Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rod D. Martin (2nd nomination)
This article was originally nominated for deletion here. Though because it was affected significantly by sockpuppeting of the article creator (checkuser), I relisted the nomination. WinHunter (talk) 12:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
(original nom statement) self-promotional, clearly written by the person himself for vanity purposes. not notable, missing references. claims to have been "special counsel" to PayPal co-founder without citing proper sources. Wikiyoman 01:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
- Keep The article does need to be cleaned up and definitely needs better sources, but I see no reason to delete. --Wildnox 13:11, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
- strong Delete This entry breaks Wikipedia rules in so many ways that I do not have time to list them here. It is self-promotional. It is poorly sourced. It uses weasel words. It makes unverifiable claims. From my experience, it makes at least two claims that are simply false or at best extremely misleading, although I do not have the sources at hand to verify this. It is derived almost completely from his personal website. It is written by a person who has repeatedly used meatpuppets and sockpuppets to resist all changes to it. It is part of an entire network of self-referring articles about this fellow and his non-notable friends, and the network's defenders argue that the existence of the network on Wikipedia makes him notable. The existence of this article simply flouts all sorts of Wikipedia's rules and conventions. DoctorSqueak 13:34, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete This one, though, seems to be worthy of deletion (see eric. m. jackson discussion above).