Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Hawkins

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 23:54, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Adam Hawkins

Tagged as an nn-bio speedy, but it has a claim of notability of sorts (whether it's true is another matter) no vote. --Doc (?) 16:11, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Please beware, this afd has been subject to vote tampering. --Doc (?) 21:51, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, Google doesn't seem very interested in him. From what I can see, a non-notable actor. --Ashenai (talk) 16:16, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity. Friday (talk) 16:27, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete (pref. speedy, I flagged such as the "mayor emeritus of centrewhatever" is patently false w/ 0 google hits) — Lomn | Talk / RfC 17:29, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Not speediable, by my reading of the WP:CSD. There is some kind of assertion of notability here. It may well be false, but it is not 'patently false' (on the level of 'is the King of Europe') - it requires some research, and the place for that is here. --Doc (?) 17:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, evidence has not been provided for the claims in the article. --Metropolitan90 18:49, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This is actually speedyable as patent nonsense: there is no such place as "Forestnbushes, Ontario", and there is no such institution as "Low-Grade Carleton University"; both of those are sarcastic putdowns of the actual locations. This part is skirting the edge of reading like an attack: "He admires the wonders of communism and collectivism and at the same time he refuses to give up his pro-capitalism job at the second largest national bank or to move to a country that supports such ideology." I suppose it's possible that Deep River has Canada's only unionized Scotiabank, but it's not easily verifiable. I'll let the Ottawa contingent weigh in on whether there's any such thing as "Mayor Emeritus of Centretown", but I find it hard to believe that anyone needs Centretown News to explain that Centretown has a large LGBT community; Wikipedia's own Bank Street article does that just fine. Bearcat 19:11, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, the article is rubbish, and should be deleted. But it is not even close to the patent nonsense criterion (and I'm not adverse to interpreting CSD fairly liberaly). Is this article one of no meaningful content or history, text unsalvageably incoherent (e.g., random characters)? No! 'Patent' means 'blindingly obvious' - not 'obvious to somone with some knowledge of the subject/area' or 'obvious after a little googling'. (And attack criteron requires short articles that serve no purpose but to disparage their subject, it is hardly that. --Doc (?) 21:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Well, I'd consider it blindingly obvious that no Canadian university has "Low-Grade" in its name, but YMMV, I suppose. Bearcat 23:22, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, article is of zero value whatsoever. Mayor emeritus of Centretown? Please. Looks to me like he wrote it himself. -Joshuapaquin 01:02, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, looks like content was tampered with, have done modifications

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.