Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Larry H. Parker

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The result of the debate was delete. [[smoddy]] 17:05, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Larry H. Parker

Delete Seems like vanity to me. PhilipO

Delete this rubbish. A disgrace to Wikipedia.--Fuckthe LHP Haters 23:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC) Keep--Fuckthe LHP Haters 23:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)19:53, August 24, 2005 (UTC) (SOCK PUPPET) *Keep Seems pretty neutral to me (--Dorang12 22:21, 24 August 2005 (UTC)]], author of the article in question)

• "We can only hope that he will continue to expand across the country, as there are many people who need to be fought for." is neutral?! Delete as advertising. Al 20:03, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This was a great article. I disagree with Phillip"0" (There is that sugarcoated enough?) --Sundevil4life 20:07, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Sundevil4life has only 8 entries in edit history. --PhilipO 20:42, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

Sundevil4life's above comment originally read: "Phillip0 is just that...a "0"! Get a life loser!! --". Fernando Rizo T/C 21:12, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

• Based on Google, I can see noteability being established as a brief mention in the history of really bad commercials, but The Man, The Myth, The Commercials is Vanitese for delete. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 20:15:09, 2005-08-24 (UTC)
• Delete This should be encyclopedia, not white/yellowpages S33k3r 20:23, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

(SOCK PUPPET) *Keep the article seems fine. I live in Southern California and it doesn't look any more biased then some other articles on here. Besides, I've seen the commercials. Seems accurate.--Pete Mos$ 20:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

User's first (and currently only) contribution to Wikipedia. --PhilipO 20:41, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

(SOCK PUPPET) *Keep. I like it --Sinatra-iz-God 20:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

User's first (and currently only) contribution to Wikipedia. --PhilipO 20:41, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

(SOCK PUPPET) *Those commercials are great. There's nothing wrong here. I say KEEP--Majutray 20:35, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Vote actually from Sinatra-iz-God. --PhilipO 20:41, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

• Comment. As a courtesy to whoever is making all of the sockpuppet votes in this VfD, please note that it is common practice for the admin closing the debate to discount votes from new users with very few edits at the time of voting, and to discount votes from anonymous IPs. Please give us a modicum of credit for intelligence. Not voting, because I don't wish to have a conflict of interest so that I may close this VfD myself in 5 days. Fernando Rizo T/C 20:44, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, promotion. feydey 20:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - promotion, aggressive behaviour and probable sock-puppetry by author. Ground Zero 20:47, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as vanity and possible self-promotion. Hall Monitor 21:02, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

(SOCK PUPPET) *Keep I don't see the problem here. Did Larry Parker write this page himself? What would an article on Wikipedia do for him? Is he hurting for clients that bad? Unsigned edit by User:Dorang12. Third edit by user, made 5 minutes after first edit. Ground Zero 21:22, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

(SOCK PUPPET) Keep This article is factual, whether you "deletionists" like it or not.--LongDongHanks 21:27, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

• Strong Delete: The sockpuppets pushed me over the edge to Strong. This is the most vane article i've seen in awhile. Maybe he'll sue Wikipedia for emotional distress from the deletion...:-) Karmafist 21:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC) --even though we disagree, this is hilarious!--LongDongHanks 21:28, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. "Sockpuppet limit has been reached and exceeded". Blatant self-promotion, along with copyright symbols.--Scimitar ^parley 21:29, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, this thing is as NPOV as Mein Kampf. --Agamemnon2 21:59, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - per everyone above who doesn't have a sock on their hand. Wow, I haven't seen a puppetshow like this since I was a kid. -Satori ^(talk) 22:05, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

(SOCK PUPPET) *Commentthis article, perhaps, should be deleted. However, comparing it to Mein Kampf is ridiculous. agamemnon2, you owe the entire discussion an apology.--JohnF32 22:06, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

• Ring-a-ding-ding baby!! I say Keep!! Keep keep keep keep keep!!!--Sinatra-iz-God 22:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

(SOCK PUPPET) *QUESTION How can so many people be so passionate and emotional about an injury attorney?!? --JohnF32 22:15, 24 August 2005 (UTC) (SOCK PUPPET) *ANSWER That my friend is the real question here. Lots of LHP haters, I suppose--[[--Dorang12 22:21, 24 August 2005 (UTC)]] 22:20, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. For great justice. Pilatus 22:24, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• SURVEY SAYS: wikipedians really, really hate vanity supported by sock puppets. It's a waste of everybody's time and bandwidth, Larry. And Larry. And Larry. Speedy delete -- nn bio. JDoorjam 22:32, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Sock puppets where it hurts them most. Alf 22:35, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Delete: Dlyons493 22:42, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Sockpuppet-supported vanity advertising. --Carnildo 22:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Mr. Parker is a personal friend of mine and would not approve of this article. Please delete ASAP.--EarlBoykins 23:09, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
• Despite all of the sock puppets, I vote keep if it can be rewritten into a neutral point of view. Larry Parker is well-known for his ubiquitous commercials around here. Zoe 23:16, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Is it possible to nominate a complete VfD discussion for BJAODN? --GraemeL ^(talk) 23:17, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Yes. JDoorjam 00:20, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Call me a sock puppet then! I LOVE LARRY H PARKER!!! Put that in your sock puppet and smoke it! LHP forever! KEEP LHP!! Without him, who will fight for us?--Parker for President 23:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

