Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike chambers

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 00:41, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Mike chambers

Non-notable vanity page, and promotional to boot. A quick jaunt through Google shows no mentions of Mike Chambers in the stated context aside from blog pages. → Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 11:34, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Do not delete this article. I am scouring the web to find more links and references about Mike Chambers. Give me a few days and you will see plenty more references and more information. Thanks!

• Well, this discussion will continue for five days. Until some evidence is produced I'm voting delete. The Land 11:40, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I would like to add, I am NOT Mike Chambers. I am just another programmer who has benefitted greatly from some of his stuff. Particularly his QuickBasic sockets interface! I understand the "promotional" thing you mentioned though, and thus deleted the download.com link! Sorry. There are a lot of other coders on forums who thank him in huge numbers for his works!

If you can provide examples of his work and evidence its importance to a significant group of people (preferably numbering in the hundreds of thousands), then I'll happily change my vote. The Land 12:59, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

• The link isn't the only problem. You're using overly praising language when Wikipedia articles should be written from a neutral point of view (WP:NPOV). Calling Chambers "the greatest Visual Basic programmers of the 1990's and into this decade" and saying "He has written numerous amounts of software, all of which is top-notch." are both examples of not being neutral. - Mgm|^(talk) 12:01, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

• Question Is that a picture of Jack Black? Descendall 12:02, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
• The caption for the picture at the bottom of the page now reads "Mike Chambers high on cough syrup." I'm changing my vote to speedy delete since this page now has the whiff of harassment about it. → Ξxtreme Unction {^yakł_blah} 12:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

User:209.163.126.240 has been vandalising the page... why does that make it a speedy candidate?

• Delete. I can't see any substantiated claims of importance, here. - A Man In Bl☭ck (conspire | past ops) 12:28, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom and WP:BIO. No convincing evidence of notability. No source citations for encomia. Possibly verifiable, but the onus is on the contributor to provide the citations that would make verification easy. Dpbsmith (talk) 14:56, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Ifnord 14:57, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
• delete as per nom Pete.Hurd 20:14, 20 November 2005 (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.