Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ronald A. Smith

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The result of the debate was Delete Karmafist 05:27, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ronald A. Smith

Possible hoax. Has enough information that if true this is a notable person, but a series of web searches failed to find any hits for things such as his appointment to the Congressional Committees Business Advisory Council. Delete as per WP:V unless reliable sources are provided to verify the information in this article. --Allen3 ^talk 02:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - probably a hoax -- getcrunkjuice^contribs 02:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Bollocks, asserts he won the 2002 Republican of the Year award, but in 2002, the National Republican Congress Committee, or NRCC, awarded a “Republican of the Year Award” to Florida businessman Chris Hill. This failed fact-check, plus those of the nom, means that the odds are good it is all lies, the whole thing. Ruby 02:42, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as unverifiable, if not outright lies. Liamdaly620 08:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Do Not Delete Not a Hoax. Contact the National Republican Congressional Committee and talk to Congressman Tom Davis's office and ask about Mr. Ronald A. Smith's Republican of the Year Award For Virginia for the Year 2001-2002. This was publicized by the NRCC with a press release in March of 2002. Mr. Chris Hill was the Republican of the year for Florida for 2002. I'm sorry but you apparently do not realize that they gave this award to one businessman from every state. Every item can be backed up in this listing or otherwise it would not have been put up. Also it has been listed on the internet at a separate site for several years with the exception of a few minor changes made to this update. Also this webpage was edited before and someone keeps changing it back to what it was before we had finished perfecting it. Please do not do that to our work again. If you take exeption to anything in it then please just contact us directly. We will be glad to back up whatever should be backed up with proof over any detail. \Wikistatman 09:03, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

• Comment So much the worse for his notability, if 50 states get a Republican of the Year every year. Ruby 15:31, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

It is not right that you attack the credibility of Mr. Smith. We have removed the article and will be working on a version that includes whatever the reliable resources require as by way of info or formatting. Mr. Smith did not put this article up but it was put up by employees. There are numerous articles written in Newspapers including USA Today as well as his appearing on CNN, MSNBC and Dateline NBC and as well as a number of books that outline his family and his life available at bookstores as well as Walmart. Also his appointment as Chairman of the Business Advisory Counsel and as Republican of the Year for Virginia in 2001 (awarded in march of 2002) was announced by the NRCC (National Republican Congressional Committe) in a Press Release in March of 2002. We will prep the required reliable source list as soon as that is prepared and then put it back up again. Wikistatman 12:43, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy delete. There is now basically no content. Crunch 14:18, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete most probaly hoax. --Terence Ong 15:06, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The article says he was most known for the invention of the "Refund Anticipation Loan System", which gets 2 google search hits [1] . He cant be notable if the most well known thing he did isnt notable -- Astrokey44|talk 15:28, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete --NaconKantari (話)|(郵便) 18:32, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. PJM 18:34, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The problem is not really sources or verifiability, but sufficient notability. MCB 22:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable/unverifiable. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-24 05:38Z

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.