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Not seeing any independent in-depth coverage in reliable sources, either those in the article or elsewhere online - lack of
WP:SIGCOV. Fails
WP:GNG. Run-of-the-mill businessperson. Typical promotional article, created by a
WP:SPA.
Edwardx (
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23:20, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Hello. The article covers reliable sources please check again. Twila True has received awards. I don't know what you meant by independent in-depth coverage but you can see many news and reliable sources there. If anything in there is look like promotional you can remove that information. But removing a whole article is not necessary I think it should be given a chance. If it can be improved please tell me I will do that. She has founded music academy with two Grammy winners it has sources. — Preceding
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Fanny shower (
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06:20, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep It's all about business and charities, and the coverage is there. I did some work to make the article a bit less promotional, to tone down the citation
overkill and to prefer the more reliable sources. Marked a few areas that need work. More editing is needed.
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Non-notable school. Schools are
not automatically notable, and there is nothing to indicate that this (relatively small and relatively "new" primary) school meets the
WP:NORG or
WP:SIGCOV guideline. To the extent that it is any more notable than the 3,300 other primary schools in Ireland. A news search of the Irish Times
[1][2] returns zero results). Not one. Searches of the Irish Examiner
[3][4] return only
one passing mention (in an article which is substantively about another topic). The
de-PROD note suggested that notability might be inherited from the school's association with one notable former pupil. And that the article might "give Niall horans fans information about his primary school". I do not see how this argument sits with either
WP:NOTINHERITED or
WP:TOPIC. (In that, if someone wants to know where Niall Horan went to primary school, they can visit the Niall Horan article. Otherwise, everyone (ideally) goes to school somewhere. And notability doesn't transfer from a pupil to a school.)
Guliolopez (
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22:45, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Even before the 2017 RFC, primary schools have never enjoyed any presumed notability. Sources mentioning it's existence don't show notability, and a single pupil cannot gift it notability.
Ironmatic1 (
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23:30, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete per Ironmatic1. It's ridiculous to say a primary school is notable just because a notable student went there. I'm not seeing anything else to base notability on either since sources for this are essentially none existing. --
Adamant1 (
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08:58, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
No worries. It happens. AfD is a de-defacto way to improve articles as much as it is a way to delete them. So within reason it's better to make the mistake then not since you never know if people will be able to find references that were missed initially. --
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Non notable miniseries. Other than passing mentions, same promotional news & interview published in multiple site (e.g. "Chorki to drop 'Sugar Free' for free"), i didn't find any review, any significant coverage from reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Fails
WP:TVSERIES,
WP:GNG.
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Non-notable show. While a show that's been on the air since 2013 would normally be considered notable, this is merely a countdown of seemingly arbitrary videos, with no sourcing in sight about the show itself nor any significance to its rankings. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)21:11, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - Per nom. Lack of any sources makes some rankings likely incorrect. Similar programs were PROD'd for same reasons (CMT Top 12 Countdown, CMT Most Wanted Live). --
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Hi
Spiderone - the acquisition of Chelsea FC is the single most important transaction in the world at the moment. That is why I worked on it. Why is the article of Ricardo Santos Silva proposed for deletion? I was certainly not paid for it (I do not know this people) and the article looks fair. Sources are from very reliable media (BBC, SKY, etc). Please let me know how i can improve the article.
PeacefulJack (
talk) 16:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC) see
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CabritosSpiderone(Talk to Spider)20:19, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete the sale of Chelsea FC may be notable, but it does not appear that Silva is. A Redirect to his company, if that survives AfD, would be fine too. StarMississippi16:38, 22 March 2022 (UTC)reply
keep the article. I have improved the article, kept the most relevant and added sources. Ricardo Santos Silva is the face of the bid for Chelsea (see BBC or Independent). I am Portuguese and I do not know him.
ScottWillis45 (
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11:56, 23 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Joseph2302 - I agree he does not become notable by bidding for Chelsea or bidding for Novo Banco. But together with being the owner, Chairman and CEO of the largest private iron ore mine in Europe, he passes
WP:GNGScottWillis45 (
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12:03, 23 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Dear @
Behind the moorsI am a representative of Aethel Group and its founders Ricardo Santos Silva and Aba Schubert. Could you please delete the 3 pages. These pages are abusive and should be deleted immediately. Please text me here if you want to discuss this further. Wikipedia does not allow me to include my email. Thank you and best regards
Rhead1967 (
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16:53, 24 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Authorized content" does not exist here. How a few properly sourced sentences are abusive is a mystery to me. Note that
Rhead1967 is blocked for repeatedly blanking huge amounts of verified content.
Drmies (
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17:29, 24 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - Thanks @
Tony Fox. Ricardo Santos Silva is the chairman and CEO of Aethel Mining (please look at the references) and the face of the group. There are also more controversial news (some bank he acquired in Portugal) and I guess this is why they want the pages remove. Ricardo Santos Silva clearly has enough notability - that is why I have created the article. Thanks
PeacefulJack (
talk) 19:06, 24 March 2022 (UTC)see
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CabritosSpiderone(Talk to Spider)20:25, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - I am the original PeacefulJack and I am the person that created the article for Aethel and its founders. You obviously should delete the articles if that is the consensus but what is the sense of blocking me?
PeacefulJack2 (
talk) 16:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC) Sock is blocked. StarMississippi17:28, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I am Portuguese, Ricardo Santos Silva is a very well known figure and clearly passes notability. I hope my article is good. Thank you and keep the good work! — Preceding
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Strong Delete Seems to be a mix of routine coverage of this type of article. Of the first six references, not one is secondary specific to him as a person. It is the usual framework article with no effective sources. scope_creepTalk18:54, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
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I might be missing something here but unable to identify how said subject passes
WP:NPROF. Surely having one publication with over 2000+ citations and the rest 80< is not indicative of an automatic pass of
WP:NPROF. Cannot see any appointments that would qualify either. No
WP:GNG pass either.
nearlyevil66521:06, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete I notice this was passed out of AFC by
Ts12rAc (who has a lot more passes than fails, which I also find strange and worrisome) but to keep it short, I was about to do the same thing as the nom, for the same reasons.
Dennis Brown -
2¢21:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Also note that the person who reverted out the autobiography template (
Francisfycollins, an spa) claims to be the author but not the subject, even though the history says otherwise (
Asphodel76 also spa), and I've left a note explaining
WP:scrutiny on their talk page. Not sure what is going on there.
Dennis Brown -
2¢21:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. Only one highly-cited paper, in which they are in a middle position among 10 authors, is definitely not enough by itself for
WP:PROF#C1, and there seems to be nothing else. Assistant professors are usually not yet notable and I think this bears out the rule. I didn't consider the odd behavior discussed above in reaching this conclusion, but it also seems worthy of additional investigation. —
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01:02, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete as the current article is promotional and the subject likely fails
WP:NPROF with a modest h-index of 20 and less than 1000 citations when we disregard the one COVID 19 article. --
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Well here we are. This is obviously not a notable battle (Ukraine war cruft). The battle did happen, but the sources available do not show that this is either a significant or notable engagement. This was originally merged into
Eastern Ukraine offensive with the
blessing of the creator, but one editor (courtesy ping
Panam2014) began inexplicably dragging their feet based on a misinterpretation of redirect/merge policy
[15].
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Keep. The article definitely needed some cleanup and better referencing, but that's now been done — and the series won a
Gemini Award, which is exactly the tier of top-level national television awards that clinch the inherent notability of a television series regardless of any other problems with the article. For a TV show that aired 15 years ago, by the way, the best sourcing will need to be retrieved from archives (ProQuest, newspapers.com, etc.) rather than being expected to Google well.
Bearcat (
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13:24, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep The sources added by Bearcat are also SIGCOV for the series from major Canadian newspapers, and the Gemini Award clinches notability.
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Promotional non notable article on an award show which really is an ADMASQ about an organization called “Vine Entertainment Group” . The sources used in the article are self published, pr generated, and
WP:COISOURCE all of which we do not consider reliable. A before search doesn’t show me any in-depth significant coverage by reliable sources. Celestina007 (
talk)
15:45, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
None of those references provide in-depth information on the awards themselves or the organization providing the awards, they simply report on the entities that received the awards.
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I took a look at most of the sources listed by
WP:RSP as reliable, and a lot of them seem to have articles about George.
1234 are about George's Haida experiment.
567 are also about it, but they seem a bit opinionated, and
8 explicitly references The Guardian in an earlier article about the subject.
9 is about an event instigated by George which is unrelated to the iron experiment, and
10 is an investigative article which seems to cover a great deal of George's career but does not come from a listed perennial source. Are any of these worth adding?
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comment. In the nomination, the nominator says "one source listed". There are four. The nom gives no indication that he looked for other sources.
Jacona (
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11:39, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete the nominator probably meant there was one independent source that is actual usable. Sure, there are "multiple" sources in the article, but two of them are from the university the dude is president of and the other two only count as a single source since they are from the same outlet. Sure,
competency is required for nominations, but it's also required for people who are voting on the AFD and the whole "primary sources can't be used for notability" is pretty basic. So I suggest the people who brought it up put their condescension in check, actually follow the guidelines they are complaining about, and a real argument as to why this should be kept instead of just attacking the nominator. Outside of that, the reason I'm going delete is because there's ONE independent reference in the article that isn't even really that in-depth and has nothing to do with the dude, really if you count them as two reference that goes for both of them, and I couldn't find anything else. So there's zero reason to keep this. If someone can provide
WP:THREE references that actually talk about the guy then I'm fine changing my vote to keep though. I just couldn't find any. --
Adamant1 (
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04:26, 24 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I don't know any Chinese languages, so I cannot say what they say, but one might presume that there would be far more coverage in Mandarin, Cantonese, etc. than in English because of the location. Even so, a search for "Ian Holliday" plus "Hong Kong" gets a couple thousand results. Using Newspapers.com, he is cited as a "Burma Expert" in articles from places as widely dispersed as Iowa, Pennsylvania, and London, including The London Daily Telegraph from August 12, 2009 and Vancouver's Province of the same date. Additional cites range from 1998 to 2017, so this is not just a one-off event. The South China Post has numerous articles which appear to be significant coverage, but is behind a paywall, as does TimesHigherEducation. The fact that these sources aren't in the article most likely is the result not of the lack of sources, but editors such as myself not being able to access them, or being
biased in favor of English-language sources. This gentleman has been widely cited and acknowledged as an expert on at least three continents over a span of 3 decades.
Jacona (
talk)
12:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The Chinese language article only has two references, one of which is primary and the other is extremely trivial. You'd think that wouldn't be the case if this was merely a language barrier issue. If he's such an expert on Hong Kong then there should be an actual article about him Chinese that goes beyond what we have access to, yet the article is worse then the English version. In the meantime you can't just claim without evidence, based on the number of Google search results, or through making claims of expertise in a topic area that someone is notable. Some rando in Iowa can call him a "Burma Expert", but it's literally meaningless if you can't provide in-depth coverage of him in multiple independent sources to back it up with. --
Adamant1 (
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06:57, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Sure, but as far as I can tell none of those or the other references that refer to him as an expert are actually about him. They cite his opinions. Which isn't what we need here. This isn't an article about Burma or Myanmar. It's about Ian Holliday. I'm sure you get the difference and why references about the first two don't help. The point is, people can refer to him as an expert on Burma and Myanmar all day long, but they need to actually discuss him also in the meantime, not just cite what his opinions are on international law or whatever. --
Adamant1 (
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19:34, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment Holliday is co-editor of the book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar and author of Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar. Also Painting Myanmar's Transition (Hardcover) and Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar.
Jacona (
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12:09, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
In addition to the above books, a search at abebooks came up with around a half-dozen other titles he is either the author or editor of, but I got bored; someone else might be interested.
Jacona (
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12:47, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Is there any evidence that his books have been the recipients of multiple reviews by independent reliable sources or are we just suppose to say he's notable because he wrote some books no one has reviewed or done any other commentary on? --
Adamant1 (
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16:23, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
His books are mentioned and quoted in newspaper articles on 4 continents, his Burmese protest art show is mentioned in several articles, his books are used in the bibliography of several other books. Most of this is in links already in this AfD or in the article. I think this shows he meets
WP:NACADEMIC criteria 7, in that his books have made an impact in other areas.
Jacona (
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19:35, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Jacona: I wasn't aware that his books being used in bibliographies counted as book reviews or conferred that he's had a substantial impact on anything. Thanks for the information. I know a couple of extremely low level professors at my local community college that have research papers cited in bibliographies who will happy to know they can have Wikipedia articles now because of it <--- obviously sarcasm --
Adamant1 (
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18:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
There's loads of evidence of that, if you would just care to click on the word "scholar" above. What on Earth makes you think that his books have not been reviewed? The only reason I can think of for that is that you think yourself too important to simply look, which is what people who are here to build an encyclopedia do.
Phil Bridger (
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20:02, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Phil Bridger: the self importance dig comes off a lot like the tea kettle calling the pot black considering there hasn't been one single discussion involving both of us that I can think of where you haven't took the opportunity to insult me. It's pretty obvious you think your the most important person between us in any discussion we are both involved in. Maybe don't throw stones in glass houses. More on topic, I could really give a crap less if his books have been reviewed. I just couldn't find any reviews myself. if there's evidence to the contrary, cool. Show me some evidence. I could really give a crap, but I'll pass on the holier-than-thou condescension about it in the meantime thanks. --
Adamant1 (
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18:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I read over a couple of the "reviews" that are cited in the article. At least in respect to the ones I read calling them book reviews is stretching it. I don't necessarily think a college professor making extremely vague statements about how another professor's work is interesting or whatever in an academic journal really counts for notability either. Anymore then it would for singers or actors to comment each others work. Let alone does it confer that the person had an impact on their field. Like in Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar, Michael W. Charney says "This is a really interesting book." In no way does that convey that number 7 of
WP:NACADEMIC is met like Jacona says it does. No insult to Ian Holliday or anything, but it should go without saying that there's a big difference between his work being interesting and having an impact on Asian studies. I don't think "interesting" means "influential" either. --
Adamant1 (
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20:43, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
So calling articles published in academic journals under titles which include the word "review" reviews is "stretching it", is it? Can't you just acknowledge for once that your initial kneejerk reaction was wrong, and that we need to look at the evidence to decide on notability rather than just make a guess?
Phil Bridger (
talk)
08:36, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Passes
WP:AUTHOR, which in his field I think amounts to passing
WP:PROF#C1; the former implies the latter in those parts of academia where "success" is more about influential books than influential papers. And in this case, as pointed out by
Phil Bridger above, the citation profile for the papers looks pretty good too.
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Violates
WP:NOTDATABASE, due to be sourced only to databases, and fails
WP:GNG due to lack of coverage - all we know about him is that he competed in the team gymnastics event of the 1908 Olympics, his name, and where and when he was born.
BilledMammal (
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17:48, 13 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. As
Lugnuts has pointed out, citing NOTDATABASE as a reason to delete this article is out of order and an
abuse of process. NOTDATABASE means the article must not be published as a database in the form of a matrix or table only. It has nothing at all to do with sourcing.
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I simply could not find any sourcing to verify that this Victor Cannella ever existed. The only source cited is IMDb, which is user-generated and thus unreliable; my search of Newspapers.com, Google Books, the Internet Archive, ProQuest, etc. found no coverage at all. I suspect this is a hoax (indeed, the editor who created it had
a history of
unconstructive edits), and in any event it is
unverifiable.
Extraordinary Writ (
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19:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: there are literally no reliable sources at all about this person, so even if it isn't a hoax, the article doesn't pass
WP:BASIC. He isn't credited on any of the animations that he is supposed to have played on, so either he didn't exist or he was simply a session musician and doesn't pass
WP:MUSICBIO.
Richard3120 (
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20:24, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete We hold IMDb to not be a reliable source. We should have 0 articles with this as the only listed source, instead we have thousands if not tens of thousands of such articles.
John Pack Lambert (
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13:57, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I'm getting some hits on the name with location in LA in Ancestry, but only on voter registrations, not in census records or anything else that would help me confirm a profession. Exact searching for this name ONLY would be a mistake. If he indeed existed and was born in Italy or was of Italian descent, his name was probably something more like Vittorio and his last name was probably spelled different ways--maybe with double Ns and Ls, maybe single, maybe a mixture; and wildcard that e for other vowels. I've added him to my weekend research list this weekend. Probably a delete, but I'll look anyway. --
DiamondRemley39 (
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14:17, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
DiamondRemley39, I did actually check the genealogical sites (which are usually pretty good about searching for spelling variations with
Soundex and the like), and the basic problem is that nothing lines up with the dates we've been given, particularly the very specific death date of February 3, 1946 (in Florida, according to IMDb). I don't seem to have Ancestry access anymore, so would you mind telling me what the voter registrations say? The street address might be useful. Thanks in advance.
Extraordinary Writ (
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18:07, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I can't say where he was when or why (or even *if* he was...), but here are some things...
Victor Cognina Cannella marries Marie Scozzaro Baio in Hillsborough, Florida on January 24, 1936.
Voter registration, Los Angeles County, California, 1944, 1946: **Cannella, Victor, 455 E 134th St, occupation: aircraft worker (only given 1944).
Voter registration, San Francisco, California, 1936: Victor A Canilla, 825 Howard, San Francisco, occupation: cook.
I didn't find any good hits in member trees, though I didn't look very hard. I also didn't check Family Search. My work is piling up and I'm not sure I'll have time to do all of those things. I may just check for him in Proquest Entertainment Industry over the weekend.
I don't like to say hoax or not without solid evidence or lack of evidence, but the very first draft of the article didn't even have an IMDb link. The cause of death changed from cardiac problems to polio between an early draft and now. Seems the person who thought this wasn't a hoax was a (regrettably) late admin, who added IMDb as a citation. I am scratching my head over the IMDb edits. It is difficult to get IMDb edited--much more difficult than to get anything on Wikipedia edited--but maybe several years ago it was easier; I don't know. I'll look a bit more. I'm leaning hoax. Wouldn't surprise me if the creator had a relative by this name, or something like that.
DiamondRemley39 (
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19:41, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The first one is
this fellow, a "retired dental technician" and "lifelong resident of the Tampa Bay area" (i.e. Hillsborough County) who lived c. 1911–1987—definitely not a match. The other two are surprisingly difficult to place, but I find it rather hard to believe that either a cook or an aircraft worker would be performing in Hollywood on the side. FamilySearch finds me a few more people with similar names, but they're mostly farmers from Louisiana with birth dates that don't match. It is a bit odd that IMDb would be so far off the mark here, but there have been plenty of horror stories about their questionable or non-existent fact-checking: see e.g.
here. (Indeed, they may have accepted it just because it had a Wikipedia article.)
Extraordinary Writ (
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00:12, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Florida" Cannella: WWII draft card has him born 1910. Correct, not a match.
"San Francisco" Cannella: I would think that an elderly immigrant pianist might find himself working as a cook on the side during the Depression... or maybe a cook with piano skills lucked out and got work in films that early on? Seems unlikely that this is happening with him living in a different part of the state, though people did get around.
"Los Angeles" Cannella: Aircraft worker at 70+? Quite unlikely, even during the war.
Another: "New York" Victor Cannella, b. about 1887 in Italy, working in NYC in sanitation in 1940. Another no.
Louisiana: Concur these are not matches.
I once found IMDb off by 25 years on a death... and it was a front-page of major newspapers suicide. ::shrug:: They don't fact-check, or they didn't at one time.
Delete - I don't think this is a hoax because a man of this name has some credits as a musician in a few classic Warner Bros. cartoons (at least according to a fan community that is usually pretty good at historical research). But that just indicates that he was a working studio musician like thousands of other people. Delete per
WP:EXIST. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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@
Doomsdayer520: I'd love for it to not be a hoax. Where do you see that a fan community contributed to research on Cannella or at least credits him as a musician? Can you please provide some links or something?
So far, we've got:
0 credits, actually, on IMDb--everything is uncredited.
0 radio credits at Radio GoldIndex, so he's not working in that industry.
Nothing in newspapers.com, newspaperarchive, Proquest newspaper major dailies
No loosely matching name/date/location in Ancestry, Family Search, Find a Grave... and we're not even looking for occupation.
No authority records indicating anyone at Library of Congress or elsewhere has seen anything
Most importantly: WP page history is sketchy, with one key contributor, changing info, and no data to back anything up.
Two amateur (or one amateur and one professional, as I don't know of @
Extraordinary Writ's credentials) genealogists here haven't yet confirmed the man breathed, much less played a musical instrument. We're eager to look at anything remotely credible, at anyone's research. Please, show us.
DiamondRemley39 (
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14:16, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
DiamondRemley39 - To answer your basic question, Cannella is listed in a few places at the Warner Brothers fandom site, e.g.
[17]. That's why I merely stated an opinion that the WP article may not be a hoax, because from personal experience, the Warner Brothers fan community practices serious research. But that was not even the basis of my vote, which I suspect you did not read in its entirety. This is a deletion discussion and what matters is notability, which Cannella does not have whether he really existed or not. I do not need to prove to you that it isn't a hoax, especially because I merely opined that it isn't. I don't know if you intended your message to be accusatory, but it looks that way. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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Thank you for answering my question; I asked about it because you gave some weight to the unnamed fan community saying he has credits. Thank you for providing the link; I checked it and all exact hits for that name on that site are database-style pages without citations and with brief edit histories. So short of contacting the page creators to ask how they verified their information, it's a dead end.
I understood your vote, which I read. I didn't disagree with your call to delete. I wouldn't disagree with it if I believed he had been a real man. Some of us try to help each other out on Wikipedia, so when you came forward with some information, I asked for details, like Extraordinary Wit asked me for further information on what I found on Ancestry. Some of us collaborate and communicate and all that. We build. If you don't want to be a part of that, be wary of stating that you've got information when you're in the presence of researchers. We do like to get to the bottom of things! Best.
DiamondRemley39 (
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19:04, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - I found information about a currently living Brazilian, but nothing additional about an Italian who passed in 1946. I searched Google, newspapers.com, and newspaperarchive.com
Jacona (
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00:09, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete, above analysis makes it extremely likely that this is a hoax. It's likely that the fan communities that picked up on the name just scraped it from this article and/or previous references to it. Ten Pound Hammer • (
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Delete No hits on name variants in Proquest Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive. I can't prove he existed, much less that he worked on films.
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22:56, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
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Keep Might fall short of NACTOR but seemed to be notable enough as a standup comedian. Most importantly, I believe he meets GNG for non-trivial newspaper coverage from New York Daily News (linked above by DiamondRemley39), The Boston Globe
1 and The Los Angeles Times.
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It's been a while since the 2014 no consensus discussion. This nobleman fails our
notability guideline for biographies, and violates
WP:GENEALOGY in its current state, since 95% of the article is about the subject's family. The subject inherited the title in 2000, and therefore never sat in the House of Lords. The sources are deprecated or do not provide significant coverage, except one 1997 article which in my opinion helps meet
WP:GNG. However, the coverage is only about one event (
WP:BLP1E) and it is not
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Delete I'm struggling to understand the 2014 (non-admin) closure, given no credible argument in favour of keeping the article was advanced. One editor suggested that "some people are interested in hereditary peerages" which is pretty much a perfect example of
an argument to avoid in a deletion discussion. Plenty of people are interested in the thousands of TikTok "stars" out there. It doesn't mean we should fill an encyclopedia with their bios. This article notably consists absolutely entirely of who Curzon's siblings are, his two marriages, his "American divorcée companion" (good bit of British upper-class snobbery there) and that his step-mother, the "Dowager Viscountess", lives in the vicarage. I think that speaks for itself on Curzon's (lack of) notability.
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The article has had a More Citations Needed template on it since at least 2012, is only referenced to a travel blog that doesn't work for notability, and I couldn't find anything about in a
WP:BEFORE when I looked. Outside of that there are some notable people who went there, but notability isn't inherited and there would still need to be multiple, in-depth, reliable sources that discuss the school anyway, which there just doesn't seem to be.
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The article has had a More Citations Needed template on it since at least 2012 and from what I can tell there's nothing in the article or otherwise that help improve things. Since the article is referenced purely to articles about alumni, which don't discuss the school or work for notability anyway, and I couldn't find anything when I did a
WP:BEFORE that would help either. So this article clearly fails the notability guidelines and therefore should be deleted.
Adamant1 (
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17:12, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - this is one of the oldest and best known schools in the Caribbean (and in fact, how many schools anywhere have histories back to 1685...?), and there is a whole book on it from the
University of the West Indies, so I think notability is there, but I agree that it could be better referenced. I have no special knowledge on this topic but will try to work on the reference angle.
SeoR (
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23:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I read over the book from
University of the West Indies before nominating the article and your massively miss-representation things by saying it's a "whole book about Combermere School." In fact 99% of it is about "Barbadian Society" and less then 1% directly relates to the school. In the meantime the fact that it's "history" goes back to 1685 doesn't automatically it notable. --
Adamant1 (
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07:53, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Hello
Adamant1, and thanks for interacting. You appear to feel quite strongly, about this case, school articles or AFDs, but let's keep it polite - in >15 years, it's my experience that we don't normally ask people to retract their !votes, or refer to others' comments as "nonsense." Now, you say that I "massively miss-representation things" with regard to the book - but that's a straw man argument - I said I'm no expert but that there is a whole book, and that's based on library input. Are you sure you read that specific book? I have asked for copy data, and will dig in but "only 1%" about the school seems unlikely. Decent coverage does not even need a book - a good chapter, and other refs, would suffice. Let's study, and discuss further here.
SeoR (
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13:16, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I feel quite strongly about people not miss-representing sources or the notability guidelines. We all should. In no way was I being impolite by saying it's nonsense that the whole book is about the school. It isn't and your statement that it is was wrong, period. I'm willing to assume good faith that you didn't know that because you haven't read the book, but that's on you for not vetting a source before you made claims about it. In the meantime to me it's rather impolite and a waste of everyone's time to make a claim about something you haven't even read. Outside of that I never said the book has to be 100% about the school, but as far as I can tell it's not even a chapter. Even if there was a chapter discussing the school that doesn't make your statement that the "whole book" is about it any less nonsensical or fact based. Outside of that, I can guarantee that I wouldn't have said anything if you were upfront about the fact that there might be a chapter discussing the school but that you don't really know because you haven't read the source. --
Adamant1 (
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13:29, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I agree that we should be clear, and I do not believe that I misrepresented anything - I noted the existence of a book, which reviews describe as being about the school (not partly, 1% or otherwise). You mentioned that you "read over the book from University of the West Indies" but now you say "as far as I can tell it's not even a chapter" - so have you actually had a chance to read it? It is pretty obscure, and if neither of us has yet explored it in detail, let's wait before we judge? I expect to have the material soon. I am happy to alter my position if it is warranted - I defer to sources (or lack of same).
