Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Salisbury

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. W.marsh 02:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mike Salisbury

non-notable local architect and local candidate for city council. Article also reads very non-NPOV. Delete. Andy Saunders 16:46, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

• Interesting, but definitely non-notable. Delete Kazmarov 20:57, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. As a landscape architect and advocate of natural burials, he's notable. I added several references, including clippings from The Post-Standard and The Link. See the references section of the article. I agree that a candidate who has not held office is not normally considered notable, but because he is notable in his profession, his article should be kept. (We had a similar discussion recently about a city council candidate in Washington, D.C. who turned out to be a notable law professor.) --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 21:43, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable. Little support for the claims that he is the recognised authority on the field; the article claims he is "a recognised authority on the natural burial movement" which he co-founded [1]. Links to pages that tells about his importance are genarally sites of societies etc. that he is involved with. Of the users who created the article, User:Earthartist is Mr Salisbury himself (compary userpage with [2]). His contributions to Wikipedia are all related to his business. The user who started the article is most probably involved with Mr. Salisbury in one way or another, since his contribs1 show the same pattern. Obviously his name has been mentioned in the local press, which does not prove much notability. Article written in a style as to show importance; the title which the article describes Mr. Salisbury as "the author of" is a thesis [3] and since the article does not say he is a PhD, it is no doubt an undergrad thesis. // habj 09:26, 29 September 2006 (UTC) See also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Earthartist. // habj 09:37, 29 September 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.