Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Koby

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 Speedy Deleted per WP:CSD#G11 - blatant self promotion. Pedro :  Chat  15:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Koby

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Is a new page, which appears to have been created from an Answers.com page. Probably re-creation of a deleted page. Also created by User:Kobybusiness, so probably WP:COI. Cricketgirl 11:44, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete As a copyright violation Toddst1 11:54, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
• Comment The answers.com site is a mirror of the orginal Wikipedia text and therefore this is not a copyright violation. Pedro :  Chat  12:12, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
  • That's what I thought, hence AFD rather than speedy. Was it previously deleted? Cricketgirl 12:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Reply Deleted as an expired prod. Let's run it through this process to get consensus to delete it through a wider forum. Pedro :  Chat  12:37, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

• Indeed, the page is a re-creation of the article of the same name, deleted after proposed deletion with a reason of "Not a notable subject for a biographic article" (this makes it a contested proposed deletion). Let's look at the article in detail.

  "Koby is one of the 'Founding Fathers' of the concept, United States Of Africa." This is contradicted by other sentences in the article, first of them: "The phrase was first introduced in Marcus Garvey's poem 'Hail, United States of Africa,' in 1924." The text that follows is not about Koby, but rather about African Union etc.

  The next sentence that has anything to do with the topic is "Koby is a descendent [corrected from "ancestor" in the deleted revision] of Kwame Nkrumah (first president of Ghana, West Africa) and is from the Republic of Ghana, a country in West Africa. Several more sentences about the history of Ghana follow; then we can see the following: "Koby currently resides in the Bay Area, California, United States and lives by one philosophy, 'GIVE IT ALL OR TAKE NOTHING.'" And there's the final sentence from the deleted article, conveniently left out by the re-creator: "He is a senior political science student in California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obsipo."

  The references don't work: www.kwamenkrumah.com is a parked domain, and pages at www.marcusgarvey.com are not references, but rather self-published essays. Then we're left with "'United States of Africa?' at BBC News", an article that nowhere mentions "Koby" [1], and "Statement of the UA Commission Chairperson" - hard to know what it refers to, but probably something to do with African Union and nothing with "Koby".

  I should also note that the creator moved the article to Joby and then to Joby1, possibly to sabotage the deletion process (which I have undone).

  Verdict: Speedy delete as vanity, nonsense, and political promotion. Marking as such. - Mike Rosoft 12:52, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as non notable founding father of equally non notable concept.Handschuh-^{talk to me} 14:29, 16 November 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.