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Delete. The article about the person who created this mixtape,
Chase N. Cashe, has been deleted repeatedly. If the artist who created the recording isn't notable enough for an article, the recording probably isn't either. (See
WP:A9.) --
Metropolitan90(talk)20:57, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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The result was keep per the number of AfD participants here recommending to do so. However, (personal opinion) after reading through the article, I must admit that the article suffers from
WP:REFBOMBing, and most if it just references plot, and not even always about this character. This makes the article a likely target for another AfD in the future, so I recommend thinking about other solutions for covering the fictional IT elements that span several adaptations. –
sgeurekat•
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This was at AfD and closed as a redirect in September, recreated a day later with more sources, and then has shuffled around between draftspace and mainspace. My initial reaction was that the redirect should be restored, but that has been done enough. There has been a number of new sources added since the last AfD, and so I think the best possible situation here is to have another AfD instead of boldly redirecting the article for the fourth time.
I'm also having a difficult time determining just which sources would demonstrate this character's notability. I'm happy to withdraw or change my opinion if those are clearly demonstrated.
SportingFlyerT·C23:06, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep While this article is still not in the best shape it could be, I think there is enough sources present to prove notability. There are also many sources present
in books avalable from Google Books which are not present on this page that go into more depth.
★Trekker (
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23:15, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
@
*Treker: Thanks for finding some more sources. At the moment I’m on a family vacation in New Zealand, so I don’t have much internet, but I‘ll add them once I get a chance to! -
SeanTheYeti452
Delete - simply not enough in-depth coverage regarding real world notability to satisfy
WP:GNG. Not every character in a popular book is notable outside the work in which they appear. But because the book is popular, there are going to be lots of stuff written about them in fan-related media.
Onel5969TT me23:25, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I think it's unfair to characterize all coverage of this character as comming from "fan-related media", I gave it a Google Books search and I have found coverage of the character in The Complete Stephen King Universe, The Shape Under the Sheet, Stephen King: The Second Decade, Danse Macabre to The Dark Half, The Moral Voyages of Stephen King, Dissecting Stephen King: From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism, Landscape of fear: Stephen King's American Gothic, The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape, The Stephen King phenomenon, Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women among several. Like I said above this page is not in the best shape, but an article not being great is no reason for deletion.
★Trekker (
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23:39, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
All of which is fan-based discussion. I really respect what you do on WP, and I understand your viewpoint. I simply think that fictional stuff should have real-world notability, not simply in-universe or fan-based sourcing.
Onel5969TT me23:45, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I don't see how all those books should be considered "fan-based". If one were to cite 10 published works on Poe or Lovecraft I don't think it should be disregarded as "fan based" just because they cover fiction when the author is a highly notable individual who's works have been disected a ton within literature. King may not be as big as the the two forementioned but he is a giant within horror and his work has been the subject of much analysis, that includes his characters. This isn't just some minor character of his either, its a main figure in one of his most adapted and acclaimed novels.
★Trekker (
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23:56, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep, the sources establish notability, the article needs to be improved, not deleted. Deletion is disruptive, and this character clearly has notability. -
SeanTheYeti452
Keep per
*Treker; available sources establish notability well beyond fan-based discussion. The article needs improvement and will surely get it, but it clearly passes
WP:GNG and should not be deleted. —
HunterKahn12:06, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment if
SportingFlyer and
Onel5969 now recognize that many of the article's references, shouldn't be characterized as "fan-based", could you please return here, and say so? This would be in the best interests of the project, as it would allow an early closure, and thus save the valuable time of people who would otherwise read this AFD over the next six days.
If, on the other hand, you still think deletion is appropriate, could you make a more serious effort to explain what is wrong with the existing references?
There is a trend I have found alarming. For years now experienced contributors have been nominating articles for deletion, or endorsing deletion, based on their personal opinions that those article's topics aren't inherently serious enough to merit a standalone article. This is counter-policy. NPOV, VERIFY and NOR call upon us to rely on the opinions of RS. The opinions of RS count. Our opinions do not.
I have spent years covering controversial topics, where I personally disagreed with every single RS. So far as I am concerned, when one is considering working on a topic where our opinions diverge from those of RS, we have only two policy compliant choices: (1) do our best to keep our personal opinions to ourselves, and do our best to only contribute text that neutrally summarizes the RS we disagree with; or (2) opt out from covering that topics. Let other people deal with them.
SportingFlyer, your nomination doesn't actually give a specific justification for deletion. In particular, your second sentence sounds, well, like just your casual and unexamined gut feeling.
Geo Swan (
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20:58, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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Geo Swan: I typically switch between the older and newer pages in New Page Patrol, this was one of the older pages, and it said it had been recently deleted. I looked at the history to do a bit of research, and saw the article had been recreated and redirected repeatedly. After looking through many of the sources in the article, I didn't see any coverage of the character I thought significant enough to warrant a new article on. Instead of redirecting and turning this into an edit war, I thought an AfD discussion would be the best solution. I've looked through the books mentioned above by @
Treker: and while the character's name gets mentioned several times, at no point does that coverage appear to be significant - for instance, in Dissecting Stephen King, the character's name only appears briefly on three pages, the Complete Stephen King Universe discusses what seems to be every character, the Shape Under the Sheet is an encyclopaedia of minutia about King novels, The Moral Voyage appears to be okay but it's printed in Courier New, the copyright of the book is flagrantly wrong, and it appears to have been republished (ie there's a chance it's not a reliable source.) The fact the article is source-bombed (there are 11 references for a single sentence) makes this very difficult to check and see if the sources in the article are both reliable and cover the subject significantly. I don't have any opinion on whether this should be kept or not, but I don't see how it passes
WP:GNG with significant coverage in reliable sources, I'm happy to let others direct me to those sources, and I'm not going to be keeping my opinions to myself. This needed to be discussed, and I'm fine if it's kept, but I would like to see actual significant coverage of this character.
SportingFlyerT·C21:55, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Your disecting of the sources seems flawed to me, 1) how many times a characters name is mentined is rather trivial compared to the information one can extract from the text, 2) claiming that because the book covers a lot of Stephen Kings characters that makes the coverage of this specific character less worthwhile is a poor way to reason in my mind, only thing that really implies is that King has written many characters with coverage, which is incredibly unsuprising considering his career and success, 3) I don't see how a book being republished is as issue (maybe I'm misunderstanding something here), 4) when deciding if a topic is notable one should not look at only the article itself as the shape it is for the moment, if we only did that then tons of articles on some of the most notable things in the world would be deleted, the best thing to do is to search for sources oneself (Im aware this take much more effort but it is the safe way to do it) and judge what you find. Those books I cited are only some of the few I could find within two pages of searching on Google Books.
★Trekker (
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22:16, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
At least for me, the Google Books falls off by about Page 4. I don't think searching for the character's name within the text is a flawed way to search at all - if there was a chapter dedicated to the character I'd change my !vote to keep. The fact the character's only mentioned a couple times within these sources is a red flag to me. I have no problem with using the information found within encyclopaedias to flesh out the article, but using an encyclopaedia which covers every single character as the basis for notability is a red flag to me. The fact the book has been republished isn't itself an issue, but I can't find that much information about the book or author, and the way it's typeset doesn't look professional (looks like something self-published with a typewriter) which is a red flag to me. The fact the page is badly source-bombed is a red flag to me. I've even looked through Google Scholar, which has a number of mentions of Denbrough but I haven't found anything I would consider significant. I'm still not sure this character is notable enough for a standalone article. I'm happy to be convinced otherwise, though.
SportingFlyerT·C22:45, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Well it seems rather clear that you've already made up your mind, I'm not going to try to push you if this is simply the way you feel after looking at all the avalable sources. I've made my case and am happy with it, if we disagree then we disagree.
★Trekker (
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23:44, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
No worries, it's on track to be kept anyways and there's nothing wrong with disagreement! I'm still happy to listen to a response as to why these sources demonstrate notability, as it's not obvious to me (or a couple others) - it may not get me to change how I feel about this particular article but at the very least it will make it easier for me to patrol the project going forward, as none of the keep !voters have discussed why the sources (or which sources) are significant so far. If you could pick what you think are the
WP:THREE best sources I'd still appreciate your input, but no worries if you want to move on.
SportingFlyerT·C03:23, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
That's fair. I looked to see if the book could have been self-published rather than looking at the author. It was originally published by Starmont House
[3], a specialty publisher, and that link notes why the quality of the publication was so terrible. (To be fair, if the criticism had been published academically, I wouldn't have any trouble with the source at all.)
SportingFlyerT·C04:23, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
In the first couple of paragraphs of your reply you refer to checking the references in the article. Excuse me if I voice a concern over this approach. Topics that are notable should not be deleted when the current state of the article is weak. Rather, as per
WP:BEFORE, don't those who call for deletion have an obligation to look beyond the references in the article? Don't they have an obligation to conduct an independent web search, so they could form their own informed conclusion as to whether the topic is or isn't notable. Maybe you did this, and just didn't mention it. But, if you don't do a web search, to reach your own informed conclusion as to whether a topic is or isn't notable, I would strongly encourage you to start doing so. It is what is best for the project. Unfortunately, in recent years, we see an increasing number of contributors nominating articles without complying with BEFORE. And we see an increasing number of people who take the nominator's claims about article's references at face value, and add a "delete" opinion, without even looking at the article in question.
Finally, a large number of our articles can't have the underlying notability of their topics confirmed or refuted by a naive web search. (1) the web search links at the top of an AFD can be almost worthless when an article's title is disambiguated; (2) naive web searches can be insufficient when a genuinely notable person has more famous namesakes; (3) naive web searches are generally insufficient when an individual played a role in a recent highly covered event. There were over half a dozen people who tried to get the newly created article on
Chesley Sullenberger deleted - because their use of google was naive. I found, on that day, that, even though 99 percent of the coverage of Sullenberger was recent and repetitive coverage of his heroic landing, the remaining 1 percent included significant coverage of earlier events, so he wasn't a BLP1E.
With regard to significant coverage. A dozen references, or even one hundred references, that each report the same single detail, do not add up to significant coverage. But a dozen references, or even half a dozen references, that each only report one or two details, can add up to significant coverage, if they document a half dozen different details.
With regard to dismissing encyclopedias. I think we all agree that encyclopedia ar as refticles written by non-notable individuals, who aren't reliable sources, should not be used as references. But encyclopedias, or encyclopedia like things, written by reliable sources, should continue be used as references. I used to keep my copy of Isaac Asimov's Biographical Dictionary of Science beside my computer. I have used references to the Canadian Dictionary of Biography in dozens of articles.
Similarly, a blanket dismissal of "blogs" is ill-advised. Some online publications called blogs are highly reliable and highly regarded. Newspaper columnists who cover the US Supreme Court routinely cite the opinions voiced in SCOTUSBLOG.
Geo Swan (
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03:41, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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Geo Swan: This is a bit of a unique AfD. I'm not actively looking to delete the article, but rather am attempting, procedurally, to see if restoring a redirect is the proper course of action. I almost always conduct a
WP:BEFORE search (the exceptions don't include this article, but rather where the reason for deletion is obvious), and the initial search didn't bring up anything that I thought established notability beyond the sources in the article. I also focused on the difference in the sourcing between the last redirected article and the current article, as the current version contains over 20 new sources to go through, so I primarily looked to see which of those sources demonstrated notability The last AfD closed with the statement (quoting Tone: If there are more sources with analysis or so, then maybe return separate articles but not in the present state. (What's also interesting is no character section exists at the
It (novel) article.) Since this AfD, I've also searched Google Books and Google Scholar. If you're insinuating I've missed sources, I'm happy to review any additional sources, but I simply do not understand which of the available sources are clearly reliable and clearly demonstrate notability. I'm also not suggesting encyclopaedias aren't reliable sources. I'm concerned the fact something was mentioned in an specialist encyclopaedia doesn't automatically suggest the topic notable enough for Wikipedia. Is every single King character notable since it was listed in The Complete Stephen King Universe? The Shape under the Sheet is an encyclopaedia which includes minutia such as "Forty miles an hour" (the speed Denbrough drove) and "United Flight 41" (the flight number another character flew in another book.) Ultimately, I'm interested in the question - what makes a fictional character notable, and which sources out there show Denbrough is notable enough for his own article per
WP:GNG? And ultimately, I'm interested in answering the question through identifying which sources demonstrate his notability, which no one here has really done yet.
SportingFlyerT·C04:06, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect - Looking through about ten of the sources, I'm seeing a mix of trivial mentions, no mentions at all, staff interviews, trivial pop culture articles, etc. I think shoving every single possible reference into it hoping they stick isn't really the best way to try to establish notability.
TTN (
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17:39, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
TTN, checking for references that support the notability of articles before AFD is one area where wikipedia contributors efforts routinely fall short. If you meant to suggest that those who contributed to the article should have been more selective, and used fewer but better references, you are correct. Note: this is an editorial issue - not grounds for deletion.
Your comment very strongly suggests you made a very common error - one I already warned about, in this discussion. It sounds like, instead of conducting your own web search, you merely looked at the article's existing references.
However, our policies are, and always have been, that the notability of a topic should not be evaluated on the existing state of the article. When we have a weak article on a topic that is nevertheless notable, policy calls on us to improve the weak article, not delete it. So, please, don't form your conclusions on the notability of topics based on the references currently in the article.
Is this more work? Sure. Is this a problem? No.
The wikipedia has a kind of auto-immune disorder. When humans have auto-immune disorders their immune systems attacks healthy organs. Well, AFD is part of the wikipedia's immune system. We made policy changes, and technical changes, that have made it easier to nominate articles for deletion. It is too easy. TTN, the efforts you made to look at references to support the notability of the Bill Denbrough character have fallen short.
Tony Magistrale is one of King's most respected biographers. His academic career has focussed on King, and he is widely quoted, and asked to comment by journalists. So, what does he say say about Denbrough?
King may have created hundreds of fictional characters, maybe thousands of fictional characters, in his many stories. I don't know how many wikipedia articles we have on King's characters. I would be very surprised if most of King's characters weren't notable topics, weren't the target of serious commentary from serious academics and serious literary critics. I would have no problem deleting or redirecting articles on King characters who haven't been the target of serious commentary. However, the Bill Denbrough character is, apparently, one of the small subset of King characters who serious academics and literary critics have identified as a character King uses as a surrogate. The Bill Denbrough character is one of the small subset of King's characters who are authors, like King.
Geo Swan (
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17:51, 29 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - I didn't explicitly say keep, above.
The article needs a new lead paragraph. The Tony Magistrale book, prematurely dismissed above, explains why the character of Bill Denbrough is more notable than the hundreds of other characters King created in his books. In some of his books King creates characters who are writers. Denbrough is one of the much more limited set of characters King created, who are writers, who King uses to covertly reply to his critics, or to comment on the life of a writer.
Question Strictly on a procedural level, how did we even get here? I can understand this getting to
SportingFlyer with the recent removed redirect triggering a potential review, but how did this get to
ZI Jony where the redirect was recently restored in the first place? It looks like the page was
restored here after the AfD concerns were believed to be addressed (3 edits prior was Draftspace → Mainspace), and I see that
CAPTAIN MEDUSA is also a new page reviewer. Does this mean that carrying out a History merge as a technical request does not include marking a new page review on the new page curation log? I'm guessing that's the only only way it would remain on the pending review list... Should the steps that go into a move/merge like this include a "new page review" before its carried out and rejecting the request if it's not satisfactory? Or are the two just entirely separate processes with no bridge between the two unless someone carrying out the request goes above and beyond? (This is just a question that could lead to potential process improvements.) -
2pou (
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19:16, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right for the redirect, which then came to you. What I didn't understand is if it was sitting with a NPP flag after after the history merge, and why bother with the merge in the first place, if it wasnt going to pass a NPP review later. -
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Fails GNG due to lack of RS coverage. Current article is, and has always been, sourced to a writeup on cryptozoology.com. BEFORE search returned only fringe sources and a few unrelated books by Bear Bergman. –
dlthewave☎22:46, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - The bear has been the subject of considerable scientific interest as mentioned in the CryptoZoology article and sources may not be easily accessed because they are not recent, and therefore not online, and may be in Russian.
