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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Raging safari (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

High school sports club with limited claims of meeting WP:Notability. 32 non-wiki ghits for "Raging safari" + frisbee, none of which show notability. Contested prod. Fabrictramp (talk) 23:46, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was speedy delete - obvious hoax. Tijuana Brass (talk) 02:08, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

King Kong Vs. Jaws (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

I believe this article is a hoax. I can't find any information on IMDB, and can't find the information on the site of Universal pictures, to which a link is supplied as a reference either. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 23:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Delete and BJAODN: This was speedy deleted earlier today. Flea as voice capture for shark? -Carados (talk) 23:46, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Comment it was deleted per: 'A bit of A7, A1 and a dash of WP:IAR. No prejudice to recreation if some facts can be found and referenced.' I wouldn't know how to tag for that. (not that I disagree with deleting this one fast, it seems like a full blown vandalism hoax. but then again, there is some pretty out there stuff, that turns out true (or more importantly, verifiable). Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 00:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Comment: Well, that is the exact reason, but it did come about from a speedy deletion tag.-Carados (talk) 00:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
At the moment, it's a Spielberg produced, Peter Jackson directed, Tom Cruise starring film in pre-production and absolutely no sources or news hits. In the real world, that is a tad unlikely. Ummm, first time I think I have ever said this, but let it snow. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 00:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Comment Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense has been deleted here. --Phirazo 18:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Comment Although I proposed one, there is no speedy deletion criterion for this kind of articles. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:17, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Abortion, The Other White Meat (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable song by notable band. As much as I love The Mars Volta, is song is not notable. Carados (talk) 23:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep. Nom withdrawn. PeaceNT (talk) 15:19, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Disc biacuplasty (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable alternative treatment, probably written by the owner of the publicity firm of the sole provider. Doc 22:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC) withdraw in view of re-write.--Doc 23:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Carefully read WP:CSD#G11 and WP:NOT, and see how this fits the bill. Bearian (talk) 00:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Disc biacuplasty is a procedure that has been developed by Baylis Medical as a safer more efficient alternative to IDET (a patented treatment using heat -- http://en.wikipedia.org/Intervertebral_disc_annuloplasty ) or surgery. Disc biacuplasty has received (just like IDET) its own reimbursement code and has been approved worldwide by health organizations. As of now, about 300 patients have received the disc biacuplasty treatment. Doctors who performs an IDET procedure (or annuloplasty) uses a proprietary RF probe manufactured by Smith & Nephew and no others; doctors who performs this new procedure, namely "disc biacuplasty", also uses a proprietary RF probe, the TransDiscal system probes manufactured by Baylis Medical.
Several publications have been published in medical journals on the value and efficiency of the disc biacuplasty procedure and signed by world medical pain experts such as DR. Nagy Mekhail, md, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Dr Michael Gofeld, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center; Dr Jeffrey D. Petersohn, md, Pain Care Clinic; Dr Paul H. Dreyfuss, Washington Interventional Spine Associates; Dr Steven L. Simmons, University of Texas; etc.
Is IDET astroturfing?
In reference to this link (COI ), this site is about my past personal life (it has not been updated for the past 10 years, I think) and in all transparency, I am employed by Baylis Medical as Associate, Communications.--Lucdesaulniers (talk) 15:36, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep. — Scientizzle 17:09, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Dr. Davis (coach) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Come on, we don't even know this guy's name? Corvus cornixtalk 22:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete as unsourced, uniformative listing. AnteaterZot (talk) 23:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep in the hope that more information comes to light. There's a whole template of Hokies coaches, so I trust that the author can find a source if we twist his arm a little. Lack of a first name is not a criterion for deletion and is actually a fairly common problem. I think the listing is "informative": it gives his record for the one season which he served as coach. Shalom (HelloPeace) 17:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment sources have been added to the article. The infobox is supposed to provide reference links but isn't for some reason. References for the coaches records. As for the first name of this particular coach, this is as much information as is available. You'll find that sports history from the turn of the century often didn't record first names, that's just the way records were kept then. This one is a bit of an oddity as the first and middle initials of the head coach were generally in the record books but not for Davis for some reason. If anyone has any more information they are encouraged to update this article.--Rtphokie (talk) 18:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Being the head coach of a major U.S. college football program is sufficient evidence of notability. This is not something that's easily sourced online, but we should avoid bias against older subjects.--Kubigula (talk) 02:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep both. Davewild (talk) 18:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

These articles appear to be about a hobby reenactment club, but are rather lacking in sourcing other than from their members' home pages. This would appear not to be a notable organization. Perhaps one of the Wikias is a better location. >Radiant< 22:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I have added references to the McGillicuddy Highland Army page, I think these should prove their notability. PavillonE (talk) 08:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. Weight of argument and consensus is for deletion.-- Kubigula (talk) 05:27, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Woodmont Hills Church of Christ (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Contested prod. Highly non-notable 20-year-old church in Nashville, a city of over 1,000 churches. The notability claims are: they play music, they have women, they shared their worship space with another church for a year. There is nothing whatsoever notable about this church. Smashville 22:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete as they are using Knowledge (XXG) as a webspace provider. AnteaterZot (talk) 23:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep Article needs to be rewritten with references and specific cites. The church is notable among churches of Christ in the area because of its progressiveness and its former minister, Rubel Shelly. --Ichabod (talk) 04:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Notability is not inherited. "Progressiveness" doesn't make a church notable. There are over 300 Churches of Christ in the Nashville metro area. It has not been the independent subject of any secondary sources, it hasn't been around for a long time...and it's in a cluster of 3 churches sitting on the middle of Franklin Road. And for Nashville, there's about 40-50 megachurches...this one isn't anything special. --Smashville 04:51, 11 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:16, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Big Brother 10 (US) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

There is no need of this page yet. Big Brother 10 has not been confirmed by CBS. This article should be deleted because the confirmed Big Brother 9 (US) will begin to air in Feb. 2008. Yep the ninth edition hasn't even premiered so why have an unsourced, one line article. ♪♫Alucard 16♫♪ 22:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was No consensus defaulting to keep. Tyrenius (talk) 20:08, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Matt Smith (illustrator) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Biographical article on an illustrator that I do not believe meets the notability criteria of Knowledge (XXG):Notability (people). Specifically, person has not been the subject of coverage by reliable, third-party published sources. Contested PROD, so comes here for discussion. Thank you. — Satori Son 21:44, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment: While that's an argument that can be entertained for a brand new article, this one has been here for a year and a half. Even when a proposed deletion tag was added, no references were supplied, so how are a couple {{fact}} tags going to help? This article can always be restored if reliable sources are found. — Satori Son 19:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Comment: You added a PROD originally because you felt that there were no "reliable, third-party published sources" in the article. I removed the PROD because I felt that there already were two such references which were both independent of the subject and reliable as far as the claims which were made. It is certainly possible that adding {{fact}} tags may solve nothing, but since they have never been added to this article, there is simply no way to tell. The AfD process page even recommends adding such tags to the article before listing it for AfD. I simply feel that deleting the article at this point is premature, especially since I personally feel that notability has been proven. Wyatt Riot (talk) 23:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was withdrawn. Deli nk (talk) 15:41, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Chantal Claret (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Withdrawn the afd in favour of a rfc on the unsourced info. --Neon white (talk) 21:41, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Not notable according to WP:MUSIC and suffers from one editor inflating the article with original research. Neon white (talk) 21:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

KEEP'', Chantal Claret has also co-hosted an MTV2 Dew Circuit Showcase without the band http://video.aol.com/video-detail/mtv2-dew-circuit-showcase/1570914601 and had a monthly advice column in Alternative Press, which I believe merits it's own page. Here is a link to the Playboy, NY TIMES, and even a blender article where she is by herself without the band http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=1862 which "no one" could convientiantly find. http://morningwoodrocks.com/images/press/mwplayboy.JPG ,http://morningwoodrocks.com/images/press/mwnytfeat.jpg which is right on the morningwoodrocks.com press page. This is getting ridiculous and NEONWHITE is being totally hypocrytical, when some of his own pages have no references. Give it up and leave it alone.(talk) 18:54, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Firstly, there is no ownership of articles on wikipedia, i do not own any articles, articles were she speaks primarily about the band don't make her notable as an individual, that has been said many times. There is a lack of non-trivial second party sources which are required if you read WP:BIO. This is why the article remians largely unsourced OR. None of these fit that criteria. --Neon white (talk) 19:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I can't find any reliable sources about her seperate from the band. Most of the sources are about the band and therefore more appropriate for that page and there is a lack of second or third party sources. --Neon white (talk) 23:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, Maybe neon should read the "Criteria for Musicians and Ensembles page again and learn how to do research on the Net. I'll follow right down the list. 1.) Ms Claret has been the subject of newspaper and magazine interviews from the NY Times on down to Maxim and Playboy Magazine. These are not reviews or group interviews, they are solo interviews with Ms. Claret. 2.) Morningwood has had a #30 chart hit with Nth Degree in 2006. 4.) Morningwood had a national tour in 2006 that included appearances in the US, England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Japan and other countries. 6.) The group includes Pedro Yanowitz who played drums for the Wallflowers and other groups. 10.) Morningwood has appeared on the Tonight Show, and The David Letterman Show twice among other TV appearances, including hour long performance and interview shows in Spain. 11.)Both Jetsetter and th Degree have been on national rotation lists. This action is merely an amping up of a bullying edit war. He repeatedly deletes the unimportant majority of the article claiming it not to be verified, while he leaves in significant information that has no verification at all. It is just a little power trip. 68.54.15.213 (talk) 23:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Neither playboy, ny times or maxim's website nor google can find any mention of any article in either newspaper or magazine and none of these are used on the page or have been provide depsite requests. Any interviews or articles available relate specifically to the band and she is not the subject of the article as specified in the criteria. Morningwood's notability has absolutely no relevance to this discussion this is about her article not the band's article which is seperate. The article is largely based on original research and current has no sources for notability that is why it is here, no other reason. --Neon white (talk) 00:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Interviews can't really be used as a source for notability. It's an exception to point 1 on WP:MUSIC other publications where the musician/ensemble talks about themselves and on WP:BIO it specifies secondary source material which is reliable--Neon white (talk) 02:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
That's exactly what point 1 excepts, trivia, press releases and promotional interviews. The billboard article is about the band which has been pointed isnt relevant to her notability. The other two are very trivial. --Neon white (talk) 03:00, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep It took seconds to find 75 references to Chantal and the NY Times, including an interview - here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/08/fashion/sundaystyles/08nite.html and I could drag in references for everything else mentioned above by anonymous, since he/she seems to have read them or about them on the Morningwood message boards. I don't post any so called original research on the Chantal Claret article, I merely try to restore what vandals remove or screw up. Could you tell me why you don't just put back the banner I put up explaining that the article had no references and doesn't meet Knowledge (XXG) standards, blah, blah, blah? I inserted it on the weekend and somebody else deleted it. It seems to me that using that disclaimer would solve your particular problems. Or is it that you don't want this issue 'solved'? DrDelos (talk) 01:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Let me add this to the notability list above by anonymous: Wikipedai says a person is considered notable if: "Has credit for writing or co-writing either lyrics or music for a musician or ensemble that qualifies above". Chantal has co-composer credits with the US Copyright office for Nth Degree which, in addition to being a hit for Morningwood, was used in several TV commercials including a series for Mercury automobiles. That alone makes her notable according to Knowledge (XXG)'s own criteria. DrDelos (talk) 01:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment NY Times article is trivial at best and as the policy says 'non-trivial published works' and it's arguable whether she is the subject of the article and there is very little contained it the article that could practically be used in the article to determine notability. The guidelines mentioned above are for 'composers and lyricists' not for 'musicians and ensembles'. You have restored alot of OR on the article (anything that isn't based on a citation is OR, such as uncited personal interests), but the issue here is whether there is enough notability. I think what you are refering to is a 'refimprove' tag. These in no way allow an article to use unsourced material, they are used to alert editors that the article needs improving which has been done in removing the OR. As i said above the song is notable to Morningwood not to her and is not relevant to her individual notability. If she is only notable as a member of Morningwood and the article is of no great length then the usual practice is to merge them. --Neon white (talk) 02:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • 'Comment' The NYT link was to demonstrate that you are either not capable or not willing to research for yourself the references that back up everything mentioned above. It demonstrated that. It I provided the references for the other statements above, I'm certain you could and would find fault with all of them. I wonder if you look at any articles other than the ones you are fighting with people over. There are hundreds of thousands of pages with millions of unsubstantiated, unverified and unverifiable, off the cuff paragraphs and they stay online unchallenged for years. BTW, Chantal has writing credits for a lot more published music and lyrics than just Nth Degree. She has her own rock group entirely apart from Morningwood with no members of Morningwood participating. She also appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show and had 8 minute or so segment of her talking to the camera by herself. The video is online. And to repeat, all I did to the article is remove your vandalism. I did not post OR and you would know that if you would do the research on the history of the article. DrDelos (talk) 03:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • 'Comment' This page is for discussion about the notability of this article only no other article is relevant, it is not for personal attacks or points scoring. I was aware of the article but considered it trivial and not really about her as the major subject. So far this is the only source for notability provided if you can provide others then do so. It is the job of the editor who includes the material to provide a citation and no-one elses this is specified in policy. Removing unsourced material does not constitute as vandalism , this is a personal attack which you have been warned about several times. --Neon white (talk) 03:55, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete - I too was unable to find any reliable sources; this artist gets a lot of ghits, but all of it is either in the context of Morningwood (which is notable) or highly trivial or self-promotional in nature (interviews, fan-pages, short blurbs from NN music webpages). Her one apparent claim to having her own page is her partial songwriting credit on the one song mentioned above. As I see it, by the spirit of the policy, that's just not enough. A separate page would, by necessity, either be a stub containing her one point of notability, or a collection of WP:OR and impossible to reference fancruft. Bullzeye 05:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I have actually questioned that criteria on WP:MUSIC for clarification as to what it actually means, it can't possibly refer to anyone who has a writing credit for a notable band as that would potentially include some people of very little note. My suggestion is to merge with morningwood as i don't believe there will be that much sourced info available to make anything other than a stub after all the unsourced stuff is removed. --Neon white (talk) 20:19, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • 'Comment' Song writing credits from MP3 version of the CD 'Morningwood' include: - Televisor, Jetsetter, Take Off Your Clothes, Body 21, Easy, Babysitter, Everybody Rules and Ride the Lights. These credits as co-composer are encoded into the commercially distributed, downloadable MP3 files. That is a difficult reference to use, because although it is hard proof, it is also hard to put into a searchable form for anyone wanting to 'see it for themselves'. Performance credits for Ror-Shak's first album 'Deep' mention Chantal Claret as vocalist on 'A Forest' listed on the CD cover and encoded into downloads. I will try to get you some more references, hopefully more conventional if possible. I am just super busy at the moment. DrDelos (talk) 15:30, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was No Consensus to delete, disagreement in discussion exists over whether the sources are sufficient and reliable enough for the article. Davewild (talk) 18:59, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox Effect (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

The previous AfD had many keep votes, but they seem to reduce to WP:IKNOWIT, WP:USEFUL, and WP:ABOUTEVERYTHING. Some asked to clean it up and find sources. It has been over a year now, and it still is lacking in non-blog sources. For this reason, I feel that it violates WP:V and WP:RS, and that sources simply won't materialize. Thinboy00 @940, i.e. 21:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

all others either contain the word "blog" in URLs or allow user contribs. Comments were not counted as contribs. For example, if it had been there, slashdot would have failed because its users write the stories, not because it allows comments. The first one is a simple refutation of its existence which only proves that some people got upset and believe in its existence. The third and seventh ones are both instructive, though the third has an intro that might provide enough info for a stub. The seventh is purely instructive. The SEOmoz article is excluded because it currently leads to a 404 error. --Thinboy00 @61, i.e. 00:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Sigh, does the fact that Google put it on this patent application help? AnteaterZot (talk) 02:09, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment What phrase did they use to describe it? I couldn't find "sandbox" (Case insensitive) on the page. --Thinboy00 @153, i.e. 02:40, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
      • They aren't going to call it that. Anyway, does this source meet with your approval? I'm having a hard time looking through the 25,500 Yahoo hits for "google sandbox effect". AnteaterZot (talk) 02:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
        • Comment yes that newspaper would meet criteria, I would add it to my list added at 03:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC) (after subsequent posts) except that refactoring is discouraged... I don't set requirements, the community does at WP:RS. If you can demonstrate where the effect is referenced (preferably with a quote) on the patent application, that would be nice, since its an awful lot of text to read. --Thinboy00 @166, i.e. 02:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
          • I think this line in the patent is what is meant: "5. The system of claim 2, wherein the meta attribute comprises one of: an age attribute, a stature attribute, and an importance attribute." AnteaterZot (talk) 03:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • And is webpronews.com a legit site? They have this article on the topic. AnteaterZot (talk) 02:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • (outdent) Webpronews allows user contributions, so I would discount it as original/self-published per WP:RS
  • Comment, important I feel that this article has major WP:V issues, and I feel that it should address the validity of these statements (that does not mean "they have to be true & provable", it means you should be able to prove one way or the other):
  1. Google has a list (an actual file) of URLs that are "in the sandbox" and the observed effect is not merely because of age-based Systematic bias.
  2. Other websites (Yahoo!, MSN, etc.) use dramatically different sorting algorithms/don't have sandboxes that produce dramatic discrepancies.
I feel that the article in its current state might be construed as slanderous to Google, as it asserts strange behaviors of google after google has denied them, and without sources to back up statement # 1 especially. We have no proof that google keeps a list of sandbox URLs, and google has denied it. That should be taken into consideration. If we could prove statement 1 false, the article would need a major rewrite to cast it as an urban legend. --Thinboy00 @193, i.e. 03:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • It's called the Sandbox "Effect", not the Sandbox "File". I think that most of the sources state that the effect does not exist, but the ~100,000 g-hits or y-hits for "google sandbox effect" means that it topic has traction. Articles that largely debunk rumors are allowable on Knowledge (XXG). AnteaterZot (talk) 03:44, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Quote from article:"The Sandbox Effect is the theory that websites with newly-registered domains or domains with frequent ownership or nameserver changes are placed in a sandbox (holding area) in the indexes of Google until it is deemed appropriate before a ranking can commence." Emphasis added. --Thinboy00 @203, i.e. 03:52, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment Oh, I did not entirely understand your comment at first, probably because I stopped reading to comment (stupid of me really). We can't say for sure whether it exists, so it is inherently not verifiable, whether we want to debunk or prove it is beside the point until we have proof one way or the other. We might discuss it in a neutral way that makes no assumptions as to its existence, I see few problems there, except that the notability of internet phenomena is disputed, but that does not throw everything out. --Thinboy00 @214, i.e. 04:07, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. The effect may or may not exist, but the article is about the fact that people think it exists or the theory that it exists. That people think it exists is verified by the first, third and seventh links as pointed out by Thinboy00, the original nom. Mdmkolbe (talk) 17:09, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete This is unfounded speculation, and the speculation as such is not notable. The article is a textbook violation of Knowledge (XXG):No original research. Shalom (HelloPeace) 17:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Subject is certainly notable and has received significant coverage online. Cleanup and sourcing might be appropriate, but the article shouldn't be deleted just because it needs improvement. Rray (talk) 23:14, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Someone added the webpronews article as a ref. Given concerns expressed here and on the talk page by myself, it would be nice if someone could tell me how it passes WP:SPS. If it has a moderation process that pre-screens all the stories (for example), that would be a valid reason for inclusion. If it doesn't have one (criteria for membership shouldn't qualify, as the users still self publish with no review), please substantiate it with a non-dead link. --Thinboy00 @917, i.e. 21:00, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • KeepThe sources in general are the appropriate ones for this topic and sufficient to support notability DGG (talk) 23:26, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, sourcing for this kind of ephermeral effect will be hard to come by, some sources on the page. Fee Fi Foe Fum (talk) 08:36, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was keep. - Mailer Diablo 10:13, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Mary Evelyn Parker (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Artiucle by Billy Hathorn citing Billy Hathorn's Masters dissertation, and lacking any obvious claim of notability per WP:BIO. Section titles like "A real political player" are not the stuff of encyclopaedias, but of local history sites. Guy (Help!) 21:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak Keep. I've seen a lot of this guy's articles so I'm hesitant to all out keep it...I dunno...this person was State Treasurer. But...Billy references himself... --Smashville 21:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. The sources should be strengthened, sure. But we don't delete articles for poorly phrased sections, and a state treasurer is notable. — Amcaja (talk) 22:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep if we can find a source for Louisiana's first woman treasurer. Found a couple of sources. spryde | talk 22:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, as loath as I am to endorse an article by someone who won't even show up for an RFCU. State treasurers are notable positions. These are the articles we want him to create; we just don't want him using COI sourcing including his own unpublished writing. I am afraid that getting Billy to stop is going to require sterner stuff than just deleting more of his articles. --Dhartung | Talk 00:48, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, elected state treasurer (19 years), first woman state treasurer in LA, former Democratic national committeewoman, campaign strategist for Governor John McKeithen, in Who's Who in America, member of Louisiana Political Hall of Fame, "Woman of the Year" in Baton Rouge, interesting life story. Billy Hathorn (talk) 02:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, notability asserted as first woman state treasurer and by other means as well. Ten Pound Hammer04:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Please explain the basis for considering it a notable position.DGG (talk) 23:27, 8 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep. Davewild (talk) 19:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Moon Griffon (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

All the references in this article seem to be either to related facts, not the subject, or are not independent. I don't see any evidence of provable significance. Guy (Help!) 21:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

...Keep of course. He is the main statewide talk radio host in Louisiana. I could not find out how many listeners he has for his 2-hour morning daily program. There is no other host in the state who can match his audience. Billy Hathorn (talk) 02:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
*Analysis, leaning towards keep An editor who I've come across, but is not my friend, told me about this AFD (I presume for a neutral, unbiased analysis). This is a radio announcer which I never heard of but broadcasting is not my expertise. Besides sources which may not be independent, there are 2 independent sources cited in the article, a TV station and a newspaper. The 3 basic criteria seem to be covered . One of the sources lists his broadcast as carried in 10 stations. This increases his notability. AFD discussions tend to shy away from mentioning similar articles that were or were not deleted. However, Michele Marsh is one that I randomly looked up and found to be a WP article. I would favor encouraging improvement of the article, adding information about his background and education. AFD deletes are supposed to be based on notability, not quality of editing, but editing quality can influence decisions. This would be an easier decision if there were more references and more material in the article.Archtransit (talk) 21:59, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, Archtransit, I would have included more material in the article, but I did not have anything else. Whatever else I may have found would have taken a lot of time and involved original research, which causes articles to be rejected. Yes, he is on ten stations, Monroe, Shreveport, Alexandria, Lafayette, Natchez, MS, but I don't have the other five cities. He is statewide, and his associate, Ruth Ulrich, in 2005 interviewed Secretary of the Treasury John Snow on the program. I will add that info. Apparently, the person rejecting this article thinks he is only on the Monroe station, and even if that were his only station, he would still cover the northeast one-fourth of LA.

