Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander King (dj)

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. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:54, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Alexander King (dj)

Not notable, fails WP-bio abakharev 03:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Fails WP:MUSIC — NMChico24 03:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Per nom Popcorn2008 03:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)Popcorn2008
• Delete — Nathan ^(talk) _{/ 04:16, 1 August 2006 (UTC)}

*Speey Delete as looks suitable for db-bio LinaMishima 06:30, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• • At WRAS, the most powerful college radio station in America, he served as the Electronic Music Director as well as host to 'Houseworks', a house music show, and 'Beatscape Lounge', a downtempo show looks like a "remotely plausible" assertion of notability, sadly. Morgan Wick 09:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  • WRAS -- Georgia State's college station -- is th emost powerful one in the nation? Oh, my goodness. (It does elude A7, but a statement like that is a bit funny on its face.) Geogre 11:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, vanity article created by Alexhking (talk • contribs • logs).--Andeh 10:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

*Delete, vanity and no notability. Ruaraidh-dobson 11:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• WOW. Tough crowd here. Go ahead and delete it. THANK GOD there are scholars like you guys to put horrible, self-promoting heathens like myself in their place. Honestly, I was just trying to expand on WRAS and had no idea it would cause this type of caustic response.

• Convert to user page Since autobiographical information can live in user-space and he does not yet have a user page. LinaMishima 15:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• I agree with LinaMishima, userfy. Ruaraidh-dobson 15:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

• Userfy - It's not a caustic response, you're just not notable enough to be in an encyclopedia. WP:VAIN, WP:NOT, and such. Check out the rest of this page while your here, see what else is up for deletion- and these are the ones that someone thought might need some debate, rather than just deleting them off-hand. --PresN 16:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per above. Dionyseus 01:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: I'm not in favor of userfying vanity articles, as we're not a web host. As for the caustic responses, I was the live music director at WREK, once upon a time. Note the "once upon a time." College radio stations go through masses of DJ's, directors, prize winners, etc. Further, WRAS is neither the most powerful nor most popular college radio station in the nation. KCRA and the Fordham stations whomp it pretty convincingly. Yes, it is good that there are scholars here who have some standards, and it is even better when idle scribblings are exiled to the outer darkness. Geogre 14:32, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
• Your WREK background explains your arrogance. You are wrong about WRAS not being the most powerful college station in the country however. The most "popular" entity is impossible to ascertain because such a measure is completely subjective. I'd rather just delete the article because it has become unbearably irritating to deal with. I am a new user to Wikipedia and yes, I did make a mistake by violating A7 (excuse me). What you have done is made me not want to come back ever again (maybe thats what you want?). Try being constructive in the future instead of trying to belittle others. Alexhking 18:24, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm not seeing anything that could be construed as biting, I only see that you don't appear to be notable enough for Wikipedia. We welcome newcomers and hope this incident doesn't keep you from contributing on notable topics, including WRAS. I do believe this is a db-author now though. Morgan Wick 23:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Reply: Man, Arbitron determines popularity, and Arbitron measures college radio stations. Among public stations, the highest rated is WNYC (no surprise). Among college stations, KCRA is near the top. As for "important" and influential, that can be assessed by CMJ and other trade magazines. WRAS is a college pop station. It has a good listenership, and it focuses on being accessible and college radio. <shrug> WREK was/is (for those interested in this apparent regionalism) user-hostile, a college radio station that revelled in the fact that it existed merely to be a working lab for electrical engineers. It is elitist and indifferent to the listeners, somewhat, but no one would claim that it was powerful or popular. If the author wishes to add unsourced and hyperbolic claims to the WRAS article, he would do well to read up on our procedures a bit. Geogre 14:51, 3 August 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.