SeoR (
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15:09, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
You didn't just note the existence of the book though. You said the whole thing was about the school when you hadn't even read it and the whole book isn't about the school. So 100% you miss-represented things. You still are. Seriously dude, why not just admit you made a claim about the book that wasn't true or that least that you had zero knowledge of instead of back peddling and continuing to obfuscate about it? Also, I've said twice now that I looked through the book. The appropriate time to not judge it would have been before you voted keep based purely on conjecture about what it contained. It's a little ridiculous to say we shouldn't judge it now after the fact and me looking through the book though just because your unwilling to admit your wrong. That's not how this works. People can't just vote keep based on sources they haven't read and then expect everyone else to not judge the sources their vote was based on. --
Adamant1 (
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15:41, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
It is in the title. It is reasonable to say it's "about" it. It's far more than 1%, as well.
Except SeoR said the whole book was about it. That aside, I don't think it's reasonable to say, let alone assume, that the book is about the school just because the word "Combermere" is in the title. Just as much as it would be to assume a book like Curious George Goes to School or whatever is in-depth, significant story about the school he goes to. In this case, there's a lot of things that are discussed in the book that relate to Combermere, but we need direct coverage and that doesn't include stories of school alumni, Barbados in general or other things on the periphery of it. You could easily have something like a book about the alumni of a certain school, with the schools name in the title, where the school isn't directly talked about though. --
Adamant1 (
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18:17, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I have now received the book, and I'm struggling to AGF... As the review I read suggested, it *is* a history of the school. It is not "99%" - or anything like that - a discussion of Barbadian society, and discussion of alumni is mostly incidental. The main body chapters are, in sometimes extreme detail, about the school and its principals, and operations, with only the epilogue being slightly different in style. It is, in fact, one of the most detailed histories of a school I have ever seen, far more comprehensive than books I've read about some famous UK and Irish schools. And it was written by two multi-decade-experienced academics, one based in Canada, one in the Caribbean. I am puzzled, and am also struggling to understand how some of the commentary above meets
WP:NPA. But we are here to build the encyclopedia, so I will not argue about this, and will, from tomorrow evening, use the book to build up the article further. The editing effort on this page would have enabled whole articles to be built, but so be it.
SeoR (
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00:20, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Weird. That sounds nothing like the book I read on Google. Can you give a page number I can read or cite the in-depth coverage that your saying exists so I can look into why there's the difference? Anyway, we would still need another in-depth reference even with the book. I'm fine saying the book count as one reference if it turns out the one on Google that I read is drastically different then what you have access, but obviously there still needs to be more then that. Other then that, I agree that whole articles could have been built in the meantime, which is I asked you to not speculate on the reference before you had actually read it and told Jacona to drop the discussion. It's to bad both of you ignored me and continued it. You could have just as easily voted keep and argued about it once you had access to the book and we could have an informed discussion about it instead of just speculating. Hopefully that's a lesson learned on both your sides. I look forward to figuring out why what I read is different then the book you have though. I'm more then willing to cite a few paragraphs from the book on Google to prove that it isn't significant, in-depth coverage. That or I can give you some page numbers to look at on Google and compare to your book if you want. --
Adamant1 (
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00:37, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Odd indeed, but look, let's not worry, let's use the source. I think the coverage is exemplified by the chapter structure and titles, so let's start with those (on page vii if you're trying to cross-check via Google). It is important to remember that Google snips can be very selective, and not necessarily in any way representative. So, the book's contents: 1) Combermere's first two hundred years (pp 1-22), 2) The role of George (BR) Burton (pp 23-47), 3) Combermere School, 1926-46 (pp 48-68), 4) The Age of Noott, 1946-1961 (pp 69-102), 5) Consolidation at Waterford, 1961-81 (pp 122-138), 6) Combermere School since 1981 (122-138), followed by epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. And then, to dive in a bit, some interesting sample pages, I'll document re. two chapters - (Chapter 1) pages 1-3 are a detailed account of the Drax Will and the consequent school foundation, pages 4-10 cover the Central School period, while 11-12 look at the Michinson Commission and the linkage between its work and the direction of the school (I would say that 12 is a bit general), 13 touches on the school achieving full second level status, and 14-22 on the beginning of the "Combermere" period, of which p.19 is more than 60% contextual. Chapter 2 elaborates the work of one key principal, and a major expansion of the school, and goes as deep into detail as to name teachers of some subjects, and discuss break-out points on finances; two pages discuss exam results, and four the subject structure and house-prefect system, followed by 1.5 pages (42-43) on school magazine work, and the "old scholars" association. It goes on, but basically it's a really thorough go at a history, albeit with periods when records seem to be "thin." But it goes far beyond one chapter or book passage. I hope this helps. One other thing that may help is to consider the publisher. University presses are usually pretty rigorous, and at the same time most don't have budget to waste, so some weight would go, even before securing a loan copy, to the fact that a third-level institution's house press published on a topic at all. See you on the article improvement stage.
SeoR (
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13:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - the article may need to be improved, but the age of the school and the location clearly makes it notable. --
Bduke (
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07:10, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Bduke: Interesting take. I wasn't aware that everything in the Caribbean is automatically notable "because the location." Also where do the notability guidelines say that "historical" (whatever that means) subjects are de-facto notable? I doubt that's the case since the last time I checked there isn't articles for every building built before the "modern times." every random archeological site, fossil, pre-modern event, Etc. Etc. don't have their own articles either. That said, you and SeoR both seem to be pretty sure the whole "historical things are automatically notable" thing though. So I'd love to know what information the two of you have access to that I don't. Please enlighten me. Otherwise, I'd appreciate it if both of you retracted your votes. Same goes for your nonsense about this being inherently notable because it's located in Barbados/the Caribbean. Either prove there's de-facto notability for everything in Barbados/the Caribbean because of the location or strike your comment about it. --
Adamant1 (
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07:53, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I did not say that everything in the Caribbean is automatically notable. I said that the combination of age and location made it notable. --
Bduke (
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09:13, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Cool. It's not like "age and location" is anymore grounded in policy then just one or other alone though. Otherwise, show me where the guidelines say "age and location" make something inherently notable. Especially as it relates to subjects that have to do with Barbados/the Caribbean. Just repeating yourself isn't evidence. --
Adamant1 (
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12:47, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Jacona: You know that "article" is primary and self published right? How exactly is that usable for notability? SeoR, you saying a primary self published source "looks great" is exactly the kind of nonsense I was talking about earlier. Frankly, I'm surprised you can't tell what a primary, self-published source is considering you've been an editor for >15 years. It's pretty basic stuff. Same goes for Jacona. If you going to vote keep at least make sure your not doing it based on a primary reference please. It really shouldn't be that hard. In the meantime no one should take your opinion that a large percentage of the 8,310 results nationnews.com have
WP:SIGCOV seriously. As it's obviously nonsense. Just looking at the first 10 results most or all of them are extremely trivial at best and have absolutely nothing to do with the school at worst. I doubt you reviewed anything passed that, let alone a large percentage of the results, and if the top ten are completely irrelevant the rest won't be any better. --
Adamant1 (
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13:50, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I hope it's OK with all to cut this comment in here, as it responds to points above, and the discussion goes elsewhere below. The 12-page item is *not* self-published. It was a supplement to a major national newspaper, written by professionals. Now, is it wholly independent? No, I don't think so, at first glance it looked like an "assisted" publication. But even so, so many pages of material will provide plenty of basis for citation and / or further sourcing. I will continue to work to improve the article, and let's see where we get to.
SeoR (
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15:03, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
This is a school that's over 300 years old with > 20 alumni that have articles. A quick search at google turns up > 33000 articles. Newspapers.com comes up with many more. A more specific search of Barbadian sources turns up 8000+ articles, many of which are in-depth.
WP:BEFORE,
WP:ATD,
WP:PRESERVE clearly indicate that the availability of sources is more important than the sources in the article. If I were to perform
WP:BEFORE properly on a subject with tens of thousands of results, I would not be able to reasonably conclude the subject is not notable without spending a significant of time. The premise that a 340 year old school with alumna who were major sports stars, prime ministers, top-level pop stars doesn't have sources sounded suspicious, so I looked for them, and found many in-depth sources. If I performed BEFORE, I would never have nominated this school, but you did nominate, it which makes me wonder: 1.) Have you looked through even the first few pages of sources in the google search "site:
https://www.nationnews.com combermere"? Do you not find some of them to be significant in-depth coverage? 2.) Have you done site-specific searches of any other Barbadian/Carribean news outlets? 3.) Have you looked at Newspapers.com? I don't know, but it would seem the good editors at AfD would better spend their time on something else. I've agreed with many of your nominations, but on this one, I just completely don't get it.
Jacona (
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14:19, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Your the one claiming that in-depth sources exist. So it's on you to provide them. Why would I look through the 33000 hits on Google to prove your claim that this is notable? That's not how this works. If your unwilling to provide the references then cool, don't participate in the AfD or vote keep based on vacuous claims that your unwilling to provide evidence for then. I could care less. Other people that can make actual, guideline based arguments and know what a primary reference is are bound to come along evemtually. In the meantime you should read
Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions, especially
WP:GOOGLEHITS, because I really don't feel like repeatedly getting in discussions with you about why something that has 33000 Google hits isn't inherently notable. Your just wasting everyone's time, including mine by bringing it up. And no I wouldn't call a two paragraph article about a couple teachers of getting cancer "significant coverage" or even notable. Teachers get cancer. Same goes for the other references. Especially "Problems still at Combermere", which is about St Michael school. It should go without saying that this isn't St Michael school. It's ridiculous your trying to act like it is. Your clearly not doing your due diligence by reviewing references before you provide them. --
Adamant1 (
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14:38, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Thanks for all the conversation. The above unfortunately misrepresents some facts. 1.) "Problems still at Combermere" is indeed about Combermere, which is located at Waterford, St Michael. 2.) Editors do have a duty to look for sources before bringing an article to AfD. If editors don't spend an adequate amount of time doing so, it will waste the time of many other editors. 3.) The news headlines are significant coverage, but more than what's in the url's provided, these appear to be only the trailers to more thorough coverage behind the paywall/in the print edition. Thanks.
Jacona (
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15:40, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
1. My bad on that, but it's still an extremely trivial source that doesn't contain direct, significant coverage of the school though. So it's really a moot point. 2. I said multiple times I looked for sources before I brought the article to AfD. What part of "I couldn't find anything when I did a
WP:BEFORE" doesn't make that clear? 3. "news headlines" aren't significant coverage and it's hysterical that you think they are. You clearly either don't understand how AfDs and the notability guidelines work or are intentionally obscuating. At this point my guess is the later.
Also, if the paywall thing was an issue it should have been before you asked my opinion about the references. Not after. I can guarantee that you wouldn't be making an issue out of them being behind a paywall if I agreed that the references were significant coverage. In the meantime there has to be evidence that the articles have significant coverage. We don't just assume there is "because paywall" or whatever. As a side to that, to quote "
WP:SIGCOV Multiple publications from the same author or organization are usually regarded as a single source for the purposes of establishing notability." So even if the news stories contained significant coverage there would still have to be a significant reference from another outlet/outlets for this to be notable, which there doesn't seem to be. I'd love to be proved wrong though. In the grand scheme of things
WP:THREE in-depth references from multiple reliable sources that are independent of the subject is an extremely low bar that anything even slightly notable should be able to meet. A low bar that shouldn't be met through obscuation and miss-representing things either btw. --
Adamant1 (
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16:22, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I said "I can see only what's apparently an abridged version outside the paywall". I don't know how it could have been more clear. Please do not misrepresent what other editors say. You've done this repeatedly, all the while making this discussion into a
WP:BATTLEGROUND.
Jacona (
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16:42, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
How exactly am I miss-representing what you said when you literally said "The news headlines are significant coverage." That's a direct quote. I don't see how pointing out that news headlines aren't significant coverage is turning the discussion into a
WP:BATTLEGROUND either. Maybe you can enlighten me? If anything you are turning into a battle ground by repeatedly making patently false assertions that I didn't do a BEFORE. Even after I said I did multiple times. --
Adamant1 (
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18:29, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment Guidelines and policies are thoroughly misrepresented in this AfD.
WP:BEFORE, section B.2 directs us to take reasonable steps to search for
reliable sources. section D part 1 states what those steps are, which includes a google search. It doesn't really matter how many results there are, but this helps us determine whether sources exist. We certainly can and should question the quality of those results. Section C. 1 states us that if the article can be improved through normal editing, it is not a candidate for AfD. Section D.3. and D.4 continue that if adequate sources do appear to exist, the fact that they are not yet present in the article is not a proper basis for a nomination.
Jacona (
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16:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
It's pretty hilarious that in one comment you claimed I'm turning this into a
WP:BATTLEGROUND and then in the next you said I didn't take reasonable steps to search for
reliable sources when I've said like 3 times now that I looked for references. I'd love to know how your refusal to accept that I took steps to look for adequate references before I nominated the article isn't treating this like a battleground. Sorry I didn't think the sources you found were up to par dude, that's no reason to try and drag me through the dirt though. Why not just admit you were wrong and move on? Other people who know how to make actual arguments should have a chance to give their opinions. I'd appreciate it if you stopped bludging this with your nonsense and let them. --
Adamant1 (
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18:29, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
How are you not mis-representing other editors with the comments you've made, including the quite rude comment where you called me "ridiculous" and said I didn't read the source I provided because it wasn't about Combermere....when in fact it was you who did not read the source carefully enough to understand what it said. That's one of several times in this AfD when you have been both rude and wrong. You've made it clear that you will not be bothered searching for sources, as BEFORE requires, stating the misunderstanding that "that's not how this works." Please stop with the borderline
personal attacks and
uncivil behavior. You shouldn't accuse other editors of the behavior you yourself are exhibiting. I wish we weren't having this discussion; this school's notability is obvious to me. There is more than sufficient of significant coverage (which you dismiss because you don't like it), the school is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, is covered significantly in the
book, hundreds of articles in the Barbadian newspaper ["site:
https://www.nationnews.com combermere" search], and other significant coverage. It is the alma mater of
Rihanna, and more than 20 other individuals who have articles. It is a strong keep. If you expended 10% of the effort that's been wasted here on improving the encyclopedia, we could have built something in that time.
Jacona (
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20:46, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The article said "St Michael school was reopened after being closed for several months" and there's a St. Michael School in Bridgetown, Barbados. So I thought that's what the article was talking about. I've been clear about that and in no way was I miss-representing things by reading the article wrong. Outside of that, I didn't say you were "ridiculous." Nice try though. I'm not sure where else I've been wrong either. Although even I have been wrong about other things, it's fine to be wrong. People miss-read things sometimes. Me reading a sentence wrong and then saying that's what happened is no way comparably to how you and SeoR have acted about this or the blatantly false and ridiculous things both of you have said though. Including you saying that headlines are significant coverage or that something with 33000 Google hits is inherently notable. There's really no way to take either of those things as honest mistakes. Especially since you've repeated both even after I provided links to the guidelines saying that the number of Google hits something has doesn't prove it's notable. Same goes for you repeatedly insulting me that I didn't look for references, which at this point just badgering and I'd appreciate it if you didn't badger me. You continuing to harp on me about is all the more ridiculous considering the hemming and hawing your doing about civility. There's absolutely nothing civil in attacking nominators about how they didn't look for references. Especially when they told you multiple times that they did. Seriously dude, practice what you preach and lay off it already. Your the only one wasting effort by going off about clearly false nonsense. Your not obligated to participate in this. Be my guest and go hassle someone else if you think the discussion is such a waste or edit some articles instead of mouthing off. I'm fine with either. Just as long as you leave me and my AfDs the hell alone. --
Adamant1 (
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21:03, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Just because you started this AfD, does not make it your AfD. You have said enough. This is not how AfD's should go. I suggest that you leave it for others to comment and an admin to close it. --
Bduke (
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23:30, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Obviously. I was going to say "my AfD nomination", which it is, but I assumed (apparently wrongly) that I didn't need to be that pedantic about it and that it should go without that I don't own the AfD. That said, I think if someone repeatedly insults and lies about a nominator that it's within the nominator's right to ask the person to find other things to do. Outside of that, I agree other people should have a chance to comment, which is why I told Jacona to drop it multiple times. Thanks for just repeating what I said though. You repeating me is clearly going to allow other people a chance to give their opinions.
Adamant1 (
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23:40, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep, this ancient and nationally-significant school clearly passes
WP:GNG, and this AFD nomination appears to be ill-based and possibly evidences US-/European bias given the lack of respect given to coverage by actual newspapers and other sources from Barbados. The nominator may have concerns about high school / secondary school articles in general but some are worthy of inclusion. This school is the subject of a general book (Combermere School and the Barbadian Society), a passage in a specialized book about elite schools in Barbados and the sport of cricket, and multiple newspaper and other articles. As one of a handful of higher schools for the whole colony and later country of Barbados until modern times, it has clearly had a major influence on the island's society, which I think I remember is a notability factor. The nominator seems very committed to deletion instead of improving or fixing any problems, and has accused editors who appear to have no ax to grind of stating "blatantly false and ridiculous things". Not just "ridiculous" but also "false". I edit occasionally, like many readers. And the tone of this nomination defense, with 60% of the page written by the nominator, is one reason why I don't do more. Another is the "deletionist" stance taken by a small but active percentage of editors. Maybe all AfD nominators, like Did You Know... nominators, should have to have a set number of article creations, so they understand about dropping the hard work of others.
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This is an interesting technology, but based on the available secondary sources, I believe it's
WP:TOOSOON.
The article itself is also a disaster: clearly a massive
WP:COI violation, as the primary author of the article has the same name as the primary inventor of the technology, and the whole thing reads like a massive press release. Even if
WP:TOOSOON doesn't apply here,
WP:TNT surely does.
PianoDan (
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17:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete I disagree with the nominator in that I think it reads less like a press release and more like it was copied from a report to a funding agency. Other than that, though, I concur. It's an article-sized
WP:COI violation that would need to get blown up and restarted from scratch, even if having it were warranted, which is doubtful. The secondary sources I can find don't go into much depth at all.
This is barely a mention, and
this review gives it only a sentence (The potential for improving the identification of inverse beta decay and reducing background is apparent with a novel detector using a dense array of optical fibers immersed in opaque scintillating liquid). That and the recent publication date are a strong
WP:TOOSOON signal.
XOR'easter (
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17:09, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
There's more. Several of the sources aren't sources but links to author profiles next to author names, as if this were a paper. And over a paragraph of the article tells us things that were "confidential" and never published. This is just not written as an encyclopaedia article at all. Looking around, I'm not finding the independent sourcing for rewriting, or even re-stubbing, this. Checking the stuff that cites the 2019 Communications Physics paper, for example, I'm not finding that the rest of the world has written about this in much depth.
Uncle G (
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21:39, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I strongly disagree with the deletion of this article. First, I would like to suggest that we
assume the good faith of the main editor of the article. He is clearly involved with the subject and I agree that some parts needs adaptation regarding the styling (
MOS:NOTE was already suggested at the beginning), but it is a relevant subject to be in an encyclopaedia and there are
several reliable sources about it, some of them already in the references. From the page logs, It is also clear that the author sought some support and started editing on his sandbox, it already indicated for me his good will. Anyone here more experienced with editing Wikipedia knows how difficult it can be at the beginning to follow all its rules, and it's undeniable the effort already made to create relevant content in this article. Thus, saying that the article should be blown up and started from scratch can sound offensive and for sure is demotivating for beginners. Regarding the
conflict of interest, since the author is one of the main active researchers on the topic, I would try to kindly advise him on how to proceed in such cases. Again, that doesn't mean that everything should be deleted, but adapted and improved, and the talk page of the article could be a good start for this purpose. --
everton137 (
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16:12, 3 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Rather than simply posting a blanket Duck Duck Go search - which references in that list do you specifically think clear this article of
WP:TOOSOON? I agree that most of the sources in that search are cited on the page, but they're almost entirely single-author primary sources. I don't see any notable secondary coverage.
PianoDan (
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16:31, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
No one assumed bad faith from the creator. However, an article isn't subject to a pass just because it was created by newcomer who 'worked hard'. The article isn't suitable for inclusion in its current state, and has deep profound flaws that make it harder to fix than to create from scratch (assuming it meets
WP:N, which is not clear it does). This comes from this article being written for an audience other than a general encyclopedia, by an author who is not unaffiliated with the project. Headbomb {
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Keep (welcome to hear suggestions).
I am the main author of the article here: a professional scientist with recognised and renown track-record in generating knowledge in neutrino science and leader of several international scientific collaborations, including order hundred of scientists across many countries. More precisely, I am the spokesperson of the LiquidO consortium (about ~70 scientists in 22 institutions over 10 countries), which implies supporting our communication/dissemination strategy for which there is NO interest other knowledge generation — our job.
Since WIKI's main goal is to favour knowledge dissemination and WIKI provides the means for this knowledge to be provided by those who generated it, we have provided our article on LiquidO Detection — first article ever in WIKI for me. So, I am certainly new and inexperienced in WIKI and the set of rules/conditions that articles must meet upon publication. Hence, I certain welcome all constructive feedback that would frame our contributions most usefully to the community. Any other conclusion may be likely rooted in some kind of misunderstanding. In any case, I do appreciate if we keep as basis for exchange the main guidelines of WIKI: a) "assume good faith”, b) “be polite and avoid personal attacks” and c) “be welcoming to newcomers”. Extra comments regarding the "LiquidO Detection" article here:
Contribition Publication Context: when I wrote the article (originally in my sandbox), I was proposed to publish it, including some feedback by “expert(s)”. I welcomed this very much as I hesitated on how to proceed (given my lack of experience). Indeed, this promised feedback reassured me to proceed with the contribution(s). Moreover, I was told that the “publication consideration period” (some kind review or evaluation, I gathered) that could last up to ~3 months, period over which I was encouraged to continue to improving the article while still unpublished. All this information was provided by WIKI and much of that never happened. To my greatest surprise (or even shock), the article got published within 24 hours with NO feedback whatsoever was ever offered.
Given the lack of the feedback upon publication, this was some kind of encouragement to proceed following the same lines of the original writeup. Since the article was far from the standard I intended (approval was far faster than told) and it had not yet been fully validated by all my collaborators (i.e. our LiquidO consortium of professional scientists), I was forced to push for further article for completeness and prompt some collaborators for urgent validation of the contents (successfully). Note: the contents are now being reviewed by the full team to further scrutiny the contents. So, some modifications may be expected. To add insult to injury, a few days after publication, we entered into another degree of shock when we discovered that some WIKI experts proposed the deletion altogether — thus directly wasting all the work and disposing its contents as outcome. This is far from the “be welcoming to newcomers” guideline of WIKI from which kind, supportive and constructive feedback. It is altogether surprising that some WIKI experts appear more focused on hammering contributions without offering alternative solutions to ensure knowledge is preserved, specially considering that the knowledge is provided by the scientific professional knowledge generator community. Is this really the message that WIKI community wants to pass here to the scientific community? This seems a rather contradiction to what the wikipedia should stand for. In fact, "delete knowledge kindly provided by first-line experts” should be the last resource, should any mending strategy failed. Also, trashing the effort of others seem right against the WIKI project voluntary basis. If an article, providing proved knowledge, including renown references, failed to match the standard of WIKI, we should trigger support and guidance — not rejection. Moreover, having "first-line experts" to contribute to their knowledge in the wikipedia should be encouraged and supported, else the main WIKI project may be jeopardised.
Beyond the above general impressions, I have duly gone through reviewers your comments and here is some feedback:
First, for politeness, I will skip some of the unfortunate terminology used above and/or other appreciations (such as whether article was “massive press release” or a copy “from a report to a funding agency”) in general speculative and incorrect. I would only say that some of those remarks do not seem aligned with the WIKI principles of a) "assume good faith” and b) “be polite and avoid personal attacks”.
Second, I would avoid discussion about scientific judgement as this is done, like in all other scientific fora generating knowledge, via peer reviewed publications, conferences and proposals for support/funding. In fact, on those grounds LiquidO is very well served; indeed very successfully despite its early age in technology. Hence, the information provided meets in full — to be best of my knowledge and ability — the WIKI policy as it relies on FACT(s) — with dates — based on information publicly available supported by recognised publications (even Nature) and world leading scientific fora or conferences. Further information may be provided, if needed. Should you have any question or suggestion on how to improve, we surely welcome that.
Third, I have gone through the
wikipedia deletion policy. I see the article contents do NOT meet any of the 14 listed “reasons for deletion”. Moreover, there exist “alternatives to deletion” (same article; such as “tagging”, etc), none of those has been proposed. Why? Hence, I conclude that the proposal for “article deletion” is both disproportionate and unjustified. Of course, any reasonable discussion for possible improvement is highly welcome, as reiterated and intended, as explained before.
I gather that the main possible concern is that I wrote in the article and I am indeed "conceptor" of the technology (substantiated by many of the reference provided), thus I understand this is alluded as a possible [wikipedia conflict of interest |Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]. Instead, the article states the facts (to the best of our knowledge) and those facts should not entail as any kind of handicap or discrimination for contribution to the wiki by me — or anybody else — unless an abuse was identified. I state to my honour that no abuse was intended and, if anything may be misunderstood, I offer immediate resolution. On the hand and as argued before, I understand the wikipedia community should appreciate and encourage the direct contribution form the "first-line expertise", in this case any of the LiquidO scientists or experts. The fact that the article is in WIKI, implies we are opened to the scientific community feedback too. Note the articulation employed is similar to other scientific articles in WIKI, but room for improvement exist, given the above explain conditions explained (WIKI beginner and rushed contributions by WIKI faster than expected approval for publication). Still, I went nonetheless through the [wikipedia conflict of interest |Wikipedia:Conflict of interest] and I did not find any evident direct breaching of the rules by the article. Beyond the aforementioned historical note (including some key names). The article is not about me (or my family o my company, etc) but about the scientific knowledge generated and the status of the technology led by the work of a scientific collaboration (~70 people). While my writing style is unlikely tuned to the wiki style — yes, my work is about writing papers and proposals where several Nature’s and some millions have been achieved so far — I am very happy to be advised and guided, so that the article meets the intended tone. I do thank you in advance. Note this is indeed the constructive approach we expected from WIKI (“be welcoming to newcomers”) and we have so far not felt.
Last, the article is indeed “orphan” on purpose because, as explained, we did not want to connect it yet to other wiki articles, since we awaited for all my collaborators to review it (ongoing) prior to proceed with further propagation and dissemination.
So, I am compelled to request the reconsideration of the deletion of the "LiquidO Detection” contribution, for which I fully disagree since a) the article provides unique knowledge so far missing in WIKI (incontestably the most important for us and WIKI) and b) the original authors are open to improve its style, should support be provided, as originally promised. So, I'd like to propose that we convert this discussion into a constructive, sensitive and respectful dialogue (less time-consuming and more enjoyable) to ensure more and better knowledge is provide to the WIKI as a way forward. So, I kindly ask you — wiki editors / experts — to kindly help me (us) help you with our contributions to WIKI, please. We are professional scientists with NO interest(s) whatsoever other than pure knowledge generation and dissemination, both our job, and we offer our knowledge to the community from which we'd be delighted to count on your kindest support and knowledge. Our team and myself would surely be most grateful.
