Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joey Dobbs

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. W.marsh 00:13, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Joey Dobbs

Tagged as db-bio but notability is asserted. Alleged sex offender, no other claim to notability. Dodgy ground. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] 23:00, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

• This person is an alleged child sex offender, and as such he is innocent until proven guilty. What purpose does spreading his name serve, other than blackening it by association? There are no wider issues or significance, or other cause for notability, in this article. It is just hearsay at present, and could be seen as an attack page (A6?). Dodgy ground indeed, but in my opinion a delete. Sliggy 00:17, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy delete - I don't think that an arrest establishes notability. {{db-bio}} should apply. —ERcheck @ 00:46, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, this is not Wikinews. Stifle 01:08, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Nothing so notable about this case that it'd deserve its own article. Adrian Lamo ·· 01:10, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per Adrian Lamo and Sliggy. -- Kjkolb 03:56, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as nn paedophile.Blnguyen 04:30, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn-bio. --Terence Ong 05:04, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, committing a crime does not automatically make you notable. -- Mithent 18:53, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I'm the one who tagged this for speedy delete. I didn't see anything in there that even asserted notability; it merely said he was arrested and charged with a sex offense. Sad to say, there are hundreds if not thousands of other cases like this, and nothing is said in the article that would make this particular defendant notable. (Coincidentally, this alleged crime occurred in my neighborhood, so it might be notable to me, but not to Wikipedia readers in general.) --Russ Blau (talk) 20:29, 15 February 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.