Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Kobayashi-Hillary

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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 (talk) 01:33, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Kobayashi-Hillary

Semi-commercial

• Weak delete I don't have strong objections to this page but would like to see a discussion and possibly some tightening of the criteria for self-created promotional pages where the author stands to gain financially from the resulting increased exposure. See also this author's self-created Outsourcing to India article. I'm not very happy about self-creation in general, but unfortunately that's an unenforceable criterion!

Dlyons493 14:42, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, financial gain motivation and don't create autobiographies policy. — Lomn | Talk 16:19:04, 2005-08-20 (UTC)
• Delete Per Lomn. Marskell 18:20, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per Lomn. Pavel Vozenilek 18:23, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• delete If we can spot an autobiography, we should feel strongly compelled to delete it. I think we need to break biography standards of living people into areas. Entertainers (people who have a fan base) will pass through the softest standards. But for non-fiction writers such as most journalists and authors, we should bar entries for because there is no one else but them with the motivation or information to write an article. lots of issues | leave me a message 22:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Vanity articles are certainly worthy for consieration as long as we apply the title correctly and they are not notable by commonly used criteria. There are certainly plenty of journalists and non-fiction authors who are notable enough per WP:Bio to warrant articles. Capitalistroadster 23:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. There may be a significant amount of vanity, enough to delete this, however, I just wonder if these accomplishments are noteworthy enough to keep. Perhaps if this article was cleaned up and changed around. Malo 18:40, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Not even a vanity article, purely a plug for his books. - Hahnchen 00:00, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Needs cleanup, but it's all verifiable and he's enough of a public figure that we can assume he is the most notable Mark Kobayashi-Hillary there is. No justification for deleting it, but you're a naughty boy for writing an article about yourself, Mark. Eliot 02:03, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
  • I brought the article up to standards. The great thing about autobiographical articles is that there are no copyright issues. Eliot 23:26, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

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