Anatael Cabrera (
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19:04, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep and improve I also think this article should be kept. Certainly, the work of a beginner, which can be improved. Yes, the writer and the developer are the same, but I think that experts should be allowed to write about their work, with proper references and scrutiny. Not ideal, but not a reason to delete it all.
Ajgw56 (
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20:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment from nominator. First, I DO appreciate the author's enthusiasm for sharing their work on Wikipedia.
However, I'd like to suggest they carefully read
WP:COIE. "Do not edit or create articles about yourself, your family or friends, your organization, your clients, or your competitors." Personally, I'll edit articles about particle accelerators, but I won't about my own company, or about companies the directly compete with it. The author's comment that "the contents are now being reviewed by the full team to further scrutiny the contents." is problematic - members of the LiquidO consortium should NOT have created their own page directly, and once it exists (assuming it is deemed notable), they should be using the
Edit Request Template to request other editors make edits, rather than making them directly.
The other policies I'd like to point out are
WP:OR and
WP:PSTS. Wikipedia is not the place to present original research, and primary sources, while somewhat unavoidable in very technical articles, need to be accompanied with at least some secondary coverage to establish notability. Adding additional secondary sources to this page would be the number one way to improve its chances of surviving AfD. Failure to establish notability (A8) per
WP:GNG is the deletion criterion at issue here.
PianoDan (
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20:51, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Strong Delete - While I have no reason to doubt the author's motives here are noble in wanting to share their research, the problem remains that this just simply
isn't what wikipedia is for. Wikipedia is a tertiary source that follows the academic consensus, and is committed to being exactly as wrong or out of date as the current consensus. Wikipedia is not an alternative path to recognition for serious academic work or a parallel path alongside broader academic recognition - it absolutely must follow other recognition. If this research is truly as impactful and important as the author believes, it will be cited by many reliable, academic, secondary sources, which will then likely be used by uninvolved parties to write an article about this topic. But as wikipedia is a tertiary source that is and must be written and maintained by editors who are not credentialed experts, it is absolutely necessary that all information be
verifiable in secondary sources. This is why we can't just have an article written by a subject matter expert without independent, secondary source citations. People who are reading the encyclopedia need to be able to verify the information presented on any wiki page without having to contact the author or rely on any trust that the information is correct.
This is entirely separate from the conflict of interest concerns, which are certainly also serious here, but those do not even need to be considered until it's established in secondary literature that this research is important and impactful. I appreciate that a lot of effort must have gone into drafting this page, but quite frankly there's no salvaging this contribution here whatsoever. I would recommend that the author, and the consortium they represent, invest time in the future into making sure that the avenues they pursue for spreading their research are appropriate and receptive, before they invest time and effort into how they will present their research. This is a useful lesson I have learned extensively outside of wikipedia in the corporate world: first sell the meeting, not the business. A lot of effort could have been saved here if the consortium had invested the time into making sure their work was aligned with wikipedia policies before spending so much time on writing this page. I am not sure if there was a disconnect here on the wikimedia side, but a fuller understanding of wikipedia policies by the consortium could have easily prevented this: while we don't assume familiarity of policies for all new editors, as this contribution is from a large professional organization, it seems that more initial legwork ought to have been done here. To the author: I would personally recommend that when you do find an alternative front for presenting this research, perhaps at academic conferences or when submitting review papers, or when you approach investors to make your technology marketable, that you take this advice into consideration. This will likely increase the chances that this research will one day be well-cited and verifiable enough to be included on Wikipedia.
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Delete: A company which sold its patents on some early products, then changed focus, before being acquired by another firm. The page history shows a sequence of
WP:SPA edits followed by clean-up by other editors. While searches find reviews / mentions of their Engager and BFM products, and their participation in industry events, I am not seeing
evidence of attained
notability. The Italian WP has an article about the acquiring company
CRIF, its credit checking service and several acquisitions but not this one; en.wp has an article on one acquisition, the Indian
CRIF High Mark Credit Information Services but not the parent, so there is no available merge/redirect target. (There is also an article on one defunct product, the
Strands Social Player, whose notability is itself questionable.)
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WP:NOTSTATS, list is too specific and only mentions men's singles players (as opposed to doubles players) who represented the UK at some point in their career. While this could be improved I can not see a reason why this can't be a category or mentioned on the specific subjects' articles (which they generally are). The UK is the only country I could find with a specific list of country-specific number 1s, and there is not a list for British women's players either.
Bonoahx (
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16:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep: There's no reason to delete this. It passes any guidance issues and is independently referenced. You also state that there isn't a women's list. Therefore why don't you create one? And the UK being the only country to have such a list is not a valid reason for deleting the article.
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Article on a non-notable fictional concept, which is comprised almost entirely of in-universe plot summaries sourced to episode recaps, many of which are not even reliable sources. The only exception to this is the few sentences at the end about the show's development, which itself is already covered at
The Originals (TV series)#Production. The actual characters listed here are already covered in a much more succinct format at
List of The Originals characters, making this article redundant as a character list. As the concept of the "original vampires" from this franchise is not independently notable from the show itself, this article is an unnecessary spinout, and a general overview of the concept is already adequately described as part of the main article on
The Originals (TV series).
Rorshacma (
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16:52, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: I agree with the above comments. However, Henrik, Mikael, Dahlia, and Esther's information NEEDS to be posted somewhere else.
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Speedy deletion was declined on the grounds this was not obvious enough, but this is still obvious
WP:PROMO and the subject very clearly fails
WP:GNG (of the sources in the article, the link at the top is clearly a biography provided by the subject, the first proper ref does not mention him by name at all, and the others are all entries about buildings with "Text description provided by the architects"... Looking for other stuff does not yield any convincing examples either) and
WP:NOTCV (because that is what this reads like, a CV...)
RandomCanadian (
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16:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I can find stuff written by this person, but not stuff written about this person that isn't autobiography. There just isn't independent sourcing for a biography available. And an account named
Archimad (
talk·contribs) writing about an architect who teaches in Madrid does suggest autobiography here as well, as does xem knowing about NCSU when it isn't mentioned in the published autobiography sourced to the company that xe hyperlinked in the article at
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The result was speedy delete per
WP:SNOW. At best this is an outright hoax. At worst, someone trying to promote themselves. The argument in favor of this being a hoax is pretty strong, especially in lieu of
this article. I'm also going to give the article creator a
WP:NOTHERE block given the situation.
ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79)
(。◕‿◕。)12:17, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
A book is not entitled to a Wikipedia article simply because it has been assigned an ISBN. The specific criteria for notability of books are listed at
Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Criteria. These criteria are usually met by demonstrating that a book has received significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent secondary sources. An Amazon listing does not count.
DanCherek (
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15:16, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I was leaning towards deletion but the editor asked for sometime to make relevant changes. So if the editor failed to provide relevant sources then my vote will be delete.
Afzlfc (
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16:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Thank you for patronage !! I made all my possible efforts to not to delete page. I provided all legitimate info. and second source press releases will be updated soon!
Samadhaan (
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05:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. "Book" appears to be listed only on Amazon India (as unavailable), and cannot be found with Google, which is a poor sign. The photographs of the book on the Amazon India site have clearly been manipulated and are not of an actual book. The publisher is not a publisher, but a printer, suggesting it may be self-published. And, incidentally, the printer's website is blocked by BitDefender, which speaks ill of the entire situation. The normal hurdle that must be cleared by a book before it deserves an article is that there must be independent secondary sources writing about the book. In this case, I'm not even sure the book clears the preliminary hurdle of being a properly-published book. It was published in mid February, recent enough that it ought to be available, long enough ago that if anyone was going to write enthusiastically about it, they have had some chance to do so.
Elemimele (
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16:12, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
this book is published in February 2022 & first sale of book is finished. and coming to the lover of wikipedia, I never dare to create un necessary & un worthy stuff in wikipedia. Janapriya printers is printing press & no where address mentioned & how come you say that printer is suggesting self-published??? before making a decision try to get info from the editor right ?? I m not interested to defend to introduce good book to fight to place in wikipedia. For better visual presentation we will upload such a cover image, how can you that it is manipulated ?? you want me to upload original coverpage of the book ?? if you guys are suggesting delete, please go a head!! because wikipedia is not a business to promote. My pure intension to give good place to book, which made critical analysis on caste system. I m handing over things to the respected persons in this conversation as I want this book to be placed in wikipedia with pride, not by begging & with mercy. Thanking you.
Samadhaan (
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04:41, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
After reading
https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/man-held-for-posing-as-bureaucrat-to-dupe-people-1.65026239 and the deleted revisions at
Sampath Kumar Surappagari (author of this non-existent book) and checking out the purported newspaper at
Dainik Prayukti (purportedly published by that same person, with its address being in Karol Bagh just as IANS reported, and listed as a company in 2013 just as IANS reported; but has no news in it, and no reported existence apart from a few regurgitated press releases some years ago, and was changed to struck off on the companies register years ago too) I am upgrading this, something that I rarely do. It's not just notability. It's not even just verifiability. These all three appear to be outright hoaxes perpetrated by almost single-purpose account
Samadhaan (
talk·contribs). And the offers of dummied-up cover pages, for this non-existent book as well as the non-existent newspaper, as well as the claims that the hoaxes don't check out because somehow the WWW site isn't working, no doubt next to be given as the explanation of the fact that none of the URLs in the dummied-up newspaper pages check out and the purported newspaper WWW site otherwise has about 1 "article" (which are just regurgitated tosh with some stock images added if one reads them) per year, fit exactly the pattern of hoaxery with dummied-up false documentation reported by IANS. Strong delete.
Uncle G (
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08:26, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
In explanation of my comment on falsified images; this may be a misunderstanding on my part. Of the eight images shown on the Amazon India site, several show the book with a bar-code, several without. I took these to be the front and back cover. Looking at the versions of these pictures that show the book in perspective, one shows the edge of the book as the natural curve of the pages of a hardbound book, not as large as the covers. The other shows what I thought ought to be the spine, but which is actually just a neutral flat surface the full width of the book, which couldn't possibly be the spine of a hardbound book. On reflection I think the aim might have been to show a paperback version. I apologise if this was the case. The Amazon page does not specify whether the book is available in paperback and hardback (again a very odd situation; Amazon is usually very clear about the formats in which it sells). But in the end, this is irrelevant. From the perspective of Wikipedia, we cannot have an article about the book unless at least a couple of reliable sources have written about it independently, and no such sources appear to exist.
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Delete. Honestly, given that Forbes, Entrepreneur and other publications otherwise historically considered reputable have been called out for running paid pieces for promo for companies and individuals, I have a suspicion 99% of the sources are that. I am not definitely saying for sure, but I absolutely side with the independence concerns of
Hemantha.
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The result was Rename. As discussed and per the sources identified, the notable entity is the incinerator. The editorial work to move/rename does not require continuation of this discussion. StarMississippi19:30, 5 April 2022 (UTC)reply
It having been suggested very pointedly that I should look into this one, I've made a return trip. This is impeded by my usual topo/aerial source not going back beyond the 1970s, but what they do show in that timeframe is a string of buildings along the rails that looks nothing like a town, as they have a decidedly industrial look. Then there is a Quonset hut that sits away from the tracks, but around about 2000 they moved the siding so it now swings by this building, the others having been demolished. Searching shows lots of general references to aragonite and to the incinerator, along with a few rail-related hits and the one ghost town hit. The last talks about some building remnants, but there's nothing there that evidences ruins of residences.
Mangoe (
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04:42, 13 March 2022 (UTC)reply
That statement is a falsehood, one taken from the article (without any research, not even checking the sources cited) but a falsehood nonetheless. This article is a falsehood.
Aragonite, Utah is not a "community" nor a "ghost town". It is an
aragonite mill and mine that was at one point run by the Utah Calcium Products Company.(
Morris 1964, p. 192) harv error: no target: CITEREFMorris1964 (
help). It is in the Tooele County West Desert Hazardous Industries Area, an area selected by the County in part because it was and is unpopulated. The nearest population of any sort is 45 miles away, by design. (
GSHI 2015, p. 3) harv error: no target: CITEREFGSHI2015 (
help) This is another of the "ghost town"/"unincorporated community" falsehoods that Wikipedia has been publishing to the world, and if it weren't for the GNIS mess this would be systematic hoaxery, ghost towns and communities that do not exist and never have done.
Uncle G (
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09:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Morris, H.T. (1964). "Mineral and Water Resources of Utah: Limestone and dolomite". Bulletin. 73. United States Geological Survey.
Comment - Perhaps it is not a falsehood. According to page 368 the book, Utah An Explorer's Guide:
[27]Aragonite Ghost Town is an old mining town from the early 20th century that mined aragonite. This mine was only in operation for a few years but today the mineshafts are still open and a few bunkhouses remain, as well as an old truck. Aragonite is also near the Hastings Cutoff, part of the famous Donner Party route of the 1840s. This book was published in 2009 before the Wikipedia article was written, so it is doubtful that the WP article incited a hoax or influenced the author of the book into believing a falsehood.
Netherzone (
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Uncle GNetherzone (
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21:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Is not and never was a community. An entry on ghosttowns.com does not actually mean it's a ghost town, but an abandoned site.
Reywas92Talk13:49, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Rename to
Aragonite Hazardous Waste Incinerator per the new source. Delete - Not a community mostly per Uncle G's research that shows it was very likely never populated. Turning to the sources:
Utah Atlas & Gazetteer - I cannot access this source, but from what can be seen online it appears to be a map/atlas, and as such does not support notability.
Utah Ghost Towns - Self-published source, not reliable, does not state that the site was ever really populated but instead just a mine.
ARAGONITE HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATOR, UTAH - This is significant coverage... of the waste incinerator. It is also not independent of the source.
Aragonite Permit: Clean Harbors, LLC - This is about the waste incinerator, and is not independent of the source.
Utah incinerator faces penalties, Deseret News - This is the only independent, significant coverage here, but is ultimately about the waste incinerator company.
Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. to pay penalty for chemical reporting violations at Aragonite, Utah facility. US EPA - Government press-release, not independent coverage, and is about the waste incinerator.
This just confirms what Uncle G said - this place was likely never populated, just a mine and later waste-incinerator. There is some coverage of the waste-incinerator, but as a bare minimum another piece preferably from a different year in a different reliable and independent publication about it is needed to get it over GNG.
FOARP (
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14:17, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
You read the Utah's Mining Industry source backward, it says it's the place named after the mineral, but there's still no indication that an abandoned bunkhouse is really a "ghost town" or makes a notable former community.
Reywas92Talk15:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Would
this meet your
WP:HEY for the incinerator? Ultimately, I'm not terribly bothered as to whether this article is located at its current site or is relocated to
Aragonite Hazardous Waste Incinerator, though I hope that name change would not engender a stripping of the content about the geography and prior uses of the site. I am rather unpersuaded that "there is no there, there", in relation to a historical townsite (people who worked in the mines decades ago probably did not all live 45 miles away, for one thing), but if anything about the current article is genuinely inaccurate, I certainly want to correct that.
Chubbles (
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16:36, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Chubbles - I think the Salt Lake Tribune article gets this to a bare GNG pass for the incinerator. With the Deseret News piece this gets it over the line.
WP:CORP is just passed as well, since both the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News are not purely local sources (instead they're regional, maybe even state-wide), and the subject matter is not
WP:MILL. PS - the miners probably lived in a simple camp, not a permanent community. Typically they would only spend a matter of months there each year going by similarly remote mines in e.g., Canada.
FOARP (
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20:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Also just noting that I am willing to do the work to add these new sources to the article in the event of a favorable outcome.
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The result was delete. There was a rough consensus that the sources presented were not enough to make this subject meet our notability guidelines.
Modussiccandi (
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08:12, 5 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Renominating per
WP:NPASR recommendation from
User:Sandstein, as the last AFD had only one participant after three weeks.
As I stated last time, the sourcing here is horrendous. Most of it is just a personal blog, along with a few clickbait listicles about how "weird" the sheet music is and some YouTube videos of people pretending to perform it. There is an obituary cited, but obits in and of themselves are not reliable sources in the absence of anything else. (Furthermore, I could not find this particular obit anywhere else besides in the blog, so its use as a source doesn't pass muster anyway.)
The only participant in the last AFD added a clipping from the Reading Eagle, but it was written with a personally invested tone that suggests an editorial or otherwise non-journalistic coverage. A book about musicians was also added, but it only mentions Stump passingly in the context of other works.
John Stump and "Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz" have been Internet memes for ages, but there is no biographical or encyclopedic coverage to him or his work outside a few people having fun with it. Not all memes become notable. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)22:56, 13 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. The concerns in your prior nomination were reasonable, but the coverage added during it was enough to establish notability, in my opinion. Walking through the contributing sources:
Fee, Christopher R.; Webb, Jeffery B., eds. (2016). "Death Waltz". American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore. Santa Barbara, California:
ABC-CLIO. pp. 297–298.
ISBN9781610695688.
This is a two-page encyclopedia entry with a joint focus on one of Stump's works and another piece that shares its name. It's hard to get a word count from Google Books, but it's several hundred words (the font is tiny), so it's clearly
WP:SIGCOV in my view.
This is an arts column reviewing one of Stump's works in a regional newspaper of record in Massachusetts. It's unquestionably SIGCOV, and I disagree that the author's casual tone means she is unable to write about Stump independently—she has no relationship to him beyond reviewing his work.
Kemper, Gary (13 February 2006).
"In Memorium: John Stump". Glendale Focus. Vol. 3, no. 2. p. 3. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
This is a reported obituary in a local magazine written by its publisher, the only complication being that he knew Stump. You write that obits in and of themselves are not reliable sources in the absence of anything else, but per the previous nomination, I believe you are confusing paid obituaries with reported ones. There's a huge difference—paid ones are supplied by the person's family and therefore don't count as independent. Reported ones absolutely do count. Regarding your being unable to find the obit independently, that is immaterial: per
WP:V, Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly to access.
Any two of those three is sufficient, so take your pick. There's further coverage from several other sources that aren't quite SIGCOV, e.g. Gersten, Jennifer (25 September 2017).
"4 More Unplayable Works (That Were Eventually Played)". WQXR. Retrieved 28 November 2020.Beyond GNG, there's a case under
WP:ANYBIO #2. I agree with you that not all memes become notable, but a satirical work that's persisted for 40 years has a much greater claim to cultural significance than the latest internet fad—Stump composed what is likely the most prominent example of satirical sheet music of all time. I don't think we could justify pages about both Stump and Faerie's Aire, but we have enough for one, and it makes sense to have it located at Stump given that he's the broader topic. {{u|Sdkb}}talk01:26, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Sdkb: I don't need your filibuster. I just explained why the sources aren't legit. The encyclopedia is only a passing mention. The Reading Eagle article is an editorial with a personally invested tone. And the obituary only seems to exist on that one blog post, because I can't find it anywhere else online. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)01:32, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Subject fails GNG, NBAND, and ANYBIO. There's a case to be made that Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz passes GNG but Stump certainly does not. Chris Troutman (
talk)18:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Could you speak to whether or not you found the encyclopedia entry to contribute to notability? Based on my OCR scan, it's approximately 930 words, split equally between Stump and the folktale, which is clear SIGCOV. I would be willing to restructure the article around Faerie's Aire as an
ATD, but per the
WP:BROADCONCEPT guideline, I think the current structure is better. I note that, per
WP:NBIO, reviews or coverage of a person's work (the Gordon piece being a quintessential example) count toward notability for the person. {{u|Sdkb}}talk20:47, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Google books doesn't provide much of a preview but I don't see SIGCOV for Stump, only for Death Waltz. I think the outcome of this discussion needs to be deletion, regardless of any future effort to restructure the piece. Both articles about this subject and Death Waltz already resulted in deletion, so it might be un-wise to try again right now; maybe in another decade better sources will exist, per
WP:NODEADLINE. Chris Troutman (
talk)21:19, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
If you haven't yet been able to access the full Encyclopedia of American Folklore entry, it may have been premature for you to !vote. Per above, coverage of Death Waltz counts for Stump: The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work. ... In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of ... multiple independent periodical articles or reviews. The first two sources I provided count as such coverage. I guess you could try to make an
IAR case that that's not enough, but Stump's enduring popularity makes me inclined to be generous rather than stringent in interpreting guidance here—there has been enough coverage to write a fully sourced medium-length biography page, and it serves readers better to keep it than to delete it. {{u|Sdkb}}talk22:47, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - I've looked at the sources as noted; the obits all seem to be based from or refer to the one by the subject's nephew, which lean into primary sources, I believe. In re the newspaper arts column, I think it would be stronger were it in a larger newspaper, and not a small regional daily. I just don't think any of these really cut it to establish notability. There may be something that could be done with the Death Waltz, potentially, if there is any scholarly review of the piece that has emerged or does emerge, but right now, this doesn't make it for me.
Tony Fox(arf!)00:45, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete The page on the encyclopedia is
here and the section is titled Death Waltz. I don't believe it's adds anything for GNG purposes for the person, rather for the work. The other references have already been discussed. An article of the work might be more notable. - LCU ActivelyDisinterested∆
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"While notability itself is not temporary, from time to time a reassessment of the evidence of notability or suitability of existing articles may be requested by any user via a
deletion discussion, or new evidence may arise for articles previously deemed unsuitable."
He was considered "notable" because he met WP:NMMA guidelines, which allows pages to be created in hopes that GNG will be met. When a fighter or athlete retires we need to review the page, and if it doesn't meet GNG we delete the page.
♡RAFAEL♡(
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Delete - Fails
WP:SPORTBASIC due to lack of significant coverage. Although the article goes beyond stub length, it's mostly just statistics written out as prose.
WP:NMMA tells us that "significant coverage is likely to exist" however none has actually been found. –
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The result was delete. The "delete" argument is that this article makes scientific claims not supported by reliable academic sources. The "keep" argument is that while that may be so, the claims have been reported in reliable sources. I'm inclined to give the "keep" opinions a bit more weight (we do cover notable pseudoscience), but the "delete" arguments are not baseless, and the "delete" opinions are much more numerous. Sandstein 20:13, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
See
Talk:Mount Ebal - there has been no peer review for this yet and if you read
[32] it's clear that virtually everything about it is or will be challenged including the language, date, inscriptions, etc. Note that it was found in Canaan before the creation of Israel, that it was found without any context by a Creationist.
WP:NOTNEWS applies and this sort of extraordinary archaeological claim should not be based on media reports. The fact of the media reports is IMHO not sufficient reason for an article or even its mention in other articles. Also note that at the date claimed that the inscription would not have been about the Jewish God but about the deity
Yahweh, who became one of the gods worshiped by the early Israelites before they became monotheistic.
Doug Wellertalk10:37, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:06, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The article you cite is prima facie evidence that Haaretz is not a reliable source for such matters. The problem of conducting science by press release is well-known, and in this case it looks like Haaretz has been hoodwinked. It isn't the first time.
jps (
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12:04, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:06, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:06, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep What exactly are the grounds for deletion? The lengthy blog post by
Christopher Rollston which Doug has very helpfully produced surely, along with the respectable Israeli press stories, disposes of any claim of non-notability or
WP:SENSATION. Rollston is exactly the right sort of specialist RS one wants in this field, and should be the main source. The press stories are actually not bad in clearly indicating there will be controversy over this when the thing is published. It has indeed not yet received a proper academic paper, but when it does, we can be sure it will be back, generating plenty of RS even if the the claims are adjusted/discounted by most. Even if it were a hoax (which no one has yet suggested) it would probably become notable.
jps's gutting of the article, while at Afd, and introducing a mispelling of Stripling's name, is most unhelpful, & I have reverted it.
Johnbod (
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12:29, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Rollston + 2 longish press stories = notability, imo, even if the basic facts/conclusions are not firmly established (as for very many subjects from similar dates).
Johnbod (
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13:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
If basic facts are not "firmly" established, how do you write an article? I'm happy to consider an example of how to write an article based on a blogpost and a few shoddily done press-releases-cum-articles, but in my experience this is just not something that I've ever seen competently executed.
jps (
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13:41, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Per Conclusion at talk page of Mount Ebal. Since usage of the "LOL" and the term "worse" on Jpost. As if something over here is "bad." And googling who ... is active here... 1. Fanacism and extremism are not limited to one side. 2. An indirect admission that the objection is motivated by one political side and not a moderate one at that.
Truth3v3r (
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12:57, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Extraordinary claims require extraordinary sources. The notability of the object is dependent on the sensationalist interpretation of ambiguous material as reported by non-academic sources. -
Donald Albury13:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Delete without prejudice against recreation at a later date when sourcing is actually, well, there. Sensationalist near-
churnalism plus a blog post trying to hold back said sensationalism are not a good foundation to build an article upon.
XOR'easter (
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17:16, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:11, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete as others have said, for now. Per the above, the extraordinary claims being made in association with this tablet require vetting beyond that done by the general media. I don't think Wikipedia will be harmed by waiting for better sources, while I think it could be if we print huge claims which are later retracted. As ever, reasonable minds may differ on the question. Cheers.
Dumuzid (
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19:25, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
None of the properly "extraordinary claims" have ever been mentioned in the article; Rowland does not seem to see the claims the article actually mentions as very far-fetched, though properly scholarly process is needed.
Johnbod (
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20:32, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I am betraying my nerdish side a bit much, but even the claim of the earliest usage of the
tetragrammaton strikes me as pretty extraordinary. But, as I said, reasonable people can reach very different conclusions on this. Cheers.
Dumuzid (
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21:49, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Actually not that sensationalist; the term is older and was found in Egyptians inscriptions : The oldest plausible occurrence of Yahweh is in the phrase "Shasu of Yhw" (Egyptian: 𓇌𓉔𓍯𓅱 yhwꜣw) in an Egyptian inscription from the time of Amenhotep III (1402–1363 BCE). The fact that it appears 150-200 years later in Hebrew inscriptions does not change the timeline of the existence of the term; just that Israelites adopted the term from Shasu earlier than previously documented. Considering that both Shasu tribes and Israelites are from the Levantine region, it seems reasonable that cultural diffusion could occur between the two groups especially during the chaos of the bronze age collapse.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:19, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
We're getting into quite a can of worms here! And though I generally agree with you, the relationship (or perhaps identification?) of the Shasu and the Israelites is a fraught problem at best. It would still strike me as remarkable if, indeed, the tetragrammaton itself were verified on this item (as distinct from cognates, related terms, etc.) That said, I understand both your position on why the article should be kept and why the claims are not sensationalist: I just come down slightly differently on both. Have a nice day.