March 4, 2005 Secretary Snow on Social Security US Treasury Secretary John Snow visits with Ruth Ulrich of the Moon Griffon Show, KMLB, Monroe, LA.

Billy Hathorn (talk) 02:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)


  • Comment. I have included in the article the ten radio stations on which Moon Griffon is broadcast. The opponent of this article seemed to think that Griffon broadcast only in Monroe.

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The result was keep. PeaceNT (talk) 15:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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No information on notability. — Yavoh 21:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was redirect to Honey --JForget 01:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Dictionary def., not notable, unsourced Mdbrownmsw (talk) 21:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. Sam Blacketer (talk) 00:27, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Fred C. McClanahan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

An obituary form a prolific writer of obituaries. Knowledge (XXG) is not a memorial. Guy (Help!) 21:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Billy Hathorn (talk) 14:38, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Without even looking at that link, WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS is not a valid argument for "keep" --Dweller (talk) 11:15, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. "Memorial". Any article on a deceased person may have some tinge of being a "memorial". The article tells about the man's full career based on the material that I had.

Billy Hathorn (talk) 15:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Looks like a nice bloke, who had a moderately interesting career, but currently notability is not demonstrated. Happy to amend if multiple non trivial references to him are found in reliable sources. Just drop me a line to my talk page. --Dweller (talk) 11:15, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. — Scientizzle 04:46, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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Another of User:Billy Hathorn's obituaries. Small town publisher, no wider significance. Please can someone help me get through to this user as he has more deleted articles to his name than any other non-vandal I can think of. Guy (Help!) 21:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Redirect. Eluchil404 (talk) 03:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Of Mice and Men (song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Notable band, but I can see no reason that this single is notable. J Milburn (talk) 21:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 19:26, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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Originally nominated for WP:PROD by Stormbay (talk · contribs) for "non notable children's summer camp" 24fan24 (talk) 21:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Delete This article covers a children's summer camp which, no doubt, does a fine job. However, there is nothing in their activities and body of work that should be considered notable. --Stormbay (talk) 21:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:44, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Notable band, but I can see no reason that this single is notable.J Milburn (talk) 20:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:44, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Notable band, but I can see no reason that this is a notable single. J Milburn (talk) 20:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:43, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Notable band, but I can see no reason that this is a notable single. J Milburn (talk) 20:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Notable band, but I can see no reason that it is a notable single. J Milburn (talk) 20:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 03:43, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

List of indoor malls in Barrie (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Redundant list, seemingly orphaned, only one mall has a link. Redundant content, given the templates right below it. Ten Pound Hammer20:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I meant mention that they're only 3 malls in the area on each of the mall's articles. I know there's only 1 mall article at the moment, I meant in future. My bad. Ryan4314 (talk) 05:08, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Merge into the Barrie, Ontario article. Perhaps under economy or buildings and structures? vıdıoman (talkcontribs) 15:22, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Insomnia (Megadeth song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Notable band, but I can't see any reason this is a notable single. J Milburn (talk) 20:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:40, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Use the Man (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Notable band, but I can see no reason or sources as to why this is a notable single. J Milburn (talk) 20:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Notable band, but does not appear to be a notable single. I can see no sources or claims to fame. J Milburn (talk) 20:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:38, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Almost Honest (song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Notable band, but does not seem to be a notable single. I can see no sources or claims to fame. J Milburn (talk) 20:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was keep. Rigadoun (talk) 19:36, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Foreclosure of a Dream (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Notable band, but does not seem to be a notable single. I can see no real sources. J Milburn (talk) 20:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete Notability not established. Spartaz 20:32, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Kids Across America (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable organization using no references. Article is also promotional in its tone. D-rew (talk) 17:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete --JForget 01:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

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Not surprisingly, I couldn't find any reliable sources on either of the given spellings of this "holiday" to verify the notability of this unsourced article, created by a single purpose account. neologism, things made up one day, either seems to apply. Challenged PROD, also by a SPA. Moonriddengirl 20:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:36, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Liar (Megadeth song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Notable band, but is it a notable single? I see no sources or reason it could be considered notable, but the article does contain original research and a potential BLP violation.J Milburn (talk) 20:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep. Davewild (talk) 19:37, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Coral Springs Christian Academy (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable, no sources Loonymonkey (talk) 20:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. Just saying "Its notable, sources exist" is not the same as actually providing sources to prove notability. Mr.Z-man 06:34, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Sokker Manager (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Not notable, no third party sources, orphan Mdbrownmsw (talk) 20:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 19:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

The Rope Trick (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable film with no claims of notability and no sources to indicate that it might be notable. It does have an entry at imdb, but there's not much there but that this is a short. Corvus cornixtalk 19:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete. — Scientizzle 19:04, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Mary Jane (Megadeth song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Notable band, but does not appear ot be a notable single. I can see no reason to consider it notable, and can find no sources that talk of it in depth. Article contains original research. J Milburn (talk) 19:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Merge to Anarchy in the U.K.. Maser 07:24, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Anarchy in the U.K. (Megadeth song) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Despite being a single from a notable band, I cannot see why it should have its own article. I can find no reliable sources which talk about it in depth, and it does not appear to be particuarly notable in any way. Also, as a cover, is it not common practice to merge into the article about the original song anyway? J Milburn (talk) 19:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Merge and redirect to List of Charmed episodes. --AnonEMouse 21:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Imaginary Fiends (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

This is an article on a single episode of the notable television program Charmed. It is typical of all of the articles in Category:Charmed episodes:

  • It contains no lede (most articles have a perfunctory lede, but a few are missing one altogether).
  • It consists primarily of plot summary and trivia, with very little (if any) real-world context.
  • The plot summary, lacking context, is useless to anyone not familiar with the program and with previous episodes.
  • It references zero sources, let alone reliable third-party sources.

This AfD applies only to this single article; per Template:AfD footer (multiple), "...for group nominations it is often a good idea to only list one article at afd and see how it goes, before listing an entire group." There was little point in going to the trouble of a mass nomination before seeing if deletion was feasible. Powers 19:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

One more note: most of these articles don't have talk pages, and those that do lack any WikiProject notices; I assume then that there is no WikiProject under whose jurisdiction these articles fall. If that is incorrect, I would be happy to notify the relevant WikiProject. Powers 19:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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British child actor, but not yet notable unfortunately, per: Delete at this time. Lawrence Cohen 19:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:10, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Braden Walkes (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Child actor, but not notable yet. See: . Delete at this time. Lawrence Cohen 19:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Bacchus-D (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Article contains no assertion of notability to distinguish the page from any other generic energy drink. Does not pass WP:CORP, does not have sources independent of the subject. WLU (talk) 19:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 19:45, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Lucy Webb (British actor) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

A young actor, who unfortunately is not notable enough for inclusion. See: . Thanks, Delete. Lawrence Cohen 19:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete JoshuaZ (talk) 02:42, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Layla and Logan Wheeler (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Young actors, not notable enough for inclusion. See: and - note that on the Logan Wheeler, there are a lot of hits, as its apparently a common name. Ignore all the bits related to World War I veterans, obviously. Delete. Lawrence Cohen 19:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete JoshuaZ (talk) 02:33, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Alyssa & Hannah Yadrick (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Young actors, not notable enough for inclusion. See: and . Delete. Lawrence Cohen 18:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was keep. - Mailer Diablo 10:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Not notable. Mdbrownmsw (talk) 18:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was keep. With multiple appearances, and a young age at which to get a contract, they meet WP:BIO. 17:07, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Unfortunately, these twins simply are not notable yet. Searches for each of their names return no substantial notability evidence. See: and . Delete. Lawrence Cohen 18:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Strong Delete as per nom and common sense. RMHED (talk) 21:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I did a google search and got several results. They have starred in several television shows which has met keep criteria for other AfD's. . Olivia and Ava are currently contract players on Days of our Lives which is far more notable than what "kept" the Ashlee Holland article. CelticGreen (talk) 00:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Can you share the links and evidence of notability you found? Being contracted to a TV show isn't evidence of notability. Lawrence Cohen 00:11, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
That's not what has been decided in the past. Ashlee Holland was kept because of that. Her win on IWBASS gave her a contract and she got to keep her page. As for Olivia and Ava, you have to google them together. Here's the search results I got CelticGreen (talk) 00:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Additional links that prove notability Quote: Ava, along with her twin sister Olivia, is part of the youngest set of twins to be offered a contract for a daytime soap opera. Out of all the young children on soaps, they hold the distinction of being the youngest ever offered a contract. That's notable if you ask me. Yes, the article needs expansion, but it meets requirements to keep. CelticGreen (talk) 00:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
That is still awfully short on being notable, given their age and lack of additional independent coverage. Lawrence Cohen 00:19, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
There were 300,000 hits on Google. Just because the article needs expanding doesn't mean it needs to be deleted. I found external links using the correct search terms. They starred in What about Brian, star currently on contract on Days of our Lives, and have other credits including Veronica Mars and Ghost Whisperer. Your search was limited which caused you to erroneously assume they were not notable. A search of their names without limitations yield a far larger result.CelticGreen (talk) 00:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Searching for their names without "quotes" yields a tremendous number of unrelated hits. Lawrence Cohen 00:30, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I search my way, you search yours. Regardless, I've stated my case and this is getting redundant. Their (google's) first pages include solely references to Olivia and Ava, together like the Olsen Twins, not individual. The article is also not about the individuals but the pair. Your search was flawed searching only one name and adding Days of our Lives. My search yielded what it did. Either way, I've said the last of this as at this time anything more will only be redundancy upon redundancy. CelticGreen (talk) 00:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was

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The result was DELETE. Waggers (talk) 10:01, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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This page has been subject to numerous reversions by anonymous users, to determine whether it deserves to be an article in its own right, or a redirect to CrossCountry. In an attempt to end this warring, I have decided to nominate it, so that a formal discussion can take place. If the result is delete, the redirect can then be re-applied. As this is to prevent warring, my own stance is strictly neutral.  – Tivedshambo (talk) 18:46, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Since a consensus discussion has already taken place (on this and the related Cardiff Central to Newcastle Line), which has decided that these two entities do not actually exist, I move for a speedy close as redirect. 90.203.45.214 (talk) 19:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. To repeat the discussion at WT:RAIL (now archived), a railway line article should be about a physical stretch of track. This is not the case here: instead, this article is about a train service which uses various lines to get between Cardiff and Nottingham. While a redirect to CrossCountry, the name of the company which operates the service, might be a reasonable compromise, it seems a little odd. So I suggest deleting this article. Any other "line" articles which are really about services should meet the same fate in due course, but that's a matter for WT:RAIL first, rather than AfD. --RFBailey (talk) 19:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Are you referring to the article about CrossCountry (the train operator) or Cross Country Route (about the Bristol-Birmingham-Derby line)? --RFBailey (talk) 19:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
The service is mentioned near the top of CrossCountry. The physical tracks are: South Wales Main Line, Gloucester to Newport Line, Cross Country Route and Midland Main Line (from west to east). Those cover the infrastructural aspects of the journey. 90.203.45.214 (talk) 19:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. As previously mentioned, the line does not exist; it is simply a route operated along several real lines, and as such there is little that can be said about it that would not be better placed in the operator’s article. David Arthur (talk) 02:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
That's a bad idea for various reasons. First, the general Knowledge (XXG) practice is to split content from articles once they grow too large, not to pre-empt this. The CrossCountry article certainly hasn't grown too large yet. Second, where would you stop? Having pages for occasional services that run once a day, or (worse) once a week in summer? What about other operators--why just this one? This is a slippery slope which, quite frankly, I don't want to see us go down. --RFBailey (talk) 14:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Indeed, such a practice would split information away from where people are likely to look for it, and result in needless duplication — already, much of the disputed article’s content is a redundant summary of the geography and transport links of Wales and the Midlands. David Arthur (talk) 14:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was Delete. — Scientizzle 19:06, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Seems to be more of a POV advertisement than an article Mcwatson (talk) 17:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was no consensus. Mr.Z-man 06:27, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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This article asserts no notability through reliable sources, and as such is just an in-universe repetition of plot elements from the Doom game articles. As such, and this is duplicative, this can be safely deleted. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Correct, because otherwise it is important to the plot of Doom but not notable enough to have its own article per WP:FICTION and WP:RS. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 22:14, 10 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep, Consensus appears to be that sources used in this debate and in article establishes notability. Davewild (talk) 20:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

This article went through an AfD and was deleted once before. Its reincarnation still seems to lack 3rd-party sourced notability. It is my understanding that existence in not sufficient to establish notability for a film. Its claimed notability, fictionalized snuff films, strikes me as more of a negative than a +: a desperate attention-getting strategy that has not yet worked. At present, no one is served by this entry but the film-maker. Hence I nominate for its second deletion. --Pleasantville (talk) 17:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

The NYT does not publish every PR it receives and Tribecca does not show every film submitted. I thiink this shows the film has received sufficient notice for inclusion. Dhaluza (talk) 17:24, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was keep Note that this keep is not to be construed as an endorsement of the name "Gageo Reef". JoshuaZ (talk) 01:45, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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I initially tagged the article for notability on November 19th, 2007 and informed the editors of the page of my tagging. I asked them to add more information to pass the guidelines for notability. After two weeks, nothing on the page changed, so I proposed deletion on December 3, 2007 and notified the founding editor. That same day DGC deleted the proposed deletion template saying that the article was an adequate stub. I disagree. As I stated in my proposed deletion, there is nothing in the article that shows any notability. As the article states, it is an uninhabited, submerged rock off the coast of South Korea. This is the only significant fact given. It is also said to have been discovered by the Hyuga without reference, but nothing on the Hyuga page mentions the reef or its importance. I question whether that fact is even true. After a thorough internet search, I could find no page to validate its notability or even give any information about the reef. Seeing that with that amount of work, I could still not verify notability and that the original authors seem to not care enough, I believe this article should be deleted. --17:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)Jdcaust (talk)

  • Keep. Geographical features are notable and this one also appears to be a verifiable navigation hazard. A Google and Google News search shows hits in Korean and Chinese. A Korean news article ( translated by Babelfish) apparently confirms the 1927 find (by collision). WP:NOEFFORT is not a valid reason for deletion and two weeks is a lightning fast timetable for cleanups around here. I suggest giving this article a chance. • Gene93k (talk) 20:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. This has the feel to me of one of those international border/sphere of influence disputes. I see that an earlier version of the article referred the reef under the name Rixiang. Is there a larger context here of which we should be aware? Xymmax (talk) 20:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • This looks like case of dueling articles and redirects. The reef is in disputed waters and the name of the reef is also disputed. Before it was redirected in November, Rixiang Reef was Chinese rock, also called Gageo Reef, in disputed waters.. The S. Koreans want it called Gageo Reef. The Chinese call it Rixiang Reef. • Gene93k (talk) 21:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Ah, thank you. That makes sense. I think we should keep the article, although it seems like its ability to grow may be limited. If I can find sourcing for the competing ownership claims, I'll add that information as well. Xymmax (talk) 21:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was NO CONSENSUS. Waggers (talk) 10:12, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

North Shore Square (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Page makes no claim to notability of this mall. No sources could be found, not even an official website (which is surprising for a mall of this size). Ten Pound Hammer17:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete unless referenced with evidence of importance by close of debate. Guy (Help!) 00:16, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep: I've added some information and more importantly, some references for the basic facts about the mall. While still a stub, now that it is referenced, I think it can stand on its own better until a user with more information can flesh it out further. VerruckteDan (talk) 21:45, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Can you be more specific on your concerns of reliability? If you review this link, it seems to indicate that the data is reviewed for accuracy and that a membership fee is required for a listing. Given the subscription fee, I think its safe to assume that a mall owner/manager would submit accurate data about their facility. VerruckteDan (talk) 04:06, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
It means that it is a primary source, not a secondary source which is relevant. JoshuaZ (talk) 02:04, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - having investigated this place, I cannot recall ever having found a web of ownerships more complex than this one! (see the goofy Ref. I added to the Article)(ahem they may be goofy ... but they satisfy WP:RS). I for one, would like to see where this trail ends before the Article is decided notable or not, as that complexity alone may proove the Mall notable. Exit2DOS2000 06:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was Speedy keep. This closure is no reflection on my own !vote, but rather on the consensus among other users that opening a new AfD the same day that the previous one closed is a little too soon. Non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer04:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Closure endorsed. Seriously, the world will not end tomorrow. Give it a few days before nominating again. Or just redirect it and see if anyone cares.—Random832 16:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Tokyo in pop culture (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

This survived a previous deletion discussion by deleting a long list of trivia. What remains is an almost exact duplication of the Tokyo in popular media section from the article Tokyo. This fork now exists only to have a new IPC list appended. I have merged the one new sentence back into the Tokyo article for consideration by editors there. / edg 17:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Comment Do I understand correctly that the prior Afd ended today? Could you elaborate further as to why a second Afd is required at this time? Xymmax (talk) 17:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • I concur. What's the point? If content has been merged back, we probably don't want to delete this article anyway per GFDL concerns. Anyway, this whole request is based on how I removed the list of mentions, which is NOT an action I took as the closer of the previous debate, but rather as an ordinary editor. Perhaps I should have just redirected the page instead, and I would have had I realized that the header text was already present at Tokyo. Edg - just withdraw this and redirect the page. It's too soon to have an actual debate. Mangojuice 18:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep seeing the previous AfD was just deleted, no need to relist so soon. Could this be taken to WP:DRV? Ten Pound Hammer18:46, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep Having just voted to delete this page in the last 24 hours, and having seen it survive, I now vote keep, not because the page deserves it (it still should go) but rather because it is out of process to nominate it again.--CastAStone| 19:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep. This was opened an hour and 3 minutes after an AfD that had been open for 9 days closed. Consensus can change...but I doubt it can in one hour. --Smashville 21:31, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Procedural Speedy Keep too soon after last AfD... (way waaaaay too soon ) 132.205.99.122 (talk) 22:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep for the same reasons as everyone else. ···日本穣 01:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:28, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Disco Aroma by Decibel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Band has no article, album has no verifiable notability, fails WP:MUSIC. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 20:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

On to Inverno Samba (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

No assertion of notability, band doesn't even have a page, can't meet WP:MUSIC. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. Addhoc (talk) 19:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Game 7 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Prodded, prod removed by creator. 99% sure this is a hoax, google gives nothing back about a computer game, and none of the outlandish commests are backed up by the sources. And even if it does exist, it's also blatant spam (kind of wish I tried tagging it as such before coming here...). UsaSatsui (talk) 16:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Speedy Delete as had already been speedy deleted by DJ Clayworth. Davewild (talk) 20:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Scott McConnel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Unsuccessful election candidate. Dlw22 (talk) 16:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Keep. — Scientizzle 19:08, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Ross Daniels (politician) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Unsuccessful election candidate. Dlw22 (talk) 16:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 20:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

BlackStar by Inverno Samba (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

No assertion of notability, can't meet WP:MUSIC currently. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 20:34, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

The Endless Sum of an Ancient Sun (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

No assertion of verifiable notability, not exactly WP:MUSIC-worthy The Rambling Man (talk) 16:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:27, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I Sold Your Soul... Happy? (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

No assertion of notability, nowhere near meeting WP:MUSIC The Rambling Man (talk) 16:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was speedy deleted as a copyright violation. --Moonriddengirl 20:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Sue Page (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Sole claim to notability is being an unsuccessful election candidate. Dlw22 (talk) 16:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

delete Not very notable and there are a number of other Sue Page's out there that are all sort of notable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pmedema (talkcontribs) 16:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was No Consensus to delete. Davewild (talk) 21:48, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

List of black metal bands (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

There's no need for this list when Category:Black metal musical groups and it's many nationality-associated subcats exist. Funeral 16:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep - I think lists are useful and are capable of more than categories. This list could be worked with even more, but just because categories are easier to maintain and what not, that doesn't make them better. Plus if a regular person if looking for lists of x-type bands, they would not only find the lists more appealing than categories, but would probably find the list before they found the category. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Navnløs (talkcontribs) 19:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    Comment Basically the same reply I gave on the doom metal AfD: Not necessarily, only 6 articles link to the list, whereas there are hundreds of band pages with the cat. Funeral 19:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, useful and more informative listing. A list offers so much more options than a simple category could ever provide. While a category is good simply for listing them, list articles go several steps further and offer different ways they can be listed. Some examples are on the very page that was afd'd and a few on some other lists, they are: adding their location by flag, if they are/were one of the original bands of the genre they will be indicated, if they played the style early, mid or later on, a list of albums by the bands that are within the genre and also not in the genre but has made a notable release of the genre and also bands that at some point in time played the style. --CircafuciX (talk) 19:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    Comment Category:Dutch black metal musical groups, Category:French black metal musical groups, Category:Swiss black metal musical groups - That's how I tell what a band's location is. Not a misleading picture of a flag. Lists are worthless and redundant no matter how pretty you make them look. Funeral 19:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep: Categories are not a substitute for lists per se. Navigation in categories such as this one is not intuitive as bands are divided by country. No overview is possible using this category system. The system now used is disabling other kinds of categorization f.e. including subgenres (like done on the gothic metal band list). Something possible in article lists. Lists are the logical result of genre articles as they are an extension of "key artist" sections. It's better to have a separate list because there are too many notable bands to be in the genre article. Articles are more flexible and capable of more than categories. Flags/country names will give the reader an immediate visual indication of different metal scenes. Some bands change their genre over time so it can be useful to have extra information like "first album" or "early" next to a band name. The list must however contain sources so it needs some work. Categories are not a substitute for lists. Kameejl 09:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    Question/Comment You said, "The system now used is disabling other kinds of categorization f.e. including subgenres (like done on the gothic metal band list). Something possible in article lists." Forgive me but I don't understand this sentence at all. Could you please clarify? Moreover, isn't Black metal in itself a subgenre? Finally, if a user is interested in learning about the "different metal scenes", would that not be better reflected by discussing the different metal scenes in the main black metal article? To me, at least, that sounds a good deal easier than performing shape recognition on the various flag images to mentally calculate the distrobution of artists by nation.-Verdatum (talk) 09:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete content covered perfectly well by a category. Fair Deal (talk) 14:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Kameejl. ~ | twsx | cont | 07:12, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete-use a category. Peter Fleet (talk) 09:45, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep From what I've heard, most Knowledge (XXG) readers tend to find these list articles more user-friendly than categories i.e. many readers are more likely to check these lists than categories. All this list need is sources and it's fine.--Azure Shrieker (talk) 15:36, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep: If you say that the List of black metal bands is not going to be developed further, then I would have said delete. As of now, the category is much better than the list; its concise, bands are grouped into country-wise subcategories. But, the category will stay that way. On the other hand, the list can be developed along the lines of some of these lists Category:Lists. They can convey band specific information, which I doubt can be integrated into a category. Of course work needs to be done; but also, there are no featured categories, right? Welt 03:08, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 22:05, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Rose Torossian (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)


Token Liberal candidate in a very safe Labor seat. Dlw22 (talk) 16:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Do NOT Delete.This is Rose Torossian. I am happy to provide further evidence to support my biographical information so that it may remain on wikipedia. Knowledge (XXG) states that a politician is the following:

"...people who seek those positions, whether by means of election, coup d'état, appointment, electoral fraud, conquest, right of inheritance (see also: divine right) or other means." Knowledge (XXG).