Cwmhiraeth (
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11:03, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Ncryptozoology.com is not a reliable source and does not cite any reliable sources. If you're aware of Russian-language sources, please list them here so that we can evaluate them; otherwise this is just "there are probably sources out there" hand-waving which is not a valid Keep rationale. –
dlthewave☎14:31, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - Adding a number of sources, certainly appears in various works as an example of either a possibly extinct animal, or a notable instance of confusion over subtypes. Clears GNG with RS coverage. BEFORE search was perhaps not quite as thorough as it might have been.
Spokoyni (
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09:41, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
The sources you've added did come up in my BEFORE search, but most were dismissed per
WP:NFRINGE ("The notability of a fringe theory must be judged by statements from verifiable and reliable sources, not the proclamations of its adherents") or other reasons.
NBear Conservation doesn't cite any sources and appears to be lifted from Wikipedia. Compare the
April 2019 archive (last updated 16 September 2017) to the
December 2016 version of our article. The archive doesn't go back far enough to be conclusive, but in my experience the use of "alleged subspecies" is a dead giveaway. I've never seen anything called an "alleged species" outside of poorly-sourced cryptozoology-related Wikipedia articles.
Y This leaves us with one good source, The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals, which points out that the proposed species is based on a single specimen and its status as a valid taxon is uncertain.
Delete: the alleged species, "Ursus arctos piscator", is
Kamchatka brown bear which is not extinct; see scholarly articles:
[7]. "Piscator" is one of the variants of the species name, per the Kamchatka bear article. In any event, the sources in the article are either not RS or insuffient, such as www.bearconservation.org.uk, fringe cryptozoology books, and so on.
K.e.coffman (
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02:42, 31 December 2019 (UTC)reply
supposedly in Domico, Terry (1988). Bears of the world. Facts on File. can't find anything online and probably not a good source anyway
Delete Wow, how little it takes to spawn a cryptid.
Malaise has told me that on one occasion he saw the skull of a gigantic bear of the black kind; its teeth were perfect, and hence it could not have been that of an aged individual. On another occasion he also measured and photographed a bear's foot-print that was 37cm. long and 25cm. broad, so that the animal must have been a veritable giant. There is much, then, that speaks for the existence in Kamchatka of a quite black, gigantic bear, in addtion to the ordinary brown type; but this question must remain an open one.
Delete - Normally for actual species I'd support a rename or merge but it seems that the few sources that could be reliable don't agree with eachother. Other sources are so far in-universe. —
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Non-notable non-combatant in Irish Civil War/War of Independence. I have raised (and re-raised) concerns with this article's author (who has seen other similar submissions deleted recently on similar grounds), but in short this:
Article is effectively a "family history" piece, republished as a Wikipedia article. Problematic under
WP:NOTGENEALOGY and
WP:NOTMEMORIAL and related guidelines.
Content is a near verbatim copy/paste from the subject's military pension application record from the
Irish Military Archives. The pensions department received 100s of thousands of such submissions. And issued nearly 70,000 pensions to people who were involved in these conflicts. Not only are not all of the subject's not automatically notable, but the content of these records is not automatically appropriate for republication here. Not least because
those records are copyrighted. Problematic under
WP:NOTMIRROR and
WP:COPYVIO guidelines.
Subject is not notable. Bridget Mary Crowley was one of 10s of thousands of members of Cumann na mBan. And one of 100s of thousands of people (on "both sides") involved in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War. There is nothing to indicate that this person meets
WP:MILPERSON or
WP:NBIO or any other notability guideline.
Comment At one time I was so sick of Wikipedia's presentist bias that I resoilved to not vote to delete any biographies of dead people. However it is articles like this on people without even a shred of notability that have shown to me all parts of Wikipedia need creation monitoring and pruning. Of course I do not think anything is worse than the glut of articles on names that were randomly dropped in the Silmarillion. All the more so because that book probably should never have been published, it was never anywhere near ready to go to press.
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Indiscriminate and incomplete list of a series spanning 18 years and over 4000 episodes. For what content exists, there are just basic TV guide plot summaries.
WP:NOR and covered already in plenty of Shortland Street fansites.
Ajf773 (
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19:50, 17 December 2019 (UTC)reply
KEEP Being incomplete is never a valid reason to delete something. Nor is its size. All notable shows have articles for episode lists. It is not indiscriminate because obviously it has a set requirement, must be an episode on that television show.
DreamFocus07:04, 18 December 2019 (UTC)reply
No they don't. Long running soaps such as Eastenders, Coronation Street, Neighbours, Home and Away, etc, do not have any episode lists. Episode lists are standard for shows where there is a limited number of episodes spanning a few seasons. The amount of original research used to try to justify one of this nature is all the more reason why it doesn't belong on Wikipedia.
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08:15, 18 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment: The above examples Ajf773 has provided of other soaps aren't to me sufficient as they are not even
WP:GA. I'd like to see an example of a GA/FA soap article to see how they do stuff. From what I can tell, there are very limited, if any, real GA+ soap articles, so we can't base the fact that these others don't have episode lists to any term of standard. I will point out however, that the maintainers of this article have incorrectly used the episode template and are showing the airdates as episode names, and are unnecessary using Aux1 and Aux2 instead of the correct parameter names. --
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16:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)reply
While writing my comment and looking at the article, regardless if it should be deleted or kept, it's not ready for mainspace. It has the template issues above, too many empty sections, sections with comments that shouldn't be in an article ("able above needs to be updated."), or a weird season 27 situation. So atm, I'm supporting moving to draft, while I might support deletion if presented with good arguments. --
Gonnym (
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16:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)reply
There is nothing in that essay link that states episode lists are always inherently notable. If you want to fix it, then you can volunteer, take it as a draft, but honestly, there's nothing worth fixing. This is fansite material, not encyclopedia material.
Ajf773 (
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20:26, 19 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. 6900+ episodes?
The Simpsons gets a pass because many (all?) of its episodes have articles and there aren't as many of them, but for long-running soap operas, it doesn't make much sense.
Clarityfiend (
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20:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Episode lists are fine as long as only one ep airs per week. But daily soaps? No way. Their story format is one drop per day to keep the audience hooked, and they don't have any artistic ambitions per episode, story- nor development-wise. Listing them all would be INDISCRIMINATE. –
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Apparently a low-budget movie made in some guy's basement that never seems to have attracted any coverage in reliable sources of any note. Only one source currently in the article can really be considered a source. There's passing mention
here, but I don't have really much else to offer. It claims to have a number of notable people as voice actors, but I've got no real source for any of it. Claims to have a 6.5m budget, but I've got no source for that either.
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Completing nomination on behalf of
User:TheLongTone, who offered no rationale. My read is that the article has no sources to indicate notability, and none are apparent in my searches. Further, the tone of the article suggests an attempt at promotion, which would fall afoul of several of our guidelines. I'll message TheLongTone to come here and provide additional commentary on their rationale.
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Fails
WP:BASIC and
WP:ANYBIO. The sources cited either do not mention this person, or just mention his name, or were published in the Daily Bruin, a newspaper published by UCLA where this person is alumni.
This primary source interview has some detail, but primary sources do not establish notability. I'm just not seeing enough accomplishments or bio in reliable sources to establish notability.
Magnolia677 (
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20:28, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Most sources give mere mentions, or don't mention him at all, except dailybruin.com. The most attention he received was for a widely ridiculed dress he designed for a 2017 Grammy award ceremony. The article describes that as "going viral". There is no significant, in-depth coverage of the subject in independent, reliable sources.
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Non-notable online news portal per
WP:NMEDIA. First source is owned by the same group, Second is an unrelated piece written by its publisher and the forth one is just a passing mention. Usual searches are also ended up falling
WP:WEBCRIT and
WP:GNG. ~
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Keep. Honorary degree meets
Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Any_biography "1. The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times." Deleting standalone biographies like these undermines the project's goal of presenting the sum of human knowledge.
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From what people explained me here, that if a persons' position is named after a known professor, that person have a right to have an article. I might be wrong though.--
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19:54, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Named professorships are typically endowed positions, which just means that they are specially funded. They are typically given to professors who rise above their peers at their local institution, but that does not mean that they are notable by Wikipedia's standards. –
Jonesey95 (
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20:12, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, and departments are thrilled to have endowed chairs because it does not come out of an annual operating budget that fluctuates. She does have an endowed chair, but I cannot find anything else she is notable for. Ergo the nomination.
ThatMontrealIP (
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00:59, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Not finding coverage of her outside of UW internal news, does not appear to pass NPROF. Thanks to Jonesey95 for showing the absurdity of using named professorships toward notability; it's a widely used method of funding for both senior and junior faculty, not necessarily an indicator of a researcher or professor's impact or significance.
Reywas92Talk22:22, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, we should perhaps look into changing that. A named professorship is one of the things a Dean can dangle in front of a candidate during the hiring process, and it is not linearly connected to notability.
ThatMontrealIP (
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23:14, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Provided citations do not establish notability. No prejudice against later recreating the article if additional sources are located.
ElKevbo (
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02:10, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment. Although she appears to have an endowed professorship,
this speaker profile from 2016 indicates that she was given it as an associate professor. Therefore, it is unlikely to be the sort of endowed professorship given for extraordinary scholarship above and beyond the level of a typical full professor, and
WP:PROF#C5 (which should properly be about only that kind of endowed professorship) should have no bearing on this case. —
David Eppstein (
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01:55, 28 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Strong Weak Keep She meets
WP:NACADEMIC#5 "The person has held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research", as she is the Stimson Bullitt Endowed Professor of Environmental Law
[8]. WP:NACADEMIC states that "Academics meeting anyone of the following conditions, as substantiated through reliable sources, are notable." This is not the place to discuss changes to
WP:NACADEMIC. For those who are not familiar with it (not all editors commenting here, I am well aware), it explicitly states "This guideline is independent from the other subject-specific notability guidelines, such as WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:AUTH etc. and is explicitly listed as an alternative to the general notability guideline .... failure to meet either the general notability guideline or other subject-specific notability guidelines is irrelevant if an academic is notable under this guideline." And it also emphasises that only one of the 8 criteria needs to be met, so citation metrics are irrelevant, as is the issue of whether other sources exist.
RebeccaGreen (
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14:18, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
You need not explain it in detail; the entire discussion before your comment is discussing it, and everyone before your comment has rejected the SNG in this case.
ThatMontrealIP (
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14:54, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, I did read all the comments. I would take comments like "Wow" and "absurdity" as indicating lack of familiarity with the criteria. That is one of the reasons why I think that this is not the place to discuss changes to this SNG. Clearly all the editors contributing so far have a different opinion, but
WP:NACADEMIC is very clear that academics meeting any one of the criteria are notable, and there is nothing in #5 that says "held a named chair appointment (as long as they were a full professor, associate professors holding named chairs don't count)". It's also clear, in the
Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)#Specific_criteria_notes, that sources outside the institution are not required to verify that the person meets one of the criteria ("For documenting that a person has held such an appointment (but not for a judgement of whether or not the institution is a major one), publications of the appointing institution are considered a reliable source.") I believe that
Biografer was quite justified in writing an article about this person, but if no other editors agree (or not enough), then I guess this will end up being one of the "occasional exceptions" mentioned in the box at the top of
WP:NPROF.
RebeccaGreen (
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15:19, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment The
WP:NPROF guidelines say that C5 can "
be applied reliably only" for persons tenured at the full professor level, so a delete decision would not be contrary to that guideline. The endowed chair certainly helps support notability. Why did they appoint her to it? The best reason I've been able to see so far is promise, in which case this is
WP:TOOSOON. But perhaps her supreme court briefs are more notable than they appear? A subject-matter expert would be helpful here.
Russ Woodroofe (
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17:13, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
She does not hold an endowed chair (which is nonetheless expansive), she holds an endowed professorship, so C5 would still not apply here.
Reywas92Talk21:48, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Reywas92, the two terms (endowed chair/endowed professorship) are fairly interchangeable, with much of the variation coming down to local terminology of one university or another. C5 appears to be relevant, but (per the fine print in
WP:NPROF) not reliable.
Russ Woodroofe (
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22:04, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Fair point then; I had hoped
this search result from UT might have clarification, but "The very best universities in America often endow a third of their faculty positions" shows all the more reason this is a poor criterion that certainly doesn't confer automatic notability alone, since maybe about a third of positions are full professorships anyway. This caveat is interesting since I suppose someone may be hired as assistant professor with an endowment and keep that as a full professor too.
Reywas92Talk22:14, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
A third of positions is very likely an exaggeration; the link is from a university trying to convince donors to give money. Per
WP:NPROF, successful professors will generally be notable. C5 is a useful tool for us to assess success.
Russ Woodroofe (
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22:55, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment Back in the 1980s some universities were creating their first endowed professorships. They used to mean more than they do today. With Johns Hopkins alone having 483 of them, I think we need to stop taking them as default signs of notability. Often they do mean there is substance there, but not in every single case.
John Pack Lambert (
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20:41, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Criteria 5 has this caveat though that some above are ignoring "Criterion 5 can be applied reliably only for persons who are tenured at the full professor level, and not for junior faculty members with endowed appointments." So the person must have reached the rank of full professor before they get the appoitnment. If they are not yet a full professor having a named chair will not always be a default show of notability and this appears to fall under the later arangement.
John Pack Lambert (
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20:44, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment I have changed my vote from Strong Keep to Weak Keep. Looking at the directory of faculty at the University of Washington School of Law, I see that the 67 faculty members are identified as: Lecturer (5), Senior Lecturer (7), Principal Lecturer (1), Assistant Professor (3), Associate Professor (7), Professor (32, of whom 13 are named positions), Fellow (1) and Chair (3) (and a few directors, deans, advisors, etc). Only 2 others have WP articles (one of the chairs, and a named professor emerita). None of the named positions are described as Associate Professor, although as Knudsen's CV says both "Stimson Bullitt Professor of Environmental Law" and "Associate Professor, 2015 to present", perhaps some are, and perhaps she is, and perhaps Criterion 5 can't therefore be applied reliably. And 20% of a faculty would be a large rate of notable members, though not improbable in a very notable institution - which this probably isn't.
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Weak Delete This is some minor coverage, the odd mention, but on the whole seems to be jobbing dancer, but doesn't seem to have made lead or insufficient to generate any real impact. Possible
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With CSD declined, I went to look for sources. I've found
[12] and
[13] – which were published before the article states when Anim8 was founded. Because they refer to another subject, I did not find any significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. According to
WP:INHERENTWEB, fame is not equivalent to notability. –
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Footballer who fails
WP:NFOOTY and
WP:GNG. Despite the number of references, almost all of them are trivial transfer updates. First Afd closed as no consensus due to incorrectly applied Mass AfD nom. --
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12:09, 17 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Not really seeing the claims of GNG in the article sources, they're mainly routine transfer reporting and match reports, but needs more time fo develop stronger consensus.
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Fenix down (
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17:53, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment: it seems many people just look at the number of references rather then actually read them. There are 16 references: 7 trivial match reports (player only mentioned once in passing), 5 transfer rumor pieces, 2 sources that don't mention player at all, 1 youth national team trivial mention, 1 dead link. Now please explain how does this help him pass GNG. --
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tending Delete - Review of the sources shows lack of independent notability.
This looks good on the face of it, until you find that the listing itself is not peer-reviewed, and there are no published or reviewed results available.
This is a promotional write-up by the originator.
This is not a review, but a lavender-scented gush of enthusiasms. - However, not sure what to think about the Billboard rankings. #1 rankings do tend to come with some claim to notability, even if it's meant for dogs... --Elmidae (
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18:27, 17 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Try and get some clarity over the Billboard Rankings reference
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Redirect to
Sofia Talvik where the album is already listed in the discography section. Although I am a native Floridian (and enjoy the state despite
the obvious issues), I could not find enough coverage to support a separate article. I am always partial to redirecting whenever possible to help anyone who may be looking for information on a topic. There could be a language barrier at play here.
