Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Peter Olasky

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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 was delete. - Bobet 10:16, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Peter Olasky

Nomination for deletion Fails WP:BIO and likely violates WP:VAIN (article created by single purpose account[1]). Subject is a standard-issue junior Manhattan corporate lawyer who once wrote a few articles of modest length[2] for MTV's pro-voting campaign in 2004 (when he was still a law student). In 2005, he co-wrote an op-ed with his father (that's what the article's "close ties" are), Marvin Olasky[3](a journalism professor) about Harriet Miers' candidacy for the Supreme Court for the LA Times[4]. This op-ed was reprinted in about 4 regional newspapers, and blog mentions of this oped make up the bulk of subjects ~170 google hits [5]. A Factiva database "Peter Olasky" search only returns hits for this op-ed plus a 1995 local newspaper article about scholarship winners in which he appears in a list of ~30 names of high school students. This is not an encyclopedically notable or even newsworthy political commentator. Subject also seems to be using wikipedia article as space for comments better suited to a personal webpage. Article was nom'ed for speedy delete previously but was contested by another editor. Bwithh 20:52, 7 October 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.