a 12 killowatt soundsystem? Activities are not limited to the Bristol area, or even to this country, as they have been as far as Czech republic, Italy, France etc. with the soundsystem. For someone whose sole interest appears to be ice hockey, Ravenswing's ego outsrips his knowledge on this matter and should keep his ill informed oopinions to himself.
- Comment: Wikipedia's rules about personal attacks aside (which I don't expect a first-time edit anon IP to have known), that's gerat. So source it. Wikipedia's rules (which you can find, pertinent to this AfD, at WP:ATT and WP:BAND) require reliable, published, independent sources for any such claims. It is not our job to research anyone's so-called culture; it is up to the editors responsible for this article to do so, and to prove their claims. Ravenswing 15:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Majorly (o rly?) 13:55, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people/No longer identified (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
very difficult to maintain, to source and generally not a good article, as the criteria is too broad. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 08:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Categorizing debate: S (Society topics). ◄Zahakiel► 15:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is not an encyclopedic article. --Sa.vakilian(t-c) 11:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep and rename to something like List of ex-gay people. Sourcing is not a problem as only those people who have publicly stated that they were once gay and now no longer are, or people who self-identify as "ex-gay," should be added. Otto4711 11:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Just begging to be a BLP minefield, practically impossible to maintain in an encyclopedia way. If we must create a List of ex-gay people, that would be preferable, but only if rigorously sourced. -FisherQueen (Talk) 13:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete lists including living people with unqualified inclusion criteria are just a way to beg for trouble AlfPhotoman 14:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Um, if the inclusion criterion is "person said they were gay and now they say they aren't" and there's a reliable source that says so, what's the problem? Otto4711 16:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- are you going to include my former barber? AlfPhotoman 20:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Does your former barber have sufficient notability for a Wikipedia article, and are there reliable sources for his/her statements? Then, yeah, I'd include your barber. Otto4711 20:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- your list does not specify that it is about people included in WP, besides, who is going to control if everyone IS being on the list... as I said uncontrollable. AlfPhotoman 22:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not my list. I had no idea it existed before finding this AFD. Nor do I particularly care if the list is restricted to people with articles or not but this sort of list in my experience tends to end up with mostly bluelinks anyway. As for the list being "controllable," it does not appear that there has been any great rush to add people to it at all, let alone add people inappropriately. And if people are being added inappropriately, well, that's what editing is supposed to be for. Otto4711 22:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Any list on Wikipedia is, by definition, only for people included in WP. This fact doesn't need special attention called to it; it's the very nature of the beast. Bearcat 23:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- your list does not specify that it is about people included in WP, besides, who is going to control if everyone IS being on the list... as I said uncontrollable. AlfPhotoman 22:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Does your former barber have sufficient notability for a Wikipedia article, and are there reliable sources for his/her statements? Then, yeah, I'd include your barber. Otto4711 20:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- are you going to include my former barber? AlfPhotoman 20:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete this article due to the problems stated above - I thought that sub-pages in the mainspace weren't allowed, anyway? Arkyan 15:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The list is split by alphabet due to its size (A-E, F-J, etc.). I assume whoever started the article was merely following precedent. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 16:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:ATT, WP:BLP, WP:NPOV: Yikes, this is a potential lawsuit just waiting to happen. Per the "aggressive deletion" clause in WP:BLP, I've just deleted out those entries in the article that were unsourced. Quite aside from all of that, what is the attribution, never mind the criteria, for calling some of those people gay/bi, and what is the attribution, never mind the criteria, for declaring any such "no longer identified?" I hear what Otto's saying, but frankly, barring an attribution in print from a reliable source of one of these people saying "I used to be gay but now I'm not," any such citation is garbage. RGTraynor 16:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - potentially a very large/unmaintainable list, not convinced as to encyclopedic value. Oh, and a BLP disaster waiting to happen. Moreschi Request a recording? 18:34, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm actually quite neutral on whether this should exist or not, but I can clarify that the reason it does exist is because people such as David Bowie and Lou Reed kept being added to the main LGB people lists. Every person listed at present is reliably documented as having changed their identification. And Anne Heche is reliably documented as someone who hasn't changed her identification even though she's commonly cited as someone who has. The list is monitored for problematic inclusions, and sources are available for every single name on the list. So there simply isn't any "BLP disaster waiting to happen" here. Accordingly, while I'm not really all that convinced that it's actually necessary, I'm going to say keep if only because the main reason being cited for deletion here is completely out to lunch. Bearcat 18:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep it. It provides useful information on the public debate as to whether sexual identity is reversible or not. Where else could you find such an article but here, and any errors can be corrected. --MBHiii 22:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And a general comment to those who fear a lawsuit because of this list: I am not an attorney but the last I heard calling someone a heterosexual was not actionable in any court on the planet. Calling someone formerly gay if there's reliable sourcing is not actionable. Otto4711 22:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Is this a joke? Once gay, always gay.