Aoba47 (
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20:28, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I have done that before so I understand. I recommended
Sofia Talvik as the redirect target because the album is already mentioned in the article. The
Florida (Sofia Talvik album) article does not mention the acoustic version, but that information could easily be merged to make it a more suitable redirect target. I do not have a strong preference either way.
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While Jeopardy! is a widely notable television show and part of pop culture, an largely unreferenced article about a week-long tournament every/every-other season does not meet
WP:N.
Google search produces links back to this article, the production website and external Wiki fandom sites. Subject is adequately covered in
List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events.
Of the 18 footnotes in the article, none meet
WP:SIGCOV and most are local news stories featuring past contestants.
Redirect to
List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events. Most of the sourcing is to routine coverage (e.g., "local teen X finishes in Yth place") and primary sources, and the list of contestants, which makes up an overwhelming portion of the article, is essentially listcruft. Adequately covered at the main article about Jeopardy! tournaments. --Kinut/c20:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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The article on Eldarion exists because there is a confusion between importance in a constructed universe and importance in reality. Eldarion is very important in the former, and not at all in the later. He is not a minor character in The Lord of the Rings, he is a non-character. He is not even born until after the end of the plot. I am not even sure his name appears in the book per se, he is sourced it seems to the appendix, which in and of itself is generally a sign of non-notablity, not that being named in a book, even one as widely read as The Lord of the Rings makes one notable. We actually have a heavy legacy of pre-2010 articles on characters from literature, broadly defined, including works of literature that purport to be histories and are held as such by many of their reeaders (such as scripture), that are very low on 3rd party sourcing showing impact beyond those works. However the very fact that the article on Eldarion exists is probably the most extreme example of this I have ever seen. Yes, he sort of appears in a film, and true it was a very popular film, it at the time managed to become the 2nd highest grossing film ever, and still stands at number 26, although it may fall 28 or so when the Christmas holiday movie takes are all recorded. However Eldarion is not named in that film, and only appears briefly in a dream or vision of the future. Yes, Tolkien put pen to paper to write a story of the days when Eldarion was king, but he never made it more than a few papges into The New Shadow. The fact that such a non=character has had their article survive for just shy of 16 years is the saddest commentatry on Wikipedia possible.
John Pack Lambert (
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17:10, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment This article was proposed for deletion back on Dec. 7th of this year. The proposal was removed with the bald assertion "this article is important enough to remain and sources should be found." Why exactly is someone not ever mentioned by name in the main text of any book or in any movie notable? Sometimes it feels like people confuse the issues of character notability and biographical notability. That might make sense if we were discussing people mentioned in works that purport to be works of history, but LotR is not such.
John Pack Lambert (
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17:17, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
My main take away from the proposed deletion on this is that no article on a Person created by Tolkien, no matter how far from appearing by name in any regularly published work of his they are, is going to be deleted by actual nomination. This article was created just after the release of the RotK movie. That movie released Dec. 17, 2003, so 18 days before the article was created.
John Pack Lambert (
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17:23, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. A very minor character. It's true a lot of editors seem to be confused between in-universe notability and the notability of a character. This came up in the discussions about Radagast and Queen Beruthiel — important people in Middle-earth, but a minor character and a non-character for us.--
Jack Upland (
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07:43, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I guess Queen Beruthiel was a major character in Middle Earth, since she was a queen (queen consort, but still). However she is not even mentioned in the work, only her cats. She lived at a time that Tolkien never wrote any stories set during.
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The result was speedy deleteWP:CSD#G12 (copyvio), per Netherzone. Given that the page was so newly created I think the direction of copying is clear enough. I suspect that her books may give her a pass of
WP:AUTHOR, though, and the discussion hasn't carried out long enough to determine a consensus on notability, so no prejudice against creation of a non-copied article on the same subject. —
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Keep pending a full discussion of the relevant notability standards for college and university articles (as have been developed for high schools). The institution is
included in the U.S. Department of Education's databases and it receives federal financial aid so it's certainly a real, legitimate institution. It's also accredited (by the
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges). We keep articles for (real and legitimate) high schools
regardless of the available sources but I don't know if we've ever had a similar discussion about post-secondary institutions. I think it would be very odd to have different standards and expectations for high school and college articles so deleting this article for lacking evidence of notability is not recommended.
ElKevbo (
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16:41, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep: First, the text as it stands now is not promotional, and most of the facts the facts have citations to
WP:RS. I'd like to see a discussion among the
Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools community and the WP community at large about the use of multiple non-trivial secondary sources like accreditation and governmental approval documentation as valid
WP:RS evidence in lieu of media articles. For this article specifically, I did find some newspaper articles on newspapers.com:
Delete In 2017 we decided against default keeping of all articles on high schools just because they exist, and we need to apply the same logic to colleges. We need secondary sourcing, not just proof of existence.
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This is a list of fictional in-universe minutia that fails to establish notability or justify itself as a necessary article split.
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This is a list of fictional in-universe minutia that fails to establish notability or justify itself as a necessary article split.
TTN (
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16:02, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. It is clear that consensus is that lists of obscure fictional elements are inappropriate. (This should have been bundled with the species list nomination.)
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This topic fails to establish notability. It is not justified as a content split. These are not necessary to understand the main topic.
TTN (
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16:00, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Put the redirect back and then lock it so no one can edit it again. Someone might merge over information to the other article, so preserve the history.
DreamFocus20:55, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect and protect- I'm not sure why this even came back in the first place. The AfD closed as merge, someone went an did the merge, and then a while later someone else came and unilaterally restored the extremely crufty content. They should have gone through DRV instead of deciding to overrule AfD consensus on their own initiative. Redirect and protect to uphold the result of the first AfD.
ReykYO!14:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep Yet another one for "Delete as BRITISHFICTION". This would never be listed if it were Batman, DC or Marvel.
Space 1999 was a substantial series in its day, from one of the major UK producers of TV sci-fi. With the techniques of the day, model-based filming made the vehicles an important part of it. This deserves an article.
That's why this needs to go to AN. The amount of damage piling up from this is getting ridiculous. Especially when categories are now being deleted because their entries have been filed at AfD, without even bothering to wait for any sort of consensus result.
Andy Dingley (
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14:57, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Damage is very strange take on it. There is no such thing as permanent deletion on this site outside of specific revisions removed for very specific reasons. Anything can come back if it establishes notability, so anyone acting like deletion is in any way damaging is being disingenuous. As people like to often claim there is
WP:NORUSH when keeping articles, the inverse is also true. There is no rush to have dozens of articles on fictional minutia before proving themselves notable. These categories, regardless if the AfDs pass or not, still only have two articles, so you're kind of skipping the real point of deletion there.
TTN (
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15:05, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
"Fancruft minutia" seems to be what's passing for a popular reasoning here, but that's neither a valid reason per our policy, nor even supported by the evidence. In particular, you say "only two articles", ignoring that they're list articles. So you're claiming that 2001, one of the most famous s-f films ever, is so inconsequential that nothing about its vehicles is notable? Or here, a UK TV series which still attracts a large following, 40 years on? None of that is any part of WP's notability policy.
Andy Dingley (
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16:42, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
You're using word like famous, important, and major as if any of those have any particular meaning in deciding Wikipedia's content. Sources are all that matter. The most inconsequential piece of a work of fiction can have an article if it's sufficiently talked about in sources. While I disagree that it should be a thing, current unspoken consensus is that only character lists are necessary article forks. After that, everything has to prove its own worth. These lists have no utility unless there is enough real world information to justify them.
TTN (
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16:52, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
"Famous" is literally how we judge notability. We go by how much secondary attention is paid to topics. These are ship lists for two major fictional works, within the genre of s-f. Characters having a hard time in space otherwise, vehicles have always been a major aspect of that. This is why there is still such an interest in the vehicles of both series, why there is plenty published about them, why they remain such popular subjects amongst modellers (just look at the IPMS exhibition every year) and why we have articles on the people like
Brian Johnson and
Martin Bower who made them. (I expect these articles to be on your AfD list next).
Andy Dingley (
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03:41, 29 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep, per above, the page adds to the knowledge of the topic (Space 1999), not broken (the page informs, has views, and literally no reason to remove it expect for "I don't like it" backed up by an unrelated-to-policy reasoning of "fancruft minutia"), and it appears that the original page-creation editor was not notified.
Personal opinion: AfD nom pages are the dark back rooms of Wikipedia where most experienced editors keep well away from. Lately many science fiction or fantasy lists and pages have been cut down one by one, with probably many more to go, and I really wish that some kind of moratorium could be set in place in order to have a site-wide discussion of where to draw the line. I'd suggest that if a page is "kept" in an AfD, even once or twice, then that page should be off-limits for deletion forever. I dislike commenting on these things, and to go thru the fights to save them which sometimes go on far too long even after cites are found and the initial reasoning for deleting them is fixed. Maybe harsh language, but here in the back room, where few enter, too many interesting articles created by caring editors who present subjects such as this one find few defenders (thank you so much, Andy, for venturing into these fights much more often than I do). Seeing articles being deleted from templates on my watch list (I refuse to keep track of the daily AfD nom page itself because I enjoy editing Wikipedia) and seeing that logical common sense is overshadowed by words like "Fancruft minutia", reduces that sense of fun and appreciation of accomplishment. The work of creative editors viewed by hundreds and thousands of readers (remember, people have to click on the title
List of Space: 1999 vehicles in order to read it, so, you know, maybe they want to read it?) then, poof, casually upended. I've never seen an episode of Space: 1999. But other readers have. And what they do is to click on such things as this otherwise blah article on spacecraft because they care about the subject enough to learn more. Deletion is unwarranted here. My apologies if I've offended anyone with this comment, but please know that I do assume good faith while, at the same time, not understanding where the urge to delete established pages comes from. I just know I don't have that urge. So please assume good faith in my comment as coming from someone who doesn't have that mindset, and hence, being incapable of fully understanding it, needs to vent at what I experience as the illogical removal of long-term popular pages. Thanks.
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Delete - I can only find match reports, transfer announcements and database entries in English- and Russian-language sources. Fails GNG.
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Delete - I can only find match reports, transfer announcements and database entries in English- and Russian-language sources. Fails GNG.
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15:03, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete The fact that the last discussion was speedy kept shows the failure of some eidtors to understand that no subject specific guidelines is permanent reason to ignore GNG.
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Fails
WP:NBIO. Being the son of a notable gangster does not bring notability. All the SIGCOV for the subject are related to his murder. The rest is pure conjecture.
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The result was delete. Regarding the one dissenting comment, I note that this closure creates no prejudice against any possible article about a specific fictional vehicle if it is notable.
RL0919 (
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15:44, 31 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Collection of minor fictional topics. The only notable one has an article already. The details about the real cars are trivial, so they don't justify the list. These are not necessary to understand the series, so this is not a justifiable content split.
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This is a list of fictional minutia. There are some extremely trivial film production details. If they're not already covered in the film articles, they're likely too trivial to cover on this site. If any are notable, it'd be the one that already has an article (though current condition indicates it should be removed unless a search shows sources), so there is little likelihood of these establishing notability as a group. These details are not necessary to understand the series, so it is not a justified content split.
TTN (
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12:09, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Because you're just trying to delete the Pods? Or the Pan-Am Orion? The space station? Do you really not see the damage such a deletion causes, filleting out such major elements of the book/film?
Andy Dingley (
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15:05, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Major is a completely subjective term that has no place deciding which fictional elements to cover. Sources are all that matter. None of these items need this much detail without sources to back them. They can otherwise be summarized where necessary, if at all.
TTN (
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15:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Discovery One already has an article and none of the other have the sourcing necessary to demonstrate notability, either singly or collectively.
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Fails
WP:GNG, and by extension
WP:N, and the coverage is routine statistical listings. Subject made two first-class appearances, and is long since retired. Technically, the subject meets
WP:CRIN, but this forms a part of
WP:NSPORT, which clearly states that "the meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept". Per
this discussion, community consensus is that "subject-specific notability guidelines do not supersede the general notability guideline, except in clear cases where GNG does not apply." In this case, coverage is so meagre that we do not even have the players full name.
Harriastalk10:53, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
If that is true (and I'm not saying it isn't) that means we need to look at expanding and cleaning up a heck of a lot of non-English non-Test first-class players. Forgive me, I'll leave alone now, just leaving a note which (hopefully) will encourage us to look at a lot more first-class cricketers to see what we can do. Sorry. Not an intention to badger - just to leave a general note to myself and others to expand articles based on available sources, etc. A shame that it takes us AfDs to suggest the idea. The fact that it takes ten years for anyone even to raise an eyelid... upsets me.
Bobo.21:07, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
List of Maharashtra cricketers. A lack any other biographical information tends to suggest that we're unlikely, at this stage, to be able to find any sources which deal with the subject in detail - I certainly can't find anything. That we know of only two matches he played in - no other club matches - makes this more likely in my view. If such sources become available I would, as always, have no issue with the article being recreated. This is consistent with cases such as
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. James (1814 cricketer).
Blue Square Thing (
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01:20, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment - Assuming I'm these days less likely to vote speedy keep as I would in the old days, if we must not keep the article, we should redirect to the team list in question. Deleting is of no use, especially based on arbitrary nonsense guidelines like GNG where it is clearly stated on WP:N that either GNG or an SNG applies. In any case, someone would end up redirecting to
List of Maharashtra cricketers anyway regardless of this conversation. Since there does exist in this case a workable list of first-class players, redirecting would make more sense than deleting. "Does not have a first name listed" is not a deletion criterion.
Bobo.19:59, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
There would be a case for redirecting the three blue links certainly, and I'd have no objection to redirecting the red links either. It seems a reasonable way to approach these sorts of things in the first instance.
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WP:GNG, though in article you will find plenty of verifyable source but it is not enough to make the artist notable, it is too soon to start a new article about him.
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WP:GNG, and by extension
WP:N, and the coverage is routine statistical listings. Details aren't provided on how many matches the subject played, but it was only during one season. The subject is long since retired. Technically, the subject meets
WP:CRIN, but this forms a part of
WP:NSPORT, which clearly states that "the meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept". Per
this discussion, community consensus is that "subject-specific notability guidelines do not supersede the general notability guideline, except in clear cases where GNG does not apply." In this case, coverage is so meagre that we do not even have the players full name.
Harriastalk10:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - doesn't actually meet NCRIC either - the single match he is known to have played in is one that isn't considerd first-class by anyone other than the article's author (it was a match against the Montpelier Club - his
CricketArchive profile is here). So, we have a single non-notable match of cricket, a surname and an initial. We'll never be able to build a biography on that and the single match doesn't make him notable in any way. Of course, he may be notable for something else, if we can ever figure out who he actually was.
Blue Square Thing (
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10:52, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. Same as the two previous entries in this list. Nowhere near enough for GNG even if it does meet the SNG. You can't build an article on a statistical record. I do have a question for
StickyWicket, though, about why you think one or both of the sources are self-published? They are from the 19th century and, at face value, seem to be authentic.
No Great Shaker (
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13:55, 29 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment. @
No Great Shaker: I take that back! Reading the nomination I thought the source being quoted was self-published by the now banned user who created the article, they often used their own website for references and claimed some non first-class cricketers were first-class.
StickyWicket (
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09:50, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
@
AssociateAffiliate: thanks for getting back to me. I remove self-published sources too, so I quite understand. Must admit I do get confused about first-class because its scope looks to be much wider than in football and there seem to be different views about when and how it began. I suppose this guy playing in the 1800s was too early. Anyway, all the best.
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No indication of notability. BLPPROD removed because of the external links, which are lacking. Has had no inline footnotes since the article's inception. Anarchyte (
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This appears to be a page for a gaming league that carries no notability. I'm dubious, as they cite they have sponsors, so I half expect there to be some disagreement - but I'm not seeing this fit into the
general notability guidelines - and just because one has sponsors does not mean they meet those guidelines.
Dennis The Tiger (
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07:12, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep I created and edited this page but published without any references, now they are in the text including the ones you mentioned about sponsors and partners. Other teams outside of eSports usually have sponsors linked on their pages, such as soccer teams. Also I think it would be interesting to see that there are other teams of equal relevance to eSports with active pages like
Team Liquid,
SK Telecom T1,
Royal Never Give Up,
Fnatic among others. I intend to continue working and evolve this page. Thank you.