Dumuzid (
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12:47, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Reliable source argument is not relevant as Haaretz newspaper are reliable sources :
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources . The article is not a blog, and so it is properly sourced. There are plenty of articles with sources from newspaper articles without any peer-reviewed scientific articles; the discovery of an item can have a wikipedia page at its announcement.
Patrick.N.L (
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20:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Please take note of what
Wikipedia:Reliable sources has to say regarding the use of newspapers etc s academic sources: "Scholarly sources and high-quality non-scholarly sources are generally better than news reports for academic topics". Archaeology is unquestionably an academic topic, and not one on which Haaretz (or any other general newspaper) is likely to have much expertise. And if one were to ignore that, and nevertheless take Haaretz content as reliable, the source would have to be used in a balanced manner: making it very clear that they are reporting Stripling's claims as claims, rather than fact, and noting the doubts raised by the experts they consulted.
AndyTheGrump (
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21:27, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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06:54, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
If you want to claim it is reliable for this material, you need to explain why it wasn't also cited for its reporting regarding the 'scholarly issues' raised by the qualified scholars it consulted regarding Stripling's claims.
AndyTheGrump (
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10:38, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I don't understand your comment? That Haaretz was cited by who? Can you make your point clearer? Haaretz is considered a reliable source by wikipedia list of sources. I don't understand how not citing something suddenly makes Haaretz not a reliable source.
Patrick.N.L (
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05:27, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Cite in the Wikipedia article for the issues raised by scholars responding to Stripling. The article fails to note any of that. And please read
WP:RS. There is no such thing as an abstract 'reliable source': Haaretz can be used for general news reporting, but nothing suggests that it has any specific expertise on archaeological subjects. For such matters we need sources with appropriate expertise, rather than ones merely repeating unverified claims.
AndyTheGrump (
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06:18, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
You want me to cite in the wiki article the issues raised by scholars; i have no problem with that also we could cite the fact that no research paper exists yet; which gives some context.
Do you have an article or a source that discusses, summarize or points out one or more of those issues. I was looking for it.
I agree Haaretz has no expertise on archeological studies, but it can still report a press conference on an archeological find where scientists from 5 different academic/research institutions have worked on. For example, no scientific article exist for the
apollo of gaza but just the fact of its discovery and the reporting by mainstream media is enough to make a Wikipedia article on it : "To their great frustration, archaeologists have not been able to get their hands on the Apollo, and instead must pore over a few blurred photographs of the intact deity"
I don't see why the discovery and announcement of the tablet in mainstream media, which scientists from USA, Israel and Czech republic have analyzed (and many from non-religious institutions), cannot be treated as a possible discovery but the Apollo of Gaza, which has not been analyzed by scientists, can have its page.
Patrick.N.L (
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06:53, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I see that a peer reviewed article is planned for later this year.
[33] The team that will produce the peer reviewed report includes Peter Van der Veen, who seems to be a follower of
David Rohl's chronology.
[34].
Doug Wellertalk07:39, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. The lead archaeologist is Scott Stripling. He received his PhD from Veritas International University, which "has an evangelical doctrinal statement that emphasizes 'three legs' of biblical authority: inspiration, infallibility, and biblical inerrancy". See
[35]. A starting point of biblical inerrancy does not give confidence that he is looking at the evidence impartially.
Dudley Miles (
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09:10, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I confess, I has the same thought -- especially as that last letter bears a striking resemblance to modern tsade. ButI have not the foggiest what or who "lahatz" might be! As my days of intensive epigraphy are behind me, I will wait for more expert opinions. Cheers, and thanks for bringing this up!
Dumuzid (
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19:49, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I am nowhere near being competent but after review; it seems the translators considered the leftmost letters to be yud, the middle one being heh a praising man and the last one a vav; taken from this source
https://omniglot.com/writing/protosinaitc.htm; which is not even the tetragammaton really but maybe in the context of cursed by god YHW, it is not a far stretch.
Patrick.N.L (
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05:19, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The table in omniglot.com to which you referred above shows clearly that in the photo published by the researchers, the leftmost letter is Sad, the middle letter is Haw and the rightmost is Lamed, spelling Ts-H-L - not Y-H-W.
איתמראשפר (
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02:10, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
What you are looking at is a drawing by one of the protagonists, not a photo. When the actual scans are published, there will be expert challenges to the accuracy and meaning of the drawings, you will see.
Zerotalk03:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete until there is more expert information available. After a paper is published and the experts have had their say on it, it will make a fine article.
Zerotalk05:33, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The correct way forward is to mention the claim plus doubts very briefly (two sentences max), at
Mount Ebal, then to write a separate article if and when enough verifiable information becomes available. This article is premature at the moment.
Zerotalk03:31, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The 'scholarly arguments' appear to consist almost entirely of suggestions that the claims made in the newspaper stories aren't properly supported by evidence. Which in Wikipedia's terms means that the newspapers stories aren't reliable sources...
AndyTheGrump (
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15:44, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes, for me, the "argument" thus far is an indication that there will almost certainly be an article at some point. I am just not sure why we would rush to include this; there will undoubtedly be better scholarly sources in (relatively!) short order. I am of the opinion that we should wait for the subject to be more fully developed, but as ever, I am mindful that others may reach the contrary conclusion in complete good faith. Cheers.
Dumuzid (
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16:02, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Having watched the press conference, we should exercise EXTREME caution. These guys' soupçon of credibility should be buried under an impermeable layer of salt until they publish or at least release full scans. The one drawing they've released is not exactly encouraging (the he is ok but the yod and waw need, uh, imagination) and they're an ideological organization by design. I hope it's real -- would be an amazing contribution to our understanding of a hundred other things -- but it doesn't yet deserve a page or even a mention on wiki.
GordonGlottal (
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16:54, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete or Draftify The article is simply not ready, as no quality sources yet exist. We can quickly resurrect it once a formal publication is made, assuming it gets there.
Onceinawhile (
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09:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. Most of the argument seems to be about whether it's authentic. News sources aren't credible sources as to authenticity, except to the extent that they quote credible sources. But even if it turns out to be a hoax, which is entirely possible, it's newsworthy because it might be authentic, and is being analyzed or debated by scholars. An obvious hoax that appears and vanishes in an instant with little publicity might be non-notable. A widely publicized "find" that requires scholarly analysis to authenticate or refute is likely notable, whether or not it proves to be authentic, and a newspaper is perfectly competent to report about that. Hoaxes can be notable too!
P Aculeius (
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17:11, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
It's probably not a hoax. It's a pretty interesting artifact that opportunists are trying to advertise as the sort of massive find that gets a wiki page, with no evidence whatsoever. The bar to getting sensational news coverage of an unexceptional find through misleading press releases is so low that we can't rely on normal sources. We don't want an encyclopedia that you can get your artifact into just by making wild claims and never having to substantiate them. This literally happens dozens of times a year, but most people only see a couple of examples so they aren't disillusioned as anyone who reads them all would be.
GordonGlottal (
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03:41, 3 April 2022 (UTC)reply
A good parallel is the Voynich MS page -- there's a viral story about a decipherment claim in RS every few months but none of them are ever substantiated so the page editors have restricted the wiki page to peer-reviewed publication. We should use the same standard for any susceptible area and biblical archaeology certainly qualifies.
GordonGlottal (
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03:45, 3 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete; yet another "sensational" find; talking about making a mountain out of a molehill. Where to start? First, note that this "find" were made by
Associates for Biblical Research, a group associated with several dubious claims (eg about the walls of Jericho); the "find" was made public at a press conferance at
Lanier Theological Library. These are groups dedicated to "proving" the historicity of the Bible.
As Rollston writes in his blog (linked in the deletion request): "But it’s worth looking even more at some of the dramatic claims. Stripling stated that: “One can no longer argue with a straight face that the Biblical text was not written until the
Persian Period or the
Hellenistic Period, as many higher critics have done when we clearly do have the ability to write the entire text [of the Bible] at a much, much earlier date.”Galil makes the same basic statement: “No one can claim the Bible was written in later periods, the
Persian Period or the
Hellenistic Period.” ...this is based on... four words! Rollston: "But to say that based on those four words or roots that somebody could write the whole Bible….well, that’s a bridge (way) too far for me. After all, there are 8500+ words in the Hebrew Bible",
Sensational claims based on the flimsiest of evidence are 13 to the dozen in the field of "Biblical archeology"; until peer-reviewed articles appear: delete, delete, delete.
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Delete: Does not appear to meet
WP:GNG, does not seem to have reliable sources suggesting that it satisfies any of the
WP:NSONG criteria. Cannot find any reliable sources covering the subject so I don't think a merge would help here
Justiyaya09:17, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - I was able to find a few sources separate from album reviews. And I am sure there are others since (1) my Kinks' library is not very extensive, (2) one of the sources I added makes reference to contemporary reviews of the single, (3) the oldest book here is from 1998; it seems unlikely that nothing was written about it for its first 23 years of existence and then several books showed up since, and (4) The index to
Johnny Rogan's Ray Davies biography, which I found on Google Books, shows multiple pages addressing the song, although I can't see those pages to see how significant the coverage is. In any case, even if not kept, the sourced information should be merged to the album article, but this is not ideal since this was released as a single and there is coverage in multiple sources (and at over 500 words almost fully sourced it wouldn't really fit into the album article).
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Comment I'll look for coverage of him in Variety, etc., in a few days if I can find time. He seems to be more significant on the stage than on film.
DiamondRemley39 (
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21:51, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Romance Goes With Comedic Floe in SCR's 'Green Icebergs': Captivating work by Newport Beach's Cecilia Fannon revolves around the foibles of two O.C. couples. DON SHIRLEY. Los Angeles, Times. 24 Oct 1994: OCF1.
'Night' Delivers Unfocused Message on TV's Influence. RICHARD STAYTON. Los Angeles Times. 07 Mar 1994: OCF1.
'Heidi' Ho-Hum: Wasserstein's Clever but Thin Morality Play. Lloyd Rose. The Washington Post. 22 Mar 1991: F3.
Keep notable as a theatre actor. Coverage in major papers, including Los Angeles Times. I'll look for more coverage in a few days and Ill incorporate all this I posted eventually.
DiamondRemley39 (
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23:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep notable for his theatre roles and maybe for his Search for Tomorrow as well. He had two different write ups in the LA Times about his theatre work as well as one paper from the area he grew up in. Meets the GNG and the refs are more than enough to improve on the article.
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No notability except for being her father's daughter, and a possible claimant to the currently non-existing throne of Romania. Most sources currently in the article are self-published by the subject's family. Third-party sources only refer to her among her father's daughters. Her publications (a children's book and some photography albums) are rather unimportant and don't appear to have received any significant coverage outside her family. Desired outcome is merging salvageable info into
Michael I of Romania#Family or
Romanian royal family#Descendants of King Michael.
Anonimu (
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08:26, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete deposed monarchy cruft. She was born 10 years after the throne was abolished. Even with children of monarchs in power, not every child is for certain notable, but clearly those born after a monarch looses power need actual good sourcing to show notability which we do not have here.
John Pack Lambert (
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15:18, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Given it's an expansion of the policyWP:IAR, it is! I realise a lot of editors are made uncomfortable by IAR, as they like rules, but the fact remains that it is a policy. --
Necrothesp (
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07:30, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
What are we considering royalty here? Reigning royal houses? If that's the case, she's somewhat self-proclaimed given she was born a decade after the monarchy was abolished. Not sure on what basis anyone would argue children of former monarchs get a free notability pass.
AusLondonder (
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15:32, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Note that her family is still acknowledged as the royal family of Romania by the Romanian government even though there is not currently a monarch. So I don't think you could describe has as "self-proclaimed royalty" in any way. --
Necrothesp (
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15:58, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
No it isn't. There was a proposal some years ago but it was abandoned before becoming law. The eldest daughter of the former King has some notability of her own and gets invited on some semi-official occasions, but that can't be said for her sisters, including the subject of the AfD. Compare the self-proclaimed royalty of the Roma (there are two main "dynasties" currently in Romania), which also get to participate in some semi-official occasions at times.
Anonimu (
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16:10, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete The only claim made to notability isn't even NOTINHERITED, as her father no longer occupied the supposedly-qualifying circumstance at the time of her birth. The whole COMMONSENSE argument basically amounts to 'they are notable because I want them to be', which lands firmly among the arguments not to use in such discussions.
Agricolae (
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18:25, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Having read the discussion above, the argument to keep is pretty clearly non-existent and basically ILIKEIT because she's "ROYAL". Well I'm going to be quite bold here and say I don't think children of former monarchs born after the abolition of the monarchy get a free pass on notability.
AusLondonder (
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23:20, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. As others have mentioned, no solid evidence of notability, not to mention indivisuals of royal families doesn't mean "significant" unless they have done or existed in a notable way (such as great notable contribution to society), other than that, no solid evidence of notability. --
K.G (
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14:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Personally, I tend to agree with you,
Karl Gustavo. But I'd guess that only a tiny percentage of "individuals of royal families" have made notable contributions to society or similar; and yet loads of them get articles. (I think you've confused Wikipedia-defined "notability", which is close to mere celebrity, with actual noteworthiness.) However, the Romanian monarchy ceased to exist before this person was even born, so she's hardly an individual of a royal family; and she doesn't seem to have achieved (?) celebrity. --
Hoary (
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23:08, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Wikkipedia has a lot of articles that do not meet our inclusion criteria. We do not require people to have done anyrthing per se to get articles though. We just require them to be covered in multiple reliable sources that provide indepth coverage. Whether all the articles we have on members of royal families meet this criteria I am less than sure. We clearly still have some work to weed out deposed royal family cruft. People who are actual reighning morarchs are notable, but exactly which family members are notable beyond that to some extent depends on sourcing.
John Pack Lambert (
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12:30, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
We do need to be able to say more in the article than just who their family members were. We need to be able to say substantive things about the person's own actions. However that is not the same as their actions themselves actually having been anything over than reported. To pick someone almost at random
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll probably has more sources than almost any article, so the article is clearly justified. With Louis XIV we only have articles on three of his six legitimate children, but the other three all died the year they were born. On the other hand we have
Marie Thérèse of France (1667–1672) which basically tells us 1-that her mother wanted her to become queen of Spain, 2-what people called her and 3-that she died of consumption. I am really struggling to see how this article is justified.
John Pack Lambert (
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12:38, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. Does not meet GNG, and that should be the end of the discussion. Notability is not inherited, no matter what royalty fans claim.
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Article lacks neutrality, rarely gets edited, adds very little information to Wikipedia beyond the pages it already links to, and has been a stub for a very long time with very little substance to build off of to improve it.
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Borderline G11, very obviously derived from marketing copy with little editing to make it encyclopedic (not a CV - OTRS permission on talk page). The thing is, I can't find any independent coverage of the subject. All the sources are primary, including his own website, press releases, and youtube. I found nothing substantively about him on a search. The shows don't appear to be notable either, so redirecting as
WP:ATD isn't in the cards. ♠
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Nobleman with no inherent notability, fails
WP:BIO. Never sat in the House of Lords (he inherited the title in 2000, one year after the
House of Lords Act 1999) so can't qualify for
WP:NPOL either. The two peerage websites in the article are deprecated per
WP:RSP, and Google News only returns a
passing mention for 1998, the year before his father lost his seat in the House of Lords. Previous AfD ended as no consensus in 2014.
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Delete — I agree with
Spiderone. AGF on the article creator who perhaps may be oblivious of what Wikipedia is WP:NOT, this is a promotional piece on a non notable entity. Celestina007 (
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Speedy Delete per G4. Salt this title. Also block the creator for using IPs to remove the speedy deletion and later the deletion template.
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Fails
WP:NCORP. Among the current sources are a reddit post, a google support page, the website for the marketing firm, a blogpost by a violinist, a source that doesn't mention the name except to thank them for a location, an article from a low-quality source describing an album release, and the company's website. I can't find anything searching Google that indicates that the marketing firm meets
WP:ORGCRIT, so I propose it be deleted. —
Mhawk10 (
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04:44, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
It also has sources from news and government websites, which indicate high-quality data and notability of company and meets
WP:NCORP. I suggest this article should not be deleted. but, paragraphs that refer to low credibility sources should be removed immediately.
Sahilaim (
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05:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
delete SPEEDY. Per nom. No coverage that demonstrates notability. Also hints at being written as a hit piece, and the content is so low quality it would have to be
WP:NUKEIT anyhow. Sahilaim, that link to the government website just shows the incorporation exists and nothing else. One source is a passing mention, and one is a press release. Only one source is actually about the subject and it's an industry magazine which isn't significant coverage.
Ironmatic1 (
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05:16, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
No. Please take a look at
WP:General notability guideline, passing mentions in other Wikipedia articles does not show notability. By the way, it's polite to disclose that you are the creator of the article. I suggest that next time you create an article that you submit it through
WP:Articles for Creation. Also, I see that the article is almost completely blanked now.
Ironmatic1 (
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06:40, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: fails
WP:NCORP, no coverage outside the company's own social media channels. I also note that Sahil Aim is the name of a DJ who has released music through this record label, so there may be a conflict of interest here.
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Keep I made some improvements to the article before writing this. She produced
Gasland and
How to Let Go of the World which were the subject of reviews by Variety and New York Times and therefore she meets criteria 3 of
WP:CREATIVE. while this article deserved to be deleted at the point of nominations, I think it is now proving her notability.
CT55555 (
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00:40, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete There are 4 sources in article. First one is not a RS and it seems to be like a profile page. In second link, there is not even one mention of the subject! I couldn't load third source but according to the domain of website, its an interview. In last source we can just see a mention of the subject one time that is not significant coverage!
Brian O'Conner22:53, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Source 1 - fair
Source 2 - It exists to prove that the film she produced is notable, which is how we measure the notability of creative professionals
Source 3 - It seems very unfair to discount it just because you can't open it, maybe you should abstain from voting if you cannot access the websites that prove notability?
Comment via ProQuest, there is also: "I know you are worried about fracking over in Scotland. Well, you should be worried: TEXAS FAMILY DEVASTATED BY GAS EXTRACTION WARN SCOTS OF HEALTH RISKS" (Sunday Mail, 2015) (essentially reprinted in
The Daily Record) which includes more than quotes from her when discussing Gasland II. In 2013, the
AP reports on Gasland II (and in 2022, "
Criminal charges against 'Gasland' driller head to court" via ABCNews). Via Proquest, there is also "THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT" in TheatreForum (not independent, by Josh Fox, 2005) that confirms an acting role.
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The result was history merger done. This was a history merger, which is not really an AFD matter although it does require the use of the administrator deletion tool. The article is back at its location in draft space with the full edit history, with no prejudice to the decision on whether it belongs there or not. I did not even adjust "Railway Station" to "railway stations". ☺
Uncle G (
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07:07, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
This is a little unconventional as I'm not asking for outright deletion; however, the creator of the page indicates that "This is a work in progress". I had moved
Draft:List of Railway Station in the United States from article space to draftspace per
WP:DRAFTIFY, since it appeared that the page was not yet ready for mainspace. That draft is basically the same as the current mainspace page; both have no citations. I also left a note for the page's author encouraging them to add citations to the page.
As I was moving the first page to draftspace, it seems the creator of the original draft edited this page again. Since the page had already been moved, they posted their edit to the actual mainspace page, effectively creating two duplicate pages. I am asking that the mainspace page be deleted only because a draft with the same content already exists, not because of any content-related concerns. The creator has indicated they're still working on the list, so it should be hosted in draftspace, not mainspace.
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As per
WP:GNG, the article
Horlivka offensive does not seem important enough to require its own page, due to the lack of news surrounding the subject and the lack of any new information on the "battle" as all relevant news articles are over 20 days old. I would suggest either deletion or a possible merge into
Eastern Ukraine offensive should anyone deem this important enough to remain mentionable.
Arakui (
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02:32, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: Beat me to it, I had been prepping to merge this page. However, this page is entirely sourced to unverified and unsubstantiated claims by the Uke government, which is why I'm leaning towards outright deletion more than merging. I'm skeptical there is anything of value or verifiability to merge.
Curbon7 (
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22:34, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete there are no sources to prove that this "counteroffensive" is real, the only sources listed in the article are all owned by the Ukrainian government or have their citations as posts from twitter/facebook. It's similar to the Kruty skirmishes article, where the only sources available were also only the Ukrainian (government) ones. -
Amuuun (
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08:56, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: Seems the battle itself is a fabrication by some second rate Ukrainian sources. No mentions of a "Battle" raging on until now or before. Fails
WP:GNG.
Mr.User200 (
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23:49, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"The Kruty Territorial Council later claimed that nearly 200 Russian soldiers were killed in clashes with Ukrainian armed forces and the Territorial Defense Forces in their village of Kruty, located in Chernihiv Oblast" ???
Dawsongfg (
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02:47, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes. The Kruty skirmishes article covered a series of alleged drone stikes (and maybe ambushes? i can't fully recall.) on russian convoy routes in the Kruty area, not the alleged fighting within Kruty mentioned in the aforementioned
Northeastern Ukraine offensive article. Now that i think about it, skirmishes isnt even an accurate term for what that article claimed to cover. Regardless, it was deleted because of
WP:GNG and due to its only sources being UKR state media (and facebook posts), much like this article.
Arakui (
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22:49, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete or Merge. There doesn't appear to be anything to this offensive besides some statements by Ukrainian officials, with no significant troop movements behind it or notable events to the supposed offensive. --
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Delete, no evidence that anything actually happened beyond announcements. Doesn't really merit a mention on the offensive article.
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Questionable notability at best. The article is hideously laden with
WP:FANCRUFT detailing every last moment of every last person to appear on the show. It's also got a heavy case of
WP:REFBOMB:
Rundown of the sources
1. TV Guide listing
2, 4, 75, 76, 86-88. CMT's website
3. Deadline.com, mentioning it tangentially in a press release that also name-drops several other shows
5. "Renew Cancel TV", a blog with no evidence of editorial oversight
32, 35-37, 39, 41, 42. YouTube videos from the Dallas Cowboys
38. A podcast
40, 45-52, 74. Facebook
43, 63. A sketchy looking cheerleader news site with no evidence of editorial oversight
44, 89. Dead link
53, 68. Twitter
54, 55. News articles about a cheerleader on the show being involved in a lawsuit. These do not mention the show at all.
56. Dead link to a personal blog
59. NFL official website
60, 62, 64, 65. 71, 84, 90-93. News coverage on an individual, which does not mention the show at all
61. Dating profile (?!?)
69, 70, 85. Biographies on personal/business websites
72. Genealogy website
94. Broken link which seems to be an attempt to hotlink an image
A search for sources found a ton of social media profiles and YouTube videos pertaining to the show, but the closest thing I could find to a reliable source was
this interview about the show coming back after COVID put it on hiatus.
The only sources on Google News that I could find were things like
this or
this. In otherwords, local newspapers writing human interest articles on local people getting their 15 minutes of fame on the show, which do not cover the show to any degree of substance. I was also on TV and had the local papers write about me; that does not make me notable. Other sources on Google News are just "how to watch this show online" or "best shows about X" listicles. I was unable to find anything more substantial.
Keep We're not deleting a seventeen-season reality series about one of the world's most prominent professional cheerleading squads. It does need a good cull of reality cruft for sure but...
WP:SOFIXIT. Nate•(
chatter)03:09, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I have to agree with Nate above--Notability is not the issue here. Editing and content? Sure, needs tons of work. But a simple Google Search (and even a more restrictive Google News search) turns up a lot of details. There's no real reason to delete this article. There is every reason to clean it up.--
Paul McDonald (
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14:31, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Why are you even having this discussion, OP? Your idea of "notability" is "If I've never heard about this, then it's not notable". That's not how notability works. At all.
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List with no clearly defined criteria for inclusion. This was originally created as
List of extant animal genera represented in the fossil record , and was moved to the current title (without discussion) with the rationale that entries were "at least 70% mollusks". The mover made no effort to remove non-mollusks.
Several editors (including myself) have made dozens of edits trying to clean up the list. There remain many entries point to the wrong topic and require disambiguation. There remain many non-molluscs.
I don't think "List of extant animal genera represented in the fossil record" is a manageable topic for a list. Humans continue to discover fossil members of extant genera. Constant maintenance of a list of extant animals also known from fossils would be needed (and it hasn't received necessary maintenance under either of its titles). This was never a "list of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record", as it includes non-molluscs and (under the original title) excludes molluscs known only from fossils.
Plantdrew (
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00:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Is there some subset of this list that would make sense to keep, if appropriately sourced? There are a lot of blue links, and presuming that the non-molluscs can be parsed out, to me this would not be a valueless proposition.
BD2412T00:56, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
*Draftify Currently this list is a pile, which is explained by its origin (as noted above). I agree that the original "List of extant animal genera represented in the fossil record" is not really manageable. In contrast, both "List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record" and "List of extant molluscan genera represented in the fossil record" would seem doable, but currently the list is neither. And this is what, 8000 entries? Can't leave that in mainspace for incremental purging - it's plain misleading, and will be for a long while. If a correctly curated list with a more narrow ambit is to be made of it, that should be done in draft. If there's no appetite for that, then delete. --Elmidae (
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About-turn - formulating the actual functional premise of this list (below) makes me realize that this would be an artifical make-work construct, requiring constant updating with no sensible payoff. Delete. --Elmidae (
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09:36, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Well personally I'd think this should be deleted as far too big to be maintainable, but if Draftify is the preferred route then I'll go along with that. If consensus moves towards delete then please count me in that group.
Chiswick Chap (
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14:06, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. Am I misunderstanding, or wouldn't all known molluscan genera be represented in the fossil record -- including the ones that are still extant and have living species alive today? --
Metropolitan90(talk)18:54, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I'd considered revising my nomination to make a similar point. Extant taxa have an evolutionary history. We haven't discovered fossilized representatives of all known extant taxa, but there is no reason to think that the fossils don't exist. We just haven't discovered them yet; I'd say it isn't likely that we will ever discover fossils of ALL extant taxa, but it isn't inherently impossible. Some animals are more likely to be fossilized than others; jellyfish don't fossilize well, animals with hard body parts fossilize well. Molluscs fossilize exceptionally well (hard shells, many live in water which helps preserve them after death); this probably explains why the initial list was so heavily slanted towards molluscs.
Plantdrew (
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I guess so - so this would be a kind of running tally of "which genera that we know should be in the fossil record have we actually found as specimens". - I'll admit that when written out like this, it sounds like a rather risible undertaking. Huh. --Elmidae (
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Not seeing any independent in-depth coverage in reliable sources, either those in the article or elsewhere online - lack of
WP:SIGCOV. Fails
WP:GNG. Run-of-the-mill businessperson. Typical promotional article, created by a
WP:SPA.
