Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Bunker

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 in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was No consensus (it was close to merge but a single merge target hasn't been identified). Yomangani^talk 18:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Bunker

Some guy whose only reason for being here is that he hates Scientology and has a website which also has an unnecessary Wikipedia article. Crabapplecove 23:52, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete or merge into any one of a half dozen anti-scieno websites likeScientology controversy or Scientology versus the Internet. Operation Clambake is certainly notable, but not everyone who has been picketed by Scientology can make WP. Montco 02:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

*Merge per Montco, while I'd personally rather have an article about this guy as one more little poke at the scientology asses, he doesn't seem to meet WP:BIO. If someone can comb through the google hits on the guy to see if they can get him to meet WP:BIO I'd be more than happy to change this to keep. In any case, his website and he should be in the same article. JoshuaZ 03:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC) Changing to Weak keep or barring that merge due to the regional Emmy mentioned below. JoshuaZ 07:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• Comment. I went sifting through the google hits on this guy and found that we won a 2006 Emmy for something called "Border Special". I think that would qualify him under WP:BIO, yeah? --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 04:19, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Question. Interesting. Good catch on that one. The Emmy was given by the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Does that count as THE 'Emmy' or is this some low budget local Emmy? I don't know. 2006 Winners List --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Montco (talk • contribs) 13:53, 23 October 2006.
  • Answer. The Emmy he won is technically an Emmy, although it's a regional Emmy which "are less glamorous than the Prime Time Emmys and are sometimes technical". I'm torn as to whether this qualifies him for notability. The regional Emmys don't have their own page here; they're just a single paragraph in the Emmy article. My instinct isn't for a keep vote, but I can't back that up through policy. --Brad Beattie ^(talk) 05:11, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
    • I don't think that winning a regional Emmy should qualify a person under WP:BIO; note that he was only competing against people in San Diego, Las Vegas, and some mid-size California cities (not Los Angeles or San Francisco). Delete. --Metropolitan90 07:38, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
      • Winning an Emmy in the district where over 8 million people live is VERY notable. (By the way, most people don't consider San Francisco in the "Pacific Southwest.") --Oakshade 06:26, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, KrakatoaKatie 08:15, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, I've seen some of his videos and he has a reason to go against scientology since they did things like picket his house and harrass him in public areas, tried to get him arrested for no reason. He has done a lot to bring awareness of scientology and is definitely notable. I'd say keep it or merge it with a page of critics or something.Turboflame 00:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, notable only within anti-Scientology circles. --Dhartung | Talk 08:35, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

... and pro-Scientology circles, for different reasons. The circles altogether have a large population. --Oakshade 06:12, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Not generally notable.--Yannismarou 10:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• merge (a bit) and redirect to Operation Clambake. Guy 12:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Very notable in the Scientology world (either loved or hated) and noted figure in the anti-Church of Scientology movement. --Oakshade 05:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.