Nidaloove (
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11:43, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep A quick google search finds several reliable sources headlining this club, including Dot Esports, The Esports Observer, and ESPN.
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Delete. Quoting
WP:POLITICIAN: "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline." If we can get some
good sources on this mayor, then, I will reconsider. --
Dennis The Tiger (
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07:27, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete as not meeting notability guidelines. Would settle for moving back to draft as it might be hard to find googlenews hits, or any google hits, on someone in Nepal, and as a precaution against systemic bias.-- Deepfriedokra11:22, 24 December 2019 (UTC).reply
Delete This article was originally used mainly to promote a non-notable actor and self-published activist who had a bit part (not even starring or credited) in a movie. There was another Narendra Singh Dhami who was Chairman, Malikarjun Rural Municipality, Darchula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mytM6kuoFw0 who has an interview on TV Today Nepal, and who is different from the one that is being listed/promoted here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Narendra_Singh_Dhami&oldid=919257202 If this is meant to be about the politician, then it should be about that second Dhami. If the first one (the activist/author) has since become mayor, then it needs the secondary news sources, otherwise it confuses the two even more. The articles presented have tens of elected officials, some of whom have Singh Dhami as a family name, so they are just as
WP:MILL local office as the others, and given that the editors know who the parents are named and actual birthplace, are likely to have even more COI. Another option is to Retarget to
Malikarjun and list as current representative/mayor in the infobox, but that would have to be sourced, and then it might have to be deleted anyway should someone else become mayor later. The article had also been disputed/rejected multiple times by myself at AFC but the same socks have been pushing him into the mainspace, so I would not recommend draftifying until competence and better sourcing is shown.
AngusWOOF (
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15:01, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. Being mayor of a rural municipality with a population of less than 2K is not a Wikipedia inclusion freebie — at this level of significance, the key to getting him into Wikipedia is not just stating and verifying that he exists, and would require writing and
reliably sourcing a substantive article about his political importance. And that's not what this article is. Furthermore, the article's most frequent editors have been users named "Ram Singh Dhami" and "Tijendra Singh Dhami", suggesting
conflict of interest editing by the subject's own family. As always, "I'm proud of my relative for doing the thing!" is not in and of itself grounds for inclusion in an international encyclopedia.
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16:13, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete:No notable sources found in Google
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Comment - This is not a G4 speedy at all; the article was previously deleted before the first AfD completed. It's sort of leaning a touch on A7, though - and without sources that would be a slam dunk. --
Dennis The Tiger (
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07:22, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete: Per Nom, Dennis The Tiger, and Jtbobwaysf. I do not see any clear notability for a Wikipedia article and certainly nothing to give evidence of a recreation over previous AFD deletion comments. Maybe it needs a little
"salting" to hinder the next creation.
Otr500 (
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12:01, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Weak delete It seems as if she has some regional notability based on the sources of LA Times and such, but that’s not enough. Once you start scraping the bottom of the barrel for Amazon listings it’s dire.
Trillfendi (
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17:46, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - Notability not met by sources in article (as of this !vote), and my usual search for sources turned up nothing better. It appears this is a promotional piece for a topic that doesn't meet GNG or
WP:CREATIVE.
78.26(
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So, setting aside the mangled citations (I tried searching for those ISBN numbers and found nothing that looked relevant to the subject), this is an interview in the publication of a
student summer program, and a poem published in a pay-to-play anthology of unclear significance? Plus you appear to share a last name with the subject?. signed, Rosguilltalk03:20, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Agreed with Rosguill. Those sources are useless - Interviews are not acceptable citations except to prove
"This is what <foo> actually believes/argues" and do nothing for notability like all other sources contributed to or written by the subject or their satellites. And if you're citing a dead-tree source you need to include the minimum amount of information to look it up - onus is on you for that. (For books this is: Title, author, publisher, year of publication, pages being cited, ISBN.) —
A little blue Boriv^_^vOnward to 202009:04, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Throwing in every reference you can find that just happens to mention the subject's name isn't really helping. 37 refs of insignificant coverage is still insignificant coverage, it still doesn't add up to anything that can be described as notable.
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This is explicitly a
WP:TNT nomination. It's unsourced and has been for a year, but the article is not even completely in English anymore as of recently. I looked for sources, but I couldn't find any which were reliable.
Merge Spent a few minutes researching this. I reverted the article back to its last good revision and added the AfD template back in place, but there's also an
Remalle article which needs to be improved which clearly passes
WP:GEOLAND #1. OpenStreetMap has a "Kotta Remalle" and a "Pata Remalle" which if the Remalle article is to be believed stands for "old" and "new" in the local language Telugu (thanks Google Translate.) So we should just fold this into the actual article we have for the settlement as part of the
WP:TNT.
SportingFlyerT·C09:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Remalle. The article is now a perfectly reasonable village stub so
WP:TNT doesn’t appear to apply anymore, if it ever did. SportingFlyer’s argument for a merge over a keep is convincing so I’d go for that.
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Proposed deletion for lack of notability. There simply is none. Citations in the entry are local publications (and several of the subject's own tweets) mentioning some trash cleanups he organized. One NBC.COM article about Gays for Trump in which he appears in a photo caption, but is not otherwise mentioned or quoted. — Preceding
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Delete. The article states nothing about him that is "inherently" notable enough to guarantee inclusion in an encyclopedia, and the referencing is not strong enough to get him over
WP:GNG in lieu of having to pass any SNGs: once you discount all the self-published
primary sources that aren't support for notability at all and the sources which mention his name but are not about him for the purposes of establishing his notability, the few left over that are actually
reliable source coverage about him don't add up to enough. GNG, as always, is not just "count the footnotes and keep anything that meets or exceeds an arbitrary mumber": we also consider the depth of how substantively any source is or isn't about him, the geographic range of how widely he's getting covered, and the context of what he's getting covered for, not just the raw number of footnotes present.
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The coverage of Pache is similar to the coverage that any decent minor league player would receive - there's nothing suggesting he's more notable than any specific minor leaguer per the
ten year test, and
WP:NBASE allows us to redirect/merge the article to the prospect page. That's a typical solution for these sorts of articles on minor leaguers, and we can always recreate it if he makes the bigs.
SportingFlyerT·C23:29, 1 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Nope.
WP:NBASE discusses which type of coverage counts towards
WP:GNG for baseball players, and he doesn't quite meet that threshold. If the standard for baseball players was just "has been written about," almost every prospect would be notable.
SportingFlyerT·C00:16, 2 January 2020 (UTC)reply
That's not true. It's basic that if you meet GNG, you don't need to meet more narrow alternative ways to notability such as
Wikipedia:Notability (sports). Which NBASE is part of. As the overarching introduction to
Wikipedia:Notability (sports) states: "This guideline is used to help evaluate whether or not a
sports person ... is likely to meet the
general notability guideline, and thus merit an article in Wikipedia. The article should provide reliable sources showing that the subject meets the general notability guideline or the sport specific criteria set forth below.... If the article does meet the criteria set forth below, then it is likely that sufficient sources exist to satisfy
the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. Failing to meet the criteria in this guideline means that notability will need to be established in other ways (e.g. the general notability guideline...." So - if you meet GNG, it is irrelevant whether you meet NBASE. Editors who seem to be especially active in discussing GNG vs SNG would include
User:Masem and
User:North8000, but if you really want an in depth discussion of this (again) you could consider starting it at the talk page of GNG.
2604:2000:E010:1100:A129:823B:7DD2:1814 (
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00:33, 2 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Nope,
WP:NBASEspecifically qualifies what type of coverage is suitable for determining notability of baseball players. Pache's only claim to notability is that he is a top baseball prospect, but not all top baseball prospects are automatically notable - just because a player receives coverage for being a baseball player does not automatically mean that player is notable. All of the coverage of Pache is routine for a minor league baseball player.
SportingFlyerT·C01:49, 2 January 2020 (UTC)reply
First, I think you're wrong as to GNG; please read the above. Perhaps others will chime in. Second, I think you are perhaps somewhat exaggerating when you assert that all of his coverage is "routine" for a minor league player; it is routine for a player who has made All Star Teams for three years running, has been named the 2019 MLB Pipeline Best Outfield Defender in the minor leagues, and is rated the # 11 prospect in baseball. That is, perhaps, a different class of player. Perhaps that is why he has attracted GNG coverage. But as to why, that is unimportant - it is enough that he has GNG coverage.
2604:2000:E010:1100:B0A7:9006:7E1D:BCAA (
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03:47, 2 January 2020 (UTC)reply
We entirely disagree, but he hasn't actually attracted
WP:GNG-level coverage: he has generated the level of coverage expected for a minor league prospect of his caliber. A simple before search includes a flurry of minor league transactions (not qualifying for
WP:GNG) and Braves prospect watches - these usually aren't considered independent enough of the subject to qualify for
WP:GNG, as noted in the delete !votes above. There is absolutely nothing wrong with including this information, as we traditionally have,
Atlanta Braves minor league players#Cristian Pache, and creating a standalone article when the player either makes the majors or somehow becomes otherwise independently notable.
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Delete We are not supposed to be a fandom site. In the early days we were a de facto Star Wars fandom site, and we are just ending our role as a Tolkien fandom site with current deletion discussions, although there many to go.
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Obscure UFO report fails
WP:NFRINGE. At about this time there were hundreds if not thousands of these sorts of "yokel finds UFO in his backyard" stories in local media. There are grey-lit books chock-a-block full of them. That is not enough to establish the notability of the claims enough for a standalone article. This looks like it may have been started by an erstwhile fan of the story, and I have some sympathy for that because this story is a delight if a bit cringey and eye-rolly.
jps (
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02:06, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Your sources are "martiansgohome.com" and a tell-all jaunt from
Prometheus Books (an enjoyable one, to be sure, but not one that confers notability on particular "weird tales" it covers). As much as I respect AJC, a single newspaper article is surely not enough for us to base a Wikipedia article on.
WP:NFRINGE is a high standard for a reason.
jps (
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02:35, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete There's a bunch of fringe coverage but nothing reliable. One of the two sources (External link, actually) is a UFO research society that should probably be removed. Misidentified weather balloon is similar to another misidentified weather balloon and/or non-ufo-related government coverup. –
dlthewave☎02:32, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I think this has great relevance to the Roswell crash, in terms of the similarity of the debris. If this had been widely known at the time that all of the Roswell hype came out, it should have quickly been settled. This was reliably identified as a weather balloon, and it matches the Roswell debris.
Bubba73You talkin' to me?02:38, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. The article says Ufologist James Moseley investigated the incident...called the airport... and confirmed that the object was a device used by the Air Force to determine wind velocity and direction." Since when has an identified weather device been a flying saucer, and how do we justify "flying saucer crash" in the heading when the text said it involved something else? Wikipedia was such a good idea. What a pity.
Moriori (
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02:48, 24 December 2019 (UTC).reply
Nonsense. You wrote above that "This was reliably identified as a weather balloon". Please read our article
Flying saucer. Note that flying saucer = UFO. This Horton debris was neither anomalous or unidentified.
Moriori (
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08:53, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Balloons mistaken for UFOs is a reasonable topic, and there are probably plenty of sources you can use to write about it. Ralph Horton could make an appearance in such an article. But as a standalone, this article is problematic.
jps (
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03:12, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
BTW, I thought Mosely's book was a fun and instructive read. But the text says he was prompted on his adventure after "Perusing the flying saucer file of The Atlanta Constitution..."
[18], which could mean old, unpublished reports kept in a file, and no actual published record in the newspaper. How wrong I was. It's the second entry down in the the (paywalled) newspapers.com archive, dated Wednesday July 8, 1953,
[19], and the second snippet view mentions Horton's discovery of a "kite shaped apparatus". -
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19:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Non-notable hoax that was pulled off in 1953. Newspapers.com has full archives of the Atlanta Constitution from 1868 to the present. On July 7, 1953 (not 1952 as the article inaccurately reports), page 1 of the newspaper had a short article Cone-Shaped Rocket' Puzzles Scores Here which described multiple sightings of a cone-shaped object "about six inches in diameter" travelling about 40 miles an hour, several hundred feet in the air. The next day, the same paper, also on page 1, had another article Experts Baffled, Doubt 'Thing' a Wind Gauge, which describes how Atlanta resident Ralph Horton found a "ra-wind" device in his front yard near the County Airport, which is an instrument that is used to plot wind currents in the upper air, and how they all agreed that what Mr. Horton found was not the "thing" that people were reporting about the previous day. The Air Force said they released the weather balloon at 4pm that day, but it would not have still been aloft when the UFO reports were coming in. There's no mystery about Ralph Horton's device, there was no UFO, and there was no controversy. Interestingly, and illustrative of what a rabbit hole searching archives on newspapers.com can become, on page 1 of the paper the next day was a pretty lengthy story about two barbers and a butcher from Atlanta who claimed they captured "a little man from outer space" trying to board a flying saucer. Scientists at Emory University identified the body of the alien as a nothing but Capuchin Monkey that had been shaved and its tail cut off. The "mastermind" of the plot who claimed to have found the alien was fined $40 the next day for placing a carcass on a highway and admitted he was surprised that anybody fell for his hoax, saying he was just trying to get his picture in the paper and had bet a friend $10 that he could. On July 10, he won his bet after being handed the fine and a threat of jail time if he tried any more pranks. He told the newspaper that he had been trying for several days to spread reports of flying saucers in the sky and found it very easy to do by just staring in the air and asking bystanders if they'd seen that flying saucer that just went by. The whole story is about a prank pulled off by a couple of bored people that received some trivial coverage in their local paper. Ralph Horton found a weather balloon. Not worthy of an article about the hoax itself due to
WP:NFRINGE "
silly season" news reports- an editorial in the paper on July 9 described the UFO and the alien man as an illustration of the start what they in the business call the "silly season".
RecycledPixels (
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James W. Moseley#Ralph_Horton crash case per LuckyLouie.
RecycledPixels (
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Comment. As redirect seems to rule the day, the article content will need fixing before moving elsewhere. I will request references .
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Fictional character from Tolkien who fails
WP:GNG. There's just not really coverage in reliable sources about this figure. I'm not sure what would be a good redirect target for this figure, even.
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01:43, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete There are multiple Wikis about the works of Tolkien, and they have articles on Dior. I was going to nomiunate this article for deletion before someone beat me to it. To me the fact that this article dates back to Dec. 25, 2002 is particularly sad. The article of
David O. McKay arguably the most important 20th-century leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only dates back to the spring of 2004. I was searching for sources, I came across this
[20] which is no where near a reliable source, but it has way more real world relevance than this article does. I also came across a reddit discussion of weather Dior was the most underwhelming character in the Silmarillion (That would be hard to demonstrate, there are so many) which includes people asking why Elwing is not just the daughter of Beren and Lithian. To make things more fun, I recently read an indepth article comparing the fall of Troy to the fall of Gondolian (specifically comparing it to the works of Virgil), and in there the author said that Elwing was Beren and Lithian's daughter. So Dior is so forgetable he gets forgotten in scholarly works.
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This locomotive is, according to the article, at the Canadian Railway Museum. As such, a free image of it could be made as it still exists. Fails
WP:NFCC#1.
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Delete This was actually not created until late 2005, which is more recent than many LotR articles. It is also a clear example of confusing in universe importantce with literary importance. If LotR purported to be a history of a real place, maybe on that evidence we would keep this article. However, it does not. So the reports on him in the books are primary sources, and his role is very minor, to the literary functions of the book. We have a huge way to go to get these fictional biographies under control, but this is not even a close contest.
