Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Holmboe

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The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 01:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Michael Holmboe

Michael Holmboe (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Non-notable person and possible COI. Supposedly one of the founders of the the 1996 Internet World's Fair. Also, awarded "...the International Humanitarian Award... by the Coalition for the World Union Federation in the United States...", which would be impressive were it not for that fact that you can give yourself that award by clicking 'print' here. Most ghits seem to be self-published, and in fact, the article is close to a G11 of the subject's homepage here. --Bfigura ^(talk) 00:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as nom, for the reasons above. --Bfigura ^(talk) 00:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. NASCAR Fan24^{(radio me!)} 00:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, and thanks to Bfigura for thorough searching and reporting. By golly, looks like I too am now a World Peace Advocate! The things that happen when you're researching AfDs. Definitely violates WP:COI, doesn't meet WP:Notability, but full marks for chutzpah. Accounting4Taste 00:15, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, although as a fellow laureate of the World Peace medal I probably shouldn't comment. Fails WP:BIO. The only non-associated source was a brief mention in the Carl Malamud book on that 1996 Internet World's Fair, trivially verifying that his Stavanger "pavilion" won a gold medal (and you know, the screenshots do look pretty good for 1996). Perhaps if this were a non-virtual world's fair that would mean something. --Dhartung | Talk 00:49, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete <sarcasm>Wow! I'm finding hundreds of ways to get a wikipedia article.</sarcasm> ILovePlankton^(L—S) 01:19, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Too much blatant WP:COI, also an e-mail from the subject of this article, commenting on this article? Not right--NightRider63 19:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete. What do you know, I'm a recipient of the International Humanitarian Award too now! I just printed and posted it on my wall. Burntsauce 22:07, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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