Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr. Thinker

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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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 07:26, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dr. Thinker

Our friend here has spent more time thinking than he has being made famous, yielding only 199 unique Googles after subtracting us from the hits of course. Cut out the forum threads and it would be even less. Also 90% of this article is worthless fanfic titles; if rewritten in paragraph form it would be a lot more useful. Sigh. GarrettTalk 14:27, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete... nn-bio about a fanfic author.--Isotope23 19:29, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Disclaimer -- I am not a close friend of Dr. Thinker, but I have "met" him (real-time Internet conversation) on several occasions and have helped MiST some of his works. I can attest that within the sphere of online MST3K fandom, Dr. Thinker is really pretty notable -- if I remember correctly, Web Site Number Nine (the largest archive of MiSTings on the Internet) had a classification tag for MiSTings of Dr. Thinker's work, and he was one of only about 3-5 authors to have their own classification tags. However, I am aware that every fandom is huge to itself, and I sadly doubt that his notability within that sphere really translates to notability outside it. I have to vote Weak Delete -- weak because I could, of course, be underestimating how notable Thinkerfics and MiSTings thereof became outside the fandom proper. -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:53, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. I love(d) MST3K, but fanfic has a high bar for encyclopedic notability. Quale 04:02, 11 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.