Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carlo Terracciano

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 of the debate was delete. Kirill Lokshin 01:10, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Carlo Terracciano

Unsourced and no claim of notability made for the person in my opinion. I submitted this for speedy delete but it was rejected for some unexplained reason, so I'll submit it here instead. Caerwine 04:02, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

The admin who removed the speedy tag did provide some justification ("seems notable enough"). One doesn't necessarily agree with that, of course. — Haeleth Talk

• Delete nn bio. No claims are made that this individual meets the WP:BIO criterion of being more notable than the average college professor. No publications cited. I see just 782 hits for the name on Google, which wouldn't be very impressive even if we assume they're all about the same person, and there's no article on him on the Italian Wikipedia. — Haeleth Talk 18:52, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete No evidence his work was ever published in or translated into English. The same anon IP address first inserted, then removed, this: "He is the author of several books and was the chief-editor of the magazine Eurasia: Rivista di studi Geopolitici." FRS 01:23, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
  • "No evidence his work was ever published in or translated into English" - I don't see how that would be a relevant deletion criterion. u p p l a n d 07:22, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

• Well, this is the English language WP, after all. The only Google hits I saw for him were in Italian. If he's never written in English, or been mentioned in an English language article, it's hard to understand why a user of THIS encyclopedia would ever have an interest in himFRS 14:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: some of the Italian-language Google hits seem quite substantial. He appears to have been a fascist theoretician of some kind, and possibly notable within contemporary Italian fascism (which is not insignificant). To be keepable, the article needs somebody to improve it who knows Italian and the relevant political and cultural context. I'm abstaining for now. u p p l a n d 07:22, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
• It's improved enough now for me to change from Delete to Weak Delete, but it'll need more to cause me to think it's an article that should be kept. Caerwine 18:43, 8 November 2005 (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.