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Weak keep. I'm a bit on the fence here, but the Xindi had a fair presence in Enterprise. At the risk of invoking
WP:WAX, there is precedent for including the races of the Trek universe (see
Klingon, for instance) - but I know that this alone is not justification. Seems well cited, at the worst. --
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07:18, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment - notable that the first AfD was a keep for lack of consensus. Also notable was that there was no mention of delete in the !votes - it was either a redirect or a keep. My statement above stands. --
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Delete. The article about the person who created this mixtape,
Chase N. Cashe, has been deleted repeatedly. If the artist who created the recording isn't notable enough for an article, the recording probably isn't either. (See
WP:A9.) --
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The result was keep per the number of AfD participants here recommending to do so. However, (personal opinion) after reading through the article, I must admit that the article suffers from
WP:REFBOMBing, and most if it just references plot, and not even always about this character. This makes the article a likely target for another AfD in the future, so I recommend thinking about other solutions for covering the fictional IT elements that span several adaptations. –
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This was at AfD and closed as a redirect in September, recreated a day later with more sources, and then has shuffled around between draftspace and mainspace. My initial reaction was that the redirect should be restored, but that has been done enough. There has been a number of new sources added since the last AfD, and so I think the best possible situation here is to have another AfD instead of boldly redirecting the article for the fourth time.
I'm also having a difficult time determining just which sources would demonstrate this character's notability. I'm happy to withdraw or change my opinion if those are clearly demonstrated.
SportingFlyerT·C23:06, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep While this article is still not in the best shape it could be, I think there is enough sources present to prove notability. There are also many sources present
in books avalable from Google Books which are not present on this page that go into more depth.
★Trekker (
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23:15, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
@
*Treker: Thanks for finding some more sources. At the moment I’m on a family vacation in New Zealand, so I don’t have much internet, but I‘ll add them once I get a chance to! -
SeanTheYeti452
Delete - simply not enough in-depth coverage regarding real world notability to satisfy
WP:GNG. Not every character in a popular book is notable outside the work in which they appear. But because the book is popular, there are going to be lots of stuff written about them in fan-related media.
Onel5969TT me23:25, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I think it's unfair to characterize all coverage of this character as comming from "fan-related media", I gave it a Google Books search and I have found coverage of the character in The Complete Stephen King Universe, The Shape Under the Sheet, Stephen King: The Second Decade, Danse Macabre to The Dark Half, The Moral Voyages of Stephen King, Dissecting Stephen King: From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism, Landscape of fear: Stephen King's American Gothic, The Dark Descent: Essays Defining Stephen King's Horrorscape, The Stephen King phenomenon, Imagining the Worst: Stephen King and the Representation of Women among several. Like I said above this page is not in the best shape, but an article not being great is no reason for deletion.
★Trekker (
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23:39, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
All of which is fan-based discussion. I really respect what you do on WP, and I understand your viewpoint. I simply think that fictional stuff should have real-world notability, not simply in-universe or fan-based sourcing.
Onel5969TT me23:45, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I don't see how all those books should be considered "fan-based". If one were to cite 10 published works on Poe or Lovecraft I don't think it should be disregarded as "fan based" just because they cover fiction when the author is a highly notable individual who's works have been disected a ton within literature. King may not be as big as the the two forementioned but he is a giant within horror and his work has been the subject of much analysis, that includes his characters. This isn't just some minor character of his either, its a main figure in one of his most adapted and acclaimed novels.
★Trekker (
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23:56, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep, the sources establish notability, the article needs to be improved, not deleted. Deletion is disruptive, and this character clearly has notability. -
SeanTheYeti452
Keep per
*Treker; available sources establish notability well beyond fan-based discussion. The article needs improvement and will surely get it, but it clearly passes
WP:GNG and should not be deleted. —
HunterKahn12:06, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment if
SportingFlyer and
Onel5969 now recognize that many of the article's references, shouldn't be characterized as "fan-based", could you please return here, and say so? This would be in the best interests of the project, as it would allow an early closure, and thus save the valuable time of people who would otherwise read this AFD over the next six days.
If, on the other hand, you still think deletion is appropriate, could you make a more serious effort to explain what is wrong with the existing references?
There is a trend I have found alarming. For years now experienced contributors have been nominating articles for deletion, or endorsing deletion, based on their personal opinions that those article's topics aren't inherently serious enough to merit a standalone article. This is counter-policy. NPOV, VERIFY and NOR call upon us to rely on the opinions of RS. The opinions of RS count. Our opinions do not.
I have spent years covering controversial topics, where I personally disagreed with every single RS. So far as I am concerned, when one is considering working on a topic where our opinions diverge from those of RS, we have only two policy compliant choices: (1) do our best to keep our personal opinions to ourselves, and do our best to only contribute text that neutrally summarizes the RS we disagree with; or (2) opt out from covering that topics. Let other people deal with them.
SportingFlyer, your nomination doesn't actually give a specific justification for deletion. In particular, your second sentence sounds, well, like just your casual and unexamined gut feeling.
Geo Swan (
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20:58, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Geo Swan: I typically switch between the older and newer pages in New Page Patrol, this was one of the older pages, and it said it had been recently deleted. I looked at the history to do a bit of research, and saw the article had been recreated and redirected repeatedly. After looking through many of the sources in the article, I didn't see any coverage of the character I thought significant enough to warrant a new article on. Instead of redirecting and turning this into an edit war, I thought an AfD discussion would be the best solution. I've looked through the books mentioned above by @
Treker: and while the character's name gets mentioned several times, at no point does that coverage appear to be significant - for instance, in Dissecting Stephen King, the character's name only appears briefly on three pages, the Complete Stephen King Universe discusses what seems to be every character, the Shape Under the Sheet is an encyclopaedia of minutia about King novels, The Moral Voyage appears to be okay but it's printed in Courier New, the copyright of the book is flagrantly wrong, and it appears to have been republished (ie there's a chance it's not a reliable source.) The fact the article is source-bombed (there are 11 references for a single sentence) makes this very difficult to check and see if the sources in the article are both reliable and cover the subject significantly. I don't have any opinion on whether this should be kept or not, but I don't see how it passes
WP:GNG with significant coverage in reliable sources, I'm happy to let others direct me to those sources, and I'm not going to be keeping my opinions to myself. This needed to be discussed, and I'm fine if it's kept, but I would like to see actual significant coverage of this character.
SportingFlyerT·C21:55, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Your disecting of the sources seems flawed to me, 1) how many times a characters name is mentined is rather trivial compared to the information one can extract from the text, 2) claiming that because the book covers a lot of Stephen Kings characters that makes the coverage of this specific character less worthwhile is a poor way to reason in my mind, only thing that really implies is that King has written many characters with coverage, which is incredibly unsuprising considering his career and success, 3) I don't see how a book being republished is as issue (maybe I'm misunderstanding something here), 4) when deciding if a topic is notable one should not look at only the article itself as the shape it is for the moment, if we only did that then tons of articles on some of the most notable things in the world would be deleted, the best thing to do is to search for sources oneself (Im aware this take much more effort but it is the safe way to do it) and judge what you find. Those books I cited are only some of the few I could find within two pages of searching on Google Books.
★Trekker (
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22:16, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
At least for me, the Google Books falls off by about Page 4. I don't think searching for the character's name within the text is a flawed way to search at all - if there was a chapter dedicated to the character I'd change my !vote to keep. The fact the character's only mentioned a couple times within these sources is a red flag to me. I have no problem with using the information found within encyclopaedias to flesh out the article, but using an encyclopaedia which covers every single character as the basis for notability is a red flag to me. The fact the book has been republished isn't itself an issue, but I can't find that much information about the book or author, and the way it's typeset doesn't look professional (looks like something self-published with a typewriter) which is a red flag to me. The fact the page is badly source-bombed is a red flag to me. I've even looked through Google Scholar, which has a number of mentions of Denbrough but I haven't found anything I would consider significant. I'm still not sure this character is notable enough for a standalone article. I'm happy to be convinced otherwise, though.
SportingFlyerT·C22:45, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Well it seems rather clear that you've already made up your mind, I'm not going to try to push you if this is simply the way you feel after looking at all the avalable sources. I've made my case and am happy with it, if we disagree then we disagree.
★Trekker (
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23:44, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
No worries, it's on track to be kept anyways and there's nothing wrong with disagreement! I'm still happy to listen to a response as to why these sources demonstrate notability, as it's not obvious to me (or a couple others) - it may not get me to change how I feel about this particular article but at the very least it will make it easier for me to patrol the project going forward, as none of the keep !voters have discussed why the sources (or which sources) are significant so far. If you could pick what you think are the
WP:THREE best sources I'd still appreciate your input, but no worries if you want to move on.
SportingFlyerT·C03:23, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
That's fair. I looked to see if the book could have been self-published rather than looking at the author. It was originally published by Starmont House
[3], a specialty publisher, and that link notes why the quality of the publication was so terrible. (To be fair, if the criticism had been published academically, I wouldn't have any trouble with the source at all.)
SportingFlyerT·C04:23, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
In the first couple of paragraphs of your reply you refer to checking the references in the article. Excuse me if I voice a concern over this approach. Topics that are notable should not be deleted when the current state of the article is weak. Rather, as per
WP:BEFORE, don't those who call for deletion have an obligation to look beyond the references in the article? Don't they have an obligation to conduct an independent web search, so they could form their own informed conclusion as to whether the topic is or isn't notable. Maybe you did this, and just didn't mention it. But, if you don't do a web search, to reach your own informed conclusion as to whether a topic is or isn't notable, I would strongly encourage you to start doing so. It is what is best for the project. Unfortunately, in recent years, we see an increasing number of contributors nominating articles without complying with BEFORE. And we see an increasing number of people who take the nominator's claims about article's references at face value, and add a "delete" opinion, without even looking at the article in question.
Finally, a large number of our articles can't have the underlying notability of their topics confirmed or refuted by a naive web search. (1) the web search links at the top of an AFD can be almost worthless when an article's title is disambiguated; (2) naive web searches can be insufficient when a genuinely notable person has more famous namesakes; (3) naive web searches are generally insufficient when an individual played a role in a recent highly covered event. There were over half a dozen people who tried to get the newly created article on
Chesley Sullenberger deleted - because their use of google was naive. I found, on that day, that, even though 99 percent of the coverage of Sullenberger was recent and repetitive coverage of his heroic landing, the remaining 1 percent included significant coverage of earlier events, so he wasn't a BLP1E.
With regard to significant coverage. A dozen references, or even one hundred references, that each report the same single detail, do not add up to significant coverage. But a dozen references, or even half a dozen references, that each only report one or two details, can add up to significant coverage, if they document a half dozen different details.
With regard to dismissing encyclopedias. I think we all agree that encyclopedia ar as refticles written by non-notable individuals, who aren't reliable sources, should not be used as references. But encyclopedias, or encyclopedia like things, written by reliable sources, should continue be used as references. I used to keep my copy of Isaac Asimov's Biographical Dictionary of Science beside my computer. I have used references to the Canadian Dictionary of Biography in dozens of articles.
Similarly, a blanket dismissal of "blogs" is ill-advised. Some online publications called blogs are highly reliable and highly regarded. Newspaper columnists who cover the US Supreme Court routinely cite the opinions voiced in SCOTUSBLOG.
Geo Swan (
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03:41, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Geo Swan: This is a bit of a unique AfD. I'm not actively looking to delete the article, but rather am attempting, procedurally, to see if restoring a redirect is the proper course of action. I almost always conduct a
WP:BEFORE search (the exceptions don't include this article, but rather where the reason for deletion is obvious), and the initial search didn't bring up anything that I thought established notability beyond the sources in the article. I also focused on the difference in the sourcing between the last redirected article and the current article, as the current version contains over 20 new sources to go through, so I primarily looked to see which of those sources demonstrated notability The last AfD closed with the statement (quoting Tone: If there are more sources with analysis or so, then maybe return separate articles but not in the present state. (What's also interesting is no character section exists at the
It (novel) article.) Since this AfD, I've also searched Google Books and Google Scholar. If you're insinuating I've missed sources, I'm happy to review any additional sources, but I simply do not understand which of the available sources are clearly reliable and clearly demonstrate notability. I'm also not suggesting encyclopaedias aren't reliable sources. I'm concerned the fact something was mentioned in an specialist encyclopaedia doesn't automatically suggest the topic notable enough for Wikipedia. Is every single King character notable since it was listed in The Complete Stephen King Universe? The Shape under the Sheet is an encyclopaedia which includes minutia such as "Forty miles an hour" (the speed Denbrough drove) and "United Flight 41" (the flight number another character flew in another book.) Ultimately, I'm interested in the question - what makes a fictional character notable, and which sources out there show Denbrough is notable enough for his own article per
WP:GNG? And ultimately, I'm interested in answering the question through identifying which sources demonstrate his notability, which no one here has really done yet.
SportingFlyerT·C04:06, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect - Looking through about ten of the sources, I'm seeing a mix of trivial mentions, no mentions at all, staff interviews, trivial pop culture articles, etc. I think shoving every single possible reference into it hoping they stick isn't really the best way to try to establish notability.
TTN (
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17:39, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
TTN, checking for references that support the notability of articles before AFD is one area where wikipedia contributors efforts routinely fall short. If you meant to suggest that those who contributed to the article should have been more selective, and used fewer but better references, you are correct. Note: this is an editorial issue - not grounds for deletion.
Your comment very strongly suggests you made a very common error - one I already warned about, in this discussion. It sounds like, instead of conducting your own web search, you merely looked at the article's existing references.
However, our policies are, and always have been, that the notability of a topic should not be evaluated on the existing state of the article. When we have a weak article on a topic that is nevertheless notable, policy calls on us to improve the weak article, not delete it. So, please, don't form your conclusions on the notability of topics based on the references currently in the article.
Is this more work? Sure. Is this a problem? No.
The wikipedia has a kind of auto-immune disorder. When humans have auto-immune disorders their immune systems attacks healthy organs. Well, AFD is part of the wikipedia's immune system. We made policy changes, and technical changes, that have made it easier to nominate articles for deletion. It is too easy. TTN, the efforts you made to look at references to support the notability of the Bill Denbrough character have fallen short.
Tony Magistrale is one of King's most respected biographers. His academic career has focussed on King, and he is widely quoted, and asked to comment by journalists. So, what does he say say about Denbrough?
King may have created hundreds of fictional characters, maybe thousands of fictional characters, in his many stories. I don't know how many wikipedia articles we have on King's characters. I would be very surprised if most of King's characters weren't notable topics, weren't the target of serious commentary from serious academics and serious literary critics. I would have no problem deleting or redirecting articles on King characters who haven't been the target of serious commentary. However, the Bill Denbrough character is, apparently, one of the small subset of King characters who serious academics and literary critics have identified as a character King uses as a surrogate. The Bill Denbrough character is one of the small subset of King's characters who are authors, like King.
Geo Swan (
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17:51, 29 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - I didn't explicitly say keep, above.
The article needs a new lead paragraph. The Tony Magistrale book, prematurely dismissed above, explains why the character of Bill Denbrough is more notable than the hundreds of other characters King created in his books. In some of his books King creates characters who are writers. Denbrough is one of the much more limited set of characters King created, who are writers, who King uses to covertly reply to his critics, or to comment on the life of a writer.
Question Strictly on a procedural level, how did we even get here? I can understand this getting to
SportingFlyer with the recent removed redirect triggering a potential review, but how did this get to
ZI Jony where the redirect was recently restored in the first place? It looks like the page was
restored here after the AfD concerns were believed to be addressed (3 edits prior was Draftspace → Mainspace), and I see that
CAPTAIN MEDUSA is also a new page reviewer. Does this mean that carrying out a History merge as a technical request does not include marking a new page review on the new page curation log? I'm guessing that's the only only way it would remain on the pending review list... Should the steps that go into a move/merge like this include a "new page review" before its carried out and rejecting the request if it's not satisfactory? Or are the two just entirely separate processes with no bridge between the two unless someone carrying out the request goes above and beyond? (This is just a question that could lead to potential process improvements.) -
2pou (
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19:16, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right for the redirect, which then came to you. What I didn't understand is if it was sitting with a NPP flag after after the history merge, and why bother with the merge in the first place, if it wasnt going to pass a NPP review later. -
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Fails GNG due to lack of RS coverage. Current article is, and has always been, sourced to a writeup on cryptozoology.com. BEFORE search returned only fringe sources and a few unrelated books by Bear Bergman. –
dlthewave☎22:46, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - The bear has been the subject of considerable scientific interest as mentioned in the CryptoZoology article and sources may not be easily accessed because they are not recent, and therefore not online, and may be in Russian.
