Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Jacobson (Taiwan)

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 henrik•talk 10:50, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dan Jacobson (Taiwan)

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I'm expecting this AFD to be problematic, so I will be brief. This is an autobiographical article written by Jidanni. However, I do not believe he meets WP:BIO, and the article reads like a self-promotional fluff piece. All but two of the sources used in the article are the subject's own website; one of the other two is a blog. The last one is a newspaper article, and is probably the only reliable source here; the rest aren't, and notability, if any, is fairly miniscule. It should be noted that the creator also failed to assume good faith in writing this article and proceeded to disrupt DRV when the article hadn't even been deleted. Coredesat 04:56, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: I am not seeing any notability. All 9-10 references (except 1-2) are from the subjects website. It is a self promotional piece with evident COI. But again, the main thing is assertion of notability, and this article clearly lacks it. Also, as the nom said, it is clear that the creator (aka the subject of the article) knew it would be problematic as evident from the premature deletion review attempt - Rjd0060 05:00, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete; obvious puff piece autobiography. The user claims to have been translating his own biography at zh:, but he had been editting that one, as well. I'm not sure what makes him notable for inclusion at either language project.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 05:04, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Obvious puff piece that violates WP:NPOV and WP:RS. I hope our counterparts at Chinese WP are as vigilent. UnitedStatesian 05:24, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete; I just saw his little rant at DRV, funny, someone complaining at Deletion Review before their article is even nominated. Not notable, no significant coverage in reliable sources. Masaruemoto 05:33, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

I discovered an zh:積丹尼 and asked cautiously over a month on the English Wikipedia if it was OK to translate it into English.

Yes, after discovering zh:積丹尼, I made some minor corrections to it. I see there were earlier debates.

Yes please change the tone from promotion. You see all the sudden I am being to asked to prove how notable I am, an activity I do NOT enjoy.

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I do not intend to link these low quality images into the article. Instead I will come up with some non my-website non-image .html newspaper articles for references. But not right now today. Thank you. Jidanni 05:46, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: As I am not notable, please put the carcass on my User Page/. Jidanni 06:14, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Close:Well then, I have tagged the page for speedy deletion per WP:CSD#G7 and the above comment. - Rjd0060 06:18, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Let's put it this way: You're notable in Taiwan, but that cannot be asserted by the article as it stands. Your primacy in translating and writing about yourself is another issue.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 06:47, 10 November 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.