Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. Damian Woodbury

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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. Coredesat 05:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A. Damian Woodbury

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Only one minor reference given in the article, and I've been unable to find mention of this person or their scale through Google. Statistics isn't my strong point and someone in that field may have heard the name. However, based on the information available, I'd suggest they fail the notability criteria CultureDrone (talk) 11:29, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - the only assertion of notability, that the "Woodbury scale" is used throughout the industry, is probably nonsense, giving 3 google hits: 2 of which are wikipedia/clone and 1 is the ppt source. --Storkk (talk) 14:33, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, agree with Storkk (talk · contribs), and it's relatively unsourced to boot. Cirt (talk) 17:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC).
  • Delete with no prejudice to re-creation if notability can be shown. I was tempted to think hoax, but the Woodbury scale in stats at least appears to be real ... but vanishingly obscure: see Google Books. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 02:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
Amend to "notability and factual basis". "Damian" is a suspiciously modern name. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 16:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete without prejudice — For lack of verification. The single citation only verifies the existence of the "Woodbury" scale. None of the biographic information is verified, nor is A. Damian Woodbury's connection to the scale. Could statistician Robert Morse Woodbury be the creator of the scale? — ERcheck (talk) 14:21, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


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