Edwardx (
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23:20, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Hello. The article covers reliable sources please check again. Twila True has received awards. I don't know what you meant by independent in-depth coverage but you can see many news and reliable sources there. If anything in there is look like promotional you can remove that information. But removing a whole article is not necessary I think it should be given a chance. If it can be improved please tell me I will do that. She has founded music academy with two Grammy winners it has sources. — Preceding
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Keep It's all about business and charities, and the coverage is there. I did some work to make the article a bit less promotional, to tone down the citation
overkill and to prefer the more reliable sources. Marked a few areas that need work. More editing is needed.
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Non-notable school. Schools are
not automatically notable, and there is nothing to indicate that this (relatively small and relatively "new" primary) school meets the
WP:NORG or
WP:SIGCOV guideline. To the extent that it is any more notable than the 3,300 other primary schools in Ireland. A news search of the Irish Times
[1][2] returns zero results). Not one. Searches of the Irish Examiner
[3][4] return only
one passing mention (in an article which is substantively about another topic). The
de-PROD note suggested that notability might be inherited from the school's association with one notable former pupil. And that the article might "give Niall horans fans information about his primary school". I do not see how this argument sits with either
WP:NOTINHERITED or
WP:TOPIC. (In that, if someone wants to know where Niall Horan went to primary school, they can visit the Niall Horan article. Otherwise, everyone (ideally) goes to school somewhere. And notability doesn't transfer from a pupil to a school.)
Guliolopez (
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22:45, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Even before the 2017 RFC, primary schools have never enjoyed any presumed notability. Sources mentioning it's existence don't show notability, and a single pupil cannot gift it notability.
Ironmatic1 (
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23:30, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete per Ironmatic1. It's ridiculous to say a primary school is notable just because a notable student went there. I'm not seeing anything else to base notability on either since sources for this are essentially none existing. --
Adamant1 (
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08:58, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
No worries. It happens. AfD is a de-defacto way to improve articles as much as it is a way to delete them. So within reason it's better to make the mistake then not since you never know if people will be able to find references that were missed initially. --
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Non notable miniseries. Other than passing mentions, same promotional news & interview published in multiple site (e.g. "Chorki to drop 'Sugar Free' for free"), i didn't find any review, any significant coverage from reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Fails
WP:TVSERIES,
WP:GNG.
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Non-notable show. While a show that's been on the air since 2013 would normally be considered notable, this is merely a countdown of seemingly arbitrary videos, with no sourcing in sight about the show itself nor any significance to its rankings. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)21:11, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - Per nom. Lack of any sources makes some rankings likely incorrect. Similar programs were PROD'd for same reasons (CMT Top 12 Countdown, CMT Most Wanted Live). --
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Hi
Spiderone - the acquisition of Chelsea FC is the single most important transaction in the world at the moment. That is why I worked on it. Why is the article of Ricardo Santos Silva proposed for deletion? I was certainly not paid for it (I do not know this people) and the article looks fair. Sources are from very reliable media (BBC, SKY, etc). Please let me know how i can improve the article.
PeacefulJack (
talk) 16:20, 22 March 2022 (UTC) see
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CabritosSpiderone(Talk to Spider)20:19, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete the sale of Chelsea FC may be notable, but it does not appear that Silva is. A Redirect to his company, if that survives AfD, would be fine too. StarMississippi16:38, 22 March 2022 (UTC)reply
keep the article. I have improved the article, kept the most relevant and added sources. Ricardo Santos Silva is the face of the bid for Chelsea (see BBC or Independent). I am Portuguese and I do not know him.
ScottWillis45 (
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11:56, 23 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Hi @
Joseph2302 - I agree he does not become notable by bidding for Chelsea or bidding for Novo Banco. But together with being the owner, Chairman and CEO of the largest private iron ore mine in Europe, he passes
WP:GNGScottWillis45 (
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12:03, 23 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Dear @
Behind the moorsI am a representative of Aethel Group and its founders Ricardo Santos Silva and Aba Schubert. Could you please delete the 3 pages. These pages are abusive and should be deleted immediately. Please text me here if you want to discuss this further. Wikipedia does not allow me to include my email. Thank you and best regards
Rhead1967 (
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16:53, 24 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Authorized content" does not exist here. How a few properly sourced sentences are abusive is a mystery to me. Note that
Rhead1967 is blocked for repeatedly blanking huge amounts of verified content.
Drmies (
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17:29, 24 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - Thanks @
Tony Fox. Ricardo Santos Silva is the chairman and CEO of Aethel Mining (please look at the references) and the face of the group. There are also more controversial news (some bank he acquired in Portugal) and I guess this is why they want the pages remove. Ricardo Santos Silva clearly has enough notability - that is why I have created the article. Thanks
PeacefulJack (
talk) 19:06, 24 March 2022 (UTC)see
Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/CabritosSpiderone(Talk to Spider)20:25, 26 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - I am the original PeacefulJack and I am the person that created the article for Aethel and its founders. You obviously should delete the articles if that is the consensus but what is the sense of blocking me?
PeacefulJack2 (
talk) 16:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC) Sock is blocked. StarMississippi17:28, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I am Portuguese, Ricardo Santos Silva is a very well known figure and clearly passes notability. I hope my article is good. Thank you and keep the good work! — Preceding
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Strong Delete Seems to be a mix of routine coverage of this type of article. Of the first six references, not one is secondary specific to him as a person. It is the usual framework article with no effective sources. scope_creepTalk18:54, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
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I might be missing something here but unable to identify how said subject passes
WP:NPROF. Surely having one publication with over 2000+ citations and the rest 80< is not indicative of an automatic pass of
WP:NPROF. Cannot see any appointments that would qualify either. No
WP:GNG pass either.
nearlyevil66521:06, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete I notice this was passed out of AFC by
Ts12rAc (who has a lot more passes than fails, which I also find strange and worrisome) but to keep it short, I was about to do the same thing as the nom, for the same reasons.
Dennis Brown -
2¢21:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Also note that the person who reverted out the autobiography template (
Francisfycollins, an spa) claims to be the author but not the subject, even though the history says otherwise (
Asphodel76 also spa), and I've left a note explaining
WP:scrutiny on their talk page. Not sure what is going on there.
Dennis Brown -
2¢21:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. Only one highly-cited paper, in which they are in a middle position among 10 authors, is definitely not enough by itself for
WP:PROF#C1, and there seems to be nothing else. Assistant professors are usually not yet notable and I think this bears out the rule. I didn't consider the odd behavior discussed above in reaching this conclusion, but it also seems worthy of additional investigation. —
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01:02, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete as the current article is promotional and the subject likely fails
WP:NPROF with a modest h-index of 20 and less than 1000 citations when we disregard the one COVID 19 article. --
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Well here we are. This is obviously not a notable battle (Ukraine war cruft). The battle did happen, but the sources available do not show that this is either a significant or notable engagement. This was originally merged into
Eastern Ukraine offensive with the
blessing of the creator, but one editor (courtesy ping
Panam2014) began inexplicably dragging their feet based on a misinterpretation of redirect/merge policy
[15].
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Keep. The article definitely needed some cleanup and better referencing, but that's now been done — and the series won a
Gemini Award, which is exactly the tier of top-level national television awards that clinch the inherent notability of a television series regardless of any other problems with the article. For a TV show that aired 15 years ago, by the way, the best sourcing will need to be retrieved from archives (ProQuest, newspapers.com, etc.) rather than being expected to Google well.
Bearcat (
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13:24, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep The sources added by Bearcat are also SIGCOV for the series from major Canadian newspapers, and the Gemini Award clinches notability.
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Promotional non notable article on an award show which really is an ADMASQ about an organization called “Vine Entertainment Group” . The sources used in the article are self published, pr generated, and
WP:COISOURCE all of which we do not consider reliable. A before search doesn’t show me any in-depth significant coverage by reliable sources. Celestina007 (
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15:45, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
None of those references provide in-depth information on the awards themselves or the organization providing the awards, they simply report on the entities that received the awards.
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I took a look at most of the sources listed by
WP:RSP as reliable, and a lot of them seem to have articles about George.
1234 are about George's Haida experiment.
567 are also about it, but they seem a bit opinionated, and
8 explicitly references The Guardian in an earlier article about the subject.
9 is about an event instigated by George which is unrelated to the iron experiment, and
10 is an investigative article which seems to cover a great deal of George's career but does not come from a listed perennial source. Are any of these worth adding?
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comment. In the nomination, the nominator says "one source listed". There are four. The nom gives no indication that he looked for other sources.
Jacona (
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11:39, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete the nominator probably meant there was one independent source that is actual usable. Sure, there are "multiple" sources in the article, but two of them are from the university the dude is president of and the other two only count as a single source since they are from the same outlet. Sure,
competency is required for nominations, but it's also required for people who are voting on the AFD and the whole "primary sources can't be used for notability" is pretty basic. So I suggest the people who brought it up put their condescension in check, actually follow the guidelines they are complaining about, and a real argument as to why this should be kept instead of just attacking the nominator. Outside of that, the reason I'm going delete is because there's ONE independent reference in the article that isn't even really that in-depth and has nothing to do with the dude, really if you count them as two reference that goes for both of them, and I couldn't find anything else. So there's zero reason to keep this. If someone can provide
WP:THREE references that actually talk about the guy then I'm fine changing my vote to keep though. I just couldn't find any. --
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04:26, 24 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I don't know any Chinese languages, so I cannot say what they say, but one might presume that there would be far more coverage in Mandarin, Cantonese, etc. than in English because of the location. Even so, a search for "Ian Holliday" plus "Hong Kong" gets a couple thousand results. Using Newspapers.com, he is cited as a "Burma Expert" in articles from places as widely dispersed as Iowa, Pennsylvania, and London, including The London Daily Telegraph from August 12, 2009 and Vancouver's Province of the same date. Additional cites range from 1998 to 2017, so this is not just a one-off event. The South China Post has numerous articles which appear to be significant coverage, but is behind a paywall, as does TimesHigherEducation. The fact that these sources aren't in the article most likely is the result not of the lack of sources, but editors such as myself not being able to access them, or being
biased in favor of English-language sources. This gentleman has been widely cited and acknowledged as an expert on at least three continents over a span of 3 decades.
Jacona (
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12:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The Chinese language article only has two references, one of which is primary and the other is extremely trivial. You'd think that wouldn't be the case if this was merely a language barrier issue. If he's such an expert on Hong Kong then there should be an actual article about him Chinese that goes beyond what we have access to, yet the article is worse then the English version. In the meantime you can't just claim without evidence, based on the number of Google search results, or through making claims of expertise in a topic area that someone is notable. Some rando in Iowa can call him a "Burma Expert", but it's literally meaningless if you can't provide in-depth coverage of him in multiple independent sources to back it up with. --
Adamant1 (
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06:57, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Sure, but as far as I can tell none of those or the other references that refer to him as an expert are actually about him. They cite his opinions. Which isn't what we need here. This isn't an article about Burma or Myanmar. It's about Ian Holliday. I'm sure you get the difference and why references about the first two don't help. The point is, people can refer to him as an expert on Burma and Myanmar all day long, but they need to actually discuss him also in the meantime, not just cite what his opinions are on international law or whatever. --
Adamant1 (
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19:34, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment Holliday is co-editor of the book Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar and author of Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar. Also Painting Myanmar's Transition (Hardcover) and Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar.
Jacona (
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12:09, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
In addition to the above books, a search at abebooks came up with around a half-dozen other titles he is either the author or editor of, but I got bored; someone else might be interested.
Jacona (
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12:47, 27 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Is there any evidence that his books have been the recipients of multiple reviews by independent reliable sources or are we just suppose to say he's notable because he wrote some books no one has reviewed or done any other commentary on? --
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16:23, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
His books are mentioned and quoted in newspaper articles on 4 continents, his Burmese protest art show is mentioned in several articles, his books are used in the bibliography of several other books. Most of this is in links already in this AfD or in the article. I think this shows he meets
WP:NACADEMIC criteria 7, in that his books have made an impact in other areas.
Jacona (
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19:35, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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Jacona: I wasn't aware that his books being used in bibliographies counted as book reviews or conferred that he's had a substantial impact on anything. Thanks for the information. I know a couple of extremely low level professors at my local community college that have research papers cited in bibliographies who will happy to know they can have Wikipedia articles now because of it <--- obviously sarcasm --
Adamant1 (
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18:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
There's loads of evidence of that, if you would just care to click on the word "scholar" above. What on Earth makes you think that his books have not been reviewed? The only reason I can think of for that is that you think yourself too important to simply look, which is what people who are here to build an encyclopedia do.
Phil Bridger (
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20:02, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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Phil Bridger: the self importance dig comes off a lot like the tea kettle calling the pot black considering there hasn't been one single discussion involving both of us that I can think of where you haven't took the opportunity to insult me. It's pretty obvious you think your the most important person between us in any discussion we are both involved in. Maybe don't throw stones in glass houses. More on topic, I could really give a crap less if his books have been reviewed. I just couldn't find any reviews myself. if there's evidence to the contrary, cool. Show me some evidence. I could really give a crap, but I'll pass on the holier-than-thou condescension about it in the meantime thanks. --
Adamant1 (
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18:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I read over a couple of the "reviews" that are cited in the article. At least in respect to the ones I read calling them book reviews is stretching it. I don't necessarily think a college professor making extremely vague statements about how another professor's work is interesting or whatever in an academic journal really counts for notability either. Anymore then it would for singers or actors to comment each others work. Let alone does it confer that the person had an impact on their field. Like in Burma Redux: Global Justice and the Quest for Political Reform in Myanmar, Michael W. Charney says "This is a really interesting book." In no way does that convey that number 7 of
WP:NACADEMIC is met like Jacona says it does. No insult to Ian Holliday or anything, but it should go without saying that there's a big difference between his work being interesting and having an impact on Asian studies. I don't think "interesting" means "influential" either. --
Adamant1 (
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20:43, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
So calling articles published in academic journals under titles which include the word "review" reviews is "stretching it", is it? Can't you just acknowledge for once that your initial kneejerk reaction was wrong, and that we need to look at the evidence to decide on notability rather than just make a guess?
Phil Bridger (
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08:36, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Passes
WP:AUTHOR, which in his field I think amounts to passing
WP:PROF#C1; the former implies the latter in those parts of academia where "success" is more about influential books than influential papers. And in this case, as pointed out by
Phil Bridger above, the citation profile for the papers looks pretty good too.
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Violates
WP:NOTDATABASE, due to be sourced only to databases, and fails
WP:GNG due to lack of coverage - all we know about him is that he competed in the team gymnastics event of the 1908 Olympics, his name, and where and when he was born.
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17:48, 13 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. As
Lugnuts has pointed out, citing NOTDATABASE as a reason to delete this article is out of order and an
abuse of process. NOTDATABASE means the article must not be published as a database in the form of a matrix or table only. It has nothing at all to do with sourcing.
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I simply could not find any sourcing to verify that this Victor Cannella ever existed. The only source cited is IMDb, which is user-generated and thus unreliable; my search of Newspapers.com, Google Books, the Internet Archive, ProQuest, etc. found no coverage at all. I suspect this is a hoax (indeed, the editor who created it had
a history of
unconstructive edits), and in any event it is
unverifiable.
Extraordinary Writ (
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19:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: there are literally no reliable sources at all about this person, so even if it isn't a hoax, the article doesn't pass
WP:BASIC. He isn't credited on any of the animations that he is supposed to have played on, so either he didn't exist or he was simply a session musician and doesn't pass
WP:MUSICBIO.
Richard3120 (
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20:24, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete We hold IMDb to not be a reliable source. We should have 0 articles with this as the only listed source, instead we have thousands if not tens of thousands of such articles.
John Pack Lambert (
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13:57, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I'm getting some hits on the name with location in LA in Ancestry, but only on voter registrations, not in census records or anything else that would help me confirm a profession. Exact searching for this name ONLY would be a mistake. If he indeed existed and was born in Italy or was of Italian descent, his name was probably something more like Vittorio and his last name was probably spelled different ways--maybe with double Ns and Ls, maybe single, maybe a mixture; and wildcard that e for other vowels. I've added him to my weekend research list this weekend. Probably a delete, but I'll look anyway. --
DiamondRemley39 (
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14:17, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
DiamondRemley39, I did actually check the genealogical sites (which are usually pretty good about searching for spelling variations with
Soundex and the like), and the basic problem is that nothing lines up with the dates we've been given, particularly the very specific death date of February 3, 1946 (in Florida, according to IMDb). I don't seem to have Ancestry access anymore, so would you mind telling me what the voter registrations say? The street address might be useful. Thanks in advance.
Extraordinary Writ (
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18:07, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I can't say where he was when or why (or even *if* he was...), but here are some things...
Victor Cognina Cannella marries Marie Scozzaro Baio in Hillsborough, Florida on January 24, 1936.
Voter registration, Los Angeles County, California, 1944, 1946: **Cannella, Victor, 455 E 134th St, occupation: aircraft worker (only given 1944).
Voter registration, San Francisco, California, 1936: Victor A Canilla, 825 Howard, San Francisco, occupation: cook.
I didn't find any good hits in member trees, though I didn't look very hard. I also didn't check Family Search. My work is piling up and I'm not sure I'll have time to do all of those things. I may just check for him in Proquest Entertainment Industry over the weekend.
I don't like to say hoax or not without solid evidence or lack of evidence, but the very first draft of the article didn't even have an IMDb link. The cause of death changed from cardiac problems to polio between an early draft and now. Seems the person who thought this wasn't a hoax was a (regrettably) late admin, who added IMDb as a citation. I am scratching my head over the IMDb edits. It is difficult to get IMDb edited--much more difficult than to get anything on Wikipedia edited--but maybe several years ago it was easier; I don't know. I'll look a bit more. I'm leaning hoax. Wouldn't surprise me if the creator had a relative by this name, or something like that.
DiamondRemley39 (
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19:41, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The first one is
this fellow, a "retired dental technician" and "lifelong resident of the Tampa Bay area" (i.e. Hillsborough County) who lived c. 1911–1987—definitely not a match. The other two are surprisingly difficult to place, but I find it rather hard to believe that either a cook or an aircraft worker would be performing in Hollywood on the side. FamilySearch finds me a few more people with similar names, but they're mostly farmers from Louisiana with birth dates that don't match. It is a bit odd that IMDb would be so far off the mark here, but there have been plenty of horror stories about their questionable or non-existent fact-checking: see e.g.
here. (Indeed, they may have accepted it just because it had a Wikipedia article.)
Extraordinary Writ (
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00:12, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Florida" Cannella: WWII draft card has him born 1910. Correct, not a match.
"San Francisco" Cannella: I would think that an elderly immigrant pianist might find himself working as a cook on the side during the Depression... or maybe a cook with piano skills lucked out and got work in films that early on? Seems unlikely that this is happening with him living in a different part of the state, though people did get around.
"Los Angeles" Cannella: Aircraft worker at 70+? Quite unlikely, even during the war.
Another: "New York" Victor Cannella, b. about 1887 in Italy, working in NYC in sanitation in 1940. Another no.
Louisiana: Concur these are not matches.
I once found IMDb off by 25 years on a death... and it was a front-page of major newspapers suicide. ::shrug:: They don't fact-check, or they didn't at one time.
Delete - I don't think this is a hoax because a man of this name has some credits as a musician in a few classic Warner Bros. cartoons (at least according to a fan community that is usually pretty good at historical research). But that just indicates that he was a working studio musician like thousands of other people. Delete per
WP:EXIST. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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CONTRIBS) 13:53, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Doomsdayer520: I'd love for it to not be a hoax. Where do you see that a fan community contributed to research on Cannella or at least credits him as a musician? Can you please provide some links or something?
So far, we've got:
0 credits, actually, on IMDb--everything is uncredited.
0 radio credits at Radio GoldIndex, so he's not working in that industry.
Nothing in newspapers.com, newspaperarchive, Proquest newspaper major dailies
No loosely matching name/date/location in Ancestry, Family Search, Find a Grave... and we're not even looking for occupation.
No authority records indicating anyone at Library of Congress or elsewhere has seen anything
Most importantly: WP page history is sketchy, with one key contributor, changing info, and no data to back anything up.
Two amateur (or one amateur and one professional, as I don't know of @
Extraordinary Writ's credentials) genealogists here haven't yet confirmed the man breathed, much less played a musical instrument. We're eager to look at anything remotely credible, at anyone's research. Please, show us.
DiamondRemley39 (
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14:16, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
DiamondRemley39 - To answer your basic question, Cannella is listed in a few places at the Warner Brothers fandom site, e.g.
[17]. That's why I merely stated an opinion that the WP article may not be a hoax, because from personal experience, the Warner Brothers fan community practices serious research. But that was not even the basis of my vote, which I suspect you did not read in its entirety. This is a deletion discussion and what matters is notability, which Cannella does not have whether he really existed or not. I do not need to prove to you that it isn't a hoax, especially because I merely opined that it isn't. I don't know if you intended your message to be accusatory, but it looks that way. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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Thank you for answering my question; I asked about it because you gave some weight to the unnamed fan community saying he has credits. Thank you for providing the link; I checked it and all exact hits for that name on that site are database-style pages without citations and with brief edit histories. So short of contacting the page creators to ask how they verified their information, it's a dead end.
I understood your vote, which I read. I didn't disagree with your call to delete. I wouldn't disagree with it if I believed he had been a real man. Some of us try to help each other out on Wikipedia, so when you came forward with some information, I asked for details, like Extraordinary Wit asked me for further information on what I found on Ancestry. Some of us collaborate and communicate and all that. We build. If you don't want to be a part of that, be wary of stating that you've got information when you're in the presence of researchers. We do like to get to the bottom of things! Best.
DiamondRemley39 (
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19:04, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - I found information about a currently living Brazilian, but nothing additional about an Italian who passed in 1946. I searched Google, newspapers.com, and newspaperarchive.com
Jacona (
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00:09, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete, above analysis makes it extremely likely that this is a hoax. It's likely that the fan communities that picked up on the name just scraped it from this article and/or previous references to it. Ten Pound Hammer • (
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Delete No hits on name variants in Proquest Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive. I can't prove he existed, much less that he worked on films.
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22:56, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
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Keep Might fall short of NACTOR but seemed to be notable enough as a standup comedian. Most importantly, I believe he meets GNG for non-trivial newspaper coverage from New York Daily News (linked above by DiamondRemley39), The Boston Globe
1 and The Los Angeles Times.
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It's been a while since the 2014 no consensus discussion. This nobleman fails our
notability guideline for biographies, and violates
WP:GENEALOGY in its current state, since 95% of the article is about the subject's family. The subject inherited the title in 2000, and therefore never sat in the House of Lords. The sources are deprecated or do not provide significant coverage, except one 1997 article which in my opinion helps meet
WP:GNG. However, the coverage is only about one event (
WP:BLP1E) and it is not
WP:SUSTAINED.
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Delete I'm struggling to understand the 2014 (non-admin) closure, given no credible argument in favour of keeping the article was advanced. One editor suggested that "some people are interested in hereditary peerages" which is pretty much a perfect example of
an argument to avoid in a deletion discussion. Plenty of people are interested in the thousands of TikTok "stars" out there. It doesn't mean we should fill an encyclopedia with their bios. This article notably consists absolutely entirely of who Curzon's siblings are, his two marriages, his "American divorcée companion" (good bit of British upper-class snobbery there) and that his step-mother, the "Dowager Viscountess", lives in the vicarage. I think that speaks for itself on Curzon's (lack of) notability.
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The article has had a More Citations Needed template on it since at least 2012, is only referenced to a travel blog that doesn't work for notability, and I couldn't find anything about in a
WP:BEFORE when I looked. Outside of that there are some notable people who went there, but notability isn't inherited and there would still need to be multiple, in-depth, reliable sources that discuss the school anyway, which there just doesn't seem to be.
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17:19, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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The article has had a More Citations Needed template on it since at least 2012 and from what I can tell there's nothing in the article or otherwise that help improve things. Since the article is referenced purely to articles about alumni, which don't discuss the school or work for notability anyway, and I couldn't find anything when I did a
WP:BEFORE that would help either. So this article clearly fails the notability guidelines and therefore should be deleted.
Adamant1 (
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17:12, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - this is one of the oldest and best known schools in the Caribbean (and in fact, how many schools anywhere have histories back to 1685...?), and there is a whole book on it from the
University of the West Indies, so I think notability is there, but I agree that it could be better referenced. I have no special knowledge on this topic but will try to work on the reference angle.
SeoR (
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23:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I read over the book from
University of the West Indies before nominating the article and your massively miss-representation things by saying it's a "whole book about Combermere School." In fact 99% of it is about "Barbadian Society" and less then 1% directly relates to the school. In the meantime the fact that it's "history" goes back to 1685 doesn't automatically it notable. --
Adamant1 (
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07:53, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Hello
Adamant1, and thanks for interacting. You appear to feel quite strongly, about this case, school articles or AFDs, but let's keep it polite - in >15 years, it's my experience that we don't normally ask people to retract their !votes, or refer to others' comments as "nonsense." Now, you say that I "massively miss-representation things" with regard to the book - but that's a straw man argument - I said I'm no expert but that there is a whole book, and that's based on library input. Are you sure you read that specific book? I have asked for copy data, and will dig in but "only 1%" about the school seems unlikely. Decent coverage does not even need a book - a good chapter, and other refs, would suffice. Let's study, and discuss further here.
SeoR (
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13:16, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I feel quite strongly about people not miss-representing sources or the notability guidelines. We all should. In no way was I being impolite by saying it's nonsense that the whole book is about the school. It isn't and your statement that it is was wrong, period. I'm willing to assume good faith that you didn't know that because you haven't read the book, but that's on you for not vetting a source before you made claims about it. In the meantime to me it's rather impolite and a waste of everyone's time to make a claim about something you haven't even read. Outside of that I never said the book has to be 100% about the school, but as far as I can tell it's not even a chapter. Even if there was a chapter discussing the school that doesn't make your statement that the "whole book" is about it any less nonsensical or fact based. Outside of that, I can guarantee that I wouldn't have said anything if you were upfront about the fact that there might be a chapter discussing the school but that you don't really know because you haven't read the source. --
Adamant1 (
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13:29, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I agree that we should be clear, and I do not believe that I misrepresented anything - I noted the existence of a book, which reviews describe as being about the school (not partly, 1% or otherwise). You mentioned that you "read over the book from University of the West Indies" but now you say "as far as I can tell it's not even a chapter" - so have you actually had a chance to read it? It is pretty obscure, and if neither of us has yet explored it in detail, let's wait before we judge? I expect to have the material soon. I am happy to alter my position if it is warranted - I defer to sources (or lack of same).