--Sefringle 04:25, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete This doesn't provide useful imformation -Apple 22:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Notable, sourced, case studies are used in many public debates - this one is no exception. Note: If the article is kept, it should be renamed. "Names of Wikipedia articles should be optimized for readers over editors…" (from WP:NAMING) - Wolphii 23:59, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- delete and susceptible to BLP. I agree with RGTraynor above. A person has there right to decide how he wishes to be labeled. If this list were limited strictly to those who had publicly announced something to indicate that they wanted this notified, it would be appropriate. I think most people would be just as offended to be put in the wrong category either way. The legal assumption you mention is an assumption of prejudice against homosexuals. I might not even be true now, DGG 04:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I would suggest that a person's right to choose their own label is modified by actions that they take. Regardless, this list is for people who have publicly announced what label they want. Otto4711 20:41, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per BLP. Metamagician3000 09:41, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep and rename as List of people formerly identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual --FateClub 16:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. The solution to BLP issues is sourcing, not deletion. The subject is surely notable and worthwhile and appropriate for a list. Herostratus 19:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Keep. All people lists and categories are subject to BLP, so why aren't the BLP-ers hurriedly going after those other lists? Hmmm... Compliance with BLP requires sourcing (as per Herostratus) not deletion. Carlossuarez46 20:33, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Strong Keep per reasons given by Otto4711 and others. Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 04:29, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. Majorly (o rly?) 13:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Cape Hatteras Anglers Club (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Definitely not encyclopedic in current form. 219.89.23.251 08:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment The IP user obviously doesn't know the process of AfD nomination, and did so at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people/No longer identified. I merely imported it here. I don't have much opinion about it. It reads encyclopedicly. But it could fail Wikipedia:Notability. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Weak delete. The sources I could find were mostly announcements of local events sponsered by the group. But it might meet the notability standard and I just didn't dig deep enough; I'm open to having my mind changed. -FisherQueen (Talk) 13:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, fails WP:ATT, WP:ORG with flying colors. "Organizations whose activities are local in scope are usually not notable unless verifiable information from reliable independent sources can be found." What this is is a fishing club. According to its website, the club has an annual fishing tournament, gaming night every Saturday, bimonthly Bingo to finance its donations, and a semiannual "Pig Pickin'" contest ... activities no different from any local social or civic club around. Ravenswing 16:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was speedy redirect per point one in this guideline (nominator agreed to redirect). Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Colorado state quarter (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
This article will never grow into a full article. Will be a stub for a long time. There is no other state quarter that has its own article. The best place for the information is 50 State Quarters. I also imported the missing information to 50 State Quarters. ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 09:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect is the last step of a merger, not deletion. There may be enough source material to support a separate article on each of the coins, here's some, but since this is a two liner article, I cannot really object having the thing nicely summarized in the table on the main article on state quarters. Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect to 50 State Quarters unless a time comes when there's more to say about the Colorado quarter. -FisherQueen (Talk) 13:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Redirect (nominator) I guess you guys are right. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 13:03, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- With the nominator agreeing that this should be redirected, I think that the situation is uncontroversial enough to speedy redirect this and let the readers see the proper article at once. Sjakkalle (Check!) 14:13, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was userfied by request. Speedy delete due to having been {{prod}}ded for more than 5 days