Cwmhiraeth (
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11:03, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Ncryptozoology.com is not a reliable source and does not cite any reliable sources. If you're aware of Russian-language sources, please list them here so that we can evaluate them; otherwise this is just "there are probably sources out there" hand-waving which is not a valid Keep rationale. –
dlthewave☎14:31, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - Adding a number of sources, certainly appears in various works as an example of either a possibly extinct animal, or a notable instance of confusion over subtypes. Clears GNG with RS coverage. BEFORE search was perhaps not quite as thorough as it might have been.
Spokoyni (
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09:41, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
The sources you've added did come up in my BEFORE search, but most were dismissed per
WP:NFRINGE ("The notability of a fringe theory must be judged by statements from verifiable and reliable sources, not the proclamations of its adherents") or other reasons.
NBear Conservation doesn't cite any sources and appears to be lifted from Wikipedia. Compare the
April 2019 archive (last updated 16 September 2017) to the
December 2016 version of our article. The archive doesn't go back far enough to be conclusive, but in my experience the use of "alleged subspecies" is a dead giveaway. I've never seen anything called an "alleged species" outside of poorly-sourced cryptozoology-related Wikipedia articles.
Y This leaves us with one good source, The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals, which points out that the proposed species is based on a single specimen and its status as a valid taxon is uncertain.
Delete: the alleged species, "Ursus arctos piscator", is
Kamchatka brown bear which is not extinct; see scholarly articles:
[7]. "Piscator" is one of the variants of the species name, per the Kamchatka bear article. In any event, the sources in the article are either not RS or insuffient, such as www.bearconservation.org.uk, fringe cryptozoology books, and so on.
K.e.coffman (
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02:42, 31 December 2019 (UTC)reply
supposedly in Domico, Terry (1988). Bears of the world. Facts on File. can't find anything online and probably not a good source anyway
Delete Wow, how little it takes to spawn a cryptid.
Malaise has told me that on one occasion he saw the skull of a gigantic bear of the black kind; its teeth were perfect, and hence it could not have been that of an aged individual. On another occasion he also measured and photographed a bear's foot-print that was 37cm. long and 25cm. broad, so that the animal must have been a veritable giant. There is much, then, that speaks for the existence in Kamchatka of a quite black, gigantic bear, in addtion to the ordinary brown type; but this question must remain an open one.
Delete - Normally for actual species I'd support a rename or merge but it seems that the few sources that could be reliable don't agree with eachother. Other sources are so far in-universe. —
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Non-notable non-combatant in Irish Civil War/War of Independence. I have raised (and re-raised) concerns with this article's author (who has seen other similar submissions deleted recently on similar grounds), but in short this:
Article is effectively a "family history" piece, republished as a Wikipedia article. Problematic under
WP:NOTGENEALOGY and
WP:NOTMEMORIAL and related guidelines.
Content is a near verbatim copy/paste from the subject's military pension application record from the
Irish Military Archives. The pensions department received 100s of thousands of such submissions. And issued nearly 70,000 pensions to people who were involved in these conflicts. Not only are not all of the subject's not automatically notable, but the content of these records is not automatically appropriate for republication here. Not least because
those records are copyrighted. Problematic under
WP:NOTMIRROR and
WP:COPYVIO guidelines.
Subject is not notable. Bridget Mary Crowley was one of 10s of thousands of members of Cumann na mBan. And one of 100s of thousands of people (on "both sides") involved in the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War. There is nothing to indicate that this person meets
WP:MILPERSON or
WP:NBIO or any other notability guideline.
Comment At one time I was so sick of Wikipedia's presentist bias that I resoilved to not vote to delete any biographies of dead people. However it is articles like this on people without even a shred of notability that have shown to me all parts of Wikipedia need creation monitoring and pruning. Of course I do not think anything is worse than the glut of articles on names that were randomly dropped in the Silmarillion. All the more so because that book probably should never have been published, it was never anywhere near ready to go to press.
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Indiscriminate and incomplete list of a series spanning 18 years and over 4000 episodes. For what content exists, there are just basic TV guide plot summaries.
WP:NOR and covered already in plenty of Shortland Street fansites.
Ajf773 (
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19:50, 17 December 2019 (UTC)reply
KEEP Being incomplete is never a valid reason to delete something. Nor is its size. All notable shows have articles for episode lists. It is not indiscriminate because obviously it has a set requirement, must be an episode on that television show.
DreamFocus07:04, 18 December 2019 (UTC)reply
No they don't. Long running soaps such as Eastenders, Coronation Street, Neighbours, Home and Away, etc, do not have any episode lists. Episode lists are standard for shows where there is a limited number of episodes spanning a few seasons. The amount of original research used to try to justify one of this nature is all the more reason why it doesn't belong on Wikipedia.
Ajf773 (
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08:15, 18 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment: The above examples Ajf773 has provided of other soaps aren't to me sufficient as they are not even
WP:GA. I'd like to see an example of a GA/FA soap article to see how they do stuff. From what I can tell, there are very limited, if any, real GA+ soap articles, so we can't base the fact that these others don't have episode lists to any term of standard. I will point out however, that the maintainers of this article have incorrectly used the episode template and are showing the airdates as episode names, and are unnecessary using Aux1 and Aux2 instead of the correct parameter names. --
Gonnym (
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16:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)reply
While writing my comment and looking at the article, regardless if it should be deleted or kept, it's not ready for mainspace. It has the template issues above, too many empty sections, sections with comments that shouldn't be in an article ("able above needs to be updated."), or a weird season 27 situation. So atm, I'm supporting moving to draft, while I might support deletion if presented with good arguments. --
Gonnym (
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16:55, 18 December 2019 (UTC)reply
There is nothing in that essay link that states episode lists are always inherently notable. If you want to fix it, then you can volunteer, take it as a draft, but honestly, there's nothing worth fixing. This is fansite material, not encyclopedia material.
Ajf773 (
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20:26, 19 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. 6900+ episodes?
The Simpsons gets a pass because many (all?) of its episodes have articles and there aren't as many of them, but for long-running soap operas, it doesn't make much sense.
Clarityfiend (
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20:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Episode lists are fine as long as only one ep airs per week. But daily soaps? No way. Their story format is one drop per day to keep the audience hooked, and they don't have any artistic ambitions per episode, story- nor development-wise. Listing them all would be INDISCRIMINATE. –
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Apparently a low-budget movie made in some guy's basement that never seems to have attracted any coverage in reliable sources of any note. Only one source currently in the article can really be considered a source. There's passing mention
here, but I don't have really much else to offer. It claims to have a number of notable people as voice actors, but I've got no real source for any of it. Claims to have a 6.5m budget, but I've got no source for that either.
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Completing nomination on behalf of
User:TheLongTone, who offered no rationale. My read is that the article has no sources to indicate notability, and none are apparent in my searches. Further, the tone of the article suggests an attempt at promotion, which would fall afoul of several of our guidelines. I'll message TheLongTone to come here and provide additional commentary on their rationale.
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Fails
WP:BASIC and
WP:ANYBIO. The sources cited either do not mention this person, or just mention his name, or were published in the Daily Bruin, a newspaper published by UCLA where this person is alumni.
This primary source interview has some detail, but primary sources do not establish notability. I'm just not seeing enough accomplishments or bio in reliable sources to establish notability.
Magnolia677 (
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20:28, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Most sources give mere mentions, or don't mention him at all, except dailybruin.com. The most attention he received was for a widely ridiculed dress he designed for a 2017 Grammy award ceremony. The article describes that as "going viral". There is no significant, in-depth coverage of the subject in independent, reliable sources.
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Non-notable online news portal per
WP:NMEDIA. First source is owned by the same group, Second is an unrelated piece written by its publisher and the forth one is just a passing mention. Usual searches are also ended up falling
WP:WEBCRIT and
WP:GNG. ~
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Keep. Honorary degree meets
Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#Any_biography "1. The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times." Deleting standalone biographies like these undermines the project's goal of presenting the sum of human knowledge.
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From what people explained me here, that if a persons' position is named after a known professor, that person have a right to have an article. I might be wrong though.--
Biografer (
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19:54, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Named professorships are typically endowed positions, which just means that they are specially funded. They are typically given to professors who rise above their peers at their local institution, but that does not mean that they are notable by Wikipedia's standards. –
Jonesey95 (
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20:12, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, and departments are thrilled to have endowed chairs because it does not come out of an annual operating budget that fluctuates. She does have an endowed chair, but I cannot find anything else she is notable for. Ergo the nomination.
ThatMontrealIP (
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00:59, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Not finding coverage of her outside of UW internal news, does not appear to pass NPROF. Thanks to Jonesey95 for showing the absurdity of using named professorships toward notability; it's a widely used method of funding for both senior and junior faculty, not necessarily an indicator of a researcher or professor's impact or significance.
Reywas92Talk22:22, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, we should perhaps look into changing that. A named professorship is one of the things a Dean can dangle in front of a candidate during the hiring process, and it is not linearly connected to notability.
ThatMontrealIP (
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23:14, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Provided citations do not establish notability. No prejudice against later recreating the article if additional sources are located.
ElKevbo (
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02:10, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment. Although she appears to have an endowed professorship,
this speaker profile from 2016 indicates that she was given it as an associate professor. Therefore, it is unlikely to be the sort of endowed professorship given for extraordinary scholarship above and beyond the level of a typical full professor, and
WP:PROF#C5 (which should properly be about only that kind of endowed professorship) should have no bearing on this case. —
David Eppstein (
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01:55, 28 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Strong Weak Keep She meets
WP:NACADEMIC#5 "The person has held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research", as she is the Stimson Bullitt Endowed Professor of Environmental Law
[8]. WP:NACADEMIC states that "Academics meeting anyone of the following conditions, as substantiated through reliable sources, are notable." This is not the place to discuss changes to
WP:NACADEMIC. For those who are not familiar with it (not all editors commenting here, I am well aware), it explicitly states "This guideline is independent from the other subject-specific notability guidelines, such as WP:BIO, WP:MUSIC, WP:AUTH etc. and is explicitly listed as an alternative to the general notability guideline .... failure to meet either the general notability guideline or other subject-specific notability guidelines is irrelevant if an academic is notable under this guideline." And it also emphasises that only one of the 8 criteria needs to be met, so citation metrics are irrelevant, as is the issue of whether other sources exist.
RebeccaGreen (
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14:18, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
You need not explain it in detail; the entire discussion before your comment is discussing it, and everyone before your comment has rejected the SNG in this case.
ThatMontrealIP (
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14:54, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, I did read all the comments. I would take comments like "Wow" and "absurdity" as indicating lack of familiarity with the criteria. That is one of the reasons why I think that this is not the place to discuss changes to this SNG. Clearly all the editors contributing so far have a different opinion, but
WP:NACADEMIC is very clear that academics meeting any one of the criteria are notable, and there is nothing in #5 that says "held a named chair appointment (as long as they were a full professor, associate professors holding named chairs don't count)". It's also clear, in the
Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)#Specific_criteria_notes, that sources outside the institution are not required to verify that the person meets one of the criteria ("For documenting that a person has held such an appointment (but not for a judgement of whether or not the institution is a major one), publications of the appointing institution are considered a reliable source.") I believe that
Biografer was quite justified in writing an article about this person, but if no other editors agree (or not enough), then I guess this will end up being one of the "occasional exceptions" mentioned in the box at the top of
WP:NPROF.
RebeccaGreen (
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15:19, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment The
WP:NPROF guidelines say that C5 can "
be applied reliably only" for persons tenured at the full professor level, so a delete decision would not be contrary to that guideline. The endowed chair certainly helps support notability. Why did they appoint her to it? The best reason I've been able to see so far is promise, in which case this is
WP:TOOSOON. But perhaps her supreme court briefs are more notable than they appear? A subject-matter expert would be helpful here.
Russ Woodroofe (
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17:13, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
She does not hold an endowed chair (which is nonetheless expansive), she holds an endowed professorship, so C5 would still not apply here.
Reywas92Talk21:48, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Reywas92, the two terms (endowed chair/endowed professorship) are fairly interchangeable, with much of the variation coming down to local terminology of one university or another. C5 appears to be relevant, but (per the fine print in
WP:NPROF) not reliable.
Russ Woodroofe (
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22:04, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Fair point then; I had hoped
this search result from UT might have clarification, but "The very best universities in America often endow a third of their faculty positions" shows all the more reason this is a poor criterion that certainly doesn't confer automatic notability alone, since maybe about a third of positions are full professorships anyway. This caveat is interesting since I suppose someone may be hired as assistant professor with an endowment and keep that as a full professor too.
Reywas92Talk22:14, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
A third of positions is very likely an exaggeration; the link is from a university trying to convince donors to give money. Per
WP:NPROF, successful professors will generally be notable. C5 is a useful tool for us to assess success.
Russ Woodroofe (
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22:55, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment Back in the 1980s some universities were creating their first endowed professorships. They used to mean more than they do today. With Johns Hopkins alone having 483 of them, I think we need to stop taking them as default signs of notability. Often they do mean there is substance there, but not in every single case.
John Pack Lambert (
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20:41, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Criteria 5 has this caveat though that some above are ignoring "Criterion 5 can be applied reliably only for persons who are tenured at the full professor level, and not for junior faculty members with endowed appointments." So the person must have reached the rank of full professor before they get the appoitnment. If they are not yet a full professor having a named chair will not always be a default show of notability and this appears to fall under the later arangement.
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Comment I have changed my vote from Strong Keep to Weak Keep. Looking at the directory of faculty at the University of Washington School of Law, I see that the 67 faculty members are identified as: Lecturer (5), Senior Lecturer (7), Principal Lecturer (1), Assistant Professor (3), Associate Professor (7), Professor (32, of whom 13 are named positions), Fellow (1) and Chair (3) (and a few directors, deans, advisors, etc). Only 2 others have WP articles (one of the chairs, and a named professor emerita). None of the named positions are described as Associate Professor, although as Knudsen's CV says both "Stimson Bullitt Professor of Environmental Law" and "Associate Professor, 2015 to present", perhaps some are, and perhaps she is, and perhaps Criterion 5 can't therefore be applied reliably. And 20% of a faculty would be a large rate of notable members, though not improbable in a very notable institution - which this probably isn't.
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Weak Delete This is some minor coverage, the odd mention, but on the whole seems to be jobbing dancer, but doesn't seem to have made lead or insufficient to generate any real impact. Possible
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With CSD declined, I went to look for sources. I've found
[12] and
[13] – which were published before the article states when Anim8 was founded. Because they refer to another subject, I did not find any significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. According to
WP:INHERENTWEB, fame is not equivalent to notability. –
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Footballer who fails
WP:NFOOTY and
WP:GNG. Despite the number of references, almost all of them are trivial transfer updates. First Afd closed as no consensus due to incorrectly applied Mass AfD nom. --
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Not really seeing the claims of GNG in the article sources, they're mainly routine transfer reporting and match reports, but needs more time fo develop stronger consensus.
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Comment: it seems many people just look at the number of references rather then actually read them. There are 16 references: 7 trivial match reports (player only mentioned once in passing), 5 transfer rumor pieces, 2 sources that don't mention player at all, 1 youth national team trivial mention, 1 dead link. Now please explain how does this help him pass GNG. --
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tending Delete - Review of the sources shows lack of independent notability.
This looks good on the face of it, until you find that the listing itself is not peer-reviewed, and there are no published or reviewed results available.
This is a promotional write-up by the originator.
This is not a review, but a lavender-scented gush of enthusiasms. - However, not sure what to think about the Billboard rankings. #1 rankings do tend to come with some claim to notability, even if it's meant for dogs... --Elmidae (
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Try and get some clarity over the Billboard Rankings reference
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Redirect to
Sofia Talvik where the album is already listed in the discography section. Although I am a native Floridian (and enjoy the state despite
the obvious issues), I could not find enough coverage to support a separate article. I am always partial to redirecting whenever possible to help anyone who may be looking for information on a topic. There could be a language barrier at play here.
