Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mac renshaw

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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 00:21, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mac renshaw

non-notable teenager CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:56, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

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Dont Delete. He is notable down here in AUS! - Maccy

What maccy said. he's a good kid. dont delete it!!! -jamesdale

yep. Heaps of people know him in vic and all around schools in Australia. i mean hes a notable swimmer. - Dom16

I know Mac personally. He's lucky to have his own bibliography on here! Come on, just leave it on! - Frankwaters

  • Strong Delete or speedy per nom. 15-year-old with some very non-specific and non-verifiable claims of athletic awards and such. 6 Google hits, all look unrelated as far as I can tell. Pathetic attempts at sockpuppeting make my vote a Strong Delete. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

The Swimming Competitions were held incompetecne of the School. they will not appear on any websites from google or anything thats for sure. Mac Renshaw was awarded 3 years ago a Science award. (scroll down to mac renshaw) http://scienceawards.bhpbilliton.com/repository/studentWinners/studentWinnersEncouragement2003.asp He does have a place on this website he is athletically and educationally blessed. - Charlie33

  • Delete Certanly not notable, regardless of how many friends he's got. Vanity page. Eivind 14:20, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Good point there Charlie. it clearly shows that Mac was won an award. And as far as medal tally's for swimming goes, they wont be very easy to come across. Only the Australian Swimming Association will have that data as well as schoold competing. - Bob Barne

I agree with everybody else. I think that it should be left there. I have read paper articles explaining what a true champ he is to his school, family and all his friends. He has put it a great deal of effort and he truly deserves this page ! - Ashlee Heir

I have heard a great deal about this kid and how he swims. Never met him or saw him but he definately deserves this page from what i have heard and read! Frank Frutz

  • Delete per Andrew Lenahan. Note to author: you are not fooling anyone with these sockpuppet edits. Sandstein 14:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Dont Delete I have looked through and all the articles that were written up top, were infact different users and it is not a case of sockpuppeteering Bobet 15:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC 15:09, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
Note: The above signature by Bobet is forged. The entry was actually by Fredman007 (Contribs), the author of the original article - Fan1967 17:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. (Arundhati Bakshi (talk • contribs)) 15:45, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. --Terence Ong 16:01, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete please go away Thatcher131 16:02, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Unverifiable biography & WP:SOCK warns against stacking the vote.  (aeropagitica)  16:03, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Pointless waste of time by some number of teenagers. Fan1967 17:36, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete db-bio criteria. OhNoitsJamieTalk 22:50, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete nn--Porturology 23:54, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. The claim is that he is a famous Australian swimmer. A Google search disproves this claim given that he only gets 6 hits, none of which verifies this. [1] A search of an Australian and New Zealand database gets no results as well. Given that prominent Australian swimming meets are shown on primetime television, a notable swimmer would have a much higher profile than that. Capitalistroadster 00:12, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I'll WP:AGF, and assume that when User:Hilbilly blanked the page and forged his vote signature (as User:Cnwb), all in his very first edit, he actually meant to vote legitimately as himself. So, here's what he had to say: "Dont Delete His notable, i have done research using the AUS swimming Carnival access page." That's all. — Adrian Lamo ·· 06:08, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. TheRingess 06:10, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete notability not verified--A Y Arktos 06:34, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. I'm sure he's a nice fellow, but that's not relevant here. Read WP:BIO. Fagstein 08:24, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • To paraphrase what Maccy said at the top of the page, Delete. He is not at all notable down here in AUS! --Roisterer 11:20, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete - The article contains lots of OBVIOUSLY FALSE claims
    • There is no Australian Championships in March - they were in February as the Comm Games are during March
    • He is not on any Australian swim squad for any international meet - go through archives at www.swimming.org.au
    • Getting an encouragement award in BHP Billiton awards is nn

Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 02:42, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete I was about to close this early and delete it, because "Clear deletion concensus, possible speedy (there are claims of notability, which may or may not be hoaxes)." Then I discovered that early closing is not allowed if the result is to be a formal deletion. So, since there's vague assertions of notability, and I can't close early, we have to leave this lying around for a few more days. Isn't process great? --kingboyk 02:47, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


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