- List of Australians in politics (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Category is too broad and could include thousands of people. Much better if it is repopulated into more specific categories based on Parliaments. I vote we Delete this on the condition that ten new lists are created, with two for each house of Federal Parliament, and another for each state or territory (split into one for each state or territory house if appropriate and needed). That way comprehensive lists can be created. Please userfy this list to myself so I can include everyone in it. JRG 09:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- See links from List of Australian politicians --Scott Davis Talk 11:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom.--cj | talk 10:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete ridiculously broad. Maybe if you made six or so real articles of it... Callix 21:36 21 March 2007 EDST
- Delete, as per Callix. This will never even approach completion; the criteria are just too wide. Lankiveil 11:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]
- Speedy delete - article was tagged with {{prod}} for 6.25 days before being nominated for AFD! --Scott Davis Talk 11:46, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Marco Torrance (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
It seems it fails notability, I was unable to find relevant information in the google as young singer should have. Try to search "She's In Love Torrance" which is his album and you will find wikipedia and last.fm ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 10:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per above. ≈Tulkolahten≈≈talk≈ 16:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete self promo an not notable. be interestin to hear the muzic tho. --Zedco 10:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Googling didn't reveal any helpful sources to verify this article for me. -FisherQueen (Talk) 13:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete Non-notable, fails BIO/N. - Denny 13:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete He'll probably be notable for Wikipedia one day, but not for now. Acalamari 17:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as it does not assert notablity per Wikipedia:Notability (music). --Roswell native 03:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:15, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Jason Sensation (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Procedureal nomination. Speedied as a repost, but not a repost as it was deleted via PROD not AfD; recreating the article may be seen as contesting the PROD deletion, in a sense, and the speedy deletion of this article is contested, thus here we are. Previous deletion was summarized as "nn, fails WP:BIO, only on WWF tv twice, could be merged at worse". The rest is up to you. Herostratus 12:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Neutral as nominator, this is a procedural nomination. Herostratus 12:44, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. I couldn't find anything I'd call an appropriate source to support notability. -FisherQueen (Talk) 12:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete, as is fails WP:A AlfPhotoman 14:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete: Hey, I remember Jason Sensation (having seen the parody in question back in the day), but I have to go with the premise that two 45-second spots on WWF Raw, however much the pro wrestling forums cackled over it for a week, does not make one notable. RGTraynor 16:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per everyone else. Acalamari 17:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - per WP:ATT, no sourcing to back up the claims made. As such is not encyclopedic content. Moreschi Request a recording? 18:39, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Speedy delete nonsense. Guy (Help!) 13:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Is Vista worth the upgrade? (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Clear violation of No Original Research; creator removed prod without comment FisherQueen (Talk) 12:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep. Natalie 01:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Alejandro Silva (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
No assertion of notability per the guidelines of WP:MUSIC. Nv8200p talk 13:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per nom, fails WP:ATT. Going through the Google hits for him, I can't find anything either. The top ranked hits are Wiki mirrors, blog posts, Myspace pages and a heap of random tabulature entries. Allmusic has no entry. Ravenswing 16:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per Traynor. YechielMan 18:09, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as it does not assert notablity per Wikipedia:Notability (music). --Roswell native 03:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. I added some references, several of which are in Spanish (remember that this is a Chilean musician). There is no listing for him at allmusic.com , but he has released three albums. See es:Alejandro Silva for the article in the Spanish Wikipedia. --Eastmain 17:15, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. He is a renowned musician, only not so much in the English-speaking world. --FateClub 16:22, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep - new references assert notability. Lyrl Talk C 23:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:16, 26 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are no reliable sources on this, so it fails Wikipedia:Attribution. A previous AfD from a year ago ended in No Consensus; apparently at that time reliable sources weren't needed, but they are now Xyzzyplugh 13:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as a neologism. It fails the "n-year test" for any n > 0. :) YechielMan 18:11, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete - per nominator: no reliable sources, no article, no assertion of notability. Dicdef which has already been transwikiied. Moreschi Request a recording? 18:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Merged into Geography of Aberdeen. RΞDVΞRS ✖ ЯΞVΞЯSΞ 21:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Statistics of Aberdeen (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