The PLO - (Puppet Litigation Organisation)! Alf 23:46, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Remember kids - its only 99% of lawyers who are the bastards! --Ryan Norton ^{T | @ |}
• ^{Strongly delete this vanity. It is hardly the most professional thing to say, but this site, and the accompanying, pathetic sock puppets, make my skin want to crawl. It is as though this guy wants some sort of recognition for his pathetic life, a sort of pale reflection, a sign that he matters to someone. I hate to be harsh, but Wikipedia is not the place for that. IINAG 00:41, 25th August 2005 (UTC)}

^C 00:29, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete this attorney who seems to have a strong following in the sockpuppet community. Besides which, it is not a coherent article and parts of it seem to be a copyvio. Capitalistroadster 01:29, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Strongly delete Delete this trash. Obviously this is an untrue article about Mr. Parker. I mean come on! There isn't even anything about his time in Asia curing sick orphans or how he was able to fight off the Nazi raiding parties when he was a corporal in the Great War! There is so much this article leaves out that I would have to call in to question the integrity of the author. Mr. Parker is a great man who has done more for the down and out than Mother "what's-her-name" the nun! Mr. Parker has been known to fly across the world going from house to house giving gifts to those who were nice and sueing the ones who were naughty, and of course let's not forget that even his bowel movements smell like flowers! User:Rocco_Melonchek 25th August 2005
• Delete self-promoting, sock-puppet-supported lawyer vanity. --Etacar11 03:05, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• My sock drawer currently contains 23 socks. Does this count as delete 23 times? Tonywalton  | Talk 14:16, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Advertising and not notable. -- DS1953 23:15, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Advertising, not notable. As an experiment, I have edited the article to remove POV, promotional language, and everything in it which is not notable. Here's what remained: Dpbsmith (talk) 00:14, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Larry H. Parker (LHP) is an injury attorney in Long Beach, California with a staff of fifty, and a specialty of automobile and motorcycle law.

Before commercials mentioning dollar amounts were prohibited by California law, Parker was known locally for his TV commercials in which a man states, "Larry Parker got me $2.1 million and man am I enjoying it!"

• Delete Laughable yes, notable no... maltmomma 01:48, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep My personal opinion is that his original ads were pretty cheezy, but they were a very common sight on late night TV in Los Angeles for quite awhile, and they did cause a law to be written to eliminate the mention of the amount of legal settlements in lawyer advertising in California. The Parker Law Firm and this article should be merged together. BlankVerse ∅ 09:28, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Although I'm usually more of a deletionist, this is one case that deserves to be saved. I'm not going to campaign for it, but hopefully some people will change their vote. Or, with all the sockpuppet mess (and reaction to it), perhaps the article deserves a revote. BlankVerse ∅ 12:49, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - I think what BlankVerse said was pretty convincing. gren グレン 18:18, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep (Changed from Delete) I trust BlankVerse's judgement on this one Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 13:56, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
  • I don't think being known locally for annoying ads rises to the level of being encyclopedic. Comparisons are odious... but... we recently deleted an article on the late Ernie Boch, his sons, car dealership empire, philanthropies, etc. He had regional notability. In fact when I recently bought my car from Boch Toyota (2nd largest Toyota in the world), someone was there who had driven 200 miles from New Jersey because Boch had the car he wanted in stock and his local Toyota dealer was estimating a one year wait. Boch's ads in which he smashed car windows with sledgehammers screaming "Nobody smashes prices like Boch" and his catchphrase "Come on down!" were famous throughout the Boston area. He was of significant local economic importance, building a coalition of auto dealers in the Norwood area into a loose coalition and promoting the "Automile" as a car-shopping mecca. I live near the Automile and am a happy customer. I thought the article should be deleted, and that was the consensus. I really think the degree of notability between Boch and Parker is very comparable... and both fall short. Both individuals deserve brief mention as local notables in the articles on the cities where they did business, and that's all. Dpbsmith (talk) 15:41, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Parker Law Firm and stop this anti-SoCal madness! --fpo 21:42, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not notable. (Ditto for Parker Law Firm.) - brenneman^(t)(c) 15:38, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn, vanity, and for the sock puppets. --tranquileye 19:34:42, 2005-08-29 (UTC)
• Keep the new version. I just edited the page. This is accurate and verified information. Larry H. Parker is actually a very noted injury attorney in Southern California. The first article (which was pretty funny) seemed to be written tongue in cheek. I went ahead an edited it to make it a legitmate article. Let's stop the debate now.--Sundevil4life 21:43, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
  • _{Also I agree that the Parker Law Firm article (also hillarious before being edited) should be merged}
  • _{Removed the sock puppet label from my name. I have posted numerous articles on Wikipedia. User just did not like my comments about him.}

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