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I have done that before so I understand. I recommended
Sofia Talvik as the redirect target because the album is already mentioned in the article. The
Florida (Sofia Talvik album) article does not mention the acoustic version, but that information could easily be merged to make it a more suitable redirect target. I do not have a strong preference either way.
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While Jeopardy! is a widely notable television show and part of pop culture, an largely unreferenced article about a week-long tournament every/every-other season does not meet
WP:N.
Google search produces links back to this article, the production website and external Wiki fandom sites. Subject is adequately covered in
List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events.
Of the 18 footnotes in the article, none meet
WP:SIGCOV and most are local news stories featuring past contestants.
Redirect to
List of Jeopardy! tournaments and events. Most of the sourcing is to routine coverage (e.g., "local teen X finishes in Yth place") and primary sources, and the list of contestants, which makes up an overwhelming portion of the article, is essentially listcruft. Adequately covered at the main article about Jeopardy! tournaments. --Kinut/c20:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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The article on Eldarion exists because there is a confusion between importance in a constructed universe and importance in reality. Eldarion is very important in the former, and not at all in the later. He is not a minor character in The Lord of the Rings, he is a non-character. He is not even born until after the end of the plot. I am not even sure his name appears in the book per se, he is sourced it seems to the appendix, which in and of itself is generally a sign of non-notablity, not that being named in a book, even one as widely read as The Lord of the Rings makes one notable. We actually have a heavy legacy of pre-2010 articles on characters from literature, broadly defined, including works of literature that purport to be histories and are held as such by many of their reeaders (such as scripture), that are very low on 3rd party sourcing showing impact beyond those works. However the very fact that the article on Eldarion exists is probably the most extreme example of this I have ever seen. Yes, he sort of appears in a film, and true it was a very popular film, it at the time managed to become the 2nd highest grossing film ever, and still stands at number 26, although it may fall 28 or so when the Christmas holiday movie takes are all recorded. However Eldarion is not named in that film, and only appears briefly in a dream or vision of the future. Yes, Tolkien put pen to paper to write a story of the days when Eldarion was king, but he never made it more than a few papges into The New Shadow. The fact that such a non=character has had their article survive for just shy of 16 years is the saddest commentatry on Wikipedia possible.
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17:10, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment This article was proposed for deletion back on Dec. 7th of this year. The proposal was removed with the bald assertion "this article is important enough to remain and sources should be found." Why exactly is someone not ever mentioned by name in the main text of any book or in any movie notable? Sometimes it feels like people confuse the issues of character notability and biographical notability. That might make sense if we were discussing people mentioned in works that purport to be works of history, but LotR is not such.
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17:17, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
My main take away from the proposed deletion on this is that no article on a Person created by Tolkien, no matter how far from appearing by name in any regularly published work of his they are, is going to be deleted by actual nomination. This article was created just after the release of the RotK movie. That movie released Dec. 17, 2003, so 18 days before the article was created.
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17:23, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. A very minor character. It's true a lot of editors seem to be confused between in-universe notability and the notability of a character. This came up in the discussions about Radagast and Queen Beruthiel — important people in Middle-earth, but a minor character and a non-character for us.--
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07:43, 25 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I guess Queen Beruthiel was a major character in Middle Earth, since she was a queen (queen consort, but still). However she is not even mentioned in the work, only her cats. She lived at a time that Tolkien never wrote any stories set during.
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The result was speedy deleteWP:CSD#G12 (copyvio), per Netherzone. Given that the page was so newly created I think the direction of copying is clear enough. I suspect that her books may give her a pass of
WP:AUTHOR, though, and the discussion hasn't carried out long enough to determine a consensus on notability, so no prejudice against creation of a non-copied article on the same subject. —
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Keep pending a full discussion of the relevant notability standards for college and university articles (as have been developed for high schools). The institution is
included in the U.S. Department of Education's databases and it receives federal financial aid so it's certainly a real, legitimate institution. It's also accredited (by the
Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges). We keep articles for (real and legitimate) high schools
regardless of the available sources but I don't know if we've ever had a similar discussion about post-secondary institutions. I think it would be very odd to have different standards and expectations for high school and college articles so deleting this article for lacking evidence of notability is not recommended.
ElKevbo (
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16:41, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep: First, the text as it stands now is not promotional, and most of the facts the facts have citations to
WP:RS. I'd like to see a discussion among the
Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools community and the WP community at large about the use of multiple non-trivial secondary sources like accreditation and governmental approval documentation as valid
WP:RS evidence in lieu of media articles. For this article specifically, I did find some newspaper articles on newspapers.com:
Delete In 2017 we decided against default keeping of all articles on high schools just because they exist, and we need to apply the same logic to colleges. We need secondary sourcing, not just proof of existence.
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This is a list of fictional in-universe minutia that fails to establish notability or justify itself as a necessary article split.
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This is a list of fictional in-universe minutia that fails to establish notability or justify itself as a necessary article split.
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16:02, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. It is clear that consensus is that lists of obscure fictional elements are inappropriate. (This should have been bundled with the species list nomination.)
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This topic fails to establish notability. It is not justified as a content split. These are not necessary to understand the main topic.
TTN (
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16:00, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Put the redirect back and then lock it so no one can edit it again. Someone might merge over information to the other article, so preserve the history.
DreamFocus20:55, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect and protect- I'm not sure why this even came back in the first place. The AfD closed as merge, someone went an did the merge, and then a while later someone else came and unilaterally restored the extremely crufty content. They should have gone through DRV instead of deciding to overrule AfD consensus on their own initiative. Redirect and protect to uphold the result of the first AfD.
ReykYO!14:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep Yet another one for "Delete as BRITISHFICTION". This would never be listed if it were Batman, DC or Marvel.
Space 1999 was a substantial series in its day, from one of the major UK producers of TV sci-fi. With the techniques of the day, model-based filming made the vehicles an important part of it. This deserves an article.
That's why this needs to go to AN. The amount of damage piling up from this is getting ridiculous. Especially when categories are now being deleted because their entries have been filed at AfD, without even bothering to wait for any sort of consensus result.
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14:57, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Damage is very strange take on it. There is no such thing as permanent deletion on this site outside of specific revisions removed for very specific reasons. Anything can come back if it establishes notability, so anyone acting like deletion is in any way damaging is being disingenuous. As people like to often claim there is
WP:NORUSH when keeping articles, the inverse is also true. There is no rush to have dozens of articles on fictional minutia before proving themselves notable. These categories, regardless if the AfDs pass or not, still only have two articles, so you're kind of skipping the real point of deletion there.
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15:05, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
"Fancruft minutia" seems to be what's passing for a popular reasoning here, but that's neither a valid reason per our policy, nor even supported by the evidence. In particular, you say "only two articles", ignoring that they're list articles. So you're claiming that 2001, one of the most famous s-f films ever, is so inconsequential that nothing about its vehicles is notable? Or here, a UK TV series which still attracts a large following, 40 years on? None of that is any part of WP's notability policy.
Andy Dingley (
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16:42, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
You're using word like famous, important, and major as if any of those have any particular meaning in deciding Wikipedia's content. Sources are all that matter. The most inconsequential piece of a work of fiction can have an article if it's sufficiently talked about in sources. While I disagree that it should be a thing, current unspoken consensus is that only character lists are necessary article forks. After that, everything has to prove its own worth. These lists have no utility unless there is enough real world information to justify them.
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16:52, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
"Famous" is literally how we judge notability. We go by how much secondary attention is paid to topics. These are ship lists for two major fictional works, within the genre of s-f. Characters having a hard time in space otherwise, vehicles have always been a major aspect of that. This is why there is still such an interest in the vehicles of both series, why there is plenty published about them, why they remain such popular subjects amongst modellers (just look at the IPMS exhibition every year) and why we have articles on the people like
Brian Johnson and
Martin Bower who made them. (I expect these articles to be on your AfD list next).
Andy Dingley (
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03:41, 29 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep, per above, the page adds to the knowledge of the topic (Space 1999), not broken (the page informs, has views, and literally no reason to remove it expect for "I don't like it" backed up by an unrelated-to-policy reasoning of "fancruft minutia"), and it appears that the original page-creation editor was not notified.
Personal opinion: AfD nom pages are the dark back rooms of Wikipedia where most experienced editors keep well away from. Lately many science fiction or fantasy lists and pages have been cut down one by one, with probably many more to go, and I really wish that some kind of moratorium could be set in place in order to have a site-wide discussion of where to draw the line. I'd suggest that if a page is "kept" in an AfD, even once or twice, then that page should be off-limits for deletion forever. I dislike commenting on these things, and to go thru the fights to save them which sometimes go on far too long even after cites are found and the initial reasoning for deleting them is fixed. Maybe harsh language, but here in the back room, where few enter, too many interesting articles created by caring editors who present subjects such as this one find few defenders (thank you so much, Andy, for venturing into these fights much more often than I do). Seeing articles being deleted from templates on my watch list (I refuse to keep track of the daily AfD nom page itself because I enjoy editing Wikipedia) and seeing that logical common sense is overshadowed by words like "Fancruft minutia", reduces that sense of fun and appreciation of accomplishment. The work of creative editors viewed by hundreds and thousands of readers (remember, people have to click on the title
List of Space: 1999 vehicles in order to read it, so, you know, maybe they want to read it?) then, poof, casually upended. I've never seen an episode of Space: 1999. But other readers have. And what they do is to click on such things as this otherwise blah article on spacecraft because they care about the subject enough to learn more. Deletion is unwarranted here. My apologies if I've offended anyone with this comment, but please know that I do assume good faith while, at the same time, not understanding where the urge to delete established pages comes from. I just know I don't have that urge. So please assume good faith in my comment as coming from someone who doesn't have that mindset, and hence, being incapable of fully understanding it, needs to vent at what I experience as the illogical removal of long-term popular pages. Thanks.
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Delete - I can only find match reports, transfer announcements and database entries in English- and Russian-language sources. Fails GNG.
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Delete - I can only find match reports, transfer announcements and database entries in English- and Russian-language sources. Fails GNG.
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Delete The fact that the last discussion was speedy kept shows the failure of some eidtors to understand that no subject specific guidelines is permanent reason to ignore GNG.
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Fails
WP:NBIO. Being the son of a notable gangster does not bring notability. All the SIGCOV for the subject are related to his murder. The rest is pure conjecture.
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The result was delete. Regarding the one dissenting comment, I note that this closure creates no prejudice against any possible article about a specific fictional vehicle if it is notable.
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15:44, 31 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Collection of minor fictional topics. The only notable one has an article already. The details about the real cars are trivial, so they don't justify the list. These are not necessary to understand the series, so this is not a justifiable content split.
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This is a list of fictional minutia. There are some extremely trivial film production details. If they're not already covered in the film articles, they're likely too trivial to cover on this site. If any are notable, it'd be the one that already has an article (though current condition indicates it should be removed unless a search shows sources), so there is little likelihood of these establishing notability as a group. These details are not necessary to understand the series, so it is not a justified content split.
TTN (
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12:09, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Because you're just trying to delete the Pods? Or the Pan-Am Orion? The space station? Do you really not see the damage such a deletion causes, filleting out such major elements of the book/film?
Andy Dingley (
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15:05, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Major is a completely subjective term that has no place deciding which fictional elements to cover. Sources are all that matter. None of these items need this much detail without sources to back them. They can otherwise be summarized where necessary, if at all.
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15:10, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Discovery One already has an article and none of the other have the sourcing necessary to demonstrate notability, either singly or collectively.
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WP:GNG, and by extension
WP:N, and the coverage is routine statistical listings. Subject made two first-class appearances, and is long since retired. Technically, the subject meets
WP:CRIN, but this forms a part of
WP:NSPORT, which clearly states that "the meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept". Per
this discussion, community consensus is that "subject-specific notability guidelines do not supersede the general notability guideline, except in clear cases where GNG does not apply." In this case, coverage is so meagre that we do not even have the players full name.
Harriastalk10:53, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
If that is true (and I'm not saying it isn't) that means we need to look at expanding and cleaning up a heck of a lot of non-English non-Test first-class players. Forgive me, I'll leave alone now, just leaving a note which (hopefully) will encourage us to look at a lot more first-class cricketers to see what we can do. Sorry. Not an intention to badger - just to leave a general note to myself and others to expand articles based on available sources, etc. A shame that it takes us AfDs to suggest the idea. The fact that it takes ten years for anyone even to raise an eyelid... upsets me.
Bobo.21:07, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
List of Maharashtra cricketers. A lack any other biographical information tends to suggest that we're unlikely, at this stage, to be able to find any sources which deal with the subject in detail - I certainly can't find anything. That we know of only two matches he played in - no other club matches - makes this more likely in my view. If such sources become available I would, as always, have no issue with the article being recreated. This is consistent with cases such as
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. James (1814 cricketer).
Blue Square Thing (
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01:20, 26 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment - Assuming I'm these days less likely to vote speedy keep as I would in the old days, if we must not keep the article, we should redirect to the team list in question. Deleting is of no use, especially based on arbitrary nonsense guidelines like GNG where it is clearly stated on WP:N that either GNG or an SNG applies. In any case, someone would end up redirecting to
List of Maharashtra cricketers anyway regardless of this conversation. Since there does exist in this case a workable list of first-class players, redirecting would make more sense than deleting. "Does not have a first name listed" is not a deletion criterion.
Bobo.19:59, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
There would be a case for redirecting the three blue links certainly, and I'd have no objection to redirecting the red links either. It seems a reasonable way to approach these sorts of things in the first instance.
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WP:GNG, though in article you will find plenty of verifyable source but it is not enough to make the artist notable, it is too soon to start a new article about him.
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WP:GNG, and by extension
WP:N, and the coverage is routine statistical listings. Details aren't provided on how many matches the subject played, but it was only during one season. The subject is long since retired. Technically, the subject meets
WP:CRIN, but this forms a part of
WP:NSPORT, which clearly states that "the meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept". Per
this discussion, community consensus is that "subject-specific notability guidelines do not supersede the general notability guideline, except in clear cases where GNG does not apply." In this case, coverage is so meagre that we do not even have the players full name.
Harriastalk10:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - doesn't actually meet NCRIC either - the single match he is known to have played in is one that isn't considerd first-class by anyone other than the article's author (it was a match against the Montpelier Club - his
CricketArchive profile is here). So, we have a single non-notable match of cricket, a surname and an initial. We'll never be able to build a biography on that and the single match doesn't make him notable in any way. Of course, he may be notable for something else, if we can ever figure out who he actually was.
Blue Square Thing (
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10:52, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. Same as the two previous entries in this list. Nowhere near enough for GNG even if it does meet the SNG. You can't build an article on a statistical record. I do have a question for
StickyWicket, though, about why you think one or both of the sources are self-published? They are from the 19th century and, at face value, seem to be authentic.
No Great Shaker (
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13:55, 29 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment. @
No Great Shaker: I take that back! Reading the nomination I thought the source being quoted was self-published by the now banned user who created the article, they often used their own website for references and claimed some non first-class cricketers were first-class.
StickyWicket (
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09:50, 30 December 2019 (UTC)reply
@
AssociateAffiliate: thanks for getting back to me. I remove self-published sources too, so I quite understand. Must admit I do get confused about first-class because its scope looks to be much wider than in football and there seem to be different views about when and how it began. I suppose this guy playing in the 1800s was too early. Anyway, all the best.
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No indication of notability. BLPPROD removed because of the external links, which are lacking. Has had no inline footnotes since the article's inception. Anarchyte (
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This appears to be a page for a gaming league that carries no notability. I'm dubious, as they cite they have sponsors, so I half expect there to be some disagreement - but I'm not seeing this fit into the
general notability guidelines - and just because one has sponsors does not mean they meet those guidelines.
Dennis The Tiger (
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07:12, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep I created and edited this page but published without any references, now they are in the text including the ones you mentioned about sponsors and partners. Other teams outside of eSports usually have sponsors linked on their pages, such as soccer teams. Also I think it would be interesting to see that there are other teams of equal relevance to eSports with active pages like
Team Liquid,
SK Telecom T1,
Royal Never Give Up,
Fnatic among others. I intend to continue working and evolve this page. Thank you.