It's a few tables with the average temperature and precipitation per month. Such data is better obtained from the local meteorological institute through external linkage, and is pretty much self-outdating and unmaintainable here. WP:NOT an indiscriminate collection of information. >Radiant< 13:42, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge trimmed-down version of the tables into Aberdeen. Many major cities have a simpler "climate" table that includes temperature and percipitation averages, and there's no reason not to move that information over to the main article, but the bulk of this is fluff and WP:NOT encyclopedic. Arkyan 15:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Original Contributer this data was moved from the Geography in Aberdeen originally which is where any merging should go to. Looking at it I agree a lot is indeed 'Fluff'. If you can give me some time, tomorrow I will cut out the irrelevant stuff out. Bobbacon 16:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- There's a fairly good precedent for putting the table under the "Climate" section - check any of the entries for major cities like London, Madrid, New York City etc. It seems to be standard practice for many US cities as well. For the sake of consistency it ought to be located there as well, rather than the Geography in Aberdeen article. Arkyan 16:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge full-content into Geography of Aberdeen, which covers geography, climate, and demographics for the city, under a new section titled "Statistics". The editors working on the Geography of Aberdeen article can best determine what information ought to be retained and what should be trimmed. -- Black Falcon 21:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge climate data to to Geography of Aberdeen. Perhaps the final two tables could be the foundation of a Demographics of Aberdeen fork. Caknuck 16:51, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge. I agree with User:Arkyan that the NYC method of handling climate might be best. There is no reason to keep this one around as a free-standing article. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. EdJohnston 20:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was Keep --Bubba hotep 20:45, 5 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- UPIXO In Action: Mission in Snowdriftland (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
non notable video game. Tikiwont 13:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I can list a ton of video games that aren't notable yet have Wikipedia pages consisting of like 2 lines of text anyway, what especially makes this one not notable? MrDrake 13:54, 21 March 2007 (GMT)
- You may be right about other non notable video games in Wikipedia, but the question here is, if there exists any independent non-trivial coverage, that would make this Nintendo marketing game notable. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Tikiwont (talk • contribs) 14:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC).[reply]
- If you see other worse video game articles, nominate them! The existance of worse articles doesn't mean this one gets to stay, though. See also WP:INN. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 15:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete unless reliable sources can be found. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:45, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. Over 580 unique Google hits (and 24,000 in all); this isn't quite a blip. RGTraynor 15:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Very well, I actually searched for 'UPIXO in Action' as per the first article line. For 'Mission in Snowdriftland' there are indeed many more links and I'm open to change my mind if some good sources can be selected therefrom. If kept the article should be renamed. --Tikiwont 16:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Why, if that's the actual name of the game? We shouldn't go around renaming articles for the sole reason of making Google searches more intuitively easy. RGTraynor 17:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Per WP:NAME#Use common names of persons and things. Mission in Snowdriftland is far more common, printed in large on the inactive website, and part of the http adress.--Tikiwont 23:01, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Why, if that's the actual name of the game? We shouldn't go around renaming articles for the sole reason of making Google searches more intuitively easy. RGTraynor 17:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep per RGTraynor. Not the best of articles about the most notable of games, but certainly not the worst. I have fully excised the unsourced and trivial "Trivia" section. Also, here are some possible sources (mostly reviews): [22][23][24][25][26]. -- Black Falcon 22:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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- Strong Keep: MIS is more than a cheap flash game that some nerd whipped up in his spare time. The resulting title was top-notch in animation, controls, made small waves on the Internet...and was really fun to play. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheListUpdater (talk • contribs)
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The result was no consensus. A Traintake the 21:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Death to the Extremist (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Asserted to be notable by people who know webcomics, which I don't dispute even if it is WP:IHEARDOFIT, but there are no external sources here, the comic is defunct and the entire article is sourced from the comic's own website. Guy (Help!) 13:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Categorizing debate: W (Web or internet). ◄Zahakiel► 15:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete unless reliable sources can be found by the end of the AfD (not holding my breath, frankly). Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete as NN, fails WP:ATT, WP:WEB. A now-defunct webcomic that has an Alexa rank of (hold your breath here) 4,062,822, the lowest I've ever seen. [27] There seems to be a tiny bit of independent buzz, but even so. Ravenswing 14:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete If it's that low on Alexa, then I doubt anyone would want to look it up on Wikipedia. Acalamari 17:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. DTE may not be well known, but it's noteable. Notability and fame aren't the same thing, and things don't stop being notable when they finish. It's a early and long-lived example of minimalism in webcomics and Constrained_comics, precursor to and influence on better known stuff, like Dinosaur Comics [28] and Boy on a Stick and Slither [29]. Tocky 06:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: Splendid; do you have any sources for those assertions we might see? Ravenswing 15:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment: It was also mentioned in an article cited on the BOASAS page: ref KamuiShirou 17:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Hm? It really is all the things I said. It's a pioneer in constrained webcomics because it predates other constrained comics. I call it long lasting because it was updated, regularly, for seven years - and webcomics have only been a popular medium for fifteen years or less. It's also gotten favorable coverage on well known web culture sites. (Boing Boing in 2003 [30] and 2004 [31]) Tocky 02:27, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep: The strip has been included in the comics anthology Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists by Ted Rall. This meets the notability requirements. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:26, 25 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was keep and cleanup. If you have any questions, please contact me at my talk page. Ian Manka 04:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Contested prod. Sixties band, but lacking in sources. Not sure if this is truly notable, or if it's all self-published. >Radiant< 14:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Tractor is definitely real and almost certainly notable, but the bulk of the article is a copyvio from Allmusic Guide (one of the more common sources for music-related copyvios). There's been a bunch of editing since the original copyvio was posted, so I'm not sure if the result is salvageable or not. As for Hewitt, he seems to be real, and was associated with the band, but even so, the notability seems marginal. Dunno. Xtifr tälk 08:47, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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If you take the rash step of including "things I saw at Deeply Vale in 1979" in the category of "things that exist in the real world" then this band exists.I am sure it is recalled with affection by the 20,000 or so ageing hippies who were there and even if it's fame has spread no further than this I think it is enough to count as notable.
- Delete - At this point the unwikified article has had 6 months. If no one wants to take responsibility for making this a verifiable encyclopedic article, can it. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 21:47, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep Tractor, not only WP:IVEHEARDOFIT, but a band championed by John Peel and signed to his Dandelion Records label really ought to be not only notable but sourceable; that they apparently have an AMG entry is a good sign. That said, if it's a copyvio delete without prejudice to recreation. --kingboyk 21:53, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete both unless citations are added. With the massive amount of articles on the Wikipedia, there really is no time for "keep to allow a chance to find citations" and similar arguments. See also TonytheTiger's argument. Stifle (talk) 23:07, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. I think we're all missing the point of Wikipedia. Sure, the article needs cleaning. And if I have to do it, I have to do it. But the argument "this band fulfills WP:MUSIC, there exist numerous verifiable sources, but there's too many articles on Wikipedia already so it might not get cleaned up" is not appropriate. If something deserves to be on Wikipedia, for God's sake, keep the article and clean it up. Rockstar915 17:45, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep. Tractor is a real band. The article may need to be cleaned up but not deleted. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jembay (talk • contribs) 20:59, 7 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]
- Keep if citations added before end of AfD, otherwise Delete per WP:Music. If article is to be kept it needs a lot of work. A1octopus 23:19, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. I agree, it needs a lot of work. But, per WP:MUSIC (criteria #4), all the band has to do is release two albums on a major or notable indie, and Tractor's fulfills that aspect (see here). So I agree citations are needed for the improvement of the article -- and they will be added -- but are not for its keeping. As it stands, per WP:MUSIC, the article should be kept and then improved sans a time frame. Rockstar915 00:40, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Keep but needs a cleanup. Is this any less notable than an article on single Southpark episode? (And I watch southpark too...) However the tags have been there awhile...cheers, Casliber | talk | contribs 21:35, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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The result was speedy deleted by MacGyverMagic[32]. Michaelas10Respect my authoritah 16:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Bobby Eldridge (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)
Written like an ad and seems like the guy's personal resume. I don't know diddly about golf so this guy may be notable, but the article seems like pure spam SmartGuy 14:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment Cursory search for sources on Google doesn't turn up much, unfortunately. I'll drop by the creating user's talk page and post a request for verifiable sources, though if nothing happens I'm going to have to lean towards deletion. Regardless of whether or not this winds up a "keep", it needs to be massively rewritten. Cheers, Lankybugger 15:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy delete as either a) a blatant advert or b) a word-for-word copyvio from [33] Iridescenti 15:53, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Delete (A-11) this is nothing but spam, blatant advertising for this guy. The entire article reads like his resume. --Cyrus Andiron t/c 15:57, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy Delete Advert and spam. Acalamari 17:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Speedy delete. Copyvio. Tagged as such. WjBscribe 00:50, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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