Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. J. Weberman

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 keep and cleanup. The notabiliy - or rather, notoriety - of Mr. Weberman is beyond dispute. The nominator's claim of WP:COI by Ajweberman (talk · contribs) and 66.108.22.125 (talk · contribs) appears to be correct. The article history provides an excellent example of what happens when experts such as Gilliam (talk · contribs) and Herostratus (talk · contribs) must play on the same field as COI-niks, but that's no reason to delete the whole article. Early non-admin closure. Shalom ^Hello 17:05, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A. J. Weberman

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I think this article was written almost entirely by Weberman himself, and treats his wild assertions almost entirely favorably, while couching it in the language of wikipedian neutrality. Weberman is an insignificant figure-- I fail to see how someone who the majority of web hits for are all related either (a) to his own webpages or (b) having gone through Bob Dylan's trash deserves his own wikipedia entry. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mysteriousfumanchu (talk • contribs).

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 11:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Weberman is a complete nutcase, no doubt about that, but anyone with an interest in Bob Dylan has heard of the guy. The fact that the article is imbalanced, in not pointing out the guy's a loonie, doesn't mean it should be deleted but improved. Nick mallory 11:47, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep What Nick said. Spazure 12:29, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep but cleanup, per Nick mallory.--JayJasper 12:43, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep and cleanup. The article is well referenced with links to independent sources. The subject matter is also quite notable in nature. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 12:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy keep. Easily a notable guy, article needs cleanup. I'll leave that to the Dylan fans though. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Broken clamshells • Otter chirps)))} 16:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

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