Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Bannister

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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. - Mailer Diablo 05:35, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Bannister

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Article flagged for notablity since Oct 2006; No assertion of notablity added, and no independent verifiable sources. Guinness 11:14, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

  1. