Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albert Barger

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The result was delete. Mailer Diablo 15:23, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Albert Barger

Tagged for cleanup since December 2005, this blogger article shows telltale signs of vanity, and only manages 802 Google hits whereas most other American bloggers on the low end of the spectrum pull in at least 10,000. As usual, if you feel that I've made a horrible mistake in this nomination, please say so here or drop me a note on my talk page. RFerreira 00:33, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete for very low Ghits, nn--Jusjih 01:12, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn also-ran AdamBiswanger1 01:31, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. ~ trialsanderrors 01:55, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 04:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:BIO, non-notable. — ዮም (Yom) | contribs • Talk • E 04:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Michael 05:09, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. dcandeto 22:35, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep If this were just some blogger, I might say differently. But this is someone who ran for the U. S. Senate as a Libertarian [1] and received thousands of votes. And while a search for "Albert Barger" turned up 942 hits on Google, a search for the name he usually uses, "Al Barger," turned up 495,000! That's the problem with just doing a single Google search--it can miss a great deal. See also [2], and the official government site of the state of Indiana [3], not to mention 495,000 other sources. Reverend Loveshade 05:45, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete because, though he does have 204,000 hits on google with "Al Barger" (Not 495,000 as Reverend Loveshade said), most hits on the first two pages are self-posted or related to his blogging. He recieved around 1 percent of the vote when he ran. In my home town, we have a word for candidates like him: Fringe candidates. On Wikipedia, we have a word for candidates like him, too; WP:NN Heavy Metal Cellist^talk_contribs

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