Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darren Heitner (2nd nomination)

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--JForget 00:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Article on a sports agent, with some additional childhood claims to notability, who is of debatable notability. Prior AFD became irrelevant because of a major rewrite and resourcing of the article, but was closed by the editor who did the rewrite. This admin, and the consensus at deletion review realized that the article should be reevaluated for notability. The DRV nominator said in part "Although the article is apparently sourced (try following the links!) this person has not achieved anything of note. The article is basically his CV (COI may apply; a notability tag was removed in April by User:Dheitner); the external links are advertising spam;". This is a technical nomination on my part, I offer no opinion. GRBerry 15:46, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete My comment from my DRV nom, quoted above by GRBerry, stands as the reason for this AfD too. WP is not for personal promotion, and the notability assertions (winning a couple of minor competitions as a child) do not clear the WP:BIO bar... or we'd all have articles. EyeSerene^TALK 16:21, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete This is an absurd article. Everyone has some sort of childhood awards that they have won. Collectively or alone, they are not notable in any way, shape or form. He was never recognized in any national newspaper or even in more than a local section of a local newspaper. Give me a break. People who have won much greater awards than a local nintendo contest, or a poster contest (I'm talking about grant winners, scholarship winners, etc real awards of distinction....) don't have wikipedia pages. What's next? Are we going to open up wikipedia to anyone who has a few childhood trophies for their 5th grade science fair project? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.227.194.152 (talk) 17:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete The article's subject is just not notable. All of the "sources" cited are local newspaper sources in his own area, and mostly just community & local news sections of the papers as well. The only thing in the article that even begins to approach notability is the nintendo contest, and I would doubt that too since, based on the media coverage of that, it was just a local nintendo contest and not a major national contest. To put this simply, wikipedia is not the place to post personal resumes and CVs. Dr. Cash 18:36, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a place to post your resume so one can get financial gain. By putting an entry up, Mr. Heitner is trying to gain a level of celebrity so to speak in order to make himself look more popular and accomplished than what is really true. If this article gets to stay, then a plethora of others will have the green light to have their own entries so they can use it as a form of "professional bragging". I nominate this entry for deletion from now until forever. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.198.196.142 (talk) 20:41, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I don't believe that the article's subject fulfills any of the criteria in WP:BIO. The noted achievements aren't enough to establish notability. henrik•talk 21:30, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I have no idea how this got here in the first place and was shocked (but thankful) that people were made aware of this article via an accidental DYK placing. Defintely not notable, reads like a personal resume and ad, considering he wrote the article himself.. I would say this was done as an ego boost or to try and increase his profile. If a personal profile like this is allowed on a site like Wikipedia, anybody could claim to be notable because they won a contest when they were younger, or have contributed something in a large way. - Boochan 08:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I agree with the above statements. This article is clearly meant as a promotion for the subject and author, as well as for his business ventures. This is against the spirit of Wikipedia. - Chachilongbow 20:35, 25 October 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.