Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Townsend

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 no consensus. Majorly (hot!) 21:10, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bill Townsend

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His notability hangs one thing alone: ran (unsuccessfully) for Congress on the Republican ticked fifteen years ago. As for the rest, he's just another accomplished person, one of many. Does running for Congress on a major party ticked == notable? Not in my book it doesn't, and if it does we have many thousands more articles to write. His foundation bluelinks because he wrote the article himself, today. Obviously there are WP:COI issues here, if he and his foundation are so dang notable why does he have to write the articles himself. Herostratus 07:11, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

• Delete this vanispamcruftisement. MER-C 08:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
• Keep hard name to search for but seems to meet WP:BIO. Any serious candidate (this guy lost narrowly) for US Congress is nearly always going to have enough sources if you dig them up. [1], [2], [3]. We dont like him because he spammed us, but the sources seem to exist for meeting WP:BIO. --W.marsh 13:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per W.marsh whose comments I can only second. Not a particularly great article, obviously, and a great example of why it's important to familiarize oneself with the rules before writing an article but he does seem to meet WP:BIO. Seed 2.0 15:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. He probably meets WP:BIO per W.Marsh, so the article probably can be cleaned up. But, while in most AfD's we should evaluate the potential, not the current, state of the article, in a case of conflict of interest concerns I feel the article should be deleted even if the article has potential. Article creators are explicitly advised on the edit page boilerplate not to "write articles about yourself, your company, or your best friend." It is not appropriate for single-purpose accounts to shoehorn articles about themselves into Wikipedia by creating an article and then having other, disinterested, editors bring the article up to Wikipedia standards. Pan Dan 19:23, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete This user's motives seem to be other than NPOV. I'm looking through his other contribs also, and may nominate some for deletion. YechielMan 04:04, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep - The losing congressional run is a footnote and if that was all there was to him, I would easily vote to delete. I would hang his notability more on being a co-founder of Lycos [[4]] than anything else. Its unfortunate that Bill Townsend feels the need to spam WP. Actually its borderline pathetic. I would think if his organizations were notable someone would go ahead and write an aritcle about them. Montco 05:14, 15 April 2007 (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.