I seeked the position of a politician by means of an election.

Bold textConsidered a politicianBold text
"A person who is active in party politics.

Any person influencing group opinions in his or her favor can be termed a politician. For example, a worker participating in office politics is a politician, but only so far as the operations of his or her workplace are concerned." Knowledge (XXG)

I am currently active in party politics and I influenced a group of opinions in my favour when I was a Liberal Candidate for Fowler. Rose Torossian 11:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment Hi Rose. I've shifted your comment down the page to reflect the order of the comments made here. I simply point out that being involved in politics and being a political candidate doesn't make a person sufficiently notable. I refer you to WP:BIO:
  • Politicians:
    • Politicians who have held international, national or statewide/provincewide office, and members and former members of a national, state or provincial legislature.
    • Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage.
    • Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such a person may be notable for other reasons besides their political careers alone.

Dlw22 (talk) 15:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment There's no doubt she's a politician, but politicians aren't necessarily notable. I would also like to point out that, should she win the election or become notable in some other way (hopefully not through election fraud), the article can be recreated. It's not "now or never". --UsaSatsui (talk) 17:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Mattinbgn\ 00:45, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - for notability reasons and specifically the section of WP:BIO cited above. The article subject has asserted notability but there is not sufficient here to meet the guideline. Being an unsuccessful election candidate is not of itself enough to justify a Knowledge (XXG) article. Nor is claiming to have received the the least worst swing against her at the election, which is grasping at straws as well as being demonstrably false (for example, the Liberal candidates for the nearby seats of Reid, Bennelong, Grayndler and Macquarie all had smaller swings agaisnt them than Torossian). Euryalus (talk) 02:39, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as above. Also, unverified claims ('Rose had campaigned very hard'?) make the article seem POV. Auroranorth (!) 11:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I suggest that any very recent sources which come to light are really about an event rather than a person. As such there is nothing here which meets WP:N or WP:BLP or WP:BIO. Statements like She also received the best result in all of western sydney (here I was thinking, being elected would be the best possible result for a politician) don't seem very NPOV so if the article is kept it needs to be stripped back to a stub mentioning all the current sources.Garrie 23:19, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Do Not Delete The fact that I'm getting this much attention is a demonstration of how my candidacy in the Federal Election has made me renowned! Rose Torossian 12:00 11 December 2007 —Preceding comment was added at 10:55, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was Delete --JForget 01:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Yechida Satori (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

No context, no notability, no verifiability, prod removed. The Rambling Man (talk) 16:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was keep. John254 01:46, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Chinese swords (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Superseded by Category:Chinese swords, lacks any information about the weapons mentioned that would be useful in a list. Burzmali (talk) 16:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I am also nominating the following related page for the reasons above:

Japanese swords (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
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The result was no consensus. Mr.Z-man 06:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Tyr (journal) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

WP:BK: this is an article on two books, published as the first two volumes of a series. Notability is not established, all independent sources we could find are three reviews in online zines or websites. This is a borderline case, and I would vote weak delete, or alternatively redirect to Michael Moynihan (journalist) (the editor) pending the establishment of notability. dab (𒁳) 15:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep. Notability seems to be implied by the fact that many of the contributors have their own bio articles. Also, a cursory glance at the talk page and the history shows extensive edit-warring very recently, and I don't think retaliatory deletion is an acceptable means to solve content disputes (if that is what's happening). - WeniWidiWiki (talk) 02:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • this has nothing to do with "retaliation". The disputes have brought to light that there are no "reliable sources" that could be cited on this topic. How are we going to write an article about something that hasn't been talked about by anyone? WP:BK asks that the book has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the book itself, with at least some of these works serving a general audience. This is clearly not the case here. "the fact that many of the contributors have their own bio articles" means that we can just list the thing in the "publications" sections of the relevant articles, it is not a criterion of WP:BK at all. dab (𒁳) 12:48, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Lots of notable people involved who have extensive Knowledge (XXG) articles, wide distribution (amazon.com as an example) and the mouthpiece of Radical Traditionalism. Request for deletion seems retaliatory, to be honest. :bloodofox: (talk) 03:50, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • That's where the problem started. Tyr is very much "the mouthpiece of 'Radical Traditionalism'": This means that 'Radical Traditionalism' is a concept entirely restricted to the pages of this publication and has no notability whatsoever. Which became apparent as soon as its characterization came under dispute: having zero notability, it is impossible to write an npov account "citing reliable sources" (there being none). dab (𒁳) 12:48, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Looking over the article, it seems to me to have some outside sources. I would like to see more sourcing on the earlier sections of the article, but as these seem to largely be statements from the journal or editors themselves, I don't think sourcing statements of self-definition from the journal itself is particularly controversial. There are certainly notable contributors. In terms of WP notability, I would say the low number of issues combined with the high profile of the contributors and the very high page count for a journal makes it more analagous to a pretty sizable anthology (book). We do not have a WP article on every anthology published. However, 718 pages by these particular contributors seems notable to me, particularly in a field where there aren't yet many publications. I don't have personal knowledge of how influential this journal was, but I would tend to assume it had an impact, and will continue to if they produce more issues. What troubles me about this AfD is that it is emerging from an edit war and content dispute. It doesn't look good when someone edit wars for a particular perspective in an article, and then nominates the article for deletion when consensus doesn't go their way. On that fact alone, I'd say this is a WP:POINT nomination. Combine that with the probability that the journal is notable in the field, and I'd say this is a keep. - Kathryn NicDhàna 22:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Pseudo-journal, 2 annual volumes, with no reliable sources for notability at all besides a local newspaper. The article is just the table of contents. Not even the minimum requirements for a journal. Looking at World Cat, its owned by two libraries only. LC and one other (the actual ISSN is 1538-9413, but the people writing the article neither knew or cared. Unknown publisher. Not indexed anywhere. an attempt to use WP to gain notability for an non-notable publication. A purported journal in two libraries only is not notable. Essentially vanity publishing. amazon.com will distribute anything, even self-published, if you pay them their 65%. There's no possibility that this journal is notable in any field, or some subscriptions would have actually been sold to some libraries. The relationship to "radical traditionalism" is a classic walled garden. Each one is notable in context only of each other. Might be time to look at the true notability of some of the authors. , DGG (talk) 10:38, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I've done some swapping around to where more of the notable figures are in the introduction now, if that helps at all. I think the journal is mainly only relevant in Germanic neopaganism, which is what it largely involves so I added a bit about that. :bloodofox: (talk) 05:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete for the reasons stated by DGG. There are three sources cited in the article, aside from the journal itself, only one of those sources meets the requirements for a reliable source. I agree that the walled garden of "radical traditionalism" needs some examination--there might be a lot of notability problems here. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep as per consensus. (closed by non-admin) RMHED (talk) 00:00, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Kateryna Karsak (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Completing unfinished nom by User:Rtphokie. For some reason, Twinkle didn't finish the process; Twinkle has been acting very odd today. Ten Pound Hammer16:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak delete. What is the nominator's rationale? Besides, fourth is just barely out of notablity distance. Are there any other claims to fame?--Esprit15d • talkcontribs 19:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep International athlete who has competed at the World Championships. . No reason given to delete this article. Catchpole (talk) 21:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep The article clearly states that she's an international athlete representing Ukraine and came fourth in the recent World Championships, a competition second only to the Olympics in athletics importance. Of course she's notable by Knowledge (XXG) standards. She's also European U23 champion in the event. There's no reason given to delete it as Catchpole points out, so why is this even up for debate? I note that the 'nominator' created an article on Dr. Davis (coach), a former head coach of the Virginia Tech college football program during the 1900 season - which is now also up for AfD. It seems strange that he believes Karsak to be the lesser of the two in terms of Athletic achievement. Nick mallory (talk) 23:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep. Actually it was the European Championship, but coming fourth there is still way over the bar for notability for athletes as described in WP:BIO: "played or competed at the highest level in amateur sports". Phil Bridger (talk) 10:32, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong keep. Notability enough for me. Sting_au Talk 12:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 22:17, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

University of Texas at Austin United Nations Association (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable university club, no different to similar groups at universities and colleges all over th world. Emeraude (talk) 15:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete --JForget 01:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Resistance: Fall of Man weapons (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable list of fictional weapons. Knowledge (XXG) is not a game guide. Pagrashtak 15:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. WjBscribe 21:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Trans Love Airways (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Not notable, no reliable sources (only sources listed are a webzine, band's website, and a myspace account) Mdbrownmsw (talk) 15:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:16, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

MagSec (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable fictional weapon that does not satisfy Knowledge (XXG):Notability (fiction). Content is too detailed and game guide-ish for merging. Pagrashtak 15:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:15, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

ARC (Scientology) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Article does not assert the notability of its topic. Written primarily with in-universe, Church of Scientology jargon. Only uses primary sources (L. Ron Hubbard), and no secondary sources, and has been tagged as such since August 2007, with no improvements since then. See also Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion/KRC (Scientology). Cirt (talk) 15:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Comment, expansion on delete reasoning -- If sources cannot be found outside of Hubbard's own writings and sufficient time has been given with the article tagged for sources to be provided, then the best place for this sort of information is a Church of Scientology website. Notability is not established here. We would not write an entire article on the Bible just referencing the Bible itself. We may quote from it, sure, or reference portions of it, but not the entire thing. Lack of any other sources/mention = lack of notability in this case. Cirt (talk) 15:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC).


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The result was delete. WjBscribe 21:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Drawn to diversity (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Nonnotable student organization. The profusion of external links, as usual, raises suspicions about the motives of the authors. Shalom (HelloPeace) 15:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was speedy close and redirect to Cloverfield. Until such time as there is enough verifiable information to support a separate article, any information should be added to the movie article as fictional corporations are rarely notable. ···日本穣 01:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Tagruato corporation (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Didn't know what to speedy this under, appears to just be a quote of some sort. 558 ghits; possibly a advertising head for a movie. OSborncontributionatoration 15:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was deleteDavid Eppstein (talk) 16:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Lochan Singh (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Possibly a hoax, as no reliable sources can be found to substantiate the claims made in this article. Obviously would be notable if they were true, and I will withdraw the nomination if proper sources can be found, but there is no evidence for any of the claims made. Example: article claims that he was the first Post Master general, something that should be easy to substantiate, yet no non-wiki sources can be found to back this up, not surprising either since the Indian Postal Service celebrated its 150th anniversary recently. Cheers, CP 14:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete -- Seems like it could be a legitimate article, but with no verifiable references, and none to be found, there's no way to be certain. Delete, with no prejudice against any supporting evidence that others bring forward. I looked, but could not find any. Incidentally, the Indian postal system appears to be headed by the "Secretary of Posts" -- the current holder of that title is Shri. I.M.G. Khan. -- Shunpiker (talk) 02:39, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was Keep. The Placebo Effect (talk) 21:45, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

CETI Patterson Power Cell (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Clearly a type of perpetual motion device and therefore subject to our rules surrounding the inclusion of fringe ideas, this article is about something which has received no mainstream recognition, popular press coverage, or even criticism/debunking. As such, it cannot be properly sourced except for by proponent websites which fail reiliability and verifiability tests. I think that this article is functioning as a soapbox for the claims of the inventor. ScienceApologist (talk) 14:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Delete Delete. Why does this stuff continue to show up? Per the nomination, this has a WP:FRINGE problem. In addition, the conspiracy to hold back this information clearly has successfully kept all mention of this breakthrough out of any reliable sources, so we'll just have to wait until some courageous person reveals THE TRUTH. Xymmax (talk) 15:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep Keep and improve with the available sources Usually gadgets such as this are invented by a farmer in his barn. This one has as one of its investigators Prof. George Miley, professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Illinois, and winner of the 1995 Edward Teller Medal from the American Nuclear Society .He has a track record in developing small scale fusion technologies (although they are not apparently net energy producers). The device operates with metal coated beads in an electrolytic chamber. It is not fringe science to study small scale (with eneergy loss) fusion as a neutron source. Whether it produces net energy, or whether it operates by fusion, are not clear. The article is a poorly written stub. The area is outside any expertise I might claim, but I find substantial discussion of it in reliable non-fringe, non-hype sources such as , , and . Even if disproved to be producing fusion, it satisfies WP:N, even if it turn out to be just more pathological science like the earlier cold fusion claims.Edison (talk) 15:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC
  • Delete Keep. While initial searches revealed a fair amount of sources (potential reasons to keep the article), they all most lack credibility on further examination. I'm skeptical of the IEEE article as a scientific source because its authors are from the New Energy Institute (publishers of the New Energy Times). The article is only worth saving as Edison seems to have shown a sufficient level of notability, not on the basis of any scientific merit (as per WP:N) as Edison has rightly stated. It also seems to have been featured on "Good Morning America" on June 11, 1997 (). In any case, it'll need a lot of work to remove the soapboxing. St3vo (talk) 16:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment I see this as satisfying the notability requirement, but not at all as a proven scientific fact. If it produced all that excess energy in 1995, why can't I power my car and heat my house with them today? The article badly needs the attention of someone with expertise in nuclear physics. Even science that doesn't pan out can satisfy the requirements for an article, such as N ray or Polywater. The thing that is needed is to fix the article by removing POV claims and soapboxing and stick to reporting what is stated in the sources. Edison (talk) 16:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep: extensive coverage in popular press: Wired, Scientific American, Physics World. Also user Edison thanks for valuable input, basically user ScienceApologist is doing sloppy research before submitting articles for deletion and that is not the first time!. V8rik (talk) 18:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Unless this article merely says that this device is entirely impossible in theory and practice then it should be deleted. Perpetual motion machines cannot work and any claim otherwise is unverifiable because it must always be untrue. It would be wonderful if cold fusion actually worked but the very fact that the inventor of this device isn't the richest man in the world right now shows that his machine doesn't do what it claims. Nick mallory (talk) 09:49, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment The scientific validity of the claims is irrelevant, although the article should certainly reflect the overwhelming expert opinion against the claims (as it does now). Importantly, however, the inventors of the device do not claim it is a perpetual motion machine any more than a nuclear reactor is a perpetual motion machine - they claim that the energy output comes from nuclear reactions happening at room temperature (that is, cold fusion). Bear in mind, I do not believe the device works, but it is unfair and simply incorrect to set up the perpetual motion straw man. St3vo (talk) 18:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
      • But it is a perpetual motion machine in theory and it's not a straw man to say so. It supposedly produces more energy than it uses and, if it worked, would just go on working forever. It doesn't use uranium as fuel in the same way as a nuclear reactor does - of course in reality it doesn't use uranium at all, but that's not the point. Patterson doesn't like to call it a cold fusion cell, although that's what it clearly claims to be as well. It violates the same laws of thermodynamics which make perpetual motion machines impossible. If you took this thing to the patent office and tried to patent it, they'd say no because it's a perpetual motion machine. That's the point of describing it as such. If you'd invented a machine which produced, essentially, unlimited amounts of free energy with no pollution wouldn't you patent it? Fusion is incredibly difficult because of the energies involved - notoriously it's always 20 years away from being mastered - and for this device to claim it can do it with 1.5 watts contrary to the whole of established physics and with no experimental data to justify it is just laughable. I was the one who bothered to rewrite the article and I still think it should be deleted. Nick mallory (talk) 08:49, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
        • Please see my comment on the article's talk page, where I think the discussion of the device as a perpetual motion machine is more appropriate. Also, thanks for the rewrite - although I disagree with a few points, it's a tremendous improvement over what was there previously. St3vo (talk) 16:52, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep. The article cites references and does not make any unreasonable claims: it gives a strong impression that the thing doesn't work. The thing has been discussed in a number of sources and therefore seems to be notable. By the way, cold fusion is not a perpetual motion machine. Fusion gets energy by changing deuterium into helium. The deuterium is the fuel, which eventually gets used up. Fusion is a well-known scientifically established source of energy. "Cold" fusion has not been shown to be possible, but it's inaccurate to refer to it as a "perpetual motion machine". --Coppertwig (talk) 17:25, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

It would be better to delete, but Keep per notability (above). I deleted a bunch of OR and redundancy and claims that there is some connection between cold fusion and perpetual motion.... that is, most of the article. ——Martin Ψ Φ—— 06:44, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment as cold fusion uses a fuel for fusion, clearly not a perpetual motion machine. Unless a star is also a perpetual motion machine. Or even a coal fired powerplant. (more energy is produced consuming coal, that is used to feed coal into the boilers). 132.205.99.122 (talk) 21:45, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Yes but the 'inventor' of this thing says it's not a cold fusion device. The fact is, it's not anything but a figment of his imagination. Nick mallory (talk) 12:30, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  • CETI avoids the term "cold fusion" to avoid the stigma associated with the Pons and Fleishman debacle, and because they claim not to know whether the alleged nuclear reactions are in fact "fusion." The bottom line is that they state that some form of nuclear reaction is the source of the energy, and nuclear fuel is (or would be) consumed in a finite amount of time. St3vo (talk) 15:56, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep. Appears to just about satisfy notability criteria. Unclear on its face if it's perpetual motion or a variant on cold fusion, but either way fringe science and the balance of the article must reflect this (and, whilst much improved, I think further edits are required to this effect). LeContexte (talk) 11:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Davewild (talk) 22:31, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Martinsburg Mall (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Non-notable mall in West Virginia, fails WP:RS. A search for sources online turned up nothing of note. Ten Pound Hammer14:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete There are probably more articles like this that should be deleted. This mall is of no particular importance. I searched for more sources as well and couldn't find any. --Cyrus Andiron 15:43, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:10, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Mizuno, while being famous in cold fusion circles for three papers that made it into obscure mainstream publications, has not done anything of note to warrant the inclusion of this particular experiment at Knowledge (XXG). The papers he published in the mainstream only obliquely reference the contents of this article and ultimately there has been no mainstream attention paid to this experiment, nor has there been any popular press coverage, or critical/skeptical review. As such, the only sources we have to write the article do not rise to the standards needed to establish reliability and verifiability. Rather, they are all from fringe publications and essentially this article serves as a soapbox for cold fusion advocacy in violation of the fringe theory guidelines and undue weight policy. ScienceApologist (talk) 14:36, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep. This is a repeat of the polyneutron] discussion: the research presented is published in a peer-reviewed journal. There is nothing wrong with the Japanese journal of applied physics, so the source is reliable. I suggest that you focus on the type of pseudoscience NOT peer-review published. Popular press overage or inclusion in review articles is not a criterion. Your description of Mizuno is insulting. V8rik (talk) 17:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment I have not decided on this one but V8rick your argument is deeply flawed. Being published in a peer reviewed journal does not make anything notable per se. There are hundreds of thousands of topics published in peer reviewed journals every year and most do not deserve a wikipedia article of their own. Popular press coverage is very much an important (but not exclusive) criterion of notability. I think you need to review the notability guidelines. You have some serious misconceptions about it. Regarding verifiability a single peer reviewed article on a controversial topic is not sufficient. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary sources. Did you know that there is a single main stream peer reviewed article on intelligent design.--Nick Y. (talk) 18:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment Thanks Nick Y. for your comment, no there is nothing wrong with my understanding of notability so there is no need to start insults. Notability applies to the article as a whole but merging with for instance the cold fusion article has never been considered, it went straight to a deletion proposal. A simple merge would solve the issue V8rik (talk) 19:32, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. That a journal, any journal, cared to publish the work is irrelevent. Mizuno still wrote it, so it's a primary source, and doesn't establish notability in the slightest. Press coverage is the easiest way to demonstrate notability, which this does not evidence. The way to do it with journals is to show that other researchers cared enough to repeat or build on his work and publish it themselves in respected journals. And I don't think there's much point stuffing a non-notable experiment into the cold fusion article. Someguy1221 (talk) 22:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, the last thing Knowledge (XXG) needs is more WP:FRINGEy cold fusion theories. sh¤y 23:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete This is violating the laws of thermodynamics and yet it's purporting to be science, so it gives an entirely misleading account of the facts of the matter. When your kettle's powered by cold fusion it'll deserve a place, not till then. Nick mallory (talk) 23:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete According to Web of Science, the key paper has been cited 3 times only, 2 of them by Mizuno himself. As for the importance of the effect, the article itself says nobody has replicated it. DGG (talk) 23:45, 8 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete as a non-notable factory. Bearian (talk) 17:18, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Unsourced, no importance, short stub with no growth or change since started 18 months ago, near-orphan Mdbrownmsw (talk) 13:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Only assertion of notability is vocals on a single album released in Mexico, and even that not verifiable. Not sure this meets WP:MUSIC. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was merge to Max Baucus. Sam Blacketer (talk) 12:11, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Phillip E. Baucus (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

A US Marine corporal killed in action in Iraq. Only claim to notability is his relation to a US Senator. Jmlk17 12:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Merge important info into Max_Baucus Red Fiona (talk) 14:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • As the creator of the article, I agree with the proposed merge. The death was widely reported in the news, and seemed poised to take on a larger political significance, but this did not materialize - other than this person's famous relation, he is no more significant than any other U.S. casualty in Iraq. bd2412 T 15:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge per bd2412, the article's creator. --A. B. 18:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:31, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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I've tried and failed to find how this album or its creator are sufficiently notable to meet WP:MUSIC The Rambling Man (talk) 12:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was keepDavid Eppstein (talk) 16:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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She was the wife of two notable actors, but, as stated in the article, she failed to achieve any notability of her own. Delete. Blanchardb-MeMyMouth-timed 12:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, she accomplished little to nothing on her own. However, would Monica Lewinski be famous at all had she not slept with Bill Clinton? No, Louise Stanley on her own is not known at all, short of a few excerpts here and there. But, she was an actress, and she was married to two fairly famous actors. That's more than Monica has done. In my opinion, do not delete.