SeoR (
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15:09, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
You didn't just note the existence of the book though. You said the whole thing was about the school when you hadn't even read it and the whole book isn't about the school. So 100% you miss-represented things. You still are. Seriously dude, why not just admit you made a claim about the book that wasn't true or that least that you had zero knowledge of instead of back peddling and continuing to obfuscate about it? Also, I've said twice now that I looked through the book. The appropriate time to not judge it would have been before you voted keep based purely on conjecture about what it contained. It's a little ridiculous to say we shouldn't judge it now after the fact and me looking through the book though just because your unwilling to admit your wrong. That's not how this works. People can't just vote keep based on sources they haven't read and then expect everyone else to not judge the sources their vote was based on. --
Adamant1 (
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15:41, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
It is in the title. It is reasonable to say it's "about" it. It's far more than 1%, as well.
Except SeoR said the whole book was about it. That aside, I don't think it's reasonable to say, let alone assume, that the book is about the school just because the word "Combermere" is in the title. Just as much as it would be to assume a book like Curious George Goes to School or whatever is in-depth, significant story about the school he goes to. In this case, there's a lot of things that are discussed in the book that relate to Combermere, but we need direct coverage and that doesn't include stories of school alumni, Barbados in general or other things on the periphery of it. You could easily have something like a book about the alumni of a certain school, with the schools name in the title, where the school isn't directly talked about though. --
Adamant1 (
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18:17, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I have now received the book, and I'm struggling to AGF... As the review I read suggested, it *is* a history of the school. It is not "99%" - or anything like that - a discussion of Barbadian society, and discussion of alumni is mostly incidental. The main body chapters are, in sometimes extreme detail, about the school and its principals, and operations, with only the epilogue being slightly different in style. It is, in fact, one of the most detailed histories of a school I have ever seen, far more comprehensive than books I've read about some famous UK and Irish schools. And it was written by two multi-decade-experienced academics, one based in Canada, one in the Caribbean. I am puzzled, and am also struggling to understand how some of the commentary above meets
WP:NPA. But we are here to build the encyclopedia, so I will not argue about this, and will, from tomorrow evening, use the book to build up the article further. The editing effort on this page would have enabled whole articles to be built, but so be it.
SeoR (
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00:20, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Weird. That sounds nothing like the book I read on Google. Can you give a page number I can read or cite the in-depth coverage that your saying exists so I can look into why there's the difference? Anyway, we would still need another in-depth reference even with the book. I'm fine saying the book count as one reference if it turns out the one on Google that I read is drastically different then what you have access, but obviously there still needs to be more then that. Other then that, I agree that whole articles could have been built in the meantime, which is I asked you to not speculate on the reference before you had actually read it and told Jacona to drop the discussion. It's to bad both of you ignored me and continued it. You could have just as easily voted keep and argued about it once you had access to the book and we could have an informed discussion about it instead of just speculating. Hopefully that's a lesson learned on both your sides. I look forward to figuring out why what I read is different then the book you have though. I'm more then willing to cite a few paragraphs from the book on Google to prove that it isn't significant, in-depth coverage. That or I can give you some page numbers to look at on Google and compare to your book if you want. --
Adamant1 (
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00:37, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Odd indeed, but look, let's not worry, let's use the source. I think the coverage is exemplified by the chapter structure and titles, so let's start with those (on page vii if you're trying to cross-check via Google). It is important to remember that Google snips can be very selective, and not necessarily in any way representative. So, the book's contents: 1) Combermere's first two hundred years (pp 1-22), 2) The role of George (BR) Burton (pp 23-47), 3) Combermere School, 1926-46 (pp 48-68), 4) The Age of Noott, 1946-1961 (pp 69-102), 5) Consolidation at Waterford, 1961-81 (pp 122-138), 6) Combermere School since 1981 (122-138), followed by epilogue, notes, bibliography, index. And then, to dive in a bit, some interesting sample pages, I'll document re. two chapters - (Chapter 1) pages 1-3 are a detailed account of the Drax Will and the consequent school foundation, pages 4-10 cover the Central School period, while 11-12 look at the Michinson Commission and the linkage between its work and the direction of the school (I would say that 12 is a bit general), 13 touches on the school achieving full second level status, and 14-22 on the beginning of the "Combermere" period, of which p.19 is more than 60% contextual. Chapter 2 elaborates the work of one key principal, and a major expansion of the school, and goes as deep into detail as to name teachers of some subjects, and discuss break-out points on finances; two pages discuss exam results, and four the subject structure and house-prefect system, followed by 1.5 pages (42-43) on school magazine work, and the "old scholars" association. It goes on, but basically it's a really thorough go at a history, albeit with periods when records seem to be "thin." But it goes far beyond one chapter or book passage. I hope this helps. One other thing that may help is to consider the publisher. University presses are usually pretty rigorous, and at the same time most don't have budget to waste, so some weight would go, even before securing a loan copy, to the fact that a third-level institution's house press published on a topic at all. See you on the article improvement stage.
SeoR (
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13:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - the article may need to be improved, but the age of the school and the location clearly makes it notable. --
Bduke (
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07:10, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Bduke: Interesting take. I wasn't aware that everything in the Caribbean is automatically notable "because the location." Also where do the notability guidelines say that "historical" (whatever that means) subjects are de-facto notable? I doubt that's the case since the last time I checked there isn't articles for every building built before the "modern times." every random archeological site, fossil, pre-modern event, Etc. Etc. don't have their own articles either. That said, you and SeoR both seem to be pretty sure the whole "historical things are automatically notable" thing though. So I'd love to know what information the two of you have access to that I don't. Please enlighten me. Otherwise, I'd appreciate it if both of you retracted your votes. Same goes for your nonsense about this being inherently notable because it's located in Barbados/the Caribbean. Either prove there's de-facto notability for everything in Barbados/the Caribbean because of the location or strike your comment about it. --
Adamant1 (
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07:53, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I did not say that everything in the Caribbean is automatically notable. I said that the combination of age and location made it notable. --
Bduke (
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09:13, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Cool. It's not like "age and location" is anymore grounded in policy then just one or other alone though. Otherwise, show me where the guidelines say "age and location" make something inherently notable. Especially as it relates to subjects that have to do with Barbados/the Caribbean. Just repeating yourself isn't evidence. --
Adamant1 (
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12:47, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Jacona: You know that "article" is primary and self published right? How exactly is that usable for notability? SeoR, you saying a primary self published source "looks great" is exactly the kind of nonsense I was talking about earlier. Frankly, I'm surprised you can't tell what a primary, self-published source is considering you've been an editor for >15 years. It's pretty basic stuff. Same goes for Jacona. If you going to vote keep at least make sure your not doing it based on a primary reference please. It really shouldn't be that hard. In the meantime no one should take your opinion that a large percentage of the 8,310 results nationnews.com have
WP:SIGCOV seriously. As it's obviously nonsense. Just looking at the first 10 results most or all of them are extremely trivial at best and have absolutely nothing to do with the school at worst. I doubt you reviewed anything passed that, let alone a large percentage of the results, and if the top ten are completely irrelevant the rest won't be any better. --
Adamant1 (
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13:50, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I hope it's OK with all to cut this comment in here, as it responds to points above, and the discussion goes elsewhere below. The 12-page item is *not* self-published. It was a supplement to a major national newspaper, written by professionals. Now, is it wholly independent? No, I don't think so, at first glance it looked like an "assisted" publication. But even so, so many pages of material will provide plenty of basis for citation and / or further sourcing. I will continue to work to improve the article, and let's see where we get to.
SeoR (
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15:03, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
This is a school that's over 300 years old with > 20 alumni that have articles. A quick search at google turns up > 33000 articles. Newspapers.com comes up with many more. A more specific search of Barbadian sources turns up 8000+ articles, many of which are in-depth.
WP:BEFORE,
WP:ATD,
WP:PRESERVE clearly indicate that the availability of sources is more important than the sources in the article. If I were to perform
WP:BEFORE properly on a subject with tens of thousands of results, I would not be able to reasonably conclude the subject is not notable without spending a significant of time. The premise that a 340 year old school with alumna who were major sports stars, prime ministers, top-level pop stars doesn't have sources sounded suspicious, so I looked for them, and found many in-depth sources. If I performed BEFORE, I would never have nominated this school, but you did nominate, it which makes me wonder: 1.) Have you looked through even the first few pages of sources in the google search "site:
https://www.nationnews.com combermere"? Do you not find some of them to be significant in-depth coverage? 2.) Have you done site-specific searches of any other Barbadian/Carribean news outlets? 3.) Have you looked at Newspapers.com? I don't know, but it would seem the good editors at AfD would better spend their time on something else. I've agreed with many of your nominations, but on this one, I just completely don't get it.
Jacona (
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14:19, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Your the one claiming that in-depth sources exist. So it's on you to provide them. Why would I look through the 33000 hits on Google to prove your claim that this is notable? That's not how this works. If your unwilling to provide the references then cool, don't participate in the AfD or vote keep based on vacuous claims that your unwilling to provide evidence for then. I could care less. Other people that can make actual, guideline based arguments and know what a primary reference is are bound to come along evemtually. In the meantime you should read
Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions, especially
WP:GOOGLEHITS, because I really don't feel like repeatedly getting in discussions with you about why something that has 33000 Google hits isn't inherently notable. Your just wasting everyone's time, including mine by bringing it up. And no I wouldn't call a two paragraph article about a couple teachers of getting cancer "significant coverage" or even notable. Teachers get cancer. Same goes for the other references. Especially "Problems still at Combermere", which is about St Michael school. It should go without saying that this isn't St Michael school. It's ridiculous your trying to act like it is. Your clearly not doing your due diligence by reviewing references before you provide them. --
Adamant1 (
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14:38, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Thanks for all the conversation. The above unfortunately misrepresents some facts. 1.) "Problems still at Combermere" is indeed about Combermere, which is located at Waterford, St Michael. 2.) Editors do have a duty to look for sources before bringing an article to AfD. If editors don't spend an adequate amount of time doing so, it will waste the time of many other editors. 3.) The news headlines are significant coverage, but more than what's in the url's provided, these appear to be only the trailers to more thorough coverage behind the paywall/in the print edition. Thanks.
Jacona (
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15:40, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
1. My bad on that, but it's still an extremely trivial source that doesn't contain direct, significant coverage of the school though. So it's really a moot point. 2. I said multiple times I looked for sources before I brought the article to AfD. What part of "I couldn't find anything when I did a
WP:BEFORE" doesn't make that clear? 3. "news headlines" aren't significant coverage and it's hysterical that you think they are. You clearly either don't understand how AfDs and the notability guidelines work or are intentionally obscuating. At this point my guess is the later.
Also, if the paywall thing was an issue it should have been before you asked my opinion about the references. Not after. I can guarantee that you wouldn't be making an issue out of them being behind a paywall if I agreed that the references were significant coverage. In the meantime there has to be evidence that the articles have significant coverage. We don't just assume there is "because paywall" or whatever. As a side to that, to quote "
WP:SIGCOV Multiple publications from the same author or organization are usually regarded as a single source for the purposes of establishing notability." So even if the news stories contained significant coverage there would still have to be a significant reference from another outlet/outlets for this to be notable, which there doesn't seem to be. I'd love to be proved wrong though. In the grand scheme of things
WP:THREE in-depth references from multiple reliable sources that are independent of the subject is an extremely low bar that anything even slightly notable should be able to meet. A low bar that shouldn't be met through obscuation and miss-representing things either btw. --
Adamant1 (
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16:22, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I said "I can see only what's apparently an abridged version outside the paywall". I don't know how it could have been more clear. Please do not misrepresent what other editors say. You've done this repeatedly, all the while making this discussion into a
WP:BATTLEGROUND.
Jacona (
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16:42, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
How exactly am I miss-representing what you said when you literally said "The news headlines are significant coverage." That's a direct quote. I don't see how pointing out that news headlines aren't significant coverage is turning the discussion into a
WP:BATTLEGROUND either. Maybe you can enlighten me? If anything you are turning into a battle ground by repeatedly making patently false assertions that I didn't do a BEFORE. Even after I said I did multiple times. --
Adamant1 (
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18:29, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment Guidelines and policies are thoroughly misrepresented in this AfD.
WP:BEFORE, section B.2 directs us to take reasonable steps to search for
reliable sources. section D part 1 states what those steps are, which includes a google search. It doesn't really matter how many results there are, but this helps us determine whether sources exist. We certainly can and should question the quality of those results. Section C. 1 states us that if the article can be improved through normal editing, it is not a candidate for AfD. Section D.3. and D.4 continue that if adequate sources do appear to exist, the fact that they are not yet present in the article is not a proper basis for a nomination.
Jacona (
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16:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
It's pretty hilarious that in one comment you claimed I'm turning this into a
WP:BATTLEGROUND and then in the next you said I didn't take reasonable steps to search for
reliable sources when I've said like 3 times now that I looked for references. I'd love to know how your refusal to accept that I took steps to look for adequate references before I nominated the article isn't treating this like a battleground. Sorry I didn't think the sources you found were up to par dude, that's no reason to try and drag me through the dirt though. Why not just admit you were wrong and move on? Other people who know how to make actual arguments should have a chance to give their opinions. I'd appreciate it if you stopped bludging this with your nonsense and let them. --
Adamant1 (
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18:29, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
How are you not mis-representing other editors with the comments you've made, including the quite rude comment where you called me "ridiculous" and said I didn't read the source I provided because it wasn't about Combermere....when in fact it was you who did not read the source carefully enough to understand what it said. That's one of several times in this AfD when you have been both rude and wrong. You've made it clear that you will not be bothered searching for sources, as BEFORE requires, stating the misunderstanding that "that's not how this works." Please stop with the borderline
personal attacks and
uncivil behavior. You shouldn't accuse other editors of the behavior you yourself are exhibiting. I wish we weren't having this discussion; this school's notability is obvious to me. There is more than sufficient of significant coverage (which you dismiss because you don't like it), the school is one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere, is covered significantly in the
book, hundreds of articles in the Barbadian newspaper ["site:
https://www.nationnews.com combermere" search], and other significant coverage. It is the alma mater of
Rihanna, and more than 20 other individuals who have articles. It is a strong keep. If you expended 10% of the effort that's been wasted here on improving the encyclopedia, we could have built something in that time.
Jacona (
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20:46, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The article said "St Michael school was reopened after being closed for several months" and there's a St. Michael School in Bridgetown, Barbados. So I thought that's what the article was talking about. I've been clear about that and in no way was I miss-representing things by reading the article wrong. Outside of that, I didn't say you were "ridiculous." Nice try though. I'm not sure where else I've been wrong either. Although even I have been wrong about other things, it's fine to be wrong. People miss-read things sometimes. Me reading a sentence wrong and then saying that's what happened is no way comparably to how you and SeoR have acted about this or the blatantly false and ridiculous things both of you have said though. Including you saying that headlines are significant coverage or that something with 33000 Google hits is inherently notable. There's really no way to take either of those things as honest mistakes. Especially since you've repeated both even after I provided links to the guidelines saying that the number of Google hits something has doesn't prove it's notable. Same goes for you repeatedly insulting me that I didn't look for references, which at this point just badgering and I'd appreciate it if you didn't badger me. You continuing to harp on me about is all the more ridiculous considering the hemming and hawing your doing about civility. There's absolutely nothing civil in attacking nominators about how they didn't look for references. Especially when they told you multiple times that they did. Seriously dude, practice what you preach and lay off it already. Your the only one wasting effort by going off about clearly false nonsense. Your not obligated to participate in this. Be my guest and go hassle someone else if you think the discussion is such a waste or edit some articles instead of mouthing off. I'm fine with either. Just as long as you leave me and my AfDs the hell alone. --
Adamant1 (
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21:03, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Just because you started this AfD, does not make it your AfD. You have said enough. This is not how AfD's should go. I suggest that you leave it for others to comment and an admin to close it. --
Bduke (
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23:30, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Obviously. I was going to say "my AfD nomination", which it is, but I assumed (apparently wrongly) that I didn't need to be that pedantic about it and that it should go without that I don't own the AfD. That said, I think if someone repeatedly insults and lies about a nominator that it's within the nominator's right to ask the person to find other things to do. Outside of that, I agree other people should have a chance to comment, which is why I told Jacona to drop it multiple times. Thanks for just repeating what I said though. You repeating me is clearly going to allow other people a chance to give their opinions.
Adamant1 (
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23:40, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep, this ancient and nationally-significant school clearly passes
WP:GNG, and this AFD nomination appears to be ill-based and possibly evidences US-/European bias given the lack of respect given to coverage by actual newspapers and other sources from Barbados. The nominator may have concerns about high school / secondary school articles in general but some are worthy of inclusion. This school is the subject of a general book (Combermere School and the Barbadian Society), a passage in a specialized book about elite schools in Barbados and the sport of cricket, and multiple newspaper and other articles. As one of a handful of higher schools for the whole colony and later country of Barbados until modern times, it has clearly had a major influence on the island's society, which I think I remember is a notability factor. The nominator seems very committed to deletion instead of improving or fixing any problems, and has accused editors who appear to have no ax to grind of stating "blatantly false and ridiculous things". Not just "ridiculous" but also "false". I edit occasionally, like many readers. And the tone of this nomination defense, with 60% of the page written by the nominator, is one reason why I don't do more. Another is the "deletionist" stance taken by a small but active percentage of editors. Maybe all AfD nominators, like Did You Know... nominators, should have to have a set number of article creations, so they understand about dropping the hard work of others.
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09:16, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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This is an interesting technology, but based on the available secondary sources, I believe it's
WP:TOOSOON.
The article itself is also a disaster: clearly a massive
WP:COI violation, as the primary author of the article has the same name as the primary inventor of the technology, and the whole thing reads like a massive press release. Even if
WP:TOOSOON doesn't apply here,
WP:TNT surely does.
PianoDan (
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17:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete I disagree with the nominator in that I think it reads less like a press release and more like it was copied from a report to a funding agency. Other than that, though, I concur. It's an article-sized
WP:COI violation that would need to get blown up and restarted from scratch, even if having it were warranted, which is doubtful. The secondary sources I can find don't go into much depth at all.
This is barely a mention, and
this review gives it only a sentence (The potential for improving the identification of inverse beta decay and reducing background is apparent with a novel detector using a dense array of optical fibers immersed in opaque scintillating liquid). That and the recent publication date are a strong
WP:TOOSOON signal.
XOR'easter (
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17:09, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
There's more. Several of the sources aren't sources but links to author profiles next to author names, as if this were a paper. And over a paragraph of the article tells us things that were "confidential" and never published. This is just not written as an encyclopaedia article at all. Looking around, I'm not finding the independent sourcing for rewriting, or even re-stubbing, this. Checking the stuff that cites the 2019 Communications Physics paper, for example, I'm not finding that the rest of the world has written about this in much depth.
Uncle G (
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21:39, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I strongly disagree with the deletion of this article. First, I would like to suggest that we
assume the good faith of the main editor of the article. He is clearly involved with the subject and I agree that some parts needs adaptation regarding the styling (
MOS:NOTE was already suggested at the beginning), but it is a relevant subject to be in an encyclopaedia and there are
several reliable sources about it, some of them already in the references. From the page logs, It is also clear that the author sought some support and started editing on his sandbox, it already indicated for me his good will. Anyone here more experienced with editing Wikipedia knows how difficult it can be at the beginning to follow all its rules, and it's undeniable the effort already made to create relevant content in this article. Thus, saying that the article should be blown up and started from scratch can sound offensive and for sure is demotivating for beginners. Regarding the
conflict of interest, since the author is one of the main active researchers on the topic, I would try to kindly advise him on how to proceed in such cases. Again, that doesn't mean that everything should be deleted, but adapted and improved, and the talk page of the article could be a good start for this purpose. --
everton137 (
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16:12, 3 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Rather than simply posting a blanket Duck Duck Go search - which references in that list do you specifically think clear this article of
WP:TOOSOON? I agree that most of the sources in that search are cited on the page, but they're almost entirely single-author primary sources. I don't see any notable secondary coverage.
PianoDan (
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16:31, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
No one assumed bad faith from the creator. However, an article isn't subject to a pass just because it was created by newcomer who 'worked hard'. The article isn't suitable for inclusion in its current state, and has deep profound flaws that make it harder to fix than to create from scratch (assuming it meets
WP:N, which is not clear it does). This comes from this article being written for an audience other than a general encyclopedia, by an author who is not unaffiliated with the project. Headbomb {
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Keep (welcome to hear suggestions).
I am the main author of the article here: a professional scientist with recognised and renown track-record in generating knowledge in neutrino science and leader of several international scientific collaborations, including order hundred of scientists across many countries. More precisely, I am the spokesperson of the LiquidO consortium (about ~70 scientists in 22 institutions over 10 countries), which implies supporting our communication/dissemination strategy for which there is NO interest other knowledge generation — our job.
Since WIKI's main goal is to favour knowledge dissemination and WIKI provides the means for this knowledge to be provided by those who generated it, we have provided our article on LiquidO Detection — first article ever in WIKI for me. So, I am certainly new and inexperienced in WIKI and the set of rules/conditions that articles must meet upon publication. Hence, I certain welcome all constructive feedback that would frame our contributions most usefully to the community. Any other conclusion may be likely rooted in some kind of misunderstanding. In any case, I do appreciate if we keep as basis for exchange the main guidelines of WIKI: a) "assume good faith”, b) “be polite and avoid personal attacks” and c) “be welcoming to newcomers”. Extra comments regarding the "LiquidO Detection" article here:
Contribition Publication Context: when I wrote the article (originally in my sandbox), I was proposed to publish it, including some feedback by “expert(s)”. I welcomed this very much as I hesitated on how to proceed (given my lack of experience). Indeed, this promised feedback reassured me to proceed with the contribution(s). Moreover, I was told that the “publication consideration period” (some kind review or evaluation, I gathered) that could last up to ~3 months, period over which I was encouraged to continue to improving the article while still unpublished. All this information was provided by WIKI and much of that never happened. To my greatest surprise (or even shock), the article got published within 24 hours with NO feedback whatsoever was ever offered.
Given the lack of the feedback upon publication, this was some kind of encouragement to proceed following the same lines of the original writeup. Since the article was far from the standard I intended (approval was far faster than told) and it had not yet been fully validated by all my collaborators (i.e. our LiquidO consortium of professional scientists), I was forced to push for further article for completeness and prompt some collaborators for urgent validation of the contents (successfully). Note: the contents are now being reviewed by the full team to further scrutiny the contents. So, some modifications may be expected. To add insult to injury, a few days after publication, we entered into another degree of shock when we discovered that some WIKI experts proposed the deletion altogether — thus directly wasting all the work and disposing its contents as outcome. This is far from the “be welcoming to newcomers” guideline of WIKI from which kind, supportive and constructive feedback. It is altogether surprising that some WIKI experts appear more focused on hammering contributions without offering alternative solutions to ensure knowledge is preserved, specially considering that the knowledge is provided by the scientific professional knowledge generator community. Is this really the message that WIKI community wants to pass here to the scientific community? This seems a rather contradiction to what the wikipedia should stand for. In fact, "delete knowledge kindly provided by first-line experts” should be the last resource, should any mending strategy failed. Also, trashing the effort of others seem right against the WIKI project voluntary basis. If an article, providing proved knowledge, including renown references, failed to match the standard of WIKI, we should trigger support and guidance — not rejection. Moreover, having "first-line experts" to contribute to their knowledge in the wikipedia should be encouraged and supported, else the main WIKI project may be jeopardised.
Beyond the above general impressions, I have duly gone through reviewers your comments and here is some feedback:
First, for politeness, I will skip some of the unfortunate terminology used above and/or other appreciations (such as whether article was “massive press release” or a copy “from a report to a funding agency”) in general speculative and incorrect. I would only say that some of those remarks do not seem aligned with the WIKI principles of a) "assume good faith” and b) “be polite and avoid personal attacks”.
Second, I would avoid discussion about scientific judgement as this is done, like in all other scientific fora generating knowledge, via peer reviewed publications, conferences and proposals for support/funding. In fact, on those grounds LiquidO is very well served; indeed very successfully despite its early age in technology. Hence, the information provided meets in full — to be best of my knowledge and ability — the WIKI policy as it relies on FACT(s) — with dates — based on information publicly available supported by recognised publications (even Nature) and world leading scientific fora or conferences. Further information may be provided, if needed. Should you have any question or suggestion on how to improve, we surely welcome that.
Third, I have gone through the
wikipedia deletion policy. I see the article contents do NOT meet any of the 14 listed “reasons for deletion”. Moreover, there exist “alternatives to deletion” (same article; such as “tagging”, etc), none of those has been proposed. Why? Hence, I conclude that the proposal for “article deletion” is both disproportionate and unjustified. Of course, any reasonable discussion for possible improvement is highly welcome, as reiterated and intended, as explained before.
I gather that the main possible concern is that I wrote in the article and I am indeed "conceptor" of the technology (substantiated by many of the reference provided), thus I understand this is alluded as a possible [wikipedia conflict of interest |Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]. Instead, the article states the facts (to the best of our knowledge) and those facts should not entail as any kind of handicap or discrimination for contribution to the wiki by me — or anybody else — unless an abuse was identified. I state to my honour that no abuse was intended and, if anything may be misunderstood, I offer immediate resolution. On the hand and as argued before, I understand the wikipedia community should appreciate and encourage the direct contribution form the "first-line expertise", in this case any of the LiquidO scientists or experts. The fact that the article is in WIKI, implies we are opened to the scientific community feedback too. Note the articulation employed is similar to other scientific articles in WIKI, but room for improvement exist, given the above explain conditions explained (WIKI beginner and rushed contributions by WIKI faster than expected approval for publication). Still, I went nonetheless through the [wikipedia conflict of interest |Wikipedia:Conflict of interest] and I did not find any evident direct breaching of the rules by the article. Beyond the aforementioned historical note (including some key names). The article is not about me (or my family o my company, etc) but about the scientific knowledge generated and the status of the technology led by the work of a scientific collaboration (~70 people). While my writing style is unlikely tuned to the wiki style — yes, my work is about writing papers and proposals where several Nature’s and some millions have been achieved so far — I am very happy to be advised and guided, so that the article meets the intended tone. I do thank you in advance. Note this is indeed the constructive approach we expected from WIKI (“be welcoming to newcomers”) and we have so far not felt.
Last, the article is indeed “orphan” on purpose because, as explained, we did not want to connect it yet to other wiki articles, since we awaited for all my collaborators to review it (ongoing) prior to proceed with further propagation and dissemination.
So, I am compelled to request the reconsideration of the deletion of the "LiquidO Detection” contribution, for which I fully disagree since a) the article provides unique knowledge so far missing in WIKI (incontestably the most important for us and WIKI) and b) the original authors are open to improve its style, should support be provided, as originally promised. So, I'd like to propose that we convert this discussion into a constructive, sensitive and respectful dialogue (less time-consuming and more enjoyable) to ensure more and better knowledge is provide to the WIKI as a way forward. So, I kindly ask you — wiki editors / experts — to kindly help me (us) help you with our contributions to WIKI, please. We are professional scientists with NO interest(s) whatsoever other than pure knowledge generation and dissemination, both our job, and we offer our knowledge to the community from which we'd be delighted to count on your kindest support and knowledge. Our team and myself would surely be most grateful.
