Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Ellis
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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 in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete `'Míkka>t 05:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Joshua Ellis
Self-promotion of a nonnotable columnist Laudak (talk) 08:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
- Delete, no attribution of notability to independent sources. I'm conominating one of his WP:NEOlogisms; fortunately taste tribes remains a redlink.--Dhartung | Talk 12:08, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
- Strong delete both, no evidence of substantial coverage in any independent sources, let alone reliable sources, as required by WP:BIO. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
- I added my own entry, since someone else added an entry for my "Grim Meathook Future" essay. If you feel I did this in error, then please do remove my entry. Alternately, if you'd like me to provide evidence of notability in external sources, please let me know and I can do so. --Jzellis (talk) 13:14, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
- Please add evidence of notability either here or to the discussion pages, but not to the article directly. -- Michael Bernstein (talk) 15:16, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
- Corrected advice: the evidence of notability must be prominently present in the article in form of references to publications in what is called "wikipedia:Reliable sources". In your case it is also particularly important to peruse the wikipedia:Conflict of interest policy (on writing articles about yourselves). Laudak (talk) 03:06, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
- Delete, not interesting, not enough independent sourcing. Fee Fi Foe Fum 07:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
- I will put together evidence of notability. However, I don't feel the article is particularly self-promoting, as Laudak says; I merely added an entry explaining who I was and what I might be known for. (Note that I didn't provide a title or link for my newspaper column, for example.) My intent was never self-promotion -- I recognize full well that Wikipedia is an inappropriate place for that, and again it was not my intention. I can provide a list of similar entries for other people of my apparent level of notability.
As regards my entry being "interesting" or not, as Fee Fi Foe Fum argues...if that's really a criteria for deletion of articles on Wikipedia, I hardly think my modest entry stands out. There are entries on Wikipedia on topics of such staggering dullness as to almost cause damage to the human mind. In the face of such truly heroic boredom, how could I possibly compete? -- Jzellis —Preceding comment was added at 14:05, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
- I was referring more to the grim meathook page than the person page. Jump starting memes just makes them jump the shark all the sooner. Fee Fi Foe Fum 22:30, 2 December 2007 (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.
