Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carl Hampton

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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Carl Hampton

Non-notable, smells a bit hoaxish as well. Subject has a ridiculous set of degrees from a college which has no web presence, and is a syndicated columnist found in only one publication that I could find online, the Culver City News, which suspiciously looks a bit too much like his homepage. hateless 22:44, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - even if this is not a hoax (especially with the education section), it fails the reliable sources test.--Gay Cdn (talk) (email) (Contr.) 23:09, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• No opinion, but as stated on the discussion page: "If this page remains, it needs to be seperated from "Carl Hampton" as listed on the Police brutality page. See "What Links Here" CPAScott 19:48, 3 August 2006 (UTC)"
• In response to the consideration, Carl Hampton seems to be all over the internet and people want to know who he is. RandalMason 23:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• In response to the consideration, I have hard copies covering dates over the last 3 months of different Culver City News and Blue Pacific News that are running his column. RandalMason 23:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• I visited the [Culver City News] online paper and looked at the newspapers details including their contact information. Mr. Ron Meyer, the publisher confirmed that Carl Hampton is a columnist for a number of his newspapers. His company recently purchased this newspaper which had no web presence, so Carl Hampton supplied them free of charge a web presence during their development stages. RandalMason 23:58, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. The impression I get is that this Culver City News site was set up to promote Mr. Hampton and his book, while this Culver City News site is meant to bring you news. --Lambiam^Talk 00:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Dlyons493 Talk 01:10, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Looks like primarily a vehicle to promote his book (also in AFD) which is published by a vanity press and has an Amazon rank over 1.7 million. Per whois, the owner of allculvercity.com is Carl Hampton, and that site seems pretty much devoted to him. I also notice that, aside from Hampton and his book, the only other edits by RandalMason were to insert linkspam for lienexchange.com, which is owned by, you guessed it, Carl Hampton. Fan-1967 01:26, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I normally don't bother voting on obvious spamvertisement like this which will be deleted anyway, but in this case it feels so good. Stev0 17:48, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Looks like pure self-promotion. There's nothing here but quotes. --DarkAudit 23:18, 4 August 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.