  • My comment and that of another editor appear to have been accidently deleted. I tried to roll back to that version, with the thought of then cutting and pasting the subsequent comments back in place. I haven't been able to get that to work, so I am just pasting our missing comments here below. Xymmax
  • Keep. Minor notability, but still notable. Xymmax (talk) 13:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:NOTINHERITED. She may have had several notable husbands, but that doesn't make her notable. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 14:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. The article itself admits that she is a "little known actress" with only "minor roles" that "never lifted her to stardom". What more do you need? A sign that says "DELETE ME!"? Clarityfiend (talk) 18:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. "Little known" is not the same as "not notable". All that can be claimed is that the article has not sufficiently established the subject's notability. I think that it has, but of course your mileage may vary. --Malleus Fatuorum (talk) 18:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Out of curiosity, I ran her name through the Chicago Tribune's electronic archives, which I can access through my university library. I don't think she was quite as obscure as the present article may suggest. Here are a few sources that could be incorporated into the article:
  • George Shaffer. "Chicago radio actress wins film contract". Chicago Daily Tribune. 31 March 1936. (about her first big break)
  • Antoinette Donnelly. "Shorter hair is definitely in, so get shears". Chicago Daily Tribune. 15 January 1939. (she gets about a paragraph describing her as one of the trendsetters)
  • "Film couple reweds". Chicago Daily Tribune. 11 February 1940. (mentions that she was Randall's "leading lady" in a recent movie)
  • "To seek divorce". Chicago Daily Tribune. 26 May 1940. ( Of note is the fact that only she gets a picture in the article)
  • "Beauty beaten". Chicago Daily Tribune. 31 August 1944. (Describes how she was assaulted at a party; calls her one of the leading beauties of her day.)
And that's just from one paper. I'm sure there's lots more available elsewhere if more people are inclined to look. I'll add some stuff to the article sometime soon. Zagalejo^^^ 07:16, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • I just hit the New York Times archives and found some more stuff:
  • "Louise Stanley Weds". New York Times. 28 August 1942. (about marriage to Charles A. Munn)
  • "Man held in beating of Mrs. Louise Munn". New York Times. 31 August 1944. (Existence of this story in NYT firmly establishes that she was not just notable in Illinois)
  • "Attack case continued". New York Times. 1 September 1944. (update on the above)
Stopped with these, but there's probably more. Zagalejo^^^ 07:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment. Most of Zagalejo's references are related to her husband or to an assault, neither of which constitutes standalone Knowledge (XXG) notability. She still fails WP:BIO as an actress, specifically having "significant roles in notable films" or a "large fan base". I only recognize one or two of her films and, in those, she has very minor roles. Clarityfiend (talk) 08:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

KEEP I was able to do some research. Louise Stanley actually starred in twenty four films, many with Tex Ritter, Bob Steele, and a few other actors of the day. I see no reason why she would be deleted. I have updated her page, and added the biography titled "B-Western Ladies". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.114.74.97 (talk) 09:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

  • keep The nominator should have looked for references first, and improved the article--since she isnt the least obscure. . Of course, the real problem is the inexperience of the guy who wrote the article, who not only didnt look properly himself but was naive enough to write an article beginning "a little known actress", DGG (talk) 16:11, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Where You Belong (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Delete due to notability issues. We should not have articles for any company slogan unless that slogan gave extreme social or moral effects. Even Nike, Inc. have no "Just do it" article. Lenticel 11:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

*Rescue/Weak Keep. Okay, for the non-Filipinos here, that may seem non-notable, but Where You Belong is pretty much the Filipino equivalent to Still The One. We can expand on this one some more, then decide on what to do. So, for now, it's time to rescue. Also, I find it hard to believe we have no article on Just do it ViperSnake151 23:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Reply That's the beginning of a compelling argument. Do you believe there is evidence to show that it has notability outside the network? Further Do you believe there are references capable of providing sufficient content related to the topic to warrant it's own article? As a retired theme song it seems sufficient to keep the information within GMA Network. I suspect that if Just Do It was not already an article, it would be a redirect to Nike, Inc., perhaps that's appropriate here. I'm uncertain. The Nike slogan would never warrant an article of it's own, as it would only be a brief extension upon the significance and origin of the term. -Verdatum (talk) 23:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    Merge/Redirect Okay, if that's the case, maybe we should just merge it into the main GMA article and redirect it to the "Branding of the GMA Network" section. --ViperSnake151 02:54, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Delete per nom. No further assertions of notability; lyrics and trivia. No social impact or economic impact either. --βritandβeyonce 03:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Leila Kowkabi (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Unreferenced stub on a woman whose claim to notability appears to consist solely of being the mother of a politician. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was No Consensus to delete. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:44, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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It is unclear why this film passes the standards of WP:NF. PROD was removed without comment. -- Sent here as part of the Notability wikiproject. --B. Wolterding (talk) 11:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Keep --JForget 01:14, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Unreferenced, non-notable, possibly non-neutral, and marked as such for 7 months TheBilly (talk) 10:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Cleanup - the term is definitely in use and not self-explaining. A good article about it would be worth keeping. And I personally prefer a marked article to an empty page. --Arcanios (talk) 11:46, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose - speedy keep. Are you pulling my leg? 2.3 million google hits. Also the name of a notable company that popularized the practice. Next please. Wikidemo (talk) 11:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Google hits don't establish notability. Please try again. TheBilly (talk) 13:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment This text has appeared in sections in many other places, including , and . I don't know what the original source is; maybe it's Knowledge (XXG) and these are unattributed copies, or there's copyright violation, but the way that each varies significantly makes me wonder what's going on. -- Mithent (talk) 12:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. TheBilly has been working on this page for more than two years. Its been tagged for notability and sourcing for 7 months. It hasn't gotten any better. I agree that perhaps a proper article could be written on this topic, but this isn't it. The burden of showing notability rests on those who wish to include the information, and this article doesn't do it. Xymmax (talk) 13:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep There is no deadline, and the length of time someone has been working on the article has no relevance to whether or not it should be deleted. Tagging for notability, lack of references, and/or cleanup might be warranted, but the subject is notable enough for an article. Rray (talk) 15:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Uncle G has done a lot to cleanup and improve this article since the beginning of this Afd. I see no grounds to delete it, and it really just needed a cleanup anyway IMHO. -Verdatum (talk) 17:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep a notable subject. Other problems require editing, not deletion. - Jehochman 18:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, this page has been cleaned up now and looks much better. My previous comment can now be disregarded. -- Mithent (talk) 21:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletions. -- A. B. 17:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and I hope more people will watchlist this -- it's been subject to WP:OWNership attempts by an anon spammer with a trademarked variation in mind. Keeping it a general article will require vigilance. --Dhartung | Talk 04:20, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 09:01, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Happy Hour (Uncle Kracker album) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Uncertain future album, WP:CRYSTAL. Dougie WII (talk) 09:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep. The Placebo Effect (talk) 15:50, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Merged into Card sharp with abundant reliable sources for doing so (and even more sources supporting this merge are at Talk:Card sharp, along with a thorough analysis backing the merge). The Card shark variant has no sources, and none have been provided for it in discussion, either, with nothing but a personal position on the matter being advanced aggressively, in a very combative manner. The nominee stub's principal defender is a hair away from a block for several successive personal attacks, repetitive baseless accusations of bad faith with regard to merge-related edits, revert warring and deleting others' talk page posts over this issue, with decreasing civility and wikiquette (including reductio ad Hitlerum/Godwin's law), and increasing disruptiveness. I had the pages protected for a while on the basis that the dispute could probably be resolved at Talk:Card sharp, but the Card shark stub's advocate won't engage in the discussion (deleting it rather), so AfD seems to be the only course for resolution. Either consensus will be that my sourcing is somehow faulty and that these should be separate articles, or that Card shark should be deleted and replaced with a redirect to Card sharp, and any continued contrarian and personal-opinion-based restoration of the sourceless Card shark as a competing PoV-forked article will be speedily deleted. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 09:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC) PS: Just to be complete, I note that the separation of these articles has one other proponent at Talk:Card sharp than the aggressive party already mentioned, but who also has not provided any sources backing this view, nor attempted to show the sources cited for the merge to be deficient. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 09:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Note: Nominator concedes (but remains highly skeptical about, due to lack of sources) the possibility that the merge could go the other direction, from sharp to shark; nominator is concerned much more about the PoV fork than about the specifics, despite having actually sourced the specifics in great detail. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 13:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Clarification: Just to be clear, I am proposing a deletion and then a replacement with a redirect, so that the deletion is on-record and grounds for speedy deletion of any re-creation of the PoV-fork, per WP:CSD#G4. Card shark was already redirecting (by me) to Card sharp; after un-reverting reversions of this redirect and trying to engage in discussion to resolve the editing dispute, I gave up and self-reverted it back to a stub instead of a redirect, so it could be easily examined here and an AfD template on it would make sense to anyone running across it. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 09:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep If the dispute is a supposed equivalance of shark with sharp then you are mistaken - these are not the same thing. The term shark is commonly used in poker coverage to indicate someone who feeds upon the fish. See Sharkscope, for example. Deletion is not an appropriate way to resolve this editing dispute. Colonel Warden (talk) 10:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Reply: Thing is, reliable sources are overwhelming for equivalence, with zero reliable sources (actually, zero sources cited, period) indicating otherwise. I am well aware of the jargon usage you describe (the term "fish" for "easy mark" is originally from pool hustling and dates to the late 1800s), and when someone documents this shark/fish usage in the poker field, then this more specific usage can be added to the article, but the etymology is so well-sourced at this point it is unquestionable. Even the evolution of "shark" as a term for "skilled player" in addition to its negative meaning of "card cheat or swindler" is well-documented. All that's needed is a section at the article, not a separate article. And whether or not that section happens is a matter of whether reliable sources are provided, per WP:V and WP:RS – not of any relevance to this AfD. Until such time as there is so much well-sourced material about "card shark" as a term distinct from "card sharp" that an article split is needed due to article length, there is no justification for the split. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 11:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose deletion / merge unless cited sources showing equivalence of the two terms are more fully discussed and explained. This proposal arises out of a proposed merge that jumped the gun long before responses came in, and an inability for parties to work it out civilly on the talk pages. The two terms are related but seem to come from different sources. The citations given are without fail bogus or dead links, unlinked, or impertinent, and therefore do not weigh at all in supporting the merge. They may be real and valid but for the discussion page I think that has to be specifically described, not waved at with a citation to an unlinked page. "Shark" is by far the more common term per every google search I could muster, so if there is a merge it seems it should be into the card shark article. But it still has to be justified. Wikidemo (talk) 11:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Detailed refutation: I have to refute all of these points (no bad faith or insult implied; the arguments are simply mistaken in my view.) The merge was proposed for quite a long time – since 9 July 2007 , and met no opposition other than personal opinion in favor of the idea that a narrow, unsourced slang usage deserves its own article (cf. WP:V, WP:RS, WP:NPOV, WP:NOT, WP:NFT, WP:NEO, etc.) There was no "inability for parties to work it out civilly", there was incivility on the part of one party up to the point of repeat admin warning action, and his/her refusal to even attempt such resolution, to such an extent that he/she deleted the opposing viewpoint from the article's talk page . (though this could possibly have just been an editing error) arguments in response to struck passage now struck in turn. Cited (in detail) reliable sources show not only a common origin but a well-determined one, as to both order and timing of the evolution of these terms, including both US and UK sources; meanwhile no sources have been cited to contradict this, and in fact no sources against any of these facts have been presented at all – the "specialness" of the phrase "card shark" is original research. None of the sources cited are "bogus" in any way. I'll be happy to supply photographic or any other required evidence that they not only exist but are right here on my bookshelf in the case of the paper ones; they are cited well enough that anyone can verify that they exist, say what I said they did (I've even provided page numbers; everything is cited in {{Cite book}} and {{Cite web}} format, fully filled-out). The argument that a source is invalid because it doesn't exist as a URL strikes me as contra WP:V and WP:RS and outweighed by AfD precedent in favor of printed sources above webby ones. The three references in the article that are at URLs are not broken links; I just verified all of them again, and anyone else is free to do so. Perhaps it was a transient network problem of some kind. Google searches are of limited or any relevance at all, per WP:GOOGLE and WP:AADD#Google test – carefully constructed, I can produce search results just the opposite, and someone else can produce search results that "prove" Elvis is still alive >;-). I get the point - there probably is evidence that "shark" is supplanding "sharp" and that the meaning is shifting, but we don't have reliable sources for this (yet?). The issue is not which term is more common; that has never even been a question here (a valid result of this AfD would be for Card sharp to be redirected to Card shark with the content ported to that location and rewritten, if there were reliable enough sourcing for the idea that the latter has eclipsed the former, generally and not just as an American colloquialism (NB: I am an American; this is not a US vs. UK English fight). Finally, the merge has been justified, at Talk:Card sharp#Merger of Card shark into Card sharp, so well that Card shark's principal defender User:2005 felt it somehow necessary to attack me for it as "obsessive" (seemingly not willing to distinguish between "thorough" and "manic"). — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 13:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment You are certainly obsessive - we are really straining at a gnat here. But I fear that I am being sucked into these deep waters. I've just spent some time in the OED and it appears that there are three root words in German:
  • schurke - a parasite or rogue. This then becomes shark as in loan-shark.
  • scharf - sharp or keen-edged. This figuratively then comes to mean quick-witted and the folk who live by their wits are called sharpers.
  • shirke - the sturgeon (fish) which then becomes the word shark, meaning the predatory fish.
The words have similar sounds and similar figurative usage and so here we are with much overlapping and interlocking usage. Anyway, I don't like the title Card shark, per se, as the term shark has a wider usage. For example, in the modern game HeroClix, the term shark is routinely used for a predatory tournament player - one who moves into a local backwater to snatch a big prize. I think there should be a page called Shark (gaming) which could cover such predatory play, including the modern poker usage, while Card sharp focusses upon cheating and sharp practise in card games. Colonel Warden (talk) 14:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • How is my bothering to actually do some research "obsessive", when yours is not? I agree that this is a molehill - it is a well-sourced and perfectly routine merge - but I'm not the one that made a mountain out of it, reverting without sources and pursuing repetitive personal attacks. <shrug> If it can't be resolved civilly between two editors, then it needs to be resolved by the community here.
Anyway, your "Shark (gaming)" idea would be problematic, because it does not have that positive connotation across the board. In pool, the connotation is quite negative (though among non-players, many believe that it is a compliment to call someone a "pool shark" to mean "skilled pool player"; actual players would never say that). The OED material is interesting; though it conflicts with some other sources, it could probably be worked in pretty easily.
SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 23:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Correction: You're contradicting yourself. At the second URL it defines cardsharp as a cheater at cards, and the first one card shark it defines that term as both a skilled player or as equivalent to cardsharp, which automatically means that card shark and sharp both have the definition of cheater, even if this particular dictionary only gives the skilled player definition for one of them (other dictionaries disagree with this one, as already cited at Card sharp and in more depth at Talk:Card sharp). — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 23:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Answer: See more detailed sourcing at Talk:Card sharp. The majority of dictionaries give both meanings for both terms. The main holdouts are shorter Webster's volumes, meanwhile the Webster's Unabridged from which they are edited down gives... both meanings for both terms. There are one or two that give both meanings for "sharp" and only the negative one for "shark", or say that the negative one is primary for shark! Volumes that are specifically about etymology and slang research - arguably the most pertinent sources - explicitly label them synonymous, and further say that the positive meanings for both not only arose later than the negative ones, but that the positive meaning of "sharp" pre-dates that of "shark". Several people in this debate have said something to the effect that they are "clearly" different terms and that "obviously" card shark is a positive term and card sharp a negative one, but this is not clear or obvious at all; so far it is baseless, and simply WP:ILIKEIT / WP:IKNOWIT style reasoning, based on personal idiom, not on sources. Even the idea that this alleged distinction is an Americanism is directly contradicted by the American Heritage Dict., among others. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 16:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Questions: On what basis would you separate these articles into a well-sourced one at Card sharp that is contradicted by an unsourced stub at Card shark, when a pile of cited sources say that both terms share both meanings? The issue is not whether there is both a positive and negative meaning; that's a given. The issue is whether there is any reliable evidence that the two terms (i.e. article topics) can be shown to have meanings different from each other. What evidence has been cited so far for this? — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 23:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • We are discussing articles for an encyclopedia, not for a dictionary. Hot and cold are two very different things, but they are both treated under temperature. Flammable and Inflammable are treated in the same article, etc. real ale is treated within Cask ale, even though not quite the same thing. We try to usefully group words with related meanings together in one article to discuss the topic in an encyclopedic fashion. SilkTork * 03:56, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • So you are changing your vote? We do not group together words with different meaning! LOL, c'mon this is an easy one. We could have a Card players and manipulators article and include both, plus redirect the card manipulation article, plus the Rounder one too. But absent that, randomly combining two types of "people who use cards" and not others just doesn't make any sense. Obviously if combining is to be done cardsharp/card manipulating and cardshark/rounder should be the way combining should be done. 2005 (talk) 04:17, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • No objection on my part to such further merges, but I have to note that "we can't merge these without merging every possible other mergeable article at the same time" is not sound XfD reasoning; things are very routinely merged in stages at XfD, be they articles, categories, WikiProjects, etc. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 16:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. It is amply clear they are two distinct words, Word Reference, Dictionary.com, The Free Dictionary. The encyclopedia blindly acting contrary to (at the very least SOME) dictionaries and common usage is a terrible practice. Both cardshark and cardsharp have in the past noted that some people do use the terms interchangeable, and that is all that is needed. Cardsharps are magicians or cheats. Cardsharks are skilled players that feed on "fish". On the other hand, the cardshark article could be redirected to Glossary of poker terms with the two sentences of: "A skilled player who feeds on fish. See also cardsharp." with appropriate wikilinks to both the fish entry and cardsharp. Also is could simply be transwikied to the Wikidictionary. At this point there is no Glossary of card game terms, which is where this obviously would be most appropriate, but the poker glossary would seem adequate until are card game glossary was populated. 2005 (talk) 01:48, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Correction of citation falsification or misinterpretation: Your first reference (at the corrected URL of gives "card shark" as a synonym of "card sharp", and at its page, it gives the same defintion, and neither pages gives a positive one! Your second reference, when you dig deeper by also looking at its page, first gives "card sharp" as a synonym of "card shark" and immediately below this gives the same definition, word for word for the shark version as it does for the sharp version, and without providing a positive meaning! Your third source gives "card shark" as nothing but a simple spelling variation of "card sharp" and provides both the positive and negative definitions for "card sharp"; further, at , it gives word-for-word precisely the same definitions and synonym relationship at the "card shark" entry as it does at the "card sharp" one you cited! Thanks for making my argument for me! Next. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 16:54, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Please assume good faith and avoid personal attacks. Your edit notes include phrases like "blatant falsification" and "desperation". You should be able to make your point without personal attacks. (And accusing someone of "blatant falsification" is a personal attack.) Rray (talk) 21:40, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • You're free to interpret it that way, but from my point of view I'm simply being accurate. The other party falsely claimed that three sources backed his/her position, and throughout the debate, beginning on the article's talk page, has used various fallacious argument techniques and become increasingly shrill, grasping at straws to prevent this merge without a shred of evidence in support of separate articles. What terms besides falsification and desperation would you rather that I applied to these behaviors? Criticizing another editor's behavior (actions) is not the same as calling the other party names or attacking their character, nor an assumption of bad faith (if the party in question were turning the article into a promotion piece for his/her website, then I might start assuming bad faith). Smart, and well-meaning, people can make bad arguments. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 20:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Stating that the references don't support the assertion would make the same point without being a personal attack. When you assume a motivation by calling edits falsifications and desperation, you're crossing a line. Calling someone shrill and saying that they're grasping at straws is just more inflammatory language that doesn't contribute to an environment of collaboration. I disagree with your viewpoint about the merge and the AfD, but I haven't made any judgments about your intentions. Do you see the difference now? Rray (talk) 21:14, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • As a result of the above-mentioned user-talk discussion, I concede that I have been unnecessarily grumpy and argumentative here, but I stand firmly by the AfD nomination. Those arguing for separation of the two terms into separate articles have not cited a single legitimate source in support of this idea and AfD is not a vote; 100 WP:ILIKEITs do not trump WP:V and WP:NPOV as bolstered by WP:RS and WP:NOT#SOAPBOX. I may have been annoying as to my wording, but I'm not full of it on the matter actually before us at AfD. No reliably sourceable rationale has yet been given for the article bifurcation. — SMcCandlish ‹(-¿-)› 07:36, 11 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Nomination withdrawn --JForget 01:16, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Barack Obama Muslim rumor (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Reasons: (1) Content not suitable for an encyclopedia; (2) all attempts to find reliable sources in which article information can be verified have failed; (3) subject fails to meet the relevant notability guideline. --HailFire (talk) 07:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Nomination WITHDRAWN. --HailFire (talk) 10:59, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep, but there are oodles of sources on the page. How do you explain them? For that matter, how do you explain that I heard the rumor debunked on TV, if it is not notable? AnteaterZot (talk) 08:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Comment Admins, having looked more closely at the sources (CNN, NY Post, NYT, etc), and the contribs of the nominator I suspect this is a bad faith nomination. AnteaterZot (talk) 08:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
I may not personally buy the whole "assuming good faith" deal, but last I checked it's still a guideline here, Anteater. I don't see a drop in HellFire's contributions to warrant such prompt accusations of bad faith. Shem 13:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
I second that. HailFire is a thorough, talented and conscientious editor who has made an enormous contribution here, quite obviously in an abundance of good faith. This accusation is totally unfounded and offensive. Tvoz |talk 20:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Let's see, his point 2 called CNN and the NYT "not reliable". I say he is trying to make some sort of point, and therefore made my conclusion. AnteaterZot (talk) 23:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Admins, and regular folks too: Take some time to read through the entries at Talk:Barack Obama Muslim rumor and Talk:Insight (magazine) and you may see it differently than AnteaterZot. You may also solicit views from editors who have been active in the Barack Obama article where I have made over 1,000 edits since August 2006 and never once been charged with actions taken in bad faith. --HailFire (talk) 08:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, per AnteaterZot's oodles of sources. hateless 08with :55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
All sources about rumors, but not one source verifying the key messages contained in those rumors. Why bother, even labled as "false" the rumor accomplishes its mission just by getting its key messages broadcast on Fox News, CBS, and the Washington Post; mainstream sources who in the interest of journalistic neutrality completely dropped the ball in clearly specifying what is TRUE and what is fabrication. But Knowledge (XXG) can and must aim for a higher standard than this. --HailFire (talk) 09:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
You have a dim view of the intelligence of the average Knowledge (XXG) reader, I suggest looking at third-person effect and see if this applies to your views. In any case, censorship is not the answer. hateless 09:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
No one's proposing censorship. The content can still exist without being placed on pedestal with its very own questionably-titled article page. As said before, you don't see the John McCain fathered an illegitimate black child rumor article anywhere. Shem 19:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep It's not necessary to verify the existance of Flying Saucers in order to have an article on the phenomenon in Knowledge (XXG). The subject is notable, the content verifiable, and the treatment is... reasonably NPOV. That's the standard Knowledge (XXG) aims for, anyway. Andyvphil (talk) 09:53, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Comparing Flying Saucers to WP:BLP, you are? Sorry, wrong planet. The goal is not to delete notable information drawn from WP:RS, but to keep it within larger articles where we can provide better context. We should avoid using Knowledge (XXG) to host an oddly named stand-alone article that duplicates existing Knowledge (XXG) content, and whose only "useful" purpose is to group, repeat, debunk, or manipulate a series of unsourced, unverifiable, and possibly unrelated rumors and reports on rumors, consequently helping to recharge the rumor mill, and cranking it up for the next cycle. If this is what Knowledge (XXG) is about, we are our own worst caricature. Washington Post are you following this? Some amateurs over at Knowledge (XXG) think they can do better at ensuring verifiability than your own professional experts. Or is that what you use us for? Imagine that. The pot checking the kettle and both of us empty. --HailFire (talk) 10:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
"Take action to prevent Knowledge (XXG) from blindly following Fox News, CBS, and the Washington Post into this bad smelling mud." I think that's called multiple reliable sources, i.e., WP:N. Andyvphil (talk) 11:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
All sources verifying the existence of rumors, and so doing further substantiating and inflating the existence of those rumors. Find any WP:RS that verifies the content of the rumors. You certainly won't find them here, here, or here. The point, once again, is that Knowledge (XXG) doesn't need this article, and we can address all of its content in appropriate context through other articles where duplicate content already exists. --HailFire (talk) 11:34, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
The article is about the existance of the rumors, a subject which you've just demonstrated is WP:N, refuting reason#3. You haven't pointed to any actual content of the article which isn't verified, so strike reason#2. So we're left with your assertion that the subject isn't encyclopedic. No matter how many times you point to the cartoon it won't substitute for showing us what in WP:NOT you were referring to as reason#1. Andyvphil (talk) 21:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
I notice that I've refuted every element of this below. Assertion is not debate. Feel free to contribute to the latter. Andyvphil (talk) 20:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
You've done no such thing, save reasserting your belief that these three paragraphs deserve their own page. That aside, your veiled snideness and steadily escalating incivility is unbecoming someone who supposedly just wants debate, Andy. Shem 19:37, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
You're wrong about that, too. I'm perfectly happy to see the material placed in, say, Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 provided it is allowed to stay there. But what you repeatedly describe as "three paragraphs" a resident editor has described as a "massive section on the Muslim rumor", and he has deleted SouthernTexas' and my collaborative work to place it there. So... as I said, all your points were refuted: (1) It is not true that this material is repeated whole elsewhere and scattered appearances of parts of it is no substitute. (2)&(3) There is no other article on this subject, so it is not a content fork. This article does not avoid NPOV guidelines, so it is not a WP:POVFORK. Nor has anyone pointed to anything in BLP that it might violate. Did you make a fourth point I missed? Andyvphil (talk) 04:04, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
The comments are right, I should justify this better. I cannot find sufficient evidence to say that this is a term on it's own, as opposed to a description of an event. While it is worth mentioning, I fail to see how it is sufficiently notable as to justify it's own article, separate from Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008. -Verdatum (talk) 21:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Right now it's not even mentioned there, except one line about Iowa emails. Be WP:BOLD. Drop it in there. If enough of it survives you could convince me. Andyvphil (talk) 21:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. While I would have preferred that the media not make this rumor notable, now that they have, it is our duty to report on it. The list of related articles put forth by HailFire gives me more reason to have this article, as this article provides a central focus point that all of those articles can link to and a useful place to put links to the relevant phenomena. The last thing we need is several paragraphs of information related to this rumor on Obama's person article or campaign article. Its notable is in regards to the media and political attack strategies, not in regards to Obama himself. johnpseudo 18:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Seems hailfire's original three arguments are pretty much shot down by the others preceeding me, with the possible exception of 'not suitable' -- but that's a notoriously subjective call. I find the article relevent, supported, and about as encyclopedic as anything in the realm of politics ever gets on Knowledge (XXG). Mostly, what I question here is the motivation for deleting it. I still haven't heard a good argument for deleting it! It's factual, relevant and it's not hurting anyone. It appears to be helping lots of people get to the truth and dispell the rumor. Finally, I recall that on Knowledge (XXG), Polling is NOT a substitute for debate. Hailfire, let's hear some justification in your debate (would be good for you to cite some Knowledge (XXG) precedent) and perhaps a little less lobbying for votes. riverguy42 (talk) 18:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge to Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, then delete. Also, horribly phrased title.--Esprit15d • talkcontribs 19:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for being the second one to admit that "merge" is just another way of saying "delete". If this material is placed whole in any other article the editors there will assert undue weight and subject it to severe entropy. If some of this material belongs in all the articles HailFire lists then put it in those articles. Then link to this article, where each element can be seen in the context of the others. There is no reasonable argument that content can appear in only one article. There is no other article on this subject, so it is not a content fork. This article does not avoid NPOV guidelines, so it is not a WP:POVFORK. Nor has anyone pointed to anything in BLP that it might violate. Nor anything in Wikipedias policies or guidelines that would indicate it is "unencyclopedic". When you're reduced to consulting the growlings in your stomach you need to realize that you look an awful lot like a POV warrior yelling IDONTLIKEIT. Andyvphil (talk) 20:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment A merger must result in a redirect unless article history is merged, in order to preserve author attribution per the GFDL. "Merge & delete" is an invalid combination. --Dhartung | Talk 04:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I guess we need to add the "AfD is not a vote" template. Andyvphil (talk) 20:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Perpetuating rumors that have been proven false - even in the guise of just reporting on the fact that a rumor existed - is not what BLP and NPOV call for. To have a dedicated article to talk about false accusations seems to me to be pushing a political agenda designed to discredit a candidate in an election - and we should not allow Knowledge (XXG) to be used to abet that kind of dirty trick. The false rumor and its debunking receives ample weight, with citations, in the main article, as is appropriate. Tvoz |talk 20:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Already in the Obama article and covered/weighted/sourced appropriately. No need for an article dedicated to a false rumor. R. Baley (talk) 21:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
The subject is "covered/weighted/sourced" to exactly this degree:

One day after the video was posted, the Internet magazine Insight reported that Clinton campaign staff were questioning Obama's account of his pre-teenage years in Indonesia. Insight's report was repeated on Fox News and briefly lent legitimacy to an Internet whisper campaign spreading the false rumor that as a child in Jakarta, Obama attended a Muslim religious school.

I invite you to assert that this is an adequate substitute for the article under discussion. I can't promise I won't smile derisively. Andyvphil (talk) 22:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Andyvphil, are snide remarks really helpful to this discussion? Tvoz |talk 22:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
This coming from someone who's just asserted that the article was written to perpetuate rumors that have been proven false while pretending ("guise"; syn. pretence) to be just reporting on the fact that the rumor exists. I'll be less contemptuous when your arguments get better, and you start trying to refute mine. Andyvphil (talk) 22:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Already asserted, no need for me to respond any further (whether baited or not). R. Baley (talk) 22:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
It would be nice if the above text added that the Clinton campaign denied the Insight report. Wasted Time R (talk) 22:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
That would be a useful addition. . . R. Baley (talk) 22:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Ah, not so adequate after all. It's already in this article. Be bold. Make it fully adequate. Andyvphil (talk) 22:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge, The information is not notable enough to have its own article. I think it should be merged with the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008 page where it would be better fit. Every rumor about a candidate is not notable enough to be given its own page but how it affects the campaign should be in the appropriate place.--STX 22:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
If it isn't notable, then why does Google news have 77 hits in the past month for "obama muslim rumor"? Our threshold of notability for the creation of new articles is not relative to other political stories- it's relative to the degree of coverage from reliable sources, of which there is plenty for this subject. johnpseudo 23:38, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Reread what I wrote and then reassess your statement. Knowledge (XXG) should be better organized to have better articles.--STX 23:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
My, what a bright John Hancock you have. Can't miss your contribution to any page on which you appear... I don't see any barrier to you adding material from this article to Obama's 2008 campaign article. Why don't you just do it, and then we can judge whether the result is an adequate substitute? Andyvphil (talk) 00:04, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I added the material to the article and I think it fits well. This information should be a sub-section in a larger article not an article of itself. This shows better organization and is more encyclopedic.--STX 00:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Looks reasonable to me. There are some problems, but I bet those are ones that have snuck back into the "Rumor" article's text rather than being due to you. Next, we can expect the attack of the "merge and delete" crowd. Success in this experiment requires that they be subdued. Put it on your watchlist, and we'll see. Andyvphil (talk) 00:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Well, TX just put it there. Let's see if it survives. Andyvphil (talk) 02:19, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Well, johnpseudo (a "keep", see above) just killed it there. I've reverted, once, but then it's up to you "merge" guys to put your reverts where your mouths are. ("Merge-and-kill" POV warriors are excused.) Andyvphil (talk) 12:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Comment by starter of article I see that it has been pasted there. I would be happy with this if this article ends up being deleted. Just as long as the information is there and people can find it. That way people can check out rumors they have heard. Redddogg (talk) 02:37, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete In general there should not be articles on rumors. How do we know that every instance of a person saying something is a part of the same rumor? As others have said, the information can be included in other articles if it is not already. Steve Dufour (talk) 05:54, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
We don't know that the Martin allegations are connected to the Clinton/Insight ones, but we can verify that the connection has been made in a RS. Yes, "rumors" would be better in the title, but that's an argument for renaming, not deletion. Andyvphil (talk) 07:50, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • KEEP I started the article. I think the amount of interest that has been generated shows that the topic is notable. People are looking for information on the things they may have heard and will be coming to WP to find a neutral article that is based on reliable sources. If the information is only covered by a short paragraph in a longer article they might miss it. Redddogg (talk) 06:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
That's an argument for a redirect. Andyvphil (talk) 07:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I wish there was a policy that said that. :-) Steve Dufour (talk) 16:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
You're quoting what policy? WP:N disagrees with you. Andyvphil (talk) 08:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Try WP:NOT. We're not here to report every news article. This "rumor" has been given undue weight. Delete the article, give a brief mention on the main Obama page and move on. Not every internet hoax and mistaken news report should be given a full article. Kyaa the Catlord (talk) 07:11, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
I already tried WP:NOT, but as I said to HailFire, No matter how many times you point to the cartoon it won't substitute for showing us what in WP:NOT you were referring to as reason#1. He didn't answer. How about you? I'm looking for a quote from policy here, not an assertion. Andyvphil (talk) 11:49, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Not indiscriminate, not news, not... encyclopedic. We're giving a internet hoax way too much weight. You do remember undue right? Kyaa the Catlord (talk) 00:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
What part of "quote from policy" don't you understand? Since WP:UNDUE is strictly about balance within an article your suggestion that there is something about the existance of an article that might violate it is even more implausible than Hailfire's suggestion that something in WP:NOT will apply. Andyvphil (talk) 10:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep A lizard part of my mind says to delete this, but the simple aspects of notability here are beating the lizard back. I can't see how this fails our notability standards right now.Keep. Lawrence Cohen 16:38, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep This article details a pretty well known and ongoing misinformation campaign that has been covered in most mainstream media. It could use a nice cleanup and have some work on the sourcing, but there is no reason to delete it. Avador (talk) 17:01, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Maybe mention of it could be merged, but it should not be given any serious weight. Even if reported as "a false rumor" we don't need to create articles to highlight every piece slander or urban legend about every public figure. What next, a "Richard Gere Gerbil Rumor" article? This is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a gossip blog. --Loonymonkey (talk) 16:39, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, notable. Everyking (talk) 18:48, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Notability alone isn't an argument for giving its brief content its own separate article. Shem 19:25, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
      • I don't see much of a case for merging. This article isn't particularly short, and could probably be expanded further. Is there an appropriate Obama article that isn't already packed to the brim where this could be merged? Everyking (talk) 21:03, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per Loonymonkey. AniMate 04:55, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep plenty notable and can be expanded considerably. Probably much better to rename Barack Obama Muslim heritage and make a more balanced article by including facts of family history, Muslim parentage background, his experiences in mosque as a child, views of the Muslim world on his heritage (Muslims hold that a child is Muslim if his father is). Decoratrix (talk) 07:29, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
It seems to me that the problem with renaming this article with that title is that this article is not about that. Thanks for your suggestion, however. Steve Dufour (talk) 08:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Renamed article to Media coverage of anti-Obama whisper campaigns.

Four things I'm WP:BOLDLY attempting to do with this move:

  1. Shift the article focus to media coverage of the whisper campaigns (the reason for their notability), not the whisper campaigns themselves, hopefully addressing WP:NOT, WP:V, and WP:N concerns;
  2. steer the article decisively away from becoming a WP:POVFORK of Barack Obama#Early life and career;
  3. remove the word "rumor" from the article title, thereby solving perhaps to some subtle, but nonetheless serious WP:BLP and WP:NPOV problems; and
  4. (with some trepidation, but an abundance of good faith) retain a separate article space for the current stream of WP:RS reports about anti-Obama innuendo and gossip, including childhood years in Indonesia and non displays of (symbolic) patriotism, or any similar unsourced and unverified claims that may float to the top of the mainstream media establishment in the weeks and months to come.

I hope this change satisfies most of the editors who have contributed to this discussion. If so, I would support closing this WP:AFD once work is completed to make all necessary adjustments. --HailFire (talk) 00:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't understand why you prefer "whisper" to "rumor". I do agree with you that the media coverage is more notable than the rumors or whispers themselves. Redddogg (talk) 02:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand the "whisper" thing either. The messages, etc. seem to be literally rumors; and only figuratively whispers. I don't know how a person can literally whisper over e-mail. Steve Dufour (talk) 08:15, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
...or in press conferences, on websites and in broadcasts. Never mind literally, the subject isn't even figuratively whisper campaigns. There's bold, and then there's cavalier. Don't you think you could have at least mentioned your brainstorm before acting on it? Andyvphil (talk) 10:10, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Whisper has the connotation of planning. For example, Karl Rove initiated a whisper campaign against John McCain in South Carolina in 2000. We don't know if anyone planted these rumors, so I think rumor is better. AnteaterZot (talk) 10:28, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was Delete. As mentioned below, this isn't a commonly used term, and the argument that the whole article is original research seems convincing. I looked for it on Google and did find it, but in reference to a couple of political agreements between the UK and Spain, not ethnicity, so redirect to Spanish Briton doesn't seem appropriate, it seems likely people using the term would want a political agreement. There isn't really any sourced content to merge; there is a beautiful table with pretty pictures, but no sources for the numbers, without which I don't feel comfortable adding them to another article. If someone wants to see the table to help them look for sources, drop me a note, and I'll userfy the article for you. AnonEMouse 21:25, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Hispanic Britons (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

1) Neologism (see WP:Neologism - the term 'Hispanic Britons' does not occur anywhere on Google except in this article and references derived from it - it is therefore a 'non-topic' 2) Therefore , it is a form of original research (WP:NOT#OR) as an article has been spun-out of a non-topic 3) Article is unsourced and consists of a few platitudinous statements, plus links to a number of lists and categories. If there is a topic here at all, it is covered in those lists and categories. Therefore, Delete. Smerus (talk) 06:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC) Smerus (talk) 06:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Keep. I encourage talk page discussion on the renaming of this article as suggested below. — Scientizzle 19:10, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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1) Neologism (see WP:Neologism - the term 'Spanish Briton' does not occur anywhere on Google except in this article and references derived from it - it is therefore a 'non-topic' 2) Therefore , it is a form of original research (WP:NOT#OR) as an article has been spun-out of a non-topic 3) Article consists of a number of unrelated and usubstantiated statements; the only references relate to Catherine of Aragon and her family and some recent census figures. If there is a topic here at all, it is covered in Category:Spanish Britons. Therefore, Delete. Smerus (talk) 06:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep Don't know what neologism has to do with this article. It isn't meant to be a "neologism." And there is such a thing as a Spanish Briton. A Google search isn't required. Article is referenced. --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 09:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
I'm sorry, mere assertion won't do. What is a 'Spanish Briton'? It may not be 'meant to be a neologism', but it is one all the same. The term does not exist outside of this article. The 'references' in the article are trivial and not about the topic of 'Spanish Britons'.--Smerus (talk) 10:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Well according to this legit ref, "Spanish London" exists. If there can be "Spanish London" , a fortiori, there can be "Spanish Briton." --brewcrewer (yada, yada) 10:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
Now you know that's not the case. 'Spanish London' might relate to Spaniards in London who are not Britons in any way - maybe Spanish restaurants or Spanish flamenco troupes - or, as in the case of the present reference, Catherine of Aragon (who might possibly have been categorisable as English, but certainly not British). So I'd have no problem if you or anyone else started an article on 'Spanish London'. But London is a place, and Britons are people. Show me any Knowledge (XXG) article under a title which can't be found in any independent reference (except where the title is extended for disambiguation purposes), and I'll show you an article which should be renamed or deleted, depending on whether or no it had any genuine content. this one has no such content. It's simply a fake article on a fake topic.Smerus (talk) 10:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep..There are many names of articles in the Briton ethnic groups...and many people use other terms like British Asian etc...but as the person above states that there are ones like Spanish London...etc..and its not good to have a long title on an article. This artilce ias about people of Spanish ancestry , it doesnt matter what you consider yourself...catherine of aragons daughter was very close to her spanish roots and married the king of spain but she was still the queen of england. the term isnt nessearily inventer its just there isnt a big enough usage of terms like these as in thr USA, doesnt mean it wont happen. and the article is referenced even though all these articles need alittle more. (Bluesky) 15:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.142.24 (talk)

^Keep: Arguments over accepted english words in a title are reason for edits, not deletion.--12.72.149.3 (talk) 15:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

This is not an argument over 'accepted English words in a title'. It is about an article on an invented topic, not recognised anywhere except in the article itself, and hence contravening WP's policies on neologism/original research.--Smerus (talk) 21:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Logically all those articles on topics not recognised elsewhere should certainly be deleted, I agree.--Smerus (talk) 21:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

keep I think it is universal that this issue should have never come up, some person should have looked further into the other articles aswell as they are all the same...not an issue.. i think its unanimus..think we should take away the delete panel at the beginning now!.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.63.106 (talk) 19:40, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Rename along with all of the other pages like this There are lots of these pages. (I've made a combined table to aid seeing them all, see the "Spanish Briton" article for it.) These are almost all made-up terms, and on occasion are completely inaccurate - Karl Marx would never have called himself "British", yet this is what is implied by the term German Briton, he was in fact a German living in Britain. It should be renamed, along with all of the other problem articles, to something like "Spanish community in Britain" (the "loose" interpretation of Britain gets around historical problems with "UK"). For example, Irish community in Britain (the normal phrase) was moved to "Irish Briton", which the article itself acknowledges is made up. These are in the main made up terms, and often inaccurate or downright wrong. --sony-youth 12:22, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
I agree with this analysis; but there is no suggestion as to what the renaming procedure could be. As pointed out the various articles are full of inaccuracies and misleading insinuations. They are not encyclopaedic, and remain serious candidates for deletion. If I knew how to bundle them all together, I would list them all for deletion - I am not picking on Spaniards (or Britons for that matter).--Smerus (talk) 21:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
I also find myself leaning towards delete on the notability issue. The Irish community in Britain is quite a notable topic and makes a decent article - as would be the Caribbean community in Britain, if that article were developed - but at present there are 50 counties listed in the XXX-Britons-type articles ... that's over a quarter of the countries in the entire world!! What kind of notability standard is being adhered to here? The UK is not like the US where the whole population are descendants of emigrants, and where a whole raft of XXX-American are perfectly valid and notable terms. Most of these would be better dealt with as the "Asian community in Britain", "Black community in Britain" and so forth, saving really specific articles for genuinely notable ethnic communities.
I suspect the best place to sort this out would be the UK Wikipedians' notice board. --sony-youth 00:58, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep All. The Placebo Effect (talk) 22:26, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

The Boondocks episode articles

The Garden Party (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The Trial of R. Kelly (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Granddad's Fight (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
A Date With The Health Inspector (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The Story of Gangstalicious (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
A Huey Freeman Christmas (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The Real (The Boondocks) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Return of the King (The Boondocks) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The Itis (The Boondocks) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Let's Nab Oprah (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Riley Wuz Here (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Wingmen (The Boondocks) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The Block Is Hot (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The Passion of Ruckus (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
...Or Die Trying (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Tom, Sarah and Usher (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Thank You for Not Snitching (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Stinkmeaner Strikes Back (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
The Story of Thugnificent (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Attack of the Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Shinin' (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Ballin' (The Boondocks) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

