Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/François Duprat

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 no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 16:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] François Duprat

Non-notable Holocaust denier. No evidence for the many claims in article, despite author having a week to produce reliable sources on the subject. Jayjg ^(talk) 15:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Jayjg ^(talk) 15:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• Rewrite Yes, holocause deniers aren't high up on my list of favorite people, and the article is completely copyvio (I just marked it), but he's a notable figure and it does seem likely, well, not really, but at least plausible that he was assassinated - Richfife 15:50, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

• Since we have no information on him, how can we tell if he's notable? Jayjg ^(talk) 22:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Reply - He gets 25.600 GHits, almost all relevant: [1] - Richfife 22:31, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

From what I can tell almost all of them are from Holocaust Denial websites, or various Wikipedia sites. I was only able to find one reliable source, and that one mentioned him more in passing. Are we going to be able to develop a whole article based on one newspaper article that mentions him in passing? Jayjg ^(talk) 03:50, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Eh, if someone else wants to weigh in, that's cool. I don't want to spend much more time on this one. Makes me feel kind of icky. - Richfife 04:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. The subject does appear notable as an extreme right wing French historian. There are many articles and one or two books about him (unfortunately not many on line sources). See this article in French wikipedia. Ohconfucius 03:17, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

• The new project page resides at Talk:François Duprat/Temp. Please delete old version and move page. Ohconfucius 04:18, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

• Note: The original article has been deleted as a copyvio, but has been replaced by a rewrite that someone did on the /temp page. --Robth^Talk 07:14, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 16:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

• Strong delete per nom. --Dennisthe2 18:26, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
• weak keep - per Ohconfucius. --mathewguiver 20:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Richfife. Lots of hits for someone who died in 1978. Arbusto 00:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I don't agree with Holocaust deniers, however the information that is currently on the site seems verifiable. While many of the sites that refer to Francois Duprat are also Holocaust deniers, I found some reliable sources, since those are the two main reasons for deletion, I think they have been addressed Ratherhaveaheart 00:38, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. My desire to see this git and his article burn in hell is outweighed by my recognition that someone has done a pretty good job rewriting the page from its copyvio state to establish notability and maintain NPOV and verifiability. As to the verifiability, however, it will need better sources.--Cúchullain ^t/c 08:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Duprat gets plenty of more or less non-trivial mentions in Chebel d'Appollonia's L'Extrême Droite en France (and in Igounet's Négationnisme if I remember right, but that appears to be hiding from me, so I couldn't check it,). Angus McLellan (Talk) 12:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Teanth 19:08, 30 September 2006 (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.