Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Deane

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. FireFox - 21:44, Thursday December 22 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander Deane

Nominated for speedy deletion by 213.121.207.34 as: This is a vanity page. This person is not yet notable, and created this page himself. Further comments on the talk page. As the article probably does assert sufficient notability to make this at most a borderline A7 speedy, I have taken the issue to AfD instead. Nominator abstains. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:03, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:BIO. Not quite a speedy as stated above. PJM 13:28, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete WP:VAIN. Published by small academic publisher (<100 titles in catalogue) 'Great Abdication' ranked 500,000 at amazon.com MNewnham 20:38, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete This has been pointed out to me - much of it is untrue and I'd really rather it weren't on here to provide 213.121.207.34 a venue to be so unpleasant to me! Alexander Deane 212.100.250.213 21:40, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
• If I may say, you did set this page up in order to put a link on your homepage saying "There is a Wikipedia article about me!", and you were deliberately misleading as to your achievements in an attempt at self-promotion. You then spuriously linked yourself to all sorts of pages which have little to do with you - for example are you REALLY a "famous resident" of your home county or town? And does the entry for the leader of the opposition in the UK REALLY need a link to you just because you once worked for him when he was a less important MP? And does the entry on "Abdication" REALLY need a link to you just because you have written a book with the word "abdication" in the title? I could go on - you contrived to post at least 15 links to yourself. This isn't really what Wikipedia is about - it is called vanity Alex and you should be ashamed. --213.121.207.34 09:42, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Winning the World Universities Debating Championships is verifiable. But nothing else seems particularly notable and I don't think winning a university competition is enough to justify a page. Singopo 02:08, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Retain Despite whatever beginnings this page has, other authors have contributed edits and the subject is pushy enough to do more in his life - see Michael Gove for a possible future. Regardless of the "abstention" it is clear that 213.121.207.34 has more of a problem with Deane than the article itself. The number of revisions (and later reversions by others) of this user's edits in respect of not only Deane but Tim Collins and David Cameron is curious to put it mildly. (Disclaimer - I know Alex Deane slightly, and while I was surprised to see a page for him here, I would hate to see any article targeted for such obvious spite as this is). Dowlingm 04:16, 22 December 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.