Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Farrington

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 keep. If anyone wants to clean up the article, they can (and appear to already have) do so without an AfD closer's help. fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 12:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Farrington

Prodded by User:JByrd as vanity, but at least the microbiologist entry appears to be notable. Hirudo 12:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• Verify and purge the vanity entries, keep the real ones -- Hirudo 12:56, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Microbiologist Mark Farrington appears to be a possibility for notability; he's head of the Clinical Pathology department of Addenbrooke's hospital, Cambridge and co-author of a textbook, Infectious Diseases Manual, published by Blackwell Science. I can't find evidence for him at Nottingham, though; I think that may be mistaken. Espresso Addict 14:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment looks like someone was trying to make a disambiguation page?--Andeh 14:37, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• As the user who created the page is "MarkOnAir" and the radio presenter got three external links where the others didn't, it seems likely to be a creative way of making a vanity page. Espresso Addict 14:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment I too would say this is supposed to be a dab page. The Canaries player is notable, he played first team games when Norwich were in either the first or second division, which meets WP:BIO. The councillor and the radiowallah don't look especially notable. Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Disambiguate/split My bad, as i should have looked at these "other" entries a bit harder before prod-ing the whole thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by User:JByrd (talk • contribs)
• Delete as is (but as mentioned above, if someone wants to write an article about the microbiologist, that's probably worth keeping.) Deli nk 15:01, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• keep I disambiguated this. I dropped the councillor and am strongly considering the radio guy as he also does not meet WP:BIO (if anyone wants to boldy remove him; do so. I will in a couple of days if nobody else does and no assertions towards WP:BIO are made. The footballer and biologist apparently meet WP:BIO and could have pages if anyone cares to do so.--Isotope23 17:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Isotope23 above, the two Mark Farringtons who remain meet WP:BIO. Angus McLellan (Talk) 14:02, 9 June 2006 (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.