Anatael Cabrera (
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19:04, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep and improve I also think this article should be kept. Certainly, the work of a beginner, which can be improved. Yes, the writer and the developer are the same, but I think that experts should be allowed to write about their work, with proper references and scrutiny. Not ideal, but not a reason to delete it all.
Ajgw56 (
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20:00, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment from nominator. First, I DO appreciate the author's enthusiasm for sharing their work on Wikipedia.
However, I'd like to suggest they carefully read
WP:COIE. "Do not edit or create articles about yourself, your family or friends, your organization, your clients, or your competitors." Personally, I'll edit articles about particle accelerators, but I won't about my own company, or about companies the directly compete with it. The author's comment that "the contents are now being reviewed by the full team to further scrutiny the contents." is problematic - members of the LiquidO consortium should NOT have created their own page directly, and once it exists (assuming it is deemed notable), they should be using the
Edit Request Template to request other editors make edits, rather than making them directly.
The other policies I'd like to point out are
WP:OR and
WP:PSTS. Wikipedia is not the place to present original research, and primary sources, while somewhat unavoidable in very technical articles, need to be accompanied with at least some secondary coverage to establish notability. Adding additional secondary sources to this page would be the number one way to improve its chances of surviving AfD. Failure to establish notability (A8) per
WP:GNG is the deletion criterion at issue here.
PianoDan (
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20:51, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Strong Delete - While I have no reason to doubt the author's motives here are noble in wanting to share their research, the problem remains that this just simply
isn't what wikipedia is for. Wikipedia is a tertiary source that follows the academic consensus, and is committed to being exactly as wrong or out of date as the current consensus. Wikipedia is not an alternative path to recognition for serious academic work or a parallel path alongside broader academic recognition - it absolutely must follow other recognition. If this research is truly as impactful and important as the author believes, it will be cited by many reliable, academic, secondary sources, which will then likely be used by uninvolved parties to write an article about this topic. But as wikipedia is a tertiary source that is and must be written and maintained by editors who are not credentialed experts, it is absolutely necessary that all information be
verifiable in secondary sources. This is why we can't just have an article written by a subject matter expert without independent, secondary source citations. People who are reading the encyclopedia need to be able to verify the information presented on any wiki page without having to contact the author or rely on any trust that the information is correct.
This is entirely separate from the conflict of interest concerns, which are certainly also serious here, but those do not even need to be considered until it's established in secondary literature that this research is important and impactful. I appreciate that a lot of effort must have gone into drafting this page, but quite frankly there's no salvaging this contribution here whatsoever. I would recommend that the author, and the consortium they represent, invest time in the future into making sure that the avenues they pursue for spreading their research are appropriate and receptive, before they invest time and effort into how they will present their research. This is a useful lesson I have learned extensively outside of wikipedia in the corporate world: first sell the meeting, not the business. A lot of effort could have been saved here if the consortium had invested the time into making sure their work was aligned with wikipedia policies before spending so much time on writing this page. I am not sure if there was a disconnect here on the wikimedia side, but a fuller understanding of wikipedia policies by the consortium could have easily prevented this: while we don't assume familiarity of policies for all new editors, as this contribution is from a large professional organization, it seems that more initial legwork ought to have been done here. To the author: I would personally recommend that when you do find an alternative front for presenting this research, perhaps at academic conferences or when submitting review papers, or when you approach investors to make your technology marketable, that you take this advice into consideration. This will likely increase the chances that this research will one day be well-cited and verifiable enough to be included on Wikipedia.
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Delete: A company which sold its patents on some early products, then changed focus, before being acquired by another firm. The page history shows a sequence of
WP:SPA edits followed by clean-up by other editors. While searches find reviews / mentions of their Engager and BFM products, and their participation in industry events, I am not seeing
evidence of attained
notability. The Italian WP has an article about the acquiring company
CRIF, its credit checking service and several acquisitions but not this one; en.wp has an article on one acquisition, the Indian
CRIF High Mark Credit Information Services but not the parent, so there is no available merge/redirect target. (There is also an article on one defunct product, the
Strands Social Player, whose notability is itself questionable.)
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WP:NOTSTATS, list is too specific and only mentions men's singles players (as opposed to doubles players) who represented the UK at some point in their career. While this could be improved I can not see a reason why this can't be a category or mentioned on the specific subjects' articles (which they generally are). The UK is the only country I could find with a specific list of country-specific number 1s, and there is not a list for British women's players either.
Bonoahx (
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16:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep: There's no reason to delete this. It passes any guidance issues and is independently referenced. You also state that there isn't a women's list. Therefore why don't you create one? And the UK being the only country to have such a list is not a valid reason for deleting the article.
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Article on a non-notable fictional concept, which is comprised almost entirely of in-universe plot summaries sourced to episode recaps, many of which are not even reliable sources. The only exception to this is the few sentences at the end about the show's development, which itself is already covered at
The Originals (TV series)#Production. The actual characters listed here are already covered in a much more succinct format at
List of The Originals characters, making this article redundant as a character list. As the concept of the "original vampires" from this franchise is not independently notable from the show itself, this article is an unnecessary spinout, and a general overview of the concept is already adequately described as part of the main article on
The Originals (TV series).
Rorshacma (
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16:52, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: I agree with the above comments. However, Henrik, Mikael, Dahlia, and Esther's information NEEDS to be posted somewhere else.
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Speedy deletion was declined on the grounds this was not obvious enough, but this is still obvious
WP:PROMO and the subject very clearly fails
WP:GNG (of the sources in the article, the link at the top is clearly a biography provided by the subject, the first proper ref does not mention him by name at all, and the others are all entries about buildings with "Text description provided by the architects"... Looking for other stuff does not yield any convincing examples either) and
WP:NOTCV (because that is what this reads like, a CV...)
RandomCanadian (
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16:38, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I can find stuff written by this person, but not stuff written about this person that isn't autobiography. There just isn't independent sourcing for a biography available. And an account named
Archimad (
talk·contribs) writing about an architect who teaches in Madrid does suggest autobiography here as well, as does xem knowing about NCSU when it isn't mentioned in the published autobiography sourced to the company that xe hyperlinked in the article at
Special:Diff/1018288192. Delete.Uncle G (
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The result was speedy delete per
WP:SNOW. At best this is an outright hoax. At worst, someone trying to promote themselves. The argument in favor of this being a hoax is pretty strong, especially in lieu of
this article. I'm also going to give the article creator a
WP:NOTHERE block given the situation.
ReaderofthePack(formerly Tokyogirl79)
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A book is not entitled to a Wikipedia article simply because it has been assigned an ISBN. The specific criteria for notability of books are listed at
Wikipedia:Notability (books)#Criteria. These criteria are usually met by demonstrating that a book has received significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent secondary sources. An Amazon listing does not count.
DanCherek (
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15:16, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I was leaning towards deletion but the editor asked for sometime to make relevant changes. So if the editor failed to provide relevant sources then my vote will be delete.
Afzlfc (
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16:02, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Thank you for patronage !! I made all my possible efforts to not to delete page. I provided all legitimate info. and second source press releases will be updated soon!
Samadhaan (
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05:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. "Book" appears to be listed only on Amazon India (as unavailable), and cannot be found with Google, which is a poor sign. The photographs of the book on the Amazon India site have clearly been manipulated and are not of an actual book. The publisher is not a publisher, but a printer, suggesting it may be self-published. And, incidentally, the printer's website is blocked by BitDefender, which speaks ill of the entire situation. The normal hurdle that must be cleared by a book before it deserves an article is that there must be independent secondary sources writing about the book. In this case, I'm not even sure the book clears the preliminary hurdle of being a properly-published book. It was published in mid February, recent enough that it ought to be available, long enough ago that if anyone was going to write enthusiastically about it, they have had some chance to do so.
Elemimele (
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16:12, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
this book is published in February 2022 & first sale of book is finished. and coming to the lover of wikipedia, I never dare to create un necessary & un worthy stuff in wikipedia. Janapriya printers is printing press & no where address mentioned & how come you say that printer is suggesting self-published??? before making a decision try to get info from the editor right ?? I m not interested to defend to introduce good book to fight to place in wikipedia. For better visual presentation we will upload such a cover image, how can you that it is manipulated ?? you want me to upload original coverpage of the book ?? if you guys are suggesting delete, please go a head!! because wikipedia is not a business to promote. My pure intension to give good place to book, which made critical analysis on caste system. I m handing over things to the respected persons in this conversation as I want this book to be placed in wikipedia with pride, not by begging & with mercy. Thanking you.
Samadhaan (
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04:41, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
After reading
https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/man-held-for-posing-as-bureaucrat-to-dupe-people-1.65026239 and the deleted revisions at
Sampath Kumar Surappagari (author of this non-existent book) and checking out the purported newspaper at
Dainik Prayukti (purportedly published by that same person, with its address being in Karol Bagh just as IANS reported, and listed as a company in 2013 just as IANS reported; but has no news in it, and no reported existence apart from a few regurgitated press releases some years ago, and was changed to struck off on the companies register years ago too) I am upgrading this, something that I rarely do. It's not just notability. It's not even just verifiability. These all three appear to be outright hoaxes perpetrated by almost single-purpose account
Samadhaan (
talk·contribs). And the offers of dummied-up cover pages, for this non-existent book as well as the non-existent newspaper, as well as the claims that the hoaxes don't check out because somehow the WWW site isn't working, no doubt next to be given as the explanation of the fact that none of the URLs in the dummied-up newspaper pages check out and the purported newspaper WWW site otherwise has about 1 "article" (which are just regurgitated tosh with some stock images added if one reads them) per year, fit exactly the pattern of hoaxery with dummied-up false documentation reported by IANS. Strong delete.
Uncle G (
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08:26, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
In explanation of my comment on falsified images; this may be a misunderstanding on my part. Of the eight images shown on the Amazon India site, several show the book with a bar-code, several without. I took these to be the front and back cover. Looking at the versions of these pictures that show the book in perspective, one shows the edge of the book as the natural curve of the pages of a hardbound book, not as large as the covers. The other shows what I thought ought to be the spine, but which is actually just a neutral flat surface the full width of the book, which couldn't possibly be the spine of a hardbound book. On reflection I think the aim might have been to show a paperback version. I apologise if this was the case. The Amazon page does not specify whether the book is available in paperback and hardback (again a very odd situation; Amazon is usually very clear about the formats in which it sells). But in the end, this is irrelevant. From the perspective of Wikipedia, we cannot have an article about the book unless at least a couple of reliable sources have written about it independently, and no such sources appear to exist.
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Delete. Honestly, given that Forbes, Entrepreneur and other publications otherwise historically considered reputable have been called out for running paid pieces for promo for companies and individuals, I have a suspicion 99% of the sources are that. I am not definitely saying for sure, but I absolutely side with the independence concerns of
Hemantha.
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The result was Rename. As discussed and per the sources identified, the notable entity is the incinerator. The editorial work to move/rename does not require continuation of this discussion. StarMississippi19:30, 5 April 2022 (UTC)reply
It having been suggested very pointedly that I should look into this one, I've made a return trip. This is impeded by my usual topo/aerial source not going back beyond the 1970s, but what they do show in that timeframe is a string of buildings along the rails that looks nothing like a town, as they have a decidedly industrial look. Then there is a Quonset hut that sits away from the tracks, but around about 2000 they moved the siding so it now swings by this building, the others having been demolished. Searching shows lots of general references to aragonite and to the incinerator, along with a few rail-related hits and the one ghost town hit. The last talks about some building remnants, but there's nothing there that evidences ruins of residences.
Mangoe (
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04:42, 13 March 2022 (UTC)reply
That statement is a falsehood, one taken from the article (without any research, not even checking the sources cited) but a falsehood nonetheless. This article is a falsehood.
Aragonite, Utah is not a "community" nor a "ghost town". It is an
aragonite mill and mine that was at one point run by the Utah Calcium Products Company.(
Morris 1964, p. 192) harv error: no target: CITEREFMorris1964 (
help). It is in the Tooele County West Desert Hazardous Industries Area, an area selected by the County in part because it was and is unpopulated. The nearest population of any sort is 45 miles away, by design. (
GSHI 2015, p. 3) harv error: no target: CITEREFGSHI2015 (
help) This is another of the "ghost town"/"unincorporated community" falsehoods that Wikipedia has been publishing to the world, and if it weren't for the GNIS mess this would be systematic hoaxery, ghost towns and communities that do not exist and never have done.
Uncle G (
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09:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Morris, H.T. (1964). "Mineral and Water Resources of Utah: Limestone and dolomite". Bulletin. 73. United States Geological Survey.
Comment - Perhaps it is not a falsehood. According to page 368 the book, Utah An Explorer's Guide:
[27]Aragonite Ghost Town is an old mining town from the early 20th century that mined aragonite. This mine was only in operation for a few years but today the mineshafts are still open and a few bunkhouses remain, as well as an old truck. Aragonite is also near the Hastings Cutoff, part of the famous Donner Party route of the 1840s. This book was published in 2009 before the Wikipedia article was written, so it is doubtful that the WP article incited a hoax or influenced the author of the book into believing a falsehood.
Netherzone (
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Uncle GNetherzone (
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21:08, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Is not and never was a community. An entry on ghosttowns.com does not actually mean it's a ghost town, but an abandoned site.
Reywas92Talk13:49, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Rename to
Aragonite Hazardous Waste Incinerator per the new source. Delete - Not a community mostly per Uncle G's research that shows it was very likely never populated. Turning to the sources:
Utah Atlas & Gazetteer - I cannot access this source, but from what can be seen online it appears to be a map/atlas, and as such does not support notability.
Utah Ghost Towns - Self-published source, not reliable, does not state that the site was ever really populated but instead just a mine.
ARAGONITE HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATOR, UTAH - This is significant coverage... of the waste incinerator. It is also not independent of the source.
Aragonite Permit: Clean Harbors, LLC - This is about the waste incinerator, and is not independent of the source.
Utah incinerator faces penalties, Deseret News - This is the only independent, significant coverage here, but is ultimately about the waste incinerator company.
Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. to pay penalty for chemical reporting violations at Aragonite, Utah facility. US EPA - Government press-release, not independent coverage, and is about the waste incinerator.
This just confirms what Uncle G said - this place was likely never populated, just a mine and later waste-incinerator. There is some coverage of the waste-incinerator, but as a bare minimum another piece preferably from a different year in a different reliable and independent publication about it is needed to get it over GNG.
FOARP (
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14:17, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
You read the Utah's Mining Industry source backward, it says it's the place named after the mineral, but there's still no indication that an abandoned bunkhouse is really a "ghost town" or makes a notable former community.
Reywas92Talk15:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Would
this meet your
WP:HEY for the incinerator? Ultimately, I'm not terribly bothered as to whether this article is located at its current site or is relocated to
Aragonite Hazardous Waste Incinerator, though I hope that name change would not engender a stripping of the content about the geography and prior uses of the site. I am rather unpersuaded that "there is no there, there", in relation to a historical townsite (people who worked in the mines decades ago probably did not all live 45 miles away, for one thing), but if anything about the current article is genuinely inaccurate, I certainly want to correct that.
Chubbles (
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16:36, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Chubbles - I think the Salt Lake Tribune article gets this to a bare GNG pass for the incinerator. With the Deseret News piece this gets it over the line.
WP:CORP is just passed as well, since both the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News are not purely local sources (instead they're regional, maybe even state-wide), and the subject matter is not
WP:MILL. PS - the miners probably lived in a simple camp, not a permanent community. Typically they would only spend a matter of months there each year going by similarly remote mines in e.g., Canada.
FOARP (
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20:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Also just noting that I am willing to do the work to add these new sources to the article in the event of a favorable outcome.
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17:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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The result was delete. There was a rough consensus that the sources presented were not enough to make this subject meet our notability guidelines.
Modussiccandi (
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08:12, 5 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Renominating per
WP:NPASR recommendation from
User:Sandstein, as the last AFD had only one participant after three weeks.
As I stated last time, the sourcing here is horrendous. Most of it is just a personal blog, along with a few clickbait listicles about how "weird" the sheet music is and some YouTube videos of people pretending to perform it. There is an obituary cited, but obits in and of themselves are not reliable sources in the absence of anything else. (Furthermore, I could not find this particular obit anywhere else besides in the blog, so its use as a source doesn't pass muster anyway.)
The only participant in the last AFD added a clipping from the Reading Eagle, but it was written with a personally invested tone that suggests an editorial or otherwise non-journalistic coverage. A book about musicians was also added, but it only mentions Stump passingly in the context of other works.
John Stump and "Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz" have been Internet memes for ages, but there is no biographical or encyclopedic coverage to him or his work outside a few people having fun with it. Not all memes become notable. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)22:56, 13 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. The concerns in your prior nomination were reasonable, but the coverage added during it was enough to establish notability, in my opinion. Walking through the contributing sources:
Fee, Christopher R.; Webb, Jeffery B., eds. (2016). "Death Waltz". American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales: An Encyclopedia of American Folklore. Santa Barbara, California:
ABC-CLIO. pp. 297–298.
ISBN9781610695688.
This is a two-page encyclopedia entry with a joint focus on one of Stump's works and another piece that shares its name. It's hard to get a word count from Google Books, but it's several hundred words (the font is tiny), so it's clearly
WP:SIGCOV in my view.
This is an arts column reviewing one of Stump's works in a regional newspaper of record in Massachusetts. It's unquestionably SIGCOV, and I disagree that the author's casual tone means she is unable to write about Stump independently—she has no relationship to him beyond reviewing his work.
Kemper, Gary (13 February 2006).
"In Memorium: John Stump". Glendale Focus. Vol. 3, no. 2. p. 3. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
This is a reported obituary in a local magazine written by its publisher, the only complication being that he knew Stump. You write that obits in and of themselves are not reliable sources in the absence of anything else, but per the previous nomination, I believe you are confusing paid obituaries with reported ones. There's a huge difference—paid ones are supplied by the person's family and therefore don't count as independent. Reported ones absolutely do count. Regarding your being unable to find the obit independently, that is immaterial: per
WP:V, Do not reject reliable sources just because they are difficult or costly to access.
Any two of those three is sufficient, so take your pick. There's further coverage from several other sources that aren't quite SIGCOV, e.g. Gersten, Jennifer (25 September 2017).
"4 More Unplayable Works (That Were Eventually Played)". WQXR. Retrieved 28 November 2020.Beyond GNG, there's a case under
WP:ANYBIO #2. I agree with you that not all memes become notable, but a satirical work that's persisted for 40 years has a much greater claim to cultural significance than the latest internet fad—Stump composed what is likely the most prominent example of satirical sheet music of all time. I don't think we could justify pages about both Stump and Faerie's Aire, but we have enough for one, and it makes sense to have it located at Stump given that he's the broader topic. {{u|Sdkb}}talk01:26, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Sdkb: I don't need your filibuster. I just explained why the sources aren't legit. The encyclopedia is only a passing mention. The Reading Eagle article is an editorial with a personally invested tone. And the obituary only seems to exist on that one blog post, because I can't find it anywhere else online. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?)01:32, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Subject fails GNG, NBAND, and ANYBIO. There's a case to be made that Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz passes GNG but Stump certainly does not. Chris Troutman (
talk)18:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Could you speak to whether or not you found the encyclopedia entry to contribute to notability? Based on my OCR scan, it's approximately 930 words, split equally between Stump and the folktale, which is clear SIGCOV. I would be willing to restructure the article around Faerie's Aire as an
ATD, but per the
WP:BROADCONCEPT guideline, I think the current structure is better. I note that, per
WP:NBIO, reviews or coverage of a person's work (the Gordon piece being a quintessential example) count toward notability for the person. {{u|Sdkb}}talk20:47, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Google books doesn't provide much of a preview but I don't see SIGCOV for Stump, only for Death Waltz. I think the outcome of this discussion needs to be deletion, regardless of any future effort to restructure the piece. Both articles about this subject and Death Waltz already resulted in deletion, so it might be un-wise to try again right now; maybe in another decade better sources will exist, per
WP:NODEADLINE. Chris Troutman (
talk)21:19, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
If you haven't yet been able to access the full Encyclopedia of American Folklore entry, it may have been premature for you to !vote. Per above, coverage of Death Waltz counts for Stump: The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work. ... In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of ... multiple independent periodical articles or reviews. The first two sources I provided count as such coverage. I guess you could try to make an
IAR case that that's not enough, but Stump's enduring popularity makes me inclined to be generous rather than stringent in interpreting guidance here—there has been enough coverage to write a fully sourced medium-length biography page, and it serves readers better to keep it than to delete it. {{u|Sdkb}}talk22:47, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete - I've looked at the sources as noted; the obits all seem to be based from or refer to the one by the subject's nephew, which lean into primary sources, I believe. In re the newspaper arts column, I think it would be stronger were it in a larger newspaper, and not a small regional daily. I just don't think any of these really cut it to establish notability. There may be something that could be done with the Death Waltz, potentially, if there is any scholarly review of the piece that has emerged or does emerge, but right now, this doesn't make it for me.
Tony Fox(arf!)00:45, 21 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete The page on the encyclopedia is
here and the section is titled Death Waltz. I don't believe it's adds anything for GNG purposes for the person, rather for the work. The other references have already been discussed. An article of the work might be more notable. - LCU ActivelyDisinterested∆
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"While notability itself is not temporary, from time to time a reassessment of the evidence of notability or suitability of existing articles may be requested by any user via a
deletion discussion, or new evidence may arise for articles previously deemed unsuitable."
He was considered "notable" because he met WP:NMMA guidelines, which allows pages to be created in hopes that GNG will be met. When a fighter or athlete retires we need to review the page, and if it doesn't meet GNG we delete the page.
♡RAFAEL♡(
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Delete - Fails
WP:SPORTBASIC due to lack of significant coverage. Although the article goes beyond stub length, it's mostly just statistics written out as prose.
WP:NMMA tells us that "significant coverage is likely to exist" however none has actually been found. –
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The result was delete. The "delete" argument is that this article makes scientific claims not supported by reliable academic sources. The "keep" argument is that while that may be so, the claims have been reported in reliable sources. I'm inclined to give the "keep" opinions a bit more weight (we do cover notable pseudoscience), but the "delete" arguments are not baseless, and the "delete" opinions are much more numerous. Sandstein 20:13, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
See
Talk:Mount Ebal - there has been no peer review for this yet and if you read
[32] it's clear that virtually everything about it is or will be challenged including the language, date, inscriptions, etc. Note that it was found in Canaan before the creation of Israel, that it was found without any context by a Creationist.
WP:NOTNEWS applies and this sort of extraordinary archaeological claim should not be based on media reports. The fact of the media reports is IMHO not sufficient reason for an article or even its mention in other articles. Also note that at the date claimed that the inscription would not have been about the Jewish God but about the deity
Yahweh, who became one of the gods worshiped by the early Israelites before they became monotheistic.
Doug Wellertalk10:37, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:06, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The article you cite is prima facie evidence that Haaretz is not a reliable source for such matters. The problem of conducting science by press release is well-known, and in this case it looks like Haaretz has been hoodwinked. It isn't the first time.
jps (
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12:04, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:06, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:06, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep What exactly are the grounds for deletion? The lengthy blog post by
Christopher Rollston which Doug has very helpfully produced surely, along with the respectable Israeli press stories, disposes of any claim of non-notability or
WP:SENSATION. Rollston is exactly the right sort of specialist RS one wants in this field, and should be the main source. The press stories are actually not bad in clearly indicating there will be controversy over this when the thing is published. It has indeed not yet received a proper academic paper, but when it does, we can be sure it will be back, generating plenty of RS even if the the claims are adjusted/discounted by most. Even if it were a hoax (which no one has yet suggested) it would probably become notable.
jps's gutting of the article, while at Afd, and introducing a mispelling of Stripling's name, is most unhelpful, & I have reverted it.
Johnbod (
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12:29, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Rollston + 2 longish press stories = notability, imo, even if the basic facts/conclusions are not firmly established (as for very many subjects from similar dates).
Johnbod (
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13:00, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
If basic facts are not "firmly" established, how do you write an article? I'm happy to consider an example of how to write an article based on a blogpost and a few shoddily done press-releases-cum-articles, but in my experience this is just not something that I've ever seen competently executed.
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13:41, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Per Conclusion at talk page of Mount Ebal. Since usage of the "LOL" and the term "worse" on Jpost. As if something over here is "bad." And googling who ... is active here... 1. Fanacism and extremism are not limited to one side. 2. An indirect admission that the objection is motivated by one political side and not a moderate one at that.
Truth3v3r (
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12:57, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Extraordinary claims require extraordinary sources. The notability of the object is dependent on the sensationalist interpretation of ambiguous material as reported by non-academic sources. -
Donald Albury13:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Delete without prejudice against recreation at a later date when sourcing is actually, well, there. Sensationalist near-
churnalism plus a blog post trying to hold back said sensationalism are not a good foundation to build an article upon.
XOR'easter (
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17:16, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:11, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete as others have said, for now. Per the above, the extraordinary claims being made in association with this tablet require vetting beyond that done by the general media. I don't think Wikipedia will be harmed by waiting for better sources, while I think it could be if we print huge claims which are later retracted. As ever, reasonable minds may differ on the question. Cheers.
Dumuzid (
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19:25, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
None of the properly "extraordinary claims" have ever been mentioned in the article; Rowland does not seem to see the claims the article actually mentions as very far-fetched, though properly scholarly process is needed.
Johnbod (
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20:32, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I am betraying my nerdish side a bit much, but even the claim of the earliest usage of the
tetragrammaton strikes me as pretty extraordinary. But, as I said, reasonable people can reach very different conclusions on this. Cheers.
Dumuzid (
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21:49, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Actually not that sensationalist; the term is older and was found in Egyptians inscriptions : The oldest plausible occurrence of Yahweh is in the phrase "Shasu of Yhw" (Egyptian: 𓇌𓉔𓍯𓅱 yhwꜣw) in an Egyptian inscription from the time of Amenhotep III (1402–1363 BCE). The fact that it appears 150-200 years later in Hebrew inscriptions does not change the timeline of the existence of the term; just that Israelites adopted the term from Shasu earlier than previously documented. Considering that both Shasu tribes and Israelites are from the Levantine region, it seems reasonable that cultural diffusion could occur between the two groups especially during the chaos of the bronze age collapse.
Patrick.N.L (
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07:19, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
We're getting into quite a can of worms here! And though I generally agree with you, the relationship (or perhaps identification?) of the Shasu and the Israelites is a fraught problem at best. It would still strike me as remarkable if, indeed, the tetragrammaton itself were verified on this item (as distinct from cognates, related terms, etc.) That said, I understand both your position on why the article should be kept and why the claims are not sensationalist: I just come down slightly differently on both. Have a nice day.
