Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Edward DeVries

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 17:43, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edward DeVries

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Biography of a living person that does not seem to satisfy notability for academicians. DeVries' texts seem to be published and vended by his employer, and I've found no evidence that they are significant or well known (criteria #3). I did a Google crawl on Edward DeVries and found nothing to substantiate notability on this particular individual. The University of which DeVries is president seems to be a homestudy program. It is a very general term, so difficult to search individually (many schools have departments named this), but I can't find any evidence of encyclopedic notability for the school. Moonriddengirl 11:53, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. —David Eppstein 14:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom. --Fabrictramp 17:18, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. --Crusio 21:29, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom. Steve Carlson^Talk 23:52, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
• Smite, per nominator. Pretty straightforward. DEVS EX MACINA _pray 05:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I have noticed a number of biographical entries about people who have far less than Mr. DeVries. If his article is deleted certainly at least 1/3rd of all wikipedia bios will need to be deleted as well. Is not the internet a big enough place?

And why should people in Germnay or California even care one way or another? What is the personal nature of the interest? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.164.204.80 (talk) 20:27, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Comment User 70.164.204.80 has only made 2 other edits, both to the article that is the subject of this AfD. A large amount of text was added, all of it unsourced, nothing of it establishing notability. The fact that there may be other entries that are even less notable than this one has no merit. If it had, we would risk a huge case of inflation on Wikipedia each time somebody would ad a non-notable entry. --Crusio 20:42, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

• Delete - If the school were regionally accredited, as president he might squeak by as notable. But there's just not enough to pass WP:BIO standards. Ward3001 22:16, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

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