Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Philip Chandler

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 03:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Philip Chandler

I speedy-tagged (A7) Philip R Chandler for no assertion of notability. I discovered this page was created after my user page was vandalized by the article creator, but as assertions of notability were now made (supposedly the founder of MediaLens), I let it go with an autobiography tag (edits were made by anonymous users, User:Pjchandler, and User:Philchandler). Upon some investigation however, I discovered that google searches for "Philip Chandler" and "MediaLens" turned up mostly Wikipedia mirror sites. The book Beyond Positive Thinking is not listed on Amazon or any other major bookseller that I can find. Fails WP:VAIN and WP:V. Irongargoyle 02:54, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Borderline speedyable, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. AdamBiswanger1_{R.I.P. Steve Irwin} 03:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment A brief Google search tends to suggest that there may be a large number of people named Philip Chandler, rendering a reliable estimate of web presence difficult.--Shirahadasha 04:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Google has a few hits on a Philip R Chandler who is an Air Force researcher, but this would appear to be a different individual from the one described in this article. Wouldn't assume the same person is the originally intended subject of both articles. --Shirahadasha 04:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. See the deletion log of Philip R Chandler. Irongargoyle 05:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per well-researched nom. I checked issues of the magazine ECOS, and oddly didn't find any articles by Mr. Chandler, despite allegedly being a frequent contributor. It is to be noted there are books entitled "Beyond Positive Thinking", but they are not by Philip R. Chandler, and I can find no books authored by "Philip R. Chandler" on Amazon. Per Shirahadasha, this is why Google is not the final arbiter of notability. Tychocat 11:32, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete His home page gives some measure of how seriously this article should be taken Phil has a viscosity of 3.6 parsecs Dlyons493 Talk 15:57, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable. --Dhartung | Talk 21:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, as his (already pretty dubious) notability claims appear to be false per above arguments. -Elmer Clark 23:50, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete per WP:HOAX. LotLE×talk 17:20, 7 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.