Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris mounsey
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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. Mr.Z-man 01:57, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Chris mounsey
Minor political blogger, and there are hundreds of thousands of them throughout the world. In terms of his blog, he gets a grand total of 74 Ghits, most of them self-generated or links from other minor political blogs [1]. The article was created by a Single Purpose Account devoted to editing about the blog and its libertarian interests: [2] As a consequence, the article was red-flagged by our COI bot as a possible violation of WP:COI. It smacks of pure promotion, and the "references" provided don't pass the bar of our standards for third-party verifiability. In short, this is weak stuff for a number of reasons. Qworty (talk) 02:37, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- Delete Blatant self-promotion. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 06:28, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- Delete Not notable as has no significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. --Malcolmxl5 (talk) 07:48, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- Strong keep Notable political activist and blogger mentioned in national newspapers and mainstream political circles in the UK. --Hereward77 (talk) 17:53, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- Comment. The only mentions I can find in the national press are the two Daily Telegraph references referenced in the article, which contain a grand total of seven words apart from the subject's name, his blog and its web site's name, and a quote from him. This is not the substantial coverage required for notability. Phil Bridger (talk) 23:11, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
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