I like The Boondocks, but the articles are all unsourced, failing to meet WP:V and WP:EPISODE and appear to be non notable. Cheers,JetLover (Report a mistake) 05:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Question is, do substantial indepedendent sources about individual episodes exist at all? So far no one has come up with any. --B. Wolterding (talk) 13:12, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep All, Or otherwise go on a crusade of deleting every unnotable episode article in Knowledge (XXG). Either way, each Boondocks episode can actually stand on it's own regardless of it being a whole series. I also agree with the lazy comments, stop being lazy, be bold by being creative, not destructive. --DrunkCat (talk) 20:16, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep All Maybe some of the plot summaries should be cleaned up (no more quotes or opinions of allegorical commentaries), but this stuff is what wikipedia should be about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.191.133.190 (talk) 21:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep. The Placebo Effect (talk) 22:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Religious stratification (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

This is not an encyclopedic article, it's an essay. Circeus (talk) 05:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was deleteDavid Eppstein (talk) 16:37, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

JS Moore (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Unreferenced since creation; looks to be a case of self-promotion by the subject, who is apparently the editor who has removed the "unreferenced" tag several times, as well as the "prod" tag. Violates WP:COI, WP:AUTO, WP:V, WP:BIO. Nothing personal, good luck with your books. —Kevin Myers 04:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Redirect to Anti-Americanism --JForget 01:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Anti-Americanism in the United States (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

This is a partisan rant posing as an article. Nothing is said here that is not, or cannot be, said better in the Anti-Americanism article. This is unreferenced as well, which is strange, because there are plenty of sources for Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck, amongst others, calling people anti-American. Overall, just pointless. Delete and redirect to Anti-Americanism. RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 04:49, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete. Pretty clearly original research. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a rant, as it pretty clearly lays out that this is the opinion of some right-wing news media figures. Don't redirect; it's not really talking about Anti-Americanism in general, but specifically referring to a sort of fifth column operating from within the States itself. Then again, from what I've read over at Conservapedia, this fifth column might be operating within Knowledge (XXG). :-) eaolson (talk) 05:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. per above. guyzero | talk 05:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Anti-Americanism is a good option -- ¿Amar៛ 06:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Anti-Americanism, could be a section there if necessary. GregorB (talk) 09:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete and no redirect. From the intro "Conservative commentators such as Bill O'Reilly believe there is a contingent of anti-Americanism in the United States..." and guess who's in it... Michael Moore, Al Franken, and other anti-Americans. Besides making an article about someone's opinion, I don't believe that Bill O'Reilly has actually accused Moore, or Franken, or others who disagree with him as being "Anti-American". I suspect that the the article's author might have inferred that. But even if O'Reilly has voiced this opinion, civilized people don't label persons on the basis of what a political commentator might say. And I think O'Reilly and Limbaugh and Moore and Franken would be among the first to say that those who disagree with them aren't anti-American. Mandsford (talk) 13:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete and no redirect per nomination and Mandsford. --Pleasantville (talk) 18:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Anti-Americanism, the article's current subject matter is irrelevant when considering whether a page should be a redirect. Jeodesic (talk) 22:57, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • So who's going to type in "Anti-Americanism in the United States" or "Anti-Americanism in the United States of America" when they can just type in "Anti-Americanism"? It's a redirect that nobody will actually use. Mandsford (talk) 23:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
It's possible that very few people will use it, but that doen't negate the point I was making. Jeodesic (talk) 22:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was Speedy Delete, G11 - Blatant advertisement. James086 07:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Notability, we're not a webhost. WP:NOTE and WP:NOT apply. Crossmr (talk) 04:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was no consensus. Crossmr makes some good arguments that aren't fully rebutted. There appears to be a rough consensus that there is something here worth preserving, though perhaps not in the current form. Hopefully there will be an editorial consensus on how to better structure the article to avoid a return here.--Kubigula (talk) 23:16, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

WP:OR, WP:NEO, etc..etc.. not citations, it reads like a personal essay.Crossmr (talk) 04:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Either way, the reason its being put up for deletion is idea that it reads like a personal essay and seems to be based wholly on original research. Tagging it doesn't address that concern. The article wasn't created yesterday.--Crossmr (talk) 14:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Provide evidence of notability. e.g. reliable sources that cover llamas in games. Fansites, forums, blogs, etc. Don't do anything to establish that kind of notability.--Crossmr (talk) 14:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Since none of it is referenced, that would make none of it currently legit? You assume references are out there, but its being put up for deletion because its been article this long and none have been provided. Claiming there might be references without actually providing them doesn't exactly make a compelling argument to keep it.--Crossmr (talk) 14:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • This is a debate not a vote. If a user raises an argument I'm free to counter it. Replying to other users in a debate isn't taking it personally. As far as there being no deadline, there is a deadline on this article now. AfD has a duration of 5 days as I've raised policy concern as to why this article shouldn't be here. If people want to keep the article they need to address that policy concern in that amount of time. In fact read the page you cited Above all, creating an article without establishing the basis of the content and its significance is a bad idea.. There is no establishment of the basis of the content or its significance. Also see WP:V under burden of proof. if you want the material kept or included you're required to provide the citations for it.--Crossmr (talk) 19:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. The only part of this that's remotely sourceable is that llama is a synonym for lamer. The bit about WordStar and BBSes is dubious; I date my online activity from that era, but I never heard it until the late 90s when it became a gaming term, and I'd love to see sources for those claims if they exist. The remainder is a listing of loosely-associated topics, sort of a "Llamas in internet culture" trivia listing, and I don't think very much of it is possible to source even if it were explicitly related in some way. There is no connection at all between gaming llamas and the llama book that I can derive. --Dhartung | Talk 11:53, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Trim and stub (and keep): the term is well known and deserves it's own article. However the article indeed lacks sources. I therefor propose that the article be trimmed, leaving just the first 3-4 paragraphs and the first 2-3 paragraphs of the "Appearances and mentions" section, and stub it (as unsourced statements are more tolerable in stubs). Rami R 12:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • The article is currently up for deletion. If nothing can be sourced appropriately right now simply reducing it to an unsourced stub doesn't exactly address the concerns here. You say the term is well known. But is it only well known to a certain sub-set of the population? e.g. those who grew up playing Maxis games for example. That doesn't mean its well known to the greater population and sources need to be provided to demonstrate that in fact llama's in computer games are a notable topic that's received attention for the general public and the article needs to be rewritten to match what is available in those sources.--Crossmr (talk) 14:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    Lets not underestimate the population of those who played maxis games (The Sims is the best-selling pc game of all time with 16 million units sold). Also its not just maxis games (I, for instance, learned of the term from an Unreal Tournament 2004 mod). I admit my suggestion of trimming and stubing does not really address the articles problems, but it does make them more "forgivable". Rami R 15:21, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • It might be the best selling game of all time, but if that's someone's first introduction to Maxis games, they really might not have any idea of the significance of the llama. There were are a lot of silly little things in those games, and the same with TS2. That doesn't mean we should suddenly have a "lobster thermador (computer culture)" article. We can sit here and reminisce about the first time we saw llamas and how many times we saw them and how familiar WE are with them, but that doesn't meet the burden of proof with WP:V, WP:RS, WP:OR or even WP:NOTE. If llama's in computer culture are really such a notable topic, it should be easy for those who feel this to come up with some sources to denote that. Articles in game magazines, etc. As much as we all really love the in jokes surrounding computers games, the internet, etc they don't get anymore of a pass on the policies and guidelines here than anything else.--Crossmr (talk) 15:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks to the efforts of User:Billgordon1099, the article is now well sourced, and addresses all the concerns raised on this AFD. Rami R 18:40, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
No it really hasn't. I've tagged over half a dozen statements which constitute original research or are otherwise unverified. At best the sources provided support a List as I mentioned already. They don't support any kind of prose on the subject.--Crossmr (talk) 00:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep this article and its like are the very basic core of WP. It's documented well enough. This is the sort of material for which WP is the first and best source, the reference documentation, the reason for the esistence, the part that even the skeptical librarians trust. DGG (talk) 10:15, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
    Unfortunately none of those sources actually establish this as a notable term or concept. Llama in computer terminology is not the subject of any one article. Just mentioned in passing in a few articles. For editors to draw the conclusion that this is a notable term from a few trivial mentions and their own experience is original research. Someone else has to draw that conclusion for us by writing an entire article about Llama's in computer culture. So no, it hasn't been documented well enough and the uses of Llama vary widely. Without any articles from reliable sources strictly about the term llama and its place in computer culture, we don't give it one. It basically amounts to a giant trivia list about each time a company has used a llama. The sources can't speak to anything else.--Crossmr (talk) 15:50, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Week keep I specifically clicked on Llama to find out what it is with Llamas and Sim City (which I used to play a lot), and thanks to the article Llama (computer culture) I now know the reason. So that is all I can say: keep because I would like to read about it. And apparently, there are also other people who feel the same way. I don't see the Knowledge (XXG) guidelines saying that somone must have dedicated an article about a topic before it can have its own article on Knowledge (XXG). / Fred-J 23:50, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
    WP:ILIKEIT. An article being "useful" doesn't make it worthy of being an article here, nor does it give it permission to ignore policies and guidelines. As far as guidelines requiring it does, read WP:NOTE on notability. A subject should have received non-trivial coverage from multiple reliable sources. WP:V requires all content be independently verifiable, which means that a reliable sources need to be provided to show where the facts come from. Currently the only thing that there has been provided a citation amounts to nothing more than trivia which is discouraged and does nothing to support the supposed origins of the term. Also remember that this is a debate and note a vote. I haven't seen a single argument made that addresses the policy and guideline issues with the article. At best the citations provided simply support an article with the name "List of Llamas used in computer related topics".--Crossmr (talk) 00:44, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
    I'd also like to add that the initial issue of no reliable sources have been corrected since the start of this deletion request. / Fred-J 20:17, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
    Were that true, that'd be great. Any can plainly see there is a host of unverified information and theories put forth, and no notability has been established of the subject itself. While I didn't initially mention notability in the nomination addressing it now would prevent it simply being renominated were it kept for lack of that.--Crossmr (talk) 00:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
    Indeed not all the references are "first tier", reliability-wise. However, the majority of the references are, and notability is clearly shown using reliable secondary sources (Winamp mascot, Maxis mascot, "the llama book", published definitions of llama as a gaming/l33t-sp34k term, etc.). Rami R 10:50, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
    No, it really doesn't. Many companies have many mascots. 3 companies having a llama as a mascot doesn't make it a notable topic. There are guidelines for notability which I've provided and unless notability can be established per those, I don't see it there. As far as some references not being "first tier", they are required to be by WP:V. But again, every reference only gives this subject trivial coverage. A passing comment here and there. WP:NOTE was specifically written to address this kind of coverage.--Crossmr (talk) 14:23, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 08:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Bryan Jepson (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Orphaned article about non-notable individual, per Knowledge (XXG):Notability (people) and Knowledge (XXG):Notability (academics). Sideshow Bob Roberts (talk) 03:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Comment: The first link indicates that he spoke at a conference. The second link indicates that he wrote a book. Neither of these makes him notable.
I could only find one peer-reviewed paper by Jepson and it's not about autism. Four results on Google scholar is, frankly, pathetic. (I return way more hits than that and I'm certainly not notable.)
If he's an "authority", where's the recognition from his peers? If he's "definitely notable", how come he's been so thoroughly ignored by the national media? Sideshow Bob Roberts (talk) 17:04, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • delete. This person is of no stature, but has simply been inserted in a bid to mislead parents into thinking there is credible opinion to attack vaccines and make money for autism quacks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.124.221 (talk) 15:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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  • Delete. Searching on Google for "Bryan Jepson" gives just 271 hits, searching without "" gives 512 Ghits, so I don't know where the figure 8000 mentioned by Snocrates above comes from. As mentioned by Sideshow Bob Roberts, the 4 hits on Google Scholar are not very impressive. Even less impressive is the fact Jepson appears not to have been cited (even the only paper that I could localize in Web of Science, the above mentioned paper in Pediatrics, has been cited only 17 times). In short, from Google Scholar and WoS it is clear that this person is not notable as an academic at all. From what I see in Google and above, I don't think that he's notable according to WP:FRINGE, either. --Crusio (talk) 18:21, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • This is weird. This is my search, as far as I can see it is unfiltered. The results page says there are 1090 results, which condense to 271 (with the usual disclaimer of "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 271 already displayed"). I get exactly the same result using your search above. No clue what is going on here.... --Crusio (talk) 21:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete; no notability, as shown above. The Google Scholar information is rather pathetic for a modern scholar writing in the Western world--Prosfilaes (talk) 18:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - I haven't looked at this particular article yet, but the autism and anti-vaccine activists have colonized Knowledge (XXG) to a significant extent, meaning that there is a lot of coverage in Knowledge (XXG) on these topics. It's my sense that some of the article contributors may be a bit over-broad in their sense of what is notable on this issue. --Lquilter (talk) 19:58, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Merge to Air Buddies. I'll do the redirect only, though, as it is not clear to me what content editors deem worthwhile to merge. Tikiwont (talk) 09:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Unless something amazing happened to the animal during filming, or perhaps gained media attention afterwards, I don't see how this requires its own article. The dog may be notable for its role in the movie, Air Buddies, but there is only so much that can be written about an animal actor (I sure don't want to see articles about every dalmation from 101 dalmations appearing...). Also seems to be full of original research. A 03:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Alrighty, merge is fine. I'm unfamiliar with the movie, so anyone want to merge the relevant info? A 00:47, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Nothing worth merging. Neıl 14:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Basic recreation of the Vundo page, offers no helpful information that can be found there. In fact that article is of low quality but I intend to rewrite it... a bit. The whole thing is full of non-existent pictures of dialog boxes. Waste of server space and no use to anyone ;) Fredil 15:26, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep and Merge relevant information into parent article. Delete the rest, which is just a rehash. scope_creep (talk)
I would have done that, but it looks to me like there isn't any relevant/useful information that can be salvaged. If anyone wants to prove me wrong, please do. Fredil 21:07, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete. The Placebo Effect (talk) 22:21, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

VPWW Weather Forecast Office (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

This article has carried little more than three sentences about this entity since its creation in January 2007. The creator of this article has only two edits (the other one to upload the web site's banner image). Creator also admits in the summary as owning the site of the article. The site itself does not appear to be a "company" as the stub article implies, but rather an attempt to create a non-notable knockoff National Weather Service site. Nomination should probably include Image:VPWW Header2.jpg, but I was unsure how to bundle an image with an article. Nominating per WP:N and WP:SOAP.— Twigboy (talk) 02:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete --JForget 01:23, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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It seems that this article is going to stay a single sentence. No effort is being taken to expand it or edit it at all. RandehMann (talk) 02:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete (Besides, an article about arm cannons that mentions various Transformers, but neglects Megatron, is missing the friggin' point.) — Caknuck (talk) 07:03, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Contested prod. An article on a non-notable neologism, composed entirely of synthesis/OR. The references are: a Square Enix character profile that doesn't mention "arm cannon"s, a Word document written by somebody with a yahoo email address, a Mega Man fansite, and an article by gamehiker.com - a rather amateurish-looking site whose main page doesn't work. Miremare 02:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

