Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin Lacche

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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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 08:16, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Justin Lacche

Contested Prod. No reason given for removal of tag, but I am assuming it was done by the subject of the article, given the username of the person who removed the tag. Much of this page contains non-notable information about the person, but there is one major claim to notability in this article: "A journalist by trade, Lacche has authored more than 1,000 articles". Unfortunately, this claim cannot be verified after a Google search. I found a total of two real articles that he wrote for student newspapers after going through the 158 Google results. The only link that supports this claim is his own personal web page, which reads as a resume and I don't feel can be used as a reliable source for one's own claim to notability in this case. His resume also contians several interesting claims, such as "Yahoo! Sports: 12 articles on Pac-10 football." In a Google search for ""Justin Lacche" Yahoo Sports", only 2 results appear, one of which is his personal web page and the other of which is a post of his on the "bostonredsoxfanclub" Yahoo sports group message board.

The only thing I have verified is that he is indeed the chair of the International Association of MBA Presidents. Unfortunately this doesn't do much for his claim to notability as this is an NN online group that has 44 members. It does look as if he may have won at least one of the MBA awards his page claims, but winning student awards at a university doesn't make someone notable enough for Wikipedia. His claim of "President, Oregon State University MBA Association (2004-2005)" is true, but a search reveals that this is simply a student group and hence an NN claim.

After investigating his claim of being the "Father of the Neo-hieroglyph art movement, http://www.hieroglyphsku.com", I can't get the page to load for me. Perhaps you will have better luck. The extent to which I found any information on this was an EBay auction of which one of his pieces of "art" is going for $0.01 with no bids, with him as the seller. Finally, his baseball mentions are NN. I think this is clearly a vanity page. VegaDark 07:28, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete per nom. Good researching there VegaDark, the website loaded for me and only displayed a picture of that item that is currently on ebay. The article appears to mainly advertise the persons 'artwork'.--Andeh 07:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per NN. Not to mention this reads just like a CV. Wikipedia is not a place to advertise oneself Ydam 08:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per brilliantly worked-out nom. Is there a "How to make good nominations for AfD" page we can frame this nom up somewhere? Kimchi.sg 10:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom's excellent research. The one-cent eBay auction with no bids really clinched it. I hope that lack of initial success doesn't discourage him, though, since his ideas certainly have merit (hint: galleries first, then eBay!) I'd also like to congratulate the nominator on one of the most thoroughly-researched AfDs i've seen in awhile. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:20, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete and applaud the efforts of VegaDark on this one. Metros232 14:03, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per VegaDark's very thorough nomination.--Isotope23 17:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. IrishGuy 21:17, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per very well researched nom. -- Vary | Talk 22:55, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment:: http://www.hieroglyphsku.com consists of two poems, one the one at the e-bay auction (both translated or transcribed into hieroglyphs) . The other reads:
    Summer Nights
    Finally, some cool air!
    We play Ella and Louis,
    And sip cold grape juice.
    • I am not qualified to comment on the hieroglyphic translation, but there appear to be cartouches for Ella and Louis. Septentrionalis 23:01, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Note The subject, who is apparently blocked now, sent me a wikipedia email requesting that I post this link which he presents as evidence of his having written newspaper articles. I can see no harm in doing so, and so there it is. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:10, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • The user sent me that email too. It was addressed to Sceptre. Anyone else who has voted in this AfD receiving this email? Metros232 00:14, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I got the same link over email, also addressed to Sceptre. -- Vary | Talk 03:32, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I got it as well. Will (E@) T 11:06, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I didn't get it - but then I don't have e-mail enabled from other users so it's not really that suprising Ydam 11:43, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Completely doubtable noteability. --mboverload@ 01:22, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Not even close, and while "writing 1,000 articles" sounds impressive, if they're of the form shown by the link -- small-town USA news tidbits -- it wouldn't take very long to wrack up such a total: a newsbite a day for three years would do it at a daily paper. --Calton | Talk 01:46, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. LOL this guy is proud of beating a bunch of people for MBA awards that are 8 years younger than him...good jobNihil 23:35, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Actually, the median age for MBA students hovers around 28, so he's within range of the norm. --Calton | Talk 04:46, 3 June 2006 (UTC)


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