Nidaloove (
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11:43, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep A quick google search finds several reliable sources headlining this club, including Dot Esports, The Esports Observer, and ESPN.
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Delete. Quoting
WP:POLITICIAN: "Just being an elected local official, or an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability, although such people can still be notable if they meet the general notability guideline." If we can get some
good sources on this mayor, then, I will reconsider. --
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07:27, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete as not meeting notability guidelines. Would settle for moving back to draft as it might be hard to find googlenews hits, or any google hits, on someone in Nepal, and as a precaution against systemic bias.-- Deepfriedokra11:22, 24 December 2019 (UTC).reply
Delete This article was originally used mainly to promote a non-notable actor and self-published activist who had a bit part (not even starring or credited) in a movie. There was another Narendra Singh Dhami who was Chairman, Malikarjun Rural Municipality, Darchula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mytM6kuoFw0 who has an interview on TV Today Nepal, and who is different from the one that is being listed/promoted here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Narendra_Singh_Dhami&oldid=919257202 If this is meant to be about the politician, then it should be about that second Dhami. If the first one (the activist/author) has since become mayor, then it needs the secondary news sources, otherwise it confuses the two even more. The articles presented have tens of elected officials, some of whom have Singh Dhami as a family name, so they are just as
WP:MILL local office as the others, and given that the editors know who the parents are named and actual birthplace, are likely to have even more COI. Another option is to Retarget to
Malikarjun and list as current representative/mayor in the infobox, but that would have to be sourced, and then it might have to be deleted anyway should someone else become mayor later. The article had also been disputed/rejected multiple times by myself at AFC but the same socks have been pushing him into the mainspace, so I would not recommend draftifying until competence and better sourcing is shown.
AngusWOOF (
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15:01, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. Being mayor of a rural municipality with a population of less than 2K is not a Wikipedia inclusion freebie — at this level of significance, the key to getting him into Wikipedia is not just stating and verifying that he exists, and would require writing and
reliably sourcing a substantive article about his political importance. And that's not what this article is. Furthermore, the article's most frequent editors have been users named "Ram Singh Dhami" and "Tijendra Singh Dhami", suggesting
conflict of interest editing by the subject's own family. As always, "I'm proud of my relative for doing the thing!" is not in and of itself grounds for inclusion in an international encyclopedia.
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16:13, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete:No notable sources found in Google
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Comment - This is not a G4 speedy at all; the article was previously deleted before the first AfD completed. It's sort of leaning a touch on A7, though - and without sources that would be a slam dunk. --
Dennis The Tiger (
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07:22, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete: Per Nom, Dennis The Tiger, and Jtbobwaysf. I do not see any clear notability for a Wikipedia article and certainly nothing to give evidence of a recreation over previous AFD deletion comments. Maybe it needs a little
"salting" to hinder the next creation.
Otr500 (
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12:01, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Weak delete It seems as if she has some regional notability based on the sources of LA Times and such, but that’s not enough. Once you start scraping the bottom of the barrel for Amazon listings it’s dire.
Trillfendi (
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17:46, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - Notability not met by sources in article (as of this !vote), and my usual search for sources turned up nothing better. It appears this is a promotional piece for a topic that doesn't meet GNG or
WP:CREATIVE.
78.26(
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So, setting aside the mangled citations (I tried searching for those ISBN numbers and found nothing that looked relevant to the subject), this is an interview in the publication of a
student summer program, and a poem published in a pay-to-play anthology of unclear significance? Plus you appear to share a last name with the subject?. signed, Rosguilltalk03:20, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Agreed with Rosguill. Those sources are useless - Interviews are not acceptable citations except to prove
"This is what <foo> actually believes/argues" and do nothing for notability like all other sources contributed to or written by the subject or their satellites. And if you're citing a dead-tree source you need to include the minimum amount of information to look it up - onus is on you for that. (For books this is: Title, author, publisher, year of publication, pages being cited, ISBN.) —
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Delete Throwing in every reference you can find that just happens to mention the subject's name isn't really helping. 37 refs of insignificant coverage is still insignificant coverage, it still doesn't add up to anything that can be described as notable.
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This is explicitly a
WP:TNT nomination. It's unsourced and has been for a year, but the article is not even completely in English anymore as of recently. I looked for sources, but I couldn't find any which were reliable.
Merge Spent a few minutes researching this. I reverted the article back to its last good revision and added the AfD template back in place, but there's also an
Remalle article which needs to be improved which clearly passes
WP:GEOLAND #1. OpenStreetMap has a "Kotta Remalle" and a "Pata Remalle" which if the Remalle article is to be believed stands for "old" and "new" in the local language Telugu (thanks Google Translate.) So we should just fold this into the actual article we have for the settlement as part of the
WP:TNT.
SportingFlyerT·C09:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Merge to
Remalle. The article is now a perfectly reasonable village stub so
WP:TNT doesn’t appear to apply anymore, if it ever did. SportingFlyer’s argument for a merge over a keep is convincing so I’d go for that.
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Proposed deletion for lack of notability. There simply is none. Citations in the entry are local publications (and several of the subject's own tweets) mentioning some trash cleanups he organized. One NBC.COM article about Gays for Trump in which he appears in a photo caption, but is not otherwise mentioned or quoted. — Preceding
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04:09, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. The article states nothing about him that is "inherently" notable enough to guarantee inclusion in an encyclopedia, and the referencing is not strong enough to get him over
WP:GNG in lieu of having to pass any SNGs: once you discount all the self-published
primary sources that aren't support for notability at all and the sources which mention his name but are not about him for the purposes of establishing his notability, the few left over that are actually
reliable source coverage about him don't add up to enough. GNG, as always, is not just "count the footnotes and keep anything that meets or exceeds an arbitrary mumber": we also consider the depth of how substantively any source is or isn't about him, the geographic range of how widely he's getting covered, and the context of what he's getting covered for, not just the raw number of footnotes present.
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The coverage of Pache is similar to the coverage that any decent minor league player would receive - there's nothing suggesting he's more notable than any specific minor leaguer per the
ten year test, and
WP:NBASE allows us to redirect/merge the article to the prospect page. That's a typical solution for these sorts of articles on minor leaguers, and we can always recreate it if he makes the bigs.
SportingFlyerT·C23:29, 1 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Nope.
WP:NBASE discusses which type of coverage counts towards
WP:GNG for baseball players, and he doesn't quite meet that threshold. If the standard for baseball players was just "has been written about," almost every prospect would be notable.
SportingFlyerT·C00:16, 2 January 2020 (UTC)reply
That's not true. It's basic that if you meet GNG, you don't need to meet more narrow alternative ways to notability such as
Wikipedia:Notability (sports). Which NBASE is part of. As the overarching introduction to
Wikipedia:Notability (sports) states: "This guideline is used to help evaluate whether or not a
sports person ... is likely to meet the
general notability guideline, and thus merit an article in Wikipedia. The article should provide reliable sources showing that the subject meets the general notability guideline or the sport specific criteria set forth below.... If the article does meet the criteria set forth below, then it is likely that sufficient sources exist to satisfy
the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. Failing to meet the criteria in this guideline means that notability will need to be established in other ways (e.g. the general notability guideline...." So - if you meet GNG, it is irrelevant whether you meet NBASE. Editors who seem to be especially active in discussing GNG vs SNG would include
User:Masem and
User:North8000, but if you really want an in depth discussion of this (again) you could consider starting it at the talk page of GNG.
2604:2000:E010:1100:A129:823B:7DD2:1814 (
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00:33, 2 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Nope,
WP:NBASEspecifically qualifies what type of coverage is suitable for determining notability of baseball players. Pache's only claim to notability is that he is a top baseball prospect, but not all top baseball prospects are automatically notable - just because a player receives coverage for being a baseball player does not automatically mean that player is notable. All of the coverage of Pache is routine for a minor league baseball player.
SportingFlyerT·C01:49, 2 January 2020 (UTC)reply
First, I think you're wrong as to GNG; please read the above. Perhaps others will chime in. Second, I think you are perhaps somewhat exaggerating when you assert that all of his coverage is "routine" for a minor league player; it is routine for a player who has made All Star Teams for three years running, has been named the 2019 MLB Pipeline Best Outfield Defender in the minor leagues, and is rated the # 11 prospect in baseball. That is, perhaps, a different class of player. Perhaps that is why he has attracted GNG coverage. But as to why, that is unimportant - it is enough that he has GNG coverage.
2604:2000:E010:1100:B0A7:9006:7E1D:BCAA (
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03:47, 2 January 2020 (UTC)reply
We entirely disagree, but he hasn't actually attracted
WP:GNG-level coverage: he has generated the level of coverage expected for a minor league prospect of his caliber. A simple before search includes a flurry of minor league transactions (not qualifying for
WP:GNG) and Braves prospect watches - these usually aren't considered independent enough of the subject to qualify for
WP:GNG, as noted in the delete !votes above. There is absolutely nothing wrong with including this information, as we traditionally have,
Atlanta Braves minor league players#Cristian Pache, and creating a standalone article when the player either makes the majors or somehow becomes otherwise independently notable.
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Delete We are not supposed to be a fandom site. In the early days we were a de facto Star Wars fandom site, and we are just ending our role as a Tolkien fandom site with current deletion discussions, although there many to go.
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Obscure UFO report fails
WP:NFRINGE. At about this time there were hundreds if not thousands of these sorts of "yokel finds UFO in his backyard" stories in local media. There are grey-lit books chock-a-block full of them. That is not enough to establish the notability of the claims enough for a standalone article. This looks like it may have been started by an erstwhile fan of the story, and I have some sympathy for that because this story is a delight if a bit cringey and eye-rolly.
jps (
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02:06, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Your sources are "martiansgohome.com" and a tell-all jaunt from
Prometheus Books (an enjoyable one, to be sure, but not one that confers notability on particular "weird tales" it covers). As much as I respect AJC, a single newspaper article is surely not enough for us to base a Wikipedia article on.
WP:NFRINGE is a high standard for a reason.
jps (
talk)
02:35, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete There's a bunch of fringe coverage but nothing reliable. One of the two sources (External link, actually) is a UFO research society that should probably be removed. Misidentified weather balloon is similar to another misidentified weather balloon and/or non-ufo-related government coverup. –
dlthewave☎02:32, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
I think this has great relevance to the Roswell crash, in terms of the similarity of the debris. If this had been widely known at the time that all of the Roswell hype came out, it should have quickly been settled. This was reliably identified as a weather balloon, and it matches the Roswell debris.
Bubba73You talkin' to me?02:38, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. The article says Ufologist James Moseley investigated the incident...called the airport... and confirmed that the object was a device used by the Air Force to determine wind velocity and direction." Since when has an identified weather device been a flying saucer, and how do we justify "flying saucer crash" in the heading when the text said it involved something else? Wikipedia was such a good idea. What a pity.
Moriori (
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02:48, 24 December 2019 (UTC).reply
Nonsense. You wrote above that "This was reliably identified as a weather balloon". Please read our article
Flying saucer. Note that flying saucer = UFO. This Horton debris was neither anomalous or unidentified.
Moriori (
talk)
08:53, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Balloons mistaken for UFOs is a reasonable topic, and there are probably plenty of sources you can use to write about it. Ralph Horton could make an appearance in such an article. But as a standalone, this article is problematic.
jps (
talk)
03:12, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
BTW, I thought Mosely's book was a fun and instructive read. But the text says he was prompted on his adventure after "Perusing the flying saucer file of The Atlanta Constitution..."
[18], which could mean old, unpublished reports kept in a file, and no actual published record in the newspaper. How wrong I was. It's the second entry down in the the (paywalled) newspapers.com archive, dated Wednesday July 8, 1953,
[19], and the second snippet view mentions Horton's discovery of a "kite shaped apparatus". -
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19:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Non-notable hoax that was pulled off in 1953. Newspapers.com has full archives of the Atlanta Constitution from 1868 to the present. On July 7, 1953 (not 1952 as the article inaccurately reports), page 1 of the newspaper had a short article Cone-Shaped Rocket' Puzzles Scores Here which described multiple sightings of a cone-shaped object "about six inches in diameter" travelling about 40 miles an hour, several hundred feet in the air. The next day, the same paper, also on page 1, had another article Experts Baffled, Doubt 'Thing' a Wind Gauge, which describes how Atlanta resident Ralph Horton found a "ra-wind" device in his front yard near the County Airport, which is an instrument that is used to plot wind currents in the upper air, and how they all agreed that what Mr. Horton found was not the "thing" that people were reporting about the previous day. The Air Force said they released the weather balloon at 4pm that day, but it would not have still been aloft when the UFO reports were coming in. There's no mystery about Ralph Horton's device, there was no UFO, and there was no controversy. Interestingly, and illustrative of what a rabbit hole searching archives on newspapers.com can become, on page 1 of the paper the next day was a pretty lengthy story about two barbers and a butcher from Atlanta who claimed they captured "a little man from outer space" trying to board a flying saucer. Scientists at Emory University identified the body of the alien as a nothing but Capuchin Monkey that had been shaved and its tail cut off. The "mastermind" of the plot who claimed to have found the alien was fined $40 the next day for placing a carcass on a highway and admitted he was surprised that anybody fell for his hoax, saying he was just trying to get his picture in the paper and had bet a friend $10 that he could. On July 10, he won his bet after being handed the fine and a threat of jail time if he tried any more pranks. He told the newspaper that he had been trying for several days to spread reports of flying saucers in the sky and found it very easy to do by just staring in the air and asking bystanders if they'd seen that flying saucer that just went by. The whole story is about a prank pulled off by a couple of bored people that received some trivial coverage in their local paper. Ralph Horton found a weather balloon. Not worthy of an article about the hoax itself due to
WP:NFRINGE "
silly season" news reports- an editorial in the paper on July 9 described the UFO and the alien man as an illustration of the start what they in the business call the "silly season".
RecycledPixels (
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James W. Moseley#Ralph_Horton crash case per LuckyLouie.
RecycledPixels (
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22:00, 27 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment. As redirect seems to rule the day, the article content will need fixing before moving elsewhere. I will request references .
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01:32, 28 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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Fictional character from Tolkien who fails
WP:GNG. There's just not really coverage in reliable sources about this figure. I'm not sure what would be a good redirect target for this figure, even.
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01:43, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete There are multiple Wikis about the works of Tolkien, and they have articles on Dior. I was going to nomiunate this article for deletion before someone beat me to it. To me the fact that this article dates back to Dec. 25, 2002 is particularly sad. The article of
David O. McKay arguably the most important 20th-century leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints only dates back to the spring of 2004. I was searching for sources, I came across this
[20] which is no where near a reliable source, but it has way more real world relevance than this article does. I also came across a reddit discussion of weather Dior was the most underwhelming character in the Silmarillion (That would be hard to demonstrate, there are so many) which includes people asking why Elwing is not just the daughter of Beren and Lithian. To make things more fun, I recently read an indepth article comparing the fall of Troy to the fall of Gondolian (specifically comparing it to the works of Virgil), and in there the author said that Elwing was Beren and Lithian's daughter. So Dior is so forgetable he gets forgotten in scholarly works.
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16:46, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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This locomotive is, according to the article, at the Canadian Railway Museum. As such, a free image of it could be made as it still exists. Fails
WP:NFCC#1.
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01:36, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
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Delete This was actually not created until late 2005, which is more recent than many LotR articles. It is also a clear example of confusing in universe importantce with literary importance. If LotR purported to be a history of a real place, maybe on that evidence we would keep this article. However, it does not. So the reports on him in the books are primary sources, and his role is very minor, to the literary functions of the book. We have a huge way to go to get these fictional biographies under control, but this is not even a close contest.
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Weak keep. I'm a bit on the fence here, but the Xindi had a fair presence in Enterprise. At the risk of invoking
WP:WAX, there is precedent for including the races of the Trek universe (see
Klingon, for instance) - but I know that this alone is not justification. Seems well cited, at the worst. --
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07:18, 24 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment - notable that the first AfD was a keep for lack of consensus. Also notable was that there was no mention of delete in the !votes - it was either a redirect or a keep. My statement above stands. --
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