If you're gonna cite wikipedia policies at me, then might I remind you of the 1st policy on the policy list, WP:Ignore all rules, which says "Every policy, guideline or any other rule may be ignored if it hinders improving Knowledge (XXG)."
Yes I know I said the golden words "not doing any harm", which gave you the opportunity to show off citing a policy. But that alone should not detract from all the other stuff I said, so for anyone else reading this I implore you not to listen to these catchy policy titles and instead consider letting this article be improved. Ryan4314 (talk) 06:19, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Yes, let's ignore all rules. While we're at it, let's let vandals that say they do it to improve Knowledge (XXG) run amuck. Because after all, they really believe they're helping! And we should let them because of WP:IAR. Don't be ridiculous. JuJube (talk) 07:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Typical, you're still fixated on the catchy titles of policies instead of what they consist of; it says "may be ignored if it hinders improving Knowledge (XXG)". Why are you bringing up hypothetical arguments about vandalism, this is about an article being deleted? Ryan4314 (talk) 07:16, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Typical, you believe that because you like an article, it's good. (Note that I'm not wikilinking to anything now). Why are you bringing up policymongering when it has nothing to do with the growing consensus that this article is gonna go? I'm not responding to you anymore, as you evidently resort to childish ad hominems when you don't have a real argument. JuJube (talk) 07:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I never said I liked this article, in fact I said; "but it could turn into something good", implying that it is bad. However I just want it improved instead of deleted. And as for your "growing consensus" the vote currently stands at 4-2, I'm hardly desperate. I will say though that it's rather childish for you to use a made-up word like "policymongering" (what is this? Google only gives 3 hits and mongering means promoting a negative thing, are u saying policies are bad?), try to start a grandiose hypothetical debate about wikipedia being overrun by vandals or something and then resorting to name-calling and running away instead of just giving sensible rebuttals. Ryan4314 (talk) 08:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Ryan4314, this is a discussion, not a vote; it's arguments that count. I think it is very unlikely this can be improved, or expanded without further OR. Firstly, why is the term "arm cannon" being used? It's a non-proprietary term that has no notability or widespread use in itself, and has been chosen apparently at whim. Even the first source cited doesn't call the character's weapon an "arm cannon". We're getting a neologism that has apparently come from Metroid or Mega Man being applied to an original-research list of things that are ostensibly similar. Unless someone can provide a source to back any of this up, it's hopeless. Miremare 10:40, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Excellent, I'm glad about it not being a vote. I must admit that the title does seem to come straight from Metroid, also I had been thinking if this article survives this, that that name has gotta go. I understand what you mean about the notability of the term "Arm-Cannon", although I'm sure I have heard people use the term "Gun-Arm" before. I googled it and got 303,000 hits, as well as this webpage by one of the prop designers on Robocop3, they actually built a real working gun arm, with rockets n shit! As for etymology I can't find any examples earlier than "Shockwave " (a Transformer) in 1984, but like u said unless I can find a source saying this was the 1st ever appearence of a Gun-Arm it's classed as OR right?
Also, not that I'm trying to be inflammatory so please please don't take offense, but if this is a discussion then I'd like to add something else in regards to the "sources are no good" and "Mega Buster this junk" comments above. WP:PROBLEM says comments like these, specifically "The article is rubbish" and "It's not referenced properly" should be avoided. It then goes on to say "even a poor article can be of benefit, and not so bad that Knowledge (XXG) is better off without it. That an article is poorly formatted, contains bad grammar, is lacking in certain areas, and so on are relatively minor problems and such articles can be of benefit even in the current state. Try to consider the article's potential for improvement. In the Wiki model, an article that is poor now can be improved and rewritten to fix its current flaws".
"With that said, if an article is so bad that it is harmful in its current state, then deleting now, and possibly recreating it later, remains an option. If the subject is notable, but the current article is so blatantly biased that it's an embarrassment, or a blatant hoax where all the statements are wrong, then Knowledge (XXG) may indeed be better off without the article".
We're all familiar with why the "it's not harming anyone" comments should be avoided but the above policy says that "harmful" is stuff like being shamefully biased or a hoax, which this article is obviously neither. Ryan4314 (talk) 11:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
While that's true, original research is by it's very nature unverifiable, and therefore in breach of a core tenet of Knowledge (XXG) - to write only on what has already been covered by reliable secondary sources. I don't see that WP:PROBLEM applies here, as there doesn't seem to me to be any way in which these problems can be addressed... Really, once the OR and unreliable sources are stripped away there's nothing left other than "an arm cannon (or whatever it should be called) is a firearm attached to the arm", which is self-evident, but things like the functionality, or composition, or other properties of what is essentially a wildly differing fictional weapon absolutely needs a proper source to be included (what we currently have for that is a Word document containing a Metroid fan's essay on "arm cannon mechanics"), and even then cannot be said to be true of all the examples listed. The fact that a character has an gun attached to their arm is of course worthy of mention in the article on the character in question, but without someone reliable actually having written on this subject, we don't have the basis for an article. Miremare 12:27, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I see your point and a agree. However did you see the source I found about the real gun-arm they made? Could this in anyway be used to give this article (or a differently named version of it) a shred of hope (with some edits obviously)? Ryan4314 (talk) 18:07, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
It could be a useful source for the Robocop 3 article, but I think too narrow (i.e. not about these weapons in general, but a specific example) to justify this article, and multiple sources are needed anyway. Miremare 18:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Well it has been nice to hash out the details of this (and I do mean that earnestly). So I guess it just boils down to whether people believe this article can physically be improved within the rules Knowledge (XXG). Ryan4314 (talk) 21:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. If the individual character has one, it could be mentioned, but "Arm cannon" is pretty self-explanatory. J-ſtanContribs 22:34, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Gun arms/arm cannons/whatever need to be the subject of WP:RS reliable sources in order to establish notability. It's one of countless fantasy/sci-fi facets which get repeated but are no more than the sum of their parts. Having a list of 'he's got one, she's got one' isn't an encyclopedia article, it adds nothing to individual descriptions of the weapons when writing about the characters. Someone another (talk) 02:49, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • 'Keep a frequently used weapon, and there are sufficient web sources. RSs is flexible , and so RSs can be used when appropriate for this sort of content,. if any of the individual items are challenged, they can be documented from reviews and such.The argument that some of the uses aren't notable is met because they are all from notable fames, notable enough for WP. The content has to be relevant , not notable. The article subject as a whole is what needs to be notable. DGG (talk) 10:12, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - if one were to strip the article of original research, you would be left with "Arm cannon is a name given to some video game weapons." Marasmusine (talk) 13:58, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was DeleteCaknuck (talk) 06:58, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Theodore Kowal (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Article was previously Speedy Deleted for not asserting notability. Tagged again for Speedy Deletion following recreation, but it has now been expanded to at least assert notability for the subject's incidental involvement in the Space Shuttle Columbia incident. None of the sources provided do anything other than mention the person's name. Fails WP:BIO. DAJF (talk) 02:01, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was no consensus. Mr.Z-man 05:06, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Article asserts no notability whatsoever, though external links to independant sources. What makes this SU different from any other? Nothing, as far as I can see, thus it fails WP:N. Also reads like an advertisement. TheIslander 02:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Strong Keep. It has been discussed many times before on many other student union talk pages and deletion discussions. The question asked above is what makes this SU different from any other? Well just to take one example, MMUnion's sovereign body is its student council, whereas just down the road at UMSU it is general meetings. MMUnion has the third largest membership of English student unions. This isn't a discussion about MMUnion it's a discussion about all students' unions, one that we shouldn't be having here! Andy Hartley (talk) 15:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. Speedy per no assertion of notability. the_undertow 03:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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I'm not sure whether it's a hoax (I can't find any references) or merely something completely non-notable, but it should go either way. Created by an SPA about a year ago. Also remove BO-BR. - Richfife (talk) 01:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was DeleteCaknuck (talk) 06:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Non-notable site (or blog), the references in the article do not mention the site at all. --Snigbrook 01:28, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was keep. Mr.Z-man 05:03, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Simply put, this person has no historical importance and its not encyclopedic. WP:NOT#NEWS (eg: "Someone or something that has been in the news for a brief period is not necessarily a suitable subject for an article in their own right.") While she did get some press during the event it was because of the Virginia Tech Massacre and not because of her own merits... that's a crucial distinction, because otherwise every story-of-the-day (and a lot of stories get a lot of coverage everyday) would get an article... we have to decide whether this info deserves to be in an encyclopedia, and I suggest the answer's no. Brokethebank (talk) 01:20, 5 December 2007 (UTC) Comment BTW I know that it's been up for nom before, but there's no rule against bringing it again if there was no consensus last time -- there's never been a keep decision I think -- just no consensus over and over again... maybe this time we can get some consensus? Brokethebank (talk) 01:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Comment One other thing (sorry I don't do this often): but I am advocating either Delete or Redirect to List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. Brokethebank (talk) 01:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • WP:PERNOM refers to support/opposition for the nominator's rationale, not individuals weighing in on the matter. And truthfully, I don't think either your or my positions are so extensively laid out that a simple "per Xxxxx" can do the job. Just a suggestion.....Brokethebank (talk) 04:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep transient but significant news coverage in WP:RS. Borderline between the transient nature of the coverage and the extensive nature of it. Err on the side of retaining info. JJL (talk) 05:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Virginia Tech Massacre. This issue keeps coming up; can't we get a policy on it? If Couture-Nowak were alive, she probably wouldn't be notable. Therefore, the only claim to notability is the manner of her death. Which means she isn't really notable, just the fact that she was tangentially involved in a notable event. Not all the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing are notable, same with 9/11. Most of the news articles about here are basically fancied up obituaries. Therefore, she's just notable for this one event. Per WP:BIO1E, we should cover the event, not the person. eaolson (talk) 05:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC) Keep. Per the addition of the scholarship at Virginia Tech and the bursary both named after her, I think she has long-term relevance and therefore notability. eaolson (talk) 00:33, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Some of the 9/11 victims are notable. Edward Felt , Todd Beamer and Tom Burnett for examples, who likely would not have been considered "notable" if they weren't involved in the attacks. WP:BIO1E applies to "essentially low profile" and living persons; this person is neither. Arbcom ruled to apply it in one case to a "recently deceased" person, but that did not change WP:BLP to apply to deceased people despite numerous attempts. We're beyond "recent" at this point anyway. --Oakshade (talk) 07:31, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. But notice that those people are notable for what they did. Two of them posthumously won awards. Couture-Nowak is notable only because she died during a notable event. The NY Times ran biographical articles on many of the 9/11 victims and I assume many of the out-of-towners had articles in their local papers, too. That's coverage in multiple sources, but not notability. eaolson (talk) 16:57, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. As the subject of multiple independent, nontrivial articles in national newspapers of at least two countries, Couture-Nowak clearly meets Knowledge (XXG)'s notability criteria. NOT#NEWS is not relevant because the events that brought her notability (establishing a school, role in Virginia Tech massacre) are of enduring importance. BRMo (talk) 05:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, seems to have had enough coverage in reliable sources. Ten Pound Hammer06:59, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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  • Neutral. I agree with the arguments above that this person is only notable as a victim. However, at this point there seems to be a lot of interest (although again I agree that most sources are little else than "fancied up obituaries". Come back with this AfD in a year when things have calmed down and people feel less emotional about it. If there would then still be many argueing for notability, then this person probably is notable after all. If not, this could become a simple redirect to the main article on the Virginia Tech massacre. --Crusio (talk) 09:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep for the Canadian angle. Yes, she was one of many victims, but her death had special significance in the Canadian zeitgeist -- go read our article to see what I mean. Even the Prime Minister got involved. For a hypothetical analogy, think of the kidnapping of an American journalist in Iraq -- (I'm guessing) they'll likely get a lot of press coverage in the U.S. Knowledge (XXG) and even an article on the English Knowledge (XXG), whereas the kidnapping of an Iraqi journalist won't. Reason: it's a big deal in the home country. The same is true of Ms. Couture-Nowak in Canada. —Preceding unsigned comment added by A. B. (talkcontribs) 14:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep; enough reliable sources. Continuing to bring up an article for AfD because there's no consensus is disruptive and pointless.--Prosfilaes (talk) 16:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. She was the subject of numerous articles here in Canada, and her notability was more than just extended coverage of the massacre. And I adopt the reasoning in the last nom as to why WP:BIO1E does not apply here. Furthermore, I have to say that this fifth nomination is verging on abusive. It is becoming to difficult to assume good faith at this point. Simply because "there's no rule against bringing it again if there was no consensus last time" does not mean that doing so again is appropriate or warranted. I really wish that the nominator had heeded the advice of the admin that closed the last nomination, namely:"Since both camps are of roughly equal size and employ defensible policy arguments, this is essentially an editorial decision, on which we have no consensus. May I suggest that AfD no. 5 be deferred until something happens that is very likely to change that outcome?". Skeezix1000 (talk) 19:30, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. She's really not notable. GJ (talk) 19:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • As she's the primary subject of numerous secondary independent sources (which have continued many months after her death) and even the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid tribute to her in Parliament , "really not notable" doesn't seem like an appropriate description of this person --Oakshade (talk) 19:52, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep per the same arguments I (and others) made in AfD 1, AfD 2, AfD 3, and AfD 4. Simply put, there isn't a special class of notability that says that it has to be determined before death and not because of cause of death. Her life has been covered by multiple major independent sources, and that's what the guidelines specify. It's possible to write a verifiable article on her; that's what policy requires. Agreeing with Skeezix that it's hard to AGF on a fifth nomination, especially when the closing of the last AfD and the endorsing of DRV specifically asked there not to be further nominations without new evidence, none of which appears in Brokethebank's nom. It seems to be a case of "repeat until desired outcome is achieved." See also, precedent moving toward Keeping the articles for instructors (Knowledge (XXG):Articles_for_deletion/Jamie_Bishop closed with Keep), even for instructors with *far* less coverage than Ms. Couture-Nowak. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 22:26, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Yes, consensus is in fact changing, even more strongly to Keep. I think this time there is finally clear consensus, clear enough to be decisive. We follow the sources. WP NEWS means only that if there were two or three stories the first few days, she wouldn't be notable. Any broader extension is unwarranted by policy or by common sense. DGG (talk) 22:38, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge into List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. My initial impulse was to say keep because of the amount of references on her, but on checking the references they say the same thing - she was a teacher who was shot in the Virgina Tech massacre. She has no notability beyond the massacre, and no references assert anything other than she was a person who was caught up in a terrible event. No references are sustained - they give the bare details of a decent French teacher, but nothing more. The List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre can go into detail in much the same way as this, and this and this, etc, do. Incidentally, the references in the article need tidying, some are dead links and some are links to commercial sites where you have to pay to read the article. SilkTork * 10:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Actually lot of these references are very in depth about her life, career, family, role in founding of Nova Scotia's only Francaphone school, etc. and not the shootings. Even the two that were published in the last month are about her and not the April incident. As DGG pointed out above, BIO1E applies only to subjects that were two or three stories the first few days. Sadly, this person (and not he three you linked to above) is considered of "historic" importance, whether it was instigated by one tragedy or not. --Oakshade (talk) 16:41, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Neutral summary: Jocelyne Couture-Nowak is a person who came to fame by being shot in the Virginia Tech massacre. At first, this sounds like a clear-cut case of BIO1E. Unfortunately the waters are muddied by the fact that after death, several media outlets decided to turn her into a hero by publishing stories about her life. Technically, these news stories assert notability according to the general notability criteria. Some would argue that this is sufficient for inclusion of the article. Others would argue that common sense needs to be applied, and that since this person's only actual claim-to-fame is the Virginia Tech massacre, BIO1E still applies. —gorgan_almighty (talk) 14:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per overwhelming consensus above and because it's a victim in one of history's most notable school shootings with at least national recognition and many readily available sources. Best, --Le Grand Roi des Citrouilles 17:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • While Virginia Tech is likely the only reason that she has actual fame in the sense of being a relative household name, establishing the first French language public school in central Nova Scotia is, in and of itself, a sufficiently notable accomplishment as to merit inclusion in an encyclopedia. The shooting merely sped up the process of somebody actually writing an article about her, but even if the shooting hadn't happened at all she'd still be notable enough to be in Knowledge (XXG). Gaining fame specifically for the manner of one's death may not make an otherwise non-notable person notable, but it doesn't make an otherwise notable person non-notable, either. Keep. Bearcat (talk) 00:34, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete and merge into main article on massacre - this is a bad case of Knowledge (XXG) policies still not covering all possible cases. This lady gained media attention posthumously in sad and bizarre circumstances, and, in a snowball process, became the subject of several media reports. This is still a case of secondary, or "reflected", notability - had she not met the tragic fate, chances are she would have never been subject to media attention, and if ever an encyclopedic article was created on her based on her life before the massacre, it would have been deleted on grounds of non-notability. She was one of the three parents who were somehow involved in the founding of a school in Canada, but I wouldn't say this is something people are usually regarded of encyclopedic notability. PrinceGloria (talk) 17:13, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Language issues impart extra notability to the school statement. Nova Scotia is not a predominantly French-speaking province, so establishing the first French language school in a large geographic subdivision of Nova Scotia inherently constitutes a more notable accomplishment than most schools would. Bearcat (talk) 22:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
We shouldn't focus on if someone was not notable in the past, but if that they're notable now, regardless of how they became notable. Even many months after her death, reliable sources are still writing about her. This woman is now sadly part of Canadian history and we can't change that. --Oakshade (talk) 01:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete and merge -- Sure, she deserves recording in history -- just not in her own article. I think many people are wowed at the "extensiveness" of the article when in reality the first lines say it best: she "...was an instructor of French in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia and was the only Canadian victim of the Virginia Tech massacre." That's it. That's all there is, folks. Listen, everyone in that shooting was the "only" something. But more to the point, I don't think she has any historic notability beyond her name and a few facts.
    Just because she had coverage in a bunch of reliable sources doesn't mean she's encyclopedic.Pablosecca (talk) 03:06, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment -- and to say that her founding the École acadienne de Truro establishes her notability seems to be ludicrously low for a historical standard. To wit, the article on the École acadienne de Truro was itself deleted in a successful AfD. We must stirve to protect Knowledge (XXG) from tribalism and recentism.Pablosecca (talk) 03:10, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
French language education in Canada hors Québec is not a low historical standard — it's part and parcel of one of the central defining issues of Canadian political life. Bearcat (talk) 16:50, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep Per Oakshade. WillSWC (talk) 18:42, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep - there are no new reasons provided for deletion than what's in the four previous attempts, nor does it seem likely that any new reasons for deletion will emerge. As for reasons to keep on the other hand, Oakshade among others here have indicated new supporting material since the last AfD. The most appropriate way to break the gridlock is a full keep decision, rather than another no consensus, to discourage further unproductive trips to the deletion dentist. Dl2000 (talk) 01:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Neutral comment. The previous AfDs ended in "No Consensus" not "Keep", so the fact that no new arguments for delete have been provided is irrelevant. The "Keep" arguers have provided more examples of the same thing, but their underlying case remains the same. We can't just mark this as keep instead of no consensus in order to discourage further AfDs. We must properly evaluate consensus, and it is clear here that once again there is no consensus. —gorgan_almighty (talk) 12:13, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • comment - It is clear here that consensus here is overwhelmingly "keep" this time as opposed to any of the previous AfDs. As correctly pointed out, there has been no new arguments to delete, however there is new supporting arguments to keep; besides the change in consensus, there has been at least two new (and very recent) secondary sources have been written primarily about this person demonstrating lasting historic significance. --Oakshade (talk) 16:50, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • The point I was trying to make is that the deletionists feel that "fancied up obituaries" will never trump BIO1E, so the fact that more "fancied up obituaries" now exist is not a new argument. You are right though, that consensus seems to be swinging to "Keep" this time. —gorgan_almighty (talk) 10:13, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
  • In the end, I don't mind if this article survives in and of itself. But the system here is flawed. Consider, that this will be decided based on who bothers to show up and vote (and despite assurances, this is really just a vote -- a vote with more wind and rhetoric). This is not a proper sampling of Wikipedians -- surely the people who elected to "Watch This Page" were those concerned with keeping the article? Ah well, that's the system, and until it's reformed, by it we must abide.Pablosecca (talk) 05:54, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  • All Most of the "delete/merge/redirect" votes here are by those who voted "delete" in previous AfDs, but a majority of the "Keep" votes are by editors participating in an AfD of this topic for the first time. There's indication that all most the users concerned with deleting this article elected to "Watch This Page." --Oakshade (talk) 00:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • My mistake Eaolson (regarding your pre-keep stance). I see that SilkTork hadn't participated in previous AfDs on this topic. But the remaining "delete" voters, all have voted in previous AfDs on this topic, while a majority of the "keep" voters haven't. --Oakshade (talk) 01:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Merge as below, and Redirect to Free Speech Radio News. It seems the merge to NiON has been done already, but the history will stick around if someone thinks they can improve on it. AnonEMouse 21:37, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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This is an article about a person notable only for one event, the 2005 "Hustling the Left" controversy in the antiwar movement. Other activities and writings of this individual fail to meet the notability guidelines of WP:BIO. The guidelines of WP:BLP1E are clear on this - the biographical article about this individual should be deleted and the core events described in the article belong in an article about the controversy itself. However, I do not think that this event is notable enough to have its own article, but it does belong as a section in the larger article about the group Not in Our Name. To that end, I propose copying the section "Hustling the Left controversy" to Not in Our Name (I've already taken the liberty of doing this here) along with relevant external links (also done already), then deleting this article, perhaps leaving a redirect link to Not in Our Name. Iamcuriousblue (talk) 01:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was keep. Mr.Z-man 04:46, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Non-notable music ensemble. Unsourced for over a year, no reliable sources on Google (though admittedly searching for a Thai music group is problematic), nothing at artistdirect.com or allmusic.com. If somebody can provide reliable sources, I will gladly withdraw this nom. Corvus cornixtalk 23:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

  • keep You cannot say "non-notable". You can only say "notability not evident" And there are reliable sources in google. I added one, but I admit you have to sift thru much. There also several CDs released, in addition to listed in the article. Mukadderat 22:09, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

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  • Delete Non-notable band, (yes, I can say that) fails WP:MUSIC. The source listed in the aricle only mentions the group in passing and provides a picture. That certainly does not qualify as multiple reliable sources as needed per the notability guidelines. --Cyrus Andiron 16:27, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • keep. Has a number released CDs, exists for very long time, hence complies WP:MUSIC. It is sad to see anglophone bias combined with laziness. I added two more references. `'Míkka>t 20:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the personal attacks. Not only am I biased, but lazy? I went through several pages of google hits looking for reliable sources for these guys, and I don't see that those you added meet the reliable source criteria. As I said, I would withdraw the nom if there were reliable sources. Corvus cornixtalk 00:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
      • I fail to see why they fail "reliable source criteria". We are not talking about a garage band here. We are talking about a large folk music orchestra led by a university professor, touring internationally. Once again, it is sad he have anglophone bias here, so that no Thai readers can expand this article. You are entitled to your opinions, just as I to mine. `'Míkka>t 01:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't see anyone describing you as lazy - I think that refers to the fact that nobody sourced the article until recently. I can't remember where I saw it or the exact quote, but I think that, somewhere on WP, it says something like we are aiming to encompass all of human knowledge so it seems a retrograde step to delete an article which could usefully be expanded. It does no harm to leave it alone until then - there is no suggestion that it is either biased or wrong I note.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Alice.S (talkcontribs)
  • Delete Weak delete Weak keep While editors are asserting it meets WP:MUSIC, they haven't explained how in enough detail that can be confirmed. I've gone through all the current online references, comparing them to WP:MUSIC, and I don't see any criteria that has been met. --Ronz (talk) 04:33, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Just a quick note to Ronz, AFD is not a vote; we aren't electing a president. You need to back up your reasoning with arguments that justify your position. In oparticular, why severakl released CDs and multiple international touring do not count. `'Míkka>t 16:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
      • And you need to do the same, which was my argument all along. I said that I cannot confirm what you and others are asserting because no one has given enough detail to do so. --Ronz (talk) 16:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
        • Confirm what? Just read the references, provided for each sentence of the article. You are not an authority to "confirm" or "deny" anything. Are you an expert in Thai music? Me neither. All you have right to do is to verify whether the article is sourced and whether it mathces the sources. `'Míkka>t 17:18, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
          • I'm unable to verify what is being claimed. I'm asking for the editors making the claims to give more information to help us all verify the claims. I've started a discussion in the article talk page specifically for such a discussion. The the burden of evidence is on those making the claims. --Ronz (talk) 17:29, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
            • I made not a single claim in the article. All claims are coming from references in three languages which I can read. Your WP:IDONTLIKEIT attitude is not an argument either. `'Míkka>t 20:22, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
              • Pointing out that you have the burden of evidence per WP:V is not WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Simply state what portion of WP:MUSIC you think has been met, and what references support it. --Ronz (talk) 22:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
                • You have a mistaken understanding of the section "Burden of evidence" in WP:V. It says that "All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged should be attributed to a reliable, published source using an inline citation". Please list the material which is unattributed. "WP:IDONTLIKEIT" refers to your nonchalant attitude of outright refusal of numerous sources presented in the article as unreliable. For example, please explain me how exactly the credits for musical score in the critically acclaimed film (The Overture) can be unreliable? This alone should settle the question of notability.`'Míkka>t 22:53, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
                  • I'm asking for simple verification of the claims being made here, and cooperation from the editors making them. Happily, Wisekwai is such a cooperative editor, so now we can all work to verify these claims. Thanks, WiseKwai! --Ronz (talk) 16:56, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Changed from "Delete" to "Weak delete" now that editors are working to document how it meets WP:MUSIC. The new discussion on notability has brought up some good points. Because some of the criteria require music expertise to evaluate, I'm holding off responding in the hope that others will do so shortly. --Ronz (talk) 15:45, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Changed from "Weak delete" to "Weak keep" per my comment above. Some of the references are a bit questionable, but I don't think a deletion is required at this point. --Ronz (talk) 19:41, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete,Comment we can only report what sources say about a subject. If there are no sources available to create an article, what can we do? ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 17:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
    • The article in current state is based solely on sources. Not a single word of personal comment. I am not nearly close to Thailand topics. I cannot cease to be wildly surprized with militant deletionism. I provided a half-dozen references on a topic I cannot possibly be interested in, only to get the article slapped with ridiculous tag "advert". Not a single provided source has even a remote affiliation with the band. `'Míkka>t 17:15, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - I believe the references provided in the article establish the group's notabilty. — WiseKwai 18:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep. They qualify under WP:MUSIC criterion #10 and possibly #1. Bondegezou (talk) 15:27, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for identifying criteria. Could you please, on the article talk page, join the discussion by identifying how #10 is being met? --Ronz (talk) 16:57, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
We also need help identifying how criterion #1 is being met. Thanks! --Ronz (talk) 17:01, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: The Overture qualifies them under #10 and the article boasts a reasonable number of sources, which qualifies them under #1 presuming one is satisfied by the nature of those citations. (Discussion here seems more important than on the Talk page, n'est-ce pas?) Bondegezou (talk) 00:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep typical form of Western bias. Since it isn't to be found on google (or difficult to find) it doesn't exist. The whole notability system you mention works for western countries and then not even for all of them. Also the internet is not a criteria for notability. There are comedygroups in existence in Thailand where you can probably not find anything about on the net. But still they exist and are very popular among the population. I know this as I AM a comedian here in Thailand who performs daily. In countries like Thailand many performances will never be recorded in English on the net. But that doesn't mean that most people in that country do not know about it. This group and professor I have met personally and I have seen them perform personally at a major concert (where my group also performed). Just as an example try googling my boss: Doo Dokraedone. You will probably not find him, but virtually every Thai I have ever met knows him from his tv performances and acting in movies. /end of rant Waerth (talk) 02:13, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 08:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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The article is not notable, and has no references to verify its contents. As such, it is just an in-universe repetition of various plot facts from the Grand Theft Auto game articles, and is totally duplicative of those articles. Judgesurreal777 21:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


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Delete pretty much just a plot summary and trivia. Ridernyc (talk) 02:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete This article has nothing to do with anything. It's a fake city in a video game universe that just gets passing mentions in the games. I typically hate the cruft argument, but man, this is pushing the boundaries. --CastAStone| 20:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Delete I hate see this article that has some effort put into it be deleted. But there are no references, and it isn't very important to the series. If there is a locations of GTA page, it should be merged, otherwise maybe a redirect to Grand Theft Auto (series).TostitosAreGross (talk) 14:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete. The Placebo Effect (talk) 22:19, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 06:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was Delete --JForget 01:26, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Non-notable elementary school, prod tag removed. It's in Bath, ME. AnteaterZot 21:36, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 08:53, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 08:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Seems to be spam but since no company is mentioned I did not use CSD. Four pages were made with the same info and just a slightly different name. They were edited to be redirects to this page. Gtstricky 21:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment The "sale" of future sales is probably an encyclopedic topic, though I'm not sure under what name it's best known. It's somewhere between a derivative investment and a loan, probably the business equivalent of a title loan, so legitimate banks don't touch it. This is written as a sales piece but could be salvaged with sources. --Dhartung | Talk 21:34, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 08:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Non-notable Australian rapper; fails WP:MUSIC. Article is unreferenced, and was created by a WP:SPA; no content has been added since its creation. Precious Roy 20:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 04:43, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Wholly inaccurate (Nine Inch Nails had nothing to do with it) and misleading (the "Press" link citations provided are actually Blogs, not reliable sources), but mainly, the album is not notable enough. I don't believe anything can be done to improve the article beyond removing the inaccuracies, which would leave it without a leg to stand on, notability-wise. As cool as the project is on its own merits, Knowledge (XXG) simply isn't the place for this article; the NIN wiki would be more appropriate. BotleySmith 18:04, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


