Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jay Wile

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 of the debate was delete. howcheng {chat} 17:13, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jay Wile

Speedy delete. This article is centered around a non-notable person. Also delete Apologia Educational Ministries. Sycthos^Talk 01:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

• Do not delete: As the primary author of this article, I can definitively state that Dr. Wile is quite notable inside the Christian homeschooling community. His textbooks are used by many families as their means of science instruction, and easily reaches an audience greater than 5,000 people (as per Wikipedia's "notoriety" policy). If his significance as an author is related to the number of textbooks he has published, there are currently ten; including three Advanced Placement courses. And lastly, I can assure you that this article is not autobiographical. :-) LAATi88 18:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Appears non-notable outside of his Apologia thingamabob. I don't like the idea of having every last company CEO or whatnot with their own article. However, that thingamabob is mildly notable inside of Christian whatchamacallit circles. -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 01:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC) (Revised -- Consumed Crustacean | Talk | 02:20, 18 January 2006 (UTC))
• Delete -- article has a promotional tone and doesn't assert that Wile is notable even within Christian whatchamacallit circles. Catamorphism 01:57, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete, non-notable, self-promoting, possibly autobiographical. Will 02:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, speedily if possible, although the claim that he published a couple of textbooks may be notable. -- Saberwyn -02:58, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete Per above. — Moe ε 03:24, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete as above. Blnguyen 04:26, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable biography. I think "taught at the University of Rochester" makes it unspeediable though. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-18 09:17Z
• Keep Certainly notable in certain homeschool circles. B.ellis 21:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete not verifiable by a real outside source, not notable by the very same token. Vanity, advertising, being well known in a small sub-group of fundamentalism doesn't deserve a refference on the christian fundamentalism article, then it certainly doesn't deserve its own. Lotusduck 21:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Google search on "Apologia Wile" gets 13,000 hits, which seems notable enough to me. --Thunk 23:12, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Possibly notable, but verifiable through reliable sources? Lotusduck 02:11, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per above. Eusebeus 23:29, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Also, more of a CV than a serious encyclopedia article. --kingboyk 23:33, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as unverifiable. Stifle 17:15, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as having only the most tenuous claim to notability, and that unsupported by any verifiable figures. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 12:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Note the link to Apologia (and see that page's History). I have reverted that article back to a redirect, but it might be better as an AFD. --kingboyk 19:48, 20 January 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.