Dumuzid (
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12:47, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Reliable source argument is not relevant as Haaretz newspaper are reliable sources :
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources . The article is not a blog, and so it is properly sourced. There are plenty of articles with sources from newspaper articles without any peer-reviewed scientific articles; the discovery of an item can have a wikipedia page at its announcement.
Patrick.N.L (
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20:53, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Please take note of what
Wikipedia:Reliable sources has to say regarding the use of newspapers etc s academic sources: "Scholarly sources and high-quality non-scholarly sources are generally better than news reports for academic topics". Archaeology is unquestionably an academic topic, and not one on which Haaretz (or any other general newspaper) is likely to have much expertise. And if one were to ignore that, and nevertheless take Haaretz content as reliable, the source would have to be used in a balanced manner: making it very clear that they are reporting Stripling's claims as claims, rather than fact, and noting the doubts raised by the experts they consulted.
AndyTheGrump (
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21:27, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"Reliable non-academic sources may also be used in articles about scholarly issues, particularly material from high-quality mainstream publications." Haaretz is a reliable mainstream publication.
Patrick.N.L (
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06:54, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
If you want to claim it is reliable for this material, you need to explain why it wasn't also cited for its reporting regarding the 'scholarly issues' raised by the qualified scholars it consulted regarding Stripling's claims.
AndyTheGrump (
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10:38, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I don't understand your comment? That Haaretz was cited by who? Can you make your point clearer? Haaretz is considered a reliable source by wikipedia list of sources. I don't understand how not citing something suddenly makes Haaretz not a reliable source.
Patrick.N.L (
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05:27, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Cite in the Wikipedia article for the issues raised by scholars responding to Stripling. The article fails to note any of that. And please read
WP:RS. There is no such thing as an abstract 'reliable source': Haaretz can be used for general news reporting, but nothing suggests that it has any specific expertise on archaeological subjects. For such matters we need sources with appropriate expertise, rather than ones merely repeating unverified claims.
AndyTheGrump (
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06:18, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
You want me to cite in the wiki article the issues raised by scholars; i have no problem with that also we could cite the fact that no research paper exists yet; which gives some context.
Do you have an article or a source that discusses, summarize or points out one or more of those issues. I was looking for it.
I agree Haaretz has no expertise on archeological studies, but it can still report a press conference on an archeological find where scientists from 5 different academic/research institutions have worked on. For example, no scientific article exist for the
apollo of gaza but just the fact of its discovery and the reporting by mainstream media is enough to make a Wikipedia article on it : "To their great frustration, archaeologists have not been able to get their hands on the Apollo, and instead must pore over a few blurred photographs of the intact deity"
I don't see why the discovery and announcement of the tablet in mainstream media, which scientists from USA, Israel and Czech republic have analyzed (and many from non-religious institutions), cannot be treated as a possible discovery but the Apollo of Gaza, which has not been analyzed by scientists, can have its page.
Patrick.N.L (
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06:53, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment I see that a peer reviewed article is planned for later this year.
[33] The team that will produce the peer reviewed report includes Peter Van der Veen, who seems to be a follower of
David Rohl's chronology.
[34].
Doug Wellertalk07:39, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. The lead archaeologist is Scott Stripling. He received his PhD from Veritas International University, which "has an evangelical doctrinal statement that emphasizes 'three legs' of biblical authority: inspiration, infallibility, and biblical inerrancy". See
[35]. A starting point of biblical inerrancy does not give confidence that he is looking at the evidence impartially.
Dudley Miles (
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09:10, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I confess, I has the same thought -- especially as that last letter bears a striking resemblance to modern tsade. ButI have not the foggiest what or who "lahatz" might be! As my days of intensive epigraphy are behind me, I will wait for more expert opinions. Cheers, and thanks for bringing this up!
Dumuzid (
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19:49, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I am nowhere near being competent but after review; it seems the translators considered the leftmost letters to be yud, the middle one being heh a praising man and the last one a vav; taken from this source
https://omniglot.com/writing/protosinaitc.htm; which is not even the tetragammaton really but maybe in the context of cursed by god YHW, it is not a far stretch.
Patrick.N.L (
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05:19, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The table in omniglot.com to which you referred above shows clearly that in the photo published by the researchers, the leftmost letter is Sad, the middle letter is Haw and the rightmost is Lamed, spelling Ts-H-L - not Y-H-W.
איתמראשפר (
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02:10, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
What you are looking at is a drawing by one of the protagonists, not a photo. When the actual scans are published, there will be expert challenges to the accuracy and meaning of the drawings, you will see.
Zerotalk03:09, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete until there is more expert information available. After a paper is published and the experts have had their say on it, it will make a fine article.
Zerotalk05:33, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The correct way forward is to mention the claim plus doubts very briefly (two sentences max), at
Mount Ebal, then to write a separate article if and when enough verifiable information becomes available. This article is premature at the moment.
Zerotalk03:31, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
The 'scholarly arguments' appear to consist almost entirely of suggestions that the claims made in the newspaper stories aren't properly supported by evidence. Which in Wikipedia's terms means that the newspapers stories aren't reliable sources...
AndyTheGrump (
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15:44, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes, for me, the "argument" thus far is an indication that there will almost certainly be an article at some point. I am just not sure why we would rush to include this; there will undoubtedly be better scholarly sources in (relatively!) short order. I am of the opinion that we should wait for the subject to be more fully developed, but as ever, I am mindful that others may reach the contrary conclusion in complete good faith. Cheers.
Dumuzid (
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16:02, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Having watched the press conference, we should exercise EXTREME caution. These guys' soupçon of credibility should be buried under an impermeable layer of salt until they publish or at least release full scans. The one drawing they've released is not exactly encouraging (the he is ok but the yod and waw need, uh, imagination) and they're an ideological organization by design. I hope it's real -- would be an amazing contribution to our understanding of a hundred other things -- but it doesn't yet deserve a page or even a mention on wiki.
GordonGlottal (
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16:54, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete or Draftify The article is simply not ready, as no quality sources yet exist. We can quickly resurrect it once a formal publication is made, assuming it gets there.
Onceinawhile (
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09:31, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep. Most of the argument seems to be about whether it's authentic. News sources aren't credible sources as to authenticity, except to the extent that they quote credible sources. But even if it turns out to be a hoax, which is entirely possible, it's newsworthy because it might be authentic, and is being analyzed or debated by scholars. An obvious hoax that appears and vanishes in an instant with little publicity might be non-notable. A widely publicized "find" that requires scholarly analysis to authenticate or refute is likely notable, whether or not it proves to be authentic, and a newspaper is perfectly competent to report about that. Hoaxes can be notable too!
P Aculeius (
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17:11, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
It's probably not a hoax. It's a pretty interesting artifact that opportunists are trying to advertise as the sort of massive find that gets a wiki page, with no evidence whatsoever. The bar to getting sensational news coverage of an unexceptional find through misleading press releases is so low that we can't rely on normal sources. We don't want an encyclopedia that you can get your artifact into just by making wild claims and never having to substantiate them. This literally happens dozens of times a year, but most people only see a couple of examples so they aren't disillusioned as anyone who reads them all would be.
GordonGlottal (
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03:41, 3 April 2022 (UTC)reply
A good parallel is the Voynich MS page -- there's a viral story about a decipherment claim in RS every few months but none of them are ever substantiated so the page editors have restricted the wiki page to peer-reviewed publication. We should use the same standard for any susceptible area and biblical archaeology certainly qualifies.
GordonGlottal (
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03:45, 3 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete; yet another "sensational" find; talking about making a mountain out of a molehill. Where to start? First, note that this "find" were made by
Associates for Biblical Research, a group associated with several dubious claims (eg about the walls of Jericho); the "find" was made public at a press conferance at
Lanier Theological Library. These are groups dedicated to "proving" the historicity of the Bible.
As Rollston writes in his blog (linked in the deletion request): "But it’s worth looking even more at some of the dramatic claims. Stripling stated that: “One can no longer argue with a straight face that the Biblical text was not written until the
Persian Period or the
Hellenistic Period, as many higher critics have done when we clearly do have the ability to write the entire text [of the Bible] at a much, much earlier date.”Galil makes the same basic statement: “No one can claim the Bible was written in later periods, the
Persian Period or the
Hellenistic Period.” ...this is based on... four words! Rollston: "But to say that based on those four words or roots that somebody could write the whole Bible….well, that’s a bridge (way) too far for me. After all, there are 8500+ words in the Hebrew Bible",
Sensational claims based on the flimsiest of evidence are 13 to the dozen in the field of "Biblical archeology"; until peer-reviewed articles appear: delete, delete, delete.
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Delete: Does not appear to meet
WP:GNG, does not seem to have reliable sources suggesting that it satisfies any of the
WP:NSONG criteria. Cannot find any reliable sources covering the subject so I don't think a merge would help here
Justiyaya09:17, 14 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - I was able to find a few sources separate from album reviews. And I am sure there are others since (1) my Kinks' library is not very extensive, (2) one of the sources I added makes reference to contemporary reviews of the single, (3) the oldest book here is from 1998; it seems unlikely that nothing was written about it for its first 23 years of existence and then several books showed up since, and (4) The index to
Johnny Rogan's Ray Davies biography, which I found on Google Books, shows multiple pages addressing the song, although I can't see those pages to see how significant the coverage is. In any case, even if not kept, the sourced information should be merged to the album article, but this is not ideal since this was released as a single and there is coverage in multiple sources (and at over 500 words almost fully sourced it wouldn't really fit into the album article).
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Comment I'll look for coverage of him in Variety, etc., in a few days if I can find time. He seems to be more significant on the stage than on film.
DiamondRemley39 (
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21:51, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Romance Goes With Comedic Floe in SCR's 'Green Icebergs': Captivating work by Newport Beach's Cecilia Fannon revolves around the foibles of two O.C. couples. DON SHIRLEY. Los Angeles, Times. 24 Oct 1994: OCF1.
'Night' Delivers Unfocused Message on TV's Influence. RICHARD STAYTON. Los Angeles Times. 07 Mar 1994: OCF1.
'Heidi' Ho-Hum: Wasserstein's Clever but Thin Morality Play. Lloyd Rose. The Washington Post. 22 Mar 1991: F3.
Keep notable as a theatre actor. Coverage in major papers, including Los Angeles Times. I'll look for more coverage in a few days and Ill incorporate all this I posted eventually.
DiamondRemley39 (
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23:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep notable for his theatre roles and maybe for his Search for Tomorrow as well. He had two different write ups in the LA Times about his theatre work as well as one paper from the area he grew up in. Meets the GNG and the refs are more than enough to improve on the article.
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No notability except for being her father's daughter, and a possible claimant to the currently non-existing throne of Romania. Most sources currently in the article are self-published by the subject's family. Third-party sources only refer to her among her father's daughters. Her publications (a children's book and some photography albums) are rather unimportant and don't appear to have received any significant coverage outside her family. Desired outcome is merging salvageable info into
Michael I of Romania#Family or
Romanian royal family#Descendants of King Michael.
Anonimu (
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08:26, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete deposed monarchy cruft. She was born 10 years after the throne was abolished. Even with children of monarchs in power, not every child is for certain notable, but clearly those born after a monarch looses power need actual good sourcing to show notability which we do not have here.
John Pack Lambert (
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15:18, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Given it's an expansion of the policyWP:IAR, it is! I realise a lot of editors are made uncomfortable by IAR, as they like rules, but the fact remains that it is a policy. --
Necrothesp (
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07:30, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
What are we considering royalty here? Reigning royal houses? If that's the case, she's somewhat self-proclaimed given she was born a decade after the monarchy was abolished. Not sure on what basis anyone would argue children of former monarchs get a free notability pass.
AusLondonder (
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15:32, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Note that her family is still acknowledged as the royal family of Romania by the Romanian government even though there is not currently a monarch. So I don't think you could describe has as "self-proclaimed royalty" in any way. --
Necrothesp (
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15:58, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
No it isn't. There was a proposal some years ago but it was abandoned before becoming law. The eldest daughter of the former King has some notability of her own and gets invited on some semi-official occasions, but that can't be said for her sisters, including the subject of the AfD. Compare the self-proclaimed royalty of the Roma (there are two main "dynasties" currently in Romania), which also get to participate in some semi-official occasions at times.
Anonimu (
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16:10, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete The only claim made to notability isn't even NOTINHERITED, as her father no longer occupied the supposedly-qualifying circumstance at the time of her birth. The whole COMMONSENSE argument basically amounts to 'they are notable because I want them to be', which lands firmly among the arguments not to use in such discussions.
Agricolae (
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18:25, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete Having read the discussion above, the argument to keep is pretty clearly non-existent and basically ILIKEIT because she's "ROYAL". Well I'm going to be quite bold here and say I don't think children of former monarchs born after the abolition of the monarchy get a free pass on notability.
AusLondonder (
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23:20, 30 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. As others have mentioned, no solid evidence of notability, not to mention indivisuals of royal families doesn't mean "significant" unless they have done or existed in a notable way (such as great notable contribution to society), other than that, no solid evidence of notability. --
K.G (
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14:11, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Personally, I tend to agree with you,
Karl Gustavo. But I'd guess that only a tiny percentage of "individuals of royal families" have made notable contributions to society or similar; and yet loads of them get articles. (I think you've confused Wikipedia-defined "notability", which is close to mere celebrity, with actual noteworthiness.) However, the Romanian monarchy ceased to exist before this person was even born, so she's hardly an individual of a royal family; and she doesn't seem to have achieved (?) celebrity. --
Hoary (
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23:08, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Wikkipedia has a lot of articles that do not meet our inclusion criteria. We do not require people to have done anyrthing per se to get articles though. We just require them to be covered in multiple reliable sources that provide indepth coverage. Whether all the articles we have on members of royal families meet this criteria I am less than sure. We clearly still have some work to weed out deposed royal family cruft. People who are actual reighning morarchs are notable, but exactly which family members are notable beyond that to some extent depends on sourcing.
John Pack Lambert (
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12:30, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
We do need to be able to say more in the article than just who their family members were. We need to be able to say substantive things about the person's own actions. However that is not the same as their actions themselves actually having been anything over than reported. To pick someone almost at random
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll probably has more sources than almost any article, so the article is clearly justified. With Louis XIV we only have articles on three of his six legitimate children, but the other three all died the year they were born. On the other hand we have
Marie Thérèse of France (1667–1672) which basically tells us 1-that her mother wanted her to become queen of Spain, 2-what people called her and 3-that she died of consumption. I am really struggling to see how this article is justified.
John Pack Lambert (
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12:38, 1 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete. Does not meet GNG, and that should be the end of the discussion. Notability is not inherited, no matter what royalty fans claim.
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Article lacks neutrality, rarely gets edited, adds very little information to Wikipedia beyond the pages it already links to, and has been a stub for a very long time with very little substance to build off of to improve it.
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Borderline G11, very obviously derived from marketing copy with little editing to make it encyclopedic (not a CV - OTRS permission on talk page). The thing is, I can't find any independent coverage of the subject. All the sources are primary, including his own website, press releases, and youtube. I found nothing substantively about him on a search. The shows don't appear to be notable either, so redirecting as
WP:ATD isn't in the cards. ♠
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Nobleman with no inherent notability, fails
WP:BIO. Never sat in the House of Lords (he inherited the title in 2000, one year after the
House of Lords Act 1999) so can't qualify for
WP:NPOL either. The two peerage websites in the article are deprecated per
WP:RSP, and Google News only returns a
passing mention for 1998, the year before his father lost his seat in the House of Lords. Previous AfD ended as no consensus in 2014.
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Delete — I agree with
Spiderone. AGF on the article creator who perhaps may be oblivious of what Wikipedia is WP:NOT, this is a promotional piece on a non notable entity. Celestina007 (
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Speedy Delete per G4. Salt this title. Also block the creator for using IPs to remove the speedy deletion and later the deletion template.
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Fails
WP:NCORP. Among the current sources are a reddit post, a google support page, the website for the marketing firm, a blogpost by a violinist, a source that doesn't mention the name except to thank them for a location, an article from a low-quality source describing an album release, and the company's website. I can't find anything searching Google that indicates that the marketing firm meets
WP:ORGCRIT, so I propose it be deleted. —
Mhawk10 (
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04:44, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
It also has sources from news and government websites, which indicate high-quality data and notability of company and meets
WP:NCORP. I suggest this article should not be deleted. but, paragraphs that refer to low credibility sources should be removed immediately.
Sahilaim (
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05:10, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
delete SPEEDY. Per nom. No coverage that demonstrates notability. Also hints at being written as a hit piece, and the content is so low quality it would have to be
WP:NUKEIT anyhow. Sahilaim, that link to the government website just shows the incorporation exists and nothing else. One source is a passing mention, and one is a press release. Only one source is actually about the subject and it's an industry magazine which isn't significant coverage.
Ironmatic1 (
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05:16, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
No. Please take a look at
WP:General notability guideline, passing mentions in other Wikipedia articles does not show notability. By the way, it's polite to disclose that you are the creator of the article. I suggest that next time you create an article that you submit it through
WP:Articles for Creation. Also, I see that the article is almost completely blanked now.
Ironmatic1 (
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06:40, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: fails
WP:NCORP, no coverage outside the company's own social media channels. I also note that Sahil Aim is the name of a DJ who has released music through this record label, so there may be a conflict of interest here.
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12:51, 4 April 2022 (UTC)reply
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Keep I made some improvements to the article before writing this. She produced
Gasland and
How to Let Go of the World which were the subject of reviews by Variety and New York Times and therefore she meets criteria 3 of
WP:CREATIVE. while this article deserved to be deleted at the point of nominations, I think it is now proving her notability.
CT55555 (
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00:40, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete There are 4 sources in article. First one is not a RS and it seems to be like a profile page. In second link, there is not even one mention of the subject! I couldn't load third source but according to the domain of website, its an interview. In last source we can just see a mention of the subject one time that is not significant coverage!
Brian O'Conner22:53, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Source 1 - fair
Source 2 - It exists to prove that the film she produced is notable, which is how we measure the notability of creative professionals
Source 3 - It seems very unfair to discount it just because you can't open it, maybe you should abstain from voting if you cannot access the websites that prove notability?
Comment via ProQuest, there is also: "I know you are worried about fracking over in Scotland. Well, you should be worried: TEXAS FAMILY DEVASTATED BY GAS EXTRACTION WARN SCOTS OF HEALTH RISKS" (Sunday Mail, 2015) (essentially reprinted in
The Daily Record) which includes more than quotes from her when discussing Gasland II. In 2013, the
AP reports on Gasland II (and in 2022, "
Criminal charges against 'Gasland' driller head to court" via ABCNews). Via Proquest, there is also "THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT" in TheatreForum (not independent, by Josh Fox, 2005) that confirms an acting role.
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The result was history merger done. This was a history merger, which is not really an AFD matter although it does require the use of the administrator deletion tool. The article is back at its location in draft space with the full edit history, with no prejudice to the decision on whether it belongs there or not. I did not even adjust "Railway Station" to "railway stations". ☺
Uncle G (
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07:07, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
This is a little unconventional as I'm not asking for outright deletion; however, the creator of the page indicates that "This is a work in progress". I had moved
Draft:List of Railway Station in the United States from article space to draftspace per
WP:DRAFTIFY, since it appeared that the page was not yet ready for mainspace. That draft is basically the same as the current mainspace page; both have no citations. I also left a note for the page's author encouraging them to add citations to the page.
As I was moving the first page to draftspace, it seems the creator of the original draft edited this page again. Since the page had already been moved, they posted their edit to the actual mainspace page, effectively creating two duplicate pages. I am asking that the mainspace page be deleted only because a draft with the same content already exists, not because of any content-related concerns. The creator has indicated they're still working on the list, so it should be hosted in draftspace, not mainspace.
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02:57, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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As per
WP:GNG, the article
Horlivka offensive does not seem important enough to require its own page, due to the lack of news surrounding the subject and the lack of any new information on the "battle" as all relevant news articles are over 20 days old. I would suggest either deletion or a possible merge into
Eastern Ukraine offensive should anyone deem this important enough to remain mentionable.
Arakui (
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02:32, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: Beat me to it, I had been prepping to merge this page. However, this page is entirely sourced to unverified and unsubstantiated claims by the Uke government, which is why I'm leaning towards outright deletion more than merging. I'm skeptical there is anything of value or verifiability to merge.
Curbon7 (
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22:34, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete there are no sources to prove that this "counteroffensive" is real, the only sources listed in the article are all owned by the Ukrainian government or have their citations as posts from twitter/facebook. It's similar to the Kruty skirmishes article, where the only sources available were also only the Ukrainian (government) ones. -
Amuuun (
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08:56, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete: Seems the battle itself is a fabrication by some second rate Ukrainian sources. No mentions of a "Battle" raging on until now or before. Fails
WP:GNG.
Mr.User200 (
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23:49, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
"The Kruty Territorial Council later claimed that nearly 200 Russian soldiers were killed in clashes with Ukrainian armed forces and the Territorial Defense Forces in their village of Kruty, located in Chernihiv Oblast" ???
Dawsongfg (
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02:47, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Yes. The Kruty skirmishes article covered a series of alleged drone stikes (and maybe ambushes? i can't fully recall.) on russian convoy routes in the Kruty area, not the alleged fighting within Kruty mentioned in the aforementioned
Northeastern Ukraine offensive article. Now that i think about it, skirmishes isnt even an accurate term for what that article claimed to cover. Regardless, it was deleted because of
WP:GNG and due to its only sources being UKR state media (and facebook posts), much like this article.
Arakui (
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22:49, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete or Merge. There doesn't appear to be anything to this offensive besides some statements by Ukrainian officials, with no significant troop movements behind it or notable events to the supposed offensive. --
1234567891011a (
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21:37, 31 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete, no evidence that anything actually happened beyond announcements. Doesn't really merit a mention on the offensive article.
ansh.
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Questionable notability at best. The article is hideously laden with
WP:FANCRUFT detailing every last moment of every last person to appear on the show. It's also got a heavy case of
WP:REFBOMB:
Rundown of the sources
1. TV Guide listing
2, 4, 75, 76, 86-88. CMT's website
3. Deadline.com, mentioning it tangentially in a press release that also name-drops several other shows
5. "Renew Cancel TV", a blog with no evidence of editorial oversight
32, 35-37, 39, 41, 42. YouTube videos from the Dallas Cowboys
38. A podcast
40, 45-52, 74. Facebook
43, 63. A sketchy looking cheerleader news site with no evidence of editorial oversight
44, 89. Dead link
53, 68. Twitter
54, 55. News articles about a cheerleader on the show being involved in a lawsuit. These do not mention the show at all.
56. Dead link to a personal blog
59. NFL official website
60, 62, 64, 65. 71, 84, 90-93. News coverage on an individual, which does not mention the show at all
61. Dating profile (?!?)
69, 70, 85. Biographies on personal/business websites
72. Genealogy website
94. Broken link which seems to be an attempt to hotlink an image
A search for sources found a ton of social media profiles and YouTube videos pertaining to the show, but the closest thing I could find to a reliable source was
this interview about the show coming back after COVID put it on hiatus.
The only sources on Google News that I could find were things like
this or
this. In otherwords, local newspapers writing human interest articles on local people getting their 15 minutes of fame on the show, which do not cover the show to any degree of substance. I was also on TV and had the local papers write about me; that does not make me notable. Other sources on Google News are just "how to watch this show online" or "best shows about X" listicles. I was unable to find anything more substantial.
Keep We're not deleting a seventeen-season reality series about one of the world's most prominent professional cheerleading squads. It does need a good cull of reality cruft for sure but...
WP:SOFIXIT. Nate•(
chatter)03:09, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep I have to agree with Nate above--Notability is not the issue here. Editing and content? Sure, needs tons of work. But a simple Google Search (and even a more restrictive Google News search) turns up a lot of details. There's no real reason to delete this article. There is every reason to clean it up.--
Paul McDonald (
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14:31, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Why are you even having this discussion, OP? Your idea of "notability" is "If I've never heard about this, then it's not notable". That's not how notability works. At all.
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16:27, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
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List with no clearly defined criteria for inclusion. This was originally created as
List of extant animal genera represented in the fossil record , and was moved to the current title (without discussion) with the rationale that entries were "at least 70% mollusks". The mover made no effort to remove non-mollusks.
Several editors (including myself) have made dozens of edits trying to clean up the list. There remain many entries point to the wrong topic and require disambiguation. There remain many non-molluscs.
I don't think "List of extant animal genera represented in the fossil record" is a manageable topic for a list. Humans continue to discover fossil members of extant genera. Constant maintenance of a list of extant animals also known from fossils would be needed (and it hasn't received necessary maintenance under either of its titles). This was never a "list of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record", as it includes non-molluscs and (under the original title) excludes molluscs known only from fossils.
Plantdrew (
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00:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Is there some subset of this list that would make sense to keep, if appropriately sourced? There are a lot of blue links, and presuming that the non-molluscs can be parsed out, to me this would not be a valueless proposition.
BD2412T00:56, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
*Draftify Currently this list is a pile, which is explained by its origin (as noted above). I agree that the original "List of extant animal genera represented in the fossil record" is not really manageable. In contrast, both "List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record" and "List of extant molluscan genera represented in the fossil record" would seem doable, but currently the list is neither. And this is what, 8000 entries? Can't leave that in mainspace for incremental purging - it's plain misleading, and will be for a long while. If a correctly curated list with a more narrow ambit is to be made of it, that should be done in draft. If there's no appetite for that, then delete. --Elmidae (
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08:22, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
About-turn - formulating the actual functional premise of this list (below) makes me realize that this would be an artifical make-work construct, requiring constant updating with no sensible payoff. Delete. --Elmidae (
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09:36, 29 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Well personally I'd think this should be deleted as far too big to be maintainable, but if Draftify is the preferred route then I'll go along with that. If consensus moves towards delete then please count me in that group.
Chiswick Chap (
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14:06, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
Comment. Am I misunderstanding, or wouldn't all known molluscan genera be represented in the fossil record -- including the ones that are still extant and have living species alive today? --
Metropolitan90(talk)18:54, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I'd considered revising my nomination to make a similar point. Extant taxa have an evolutionary history. We haven't discovered fossilized representatives of all known extant taxa, but there is no reason to think that the fossils don't exist. We just haven't discovered them yet; I'd say it isn't likely that we will ever discover fossils of ALL extant taxa, but it isn't inherently impossible. Some animals are more likely to be fossilized than others; jellyfish don't fossilize well, animals with hard body parts fossilize well. Molluscs fossilize exceptionally well (hard shells, many live in water which helps preserve them after death); this probably explains why the initial list was so heavily slanted towards molluscs.
Plantdrew (
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19:43, 28 March 2022 (UTC)reply
I guess so - so this would be a kind of running tally of "which genera that we know should be in the fossil record have we actually found as specimens". - I'll admit that when written out like this, it sounds like a rather risible undertaking. Huh. --Elmidae (
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