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  • Delete - The 'blogs' are not just random personal blogs, so they could be considered as reliable sources, but they are no indication of notability. For something like this to be notable I would expect at least some coverage from more traditional sources - as it is this fails the notability criteria for albums. --Snigbrook 03:17, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
They very well may have been looking at this page to source that information. BotleySmith (talk) 04:51, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Preserve this page, because this album/release stands for a new way of musician to consumer relationship and might be needed as indicator for other musicians/consumers. I don't know of any open source released album dedicated from/to a musician playing a role in international music business. That's what makes the nature of this album special. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.208.18 (talk) 22:18, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Preserve this page. It is a direct product of Trent Reznor releasing multi-track audio files of his music from With Teeth and Year Zero and it should be used as an example of his choices. It's also a great exsample of the changing climate of the music industry in our digital age. Five years ago something like this would have simply not been thought of, but thanks to Trent embracing his fans, and the internet, it is possible now. R Landgren (talk) 00:32, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete, devoid of content, serves little purpose other than promotional. 1 != 2 22:48, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

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Non-notable radio show on a community radio station. Creator (and the only editor adding content) shares a name with the host of the radio show. A prior AfD ended early when the article was deleted due to copyright violations. Vanispamcruftvertisement. Precious Roy 16:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. Mr.Z-man 04:41, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Local radio news reporter, not notable outside Southern California. Also, 8 months on notability list without improvement. Amaryllis25 16:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 08:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Properly cited source linked which mentions this person. However I'm not certain that a local newspaper article about a school group painting bicycle racks is sufficient to establish notability. Kim Dent-Brown 08:43, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete as non notable. Incidentally, it's a truly trivial mention of her in that local newspaper—"likes to draw pictures using circles" indeed. Maralia 15:35, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

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The result was delete. Neıl 14:21, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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Does not meet WP:N nor WP:FICT. Unsourced, in-universe game plot and fancruft. While most, if not all, of the King's Quest games may be set in this country, without real world reliable sources, its still not notable. Collectonian (talk) 05:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 08:48, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Non-notable in-universe item β 16:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Speedy delete (CSD A7) While Andy Kahn may be notable, that doesn necessarily mean his company is. — Caknuck (talk) 01:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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Non-notable, only one google result other than Knowledge (XXG). Prod tag was removed. --Snigbrook 01:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was DeleteCaknuck (talk) 06:55, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Routes list of KMB in 1979 (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

List of bus routes from a random year with no claim of notabilty, WP:NOT#INFO, prod removed, Delete This is a Secret 00:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was No consensus to delete, improvement needed in the form of citations. 1 != 2 22:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

The Colt (Supernatural) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

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Singer Salvage Yard (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

No real-world context or claimed notability, fails WP:NOT#PLOT. These should be mentioned in Supernatural (TV series) if need be. Miremare 00:35, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete them both, no sources. AnteaterZot (talk) 02:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge to Supernatural tv series article. Twenty Years 03:46, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. I was going to agree with Twenty that it should be merged with Supernatural, but then I read through it, and there is far too much detailed information to merge these effectively at present. I strongly recommend that the author consider creating an "Artifacts from Supernatural" list page, as this is not only strongly needed, but would be much more robust in surviving AfDs than one for a single artifact weapon, no matter how important it is story-internally. Banazir (talk) 14:48, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
    • That's the point - there's far too much detailed information - it needs to be heavily cut down to be merged. Also, an article on artefacts from Supernatural would likely have exactly the same problems as this, i.e. lack of notability, no real-world context, and entirely made up of plot summary. Miremare 18:38, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep It should be kept until special section for Supernatural TV series will be created. Otherwise I do not think it would positive, especially when those articles are quite wide. Virgafatalis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.205.163.191 (talk) 15:46, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Speedy A7 Delete. the_undertow 03:21, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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Software currently only in alpha release. No assertion of notability. Prod contested by author without explanation. eaolson (talk) 00:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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The result was DeleteCaknuck (talk) 06:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Article was wrongly deleted twice as un-contested prod, so this is a procedural listing. No opinion.

The first prod reason back in August was "Article gives no indication of notability or verifiability with multiple independent reliable sources." The second prod reason was "Non-notable per WP:SOFTWARE." (The second one was mine - I forgot to check for prior uncontested prods before changing a speedy to prod. My mistake.) Pegasus «C¦ 00:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Comment there is more content in the older edits that have been restored but still nothing to indicate notability. --Snigbrook 03:00, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was no consensus. Those working on this list might want to consider adding some brief information about the bands listed so that it goes beyond what the category provides - at the moment the only extra info related to the bands' nationalities. WjBscribe 16:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

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The list has no refs and it's content is already in Category:Doom metal musical groups. Funeral 00:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Would be much better served as category. Take for example Rock Groups, it has its own category and can even be broken down further (nationality or genre). That is what needs to happen here. This article is completely unsourced and impossible to maintain as well. --Cyrus Andiron 17:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Duplicates an existing category. Seal Clubber (talk) 18:08, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - I think lists are useful and are capable of more than categories. This list definitely needs some work, but just because categories are easier to maintain and what not, that doesn't make them better. Plus if a regular person if looking for lists of x-type bands, they would not only find the lists more appealing than categories, but would probably find the list before they found the category. Blizzard Beast 18:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, useful and more informative listing. A list offers so much more options than a simple category could ever provide. While a category is good simply for listing them, list articles go several steps further and offer different ways they can be listed. Some examples are on the very page that was afd'd and a few on some other lists, they are: adding their location by flag, if they are/were one of the original bands of the genre they will be indicated, if they played the style early, mid or later on, a list of albums by the bands that are within the genre and also not in the genre but has made a notable release of the genre and also bands that at some point in time played the style. --CircafuciX (talk) 19:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    Comment Perhaps you'd like to format those refs properly. Funeral 19:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    Note to closing admin: User:Navnløs and User:CircafuciX have been discussing deletions such as this one in breach of WP:CANVAS. Recommend that their !votes be met with some scepticism. Scarian 20:57, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    Note to closing admin: This is a lie or mistake, we did not break WP:CANVAS. We both agreed we wanted the lists and talked about how we would go about trying to have them kept. We weren't coercing each other or others of anything. Blizzard Beast 19:09, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep: Categories are not a substitute for lists per se. Lists are the logical result of genre articles as they are an extension of "key artist" sections. It's better to have a separate list because there are too many notable bands to be in the genre article. Articles are more flexible and capable of more than categories. Flags/country names will give the reader an immediate visual indication of different metal scenes. Some bands change their genre over time so it can be useful to have extra information like "first album" or "early" next to a band name. The list must however contain sources so it needs some work. Categories are not a substitute for lists. Kameejl 09:06, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete content covered perfectly well by a category. Fair Deal (talk) 14:03, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep: Lists can be used much more effectively than categories. Bloodredchaos (talk) 22:02, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete-use a category. Peter Fleet (talk) 09:45, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Has fair amount of sources and is useful. Many Knowledge (XXG) readers are more likely to check these lists than categories anyway. This list is more informative and user-friendly than categories since you can see the bands' location and check them on AMG.--Azure Shrieker (talk) 15:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep There's many lists like that on Knowledge (XXG). Also, I think there's no need for so much sources. Nothingagainst (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 19:45, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment - "There's many lists like this" isn't a valid reason. Some of those lists are being deleted: And every page needs sources, that's how this website works. Funeral 19:49, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was WP:SNOW keep. Nominator nominating to prove a point. Will 13:14, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Khan Noonien Singh (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Lacks real-world notability. Ejfetters (talk) 00:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • I would think there would be more real-world notability as others state this is a major character in the film, but without it is should be deleted, see WP:WAF Ejfetters (talk) 00:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • EXCUSE ME? "others state this is a major character" -- you mean Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan wasn't enough of a tipoff? Strong Keep — Preceding unsigned comment added by SarekOfVulcan (talkcontribs) 20:37, 4 December 2007
  • Strong Keep The movie is real world notability enough. All characters of major motion pictures have their own articles, this one should be no different. Johnred32 (talk) 00:40, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • All characters from major motion pictures do not have their own articles. The character needs real-world notability, e.g casting, critical acclaim, fan reception, character development. Many of the other Trek articles, including Picard for instance, have had real-world notability added to their articles and made a focal point on the article. Ejfetters (talk) 00:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep per his numerous appearances in Star Trek, especially Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. —Disavian (/contribs) 00:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep character is famous. Brian Boru is awesome (talk) 01:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete, doesn't seem to have any out of universe notability despite multiple appearances in the series. Ten Pound Hammer01:06, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • The heck with it. Keep per consensus, character seems to have a notable role, which at least in theory would indicate some real world notability. (Forgive me, I don't know a thing about Star Trek...) Ten Pound Hammer19:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep character is notable both within Star Trek fandom and among broader science fiction community. Rillian (talk) 01:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep You yourself admitted that there is real-world notability for this character. Whether it is currently asserted in the article is really irrelevant to the deletion discussion if even the nominator agrees that it exists. Incorporating it into the article is a surmountable task. Though I should also remind you that there is no deadline. This is all the more reason why things that a nominator recognizes can be fixed (even if it is something as high up on the list as assertion of notability) are not a reason for deletion. Violations of WP:PLOT or a need for sourcing (when sources are shown to exist) are other examples of surmountable problems which should be taken care of as expediently as possible, but to which WP:DEADLINE still applies. LaMenta3 (talk) 01:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • This whole thing is null if someone just will find the real-world notability that so many say he does and just add it to the article. I said he is so popular he should have real world notability. Character development, critical acclaim, fan reception, cultural impact, casting/development. These are all real-world subjects that can make the article real-world, and these should be the primary source - good examples are Jean-Luc Picard, Jadzia Dax, and Kathryn Janeway - articles that have been improved to remove in-universe issues. Its possible for this character too, then I will even withdraw my nomination. Ejfetters (talk) 01:11, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Never said I know, I said I would think - big difference there. Ejfetters (talk) 01:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletions. Quasirandom (talk) 01:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - One word: KHAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!! --Hnsampat (talk)) 01:36, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The article needs editing to establish real-world notability, but the subject is certainly notable, even if the article needs to be edited. Rray (talk) 02:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep One of the few definite keeps I have encountered in AfD. LonelyBeacon (talk) 02:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Simply because the "real-world" notability isn't mentioned in the article, instead of recommending DELETION why don't you do some research and add the information yourself? will381796 (talk) 02:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment With due respect will381796, I'm not sure that this is the proper response here. It is incumbent on all editors to do research in areas where they have experience and background, as well as the responsibility of all editors to nominate articles which potentially don't belong for nomination. Just because Ejfetters felt this article was a candidate for deletion does not make it their personal responsibility to conduct research. The purpose of this forum is to reach a consensus on nominations that are either appropriate or possibly in error. Please don't take this personally. I just don't think that its proper to charge every nominator with the responsibility of researching every possible article for deletion. LonelyBeacon (talk) 03:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep This character is well-entrenched in American pop culture. --Polaron | Talk 02:53, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment Recently, User:Uncle G has been adding a lot of real-world content to the article. He has added an entire new section on character analysis and has given a lot of referenced information to the article. In addition, all of this is written in an out-of-universe style. The article really has improved a lot in the three and a half hours that it has been up for deletion. I may disagree with deleting it, but apparently putting it up for deletion was the spur needed to get someone to do something about the lack of real-world content. Unless someone can find something seriously wrong with the changes, or can find another thing wrong with the article as a whole, I think this discussion may be over. Johnred32 (talk) 03:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • While I see your point, keep in mind that nominating an article for deletion in order to force its improvement is essentially an abuse of process. Unfortunately, it's an abuse that too often goes unchecked, and those of us who would much rather work within the confines of proper practice are faced with the difficult decision of improving these articles and thus encouraging the abuse or leaving them be and risk the inappropriate removal of improvable content that would otherwise be appropriate. It kind of makes me think that WP:ATA should probably be elevated to guideline status, if only to discourage this kind of abuse. But that's another can of worms entirely. LaMenta3 (talk) 20:57, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, ridiculously notable if only because of http://www.khaaan.com/. Probably the best-known of all the Star Trek villain characters (as opposed to races, e.g. Klingons), and the nom should really have known that. AFD is not cleanup even if it may be abused to have that effect. --Dhartung | Talk 03:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment To the community as a whole: I think there are some comments being made that can be interpreted as bordering on being a bit mean spirited to Ejfetters. Just because this editor felt the article might lack the credentials to be an article is not reason to engage in attacks, no matter how subtle or unintended, toward the nominator. Its pretty clear there is consensus to keep, but that does not give license to attack someone for the nomination. Please remember to keep your ideas focused on the article, not the person making the nomination. Peace. LonelyBeacon (talk) 03:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was DeleteCaknuck (talk) 06:52, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Doostang (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

WP:WEB. Its not the subject of multiple non-trivial pieces of coverage from reliable sources. One link is dead, in the other it is not the subject. Its been tagged for notability far too long. If notability is there either establish it or remove the article appropriately. Crossmr (talk) 00:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was keep. John254 01:16, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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Minor character, article has no real-world notability. Would be better served with a merger, but others keep removing the merger tag. Ejfetters (talk) 00:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Merge and Redirect to Deanna Troi, this character is totally NN. RMHED (talk) 00:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep. See "Medical Ethics through the Star Trek Lens", which covers her affair with a scientist from a world that sentences all elders to die. Also see this interview with Barrett, where she states "I love her. I've had women yell at me across parking lots at supermarkets, saying 'You've done more for women over forty than any movement in America!'". Lwaxana Troi is easily the second most important recurring character on the show after Q. Does the phrase WP:POINT ring a bell?--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 00:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • This is the kind of notable information I have been talking about that we need. Add it to the article please, it still has no real-world notability. I am not arguing that these subjects have no real world notability, I am arguing that the articles have no real world notability. If the article is AFD'd and you find real world notability, then you should add it to the article then state here what you added and why it is notable. I hope the same is found for Khan - thanks! :) Ejfetters (talk) 00:24, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Other information that can DRASTICALLY help would be concept behind the characters, casting information, critical acclaim (which you seem to have found from the interview and the people yelling across stores at her) - nice work! Ejfetters (talk) 00:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong keep as one of the most important recurring characters in Star Trek. She's also portrayed by Gene Roddenberry's wife, which gives the character a significant amount of external notability. —Disavian (/contribs) 00:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Don't understand how who portrays the character adds significant notability. The article is about Lwaxana Troi, not Majel Barrett. another user has already stated the real-world notability that he found, maybe someone should try incorporating it into the article now. Ejfetters (talk) 00:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
      • Also, I disagree, I don't think she's more notable then say, Q or Guinan, she merely added some comic relief except for a couple of episodes when the plot somewhat revloved around her. Ejfetters (talk) 00:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Another excerpt from a paper: "At the opposite end of the feminine spectrum is the character of the telepathic extraterrestrial Lwaxana Troi, the hormonally crazed, menopausal mother of Deanna. Whereas characterization in The Next Generation is encoded and hence decoded accordi ng to the conventions of realism, Lwaxana's character is rendered in the exaggerated conventions of burlesque comedy and hence comes across as a tasteless sexist joke. Not only is she the bane of her daughter's existence, she is also a sexual predator wh o functions as justification for the latent misogyny of the scripts she inhabits. In addition, as she repeatedly reminds us in her imperious way, she is the daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Challice of Rixx, and Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed. She is also notorious for her rude and dismissive remarks about other humanoid species. Thus, as the exaggerated focus of elitism and racism, she draws our attention away from these qualities as they exist in their normative form in the other characters. Indeed, in one episode Captain Picard and the other officers, whose male protection she seeks, can abandon her with impugnity to a repulsive and lecherous Ferengi kidnapper."--uɐɔlnʌɟoʞǝɹɐs 01:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional characters-related deletions. Quasirandom (talk) 01:33, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Per others. Article shouldn't be deleted just because it needs material added to it. Needing improvement does not equate to needing deletion. Rray (talk) 02:19, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep The character does have notability in universe, and I agree given the one actress to play the role and her relationship to the creator of the series, that this is a notable fictional character. LonelyBeacon (talk) 02:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
So you are saying it should be kept against policy ? I don't understand, on one hand you say it's notable in the fictional universe, but the policy is that there must real world notability, I don't understand your position. Jackaranga (talk) 02:44, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
On the contrary, I think policy has been satisfied (from what I can tell). Knowledge (XXG):Manual of Style (writing about fiction) is, as the manual sates, a guideline, but not a hard and fast rule. It does state the key notability guideline as a need for secondary sources. I think User:SarekOfVulcan has established that there is secondary source work available. Is it tenuous? I would agree, but I think this might be an article that at least deserves some time to establish that. LonelyBeacon (talk) 03:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete It is clearly not notable outside of the Star Trek universe, and even in the universe notability is debatable. Delete per WP:FICTION it clearly has no real world notability. Jackaranga (talk) 02:42, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per citations found by SarekofVulcan. Plus, being a major recurring character, I'm pretty sure there are other series the character appears in, e.g. novels. --Polaron | Talk 02:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep as a major recurring plot devise in a major TV series. Tomorrow I'll go find my behind the scenes books and get some quotes about how she figured in the TNG writers considerations about structuring the seasons of that show. The more basic point, however, is that deletion is not the solution for a poorly written article—editing is. Only is the problem is the articles subject (and not only its presentation) is deletion required. Eluchil404 (talk) 06:44, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Sarek of Vulcan. Maxamegalon2000 07:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep AFD is not cleanup and this process should not be used as a threat to drive activity which is volunteer and not subject to any deadline. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment As far as recurring characters go, she's significant because Majel Barrett (who had been "Nurse Chapel" on the original series and "Number One" in the pilot) made her so memorable. Star Trek fans couldn't help but notice the contrast between the wild Lwaxana and the staid Christine Chapel. Mandsford (talk) 13:13, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. It's been shown that sources exist, which should be sufficient to keep... yes, those sources need to be integrated into the article, but the point of AfD isn't to throw out articles that we know are sourceable just because that hasn't happened yet. Pinball22 (talk) 16:39, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, sources do exist to show the out-of-universe notability of this character. Ten Pound Hammer18:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep obviously a notable recurring character across two major TV series, and usually central to the plot of episodes she appears in. At worst this would be a merge to Deanna Troi, definitely not a case for deletion. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Recurring character in two major television series. Satisfies pretty much every criteria there is for a character article. 23skidoo (talk) 03:21, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep, obviously notable per above sources. Nominator is reminded that it's the existence of sources demonstrating notability that is important, not the presence of said sources in the article's current state. (Obviously, such sources should be added, but the mere failure to do so is not grounds for deletion so long as such sources exist somewhere.) See WP:PROBLEM. Powers 14:02, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was keep (but move to gender inequality per naming conventions). — TKD::Talk 08:38, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Gender Inequality (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

Basically a fork (likely biased, too, haven't read through it) of the various thing at Gender gap. Circeus (talk) 00:14, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Delete --JForget 01:29, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

905 music scene (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

This isn't a genuine, unified music scene, but an original research attempt to create one by combining several distinct local music scenes into one entity on the basis of a shared telephone area code. The Hamilton scene of Wax Mannequin has no connection to the Durham Region scene of Cuff the Duke, frex. The article also tried to claim 905-ness for bands that are more properly associated with Toronto, such as Metric and Broken Social Scene. Delete as OR. Bearcat (talk) 17:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm not saying there's no music originating within the 905. I'm saying there isn't an organized or recognized cultural thing which any segment of the music industry or the media refers to as "the 905 music scene". What actually exists is about five separate and independent music scenes within the 905 region, none of which are particularly connected to each other under any larger cultural umbrella. The music certainly exists — but "905 music scene" is not a recognized name for the cultural context in which anybody named in this article operates. Bearcat (talk) 06:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
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The result was Speedy keep, current state governor, bad faith nom. NawlinWiki (talk) 17:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Rod Blagojevich (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD)

unfamed person. Not well known outside small areas of the midwest User:Theyipper32 17:44 UTC Dec. 5. 2007

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The result was DeleteCaknuck (talk) 06:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

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The speedy deletion request is contested by the author. However, nothing indicates that this relatively small law firm (as mentioned in the article) would be notable enough for having an article. No reliable, third-party, published sources are provided. Delete. Edcolins (talk) 20:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)


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The result was Keep. The Placebo Effect (talk) 22:15, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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I don't know much about golf, but I do know that one media mention does not satisfy notability requirements. All of user's contributions seem to be in the interest of promoting this. Perhaps worth noting is the site's banner now includes "Recognized by Knowledge (XXG)! OhNoitsJamie 23:15, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete Fails to satisfy notability criteria. Twenty Years 03:40, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I was the admin that removed the speedy tag from this (as well as removing adverty elements). I don't think that their reference to Knowledge (XXG) should influence us. I did a quick and dirty Google search and found () and () both of which seemed pretty third party, especially the latter, written by a well-respected BBC Golf correspondent. Once I'd seen them, I stopped looking. Enhance the article and add balance, perhaps they won't be so happy once we include criticism. Interestingly, the Iain Carter piece includes the following: "Now if ever you want to get together a bunch of cynical spoilsports then invite a hoard of journalists. If a dampener can be found we'll be the first to locate it. Yet after the initiation of 'Power Play' golf there wasn't a hint of criticism." --Dweller (talk) 08:12, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Although the article has been improved since I first put the speedy deletion tag, the notability of this game is far from being established yet, and, in fact, the originator of this article added the following to the Peter McEvoy article:
In February 2008, he devised and launched PowerPlay Golf a shortened version of golf in a bid to create golf's version of Twenty20 cricket
That means there is no PowerPlay Golf activity yet, and therefore the game is not yet notable. Far from it. Let's wait for the game to catch on before having a Knowledge (XXG) article on it. --Blanchardb-MeMyMouth-timed 23:26, 6 December 2007 (UTC)


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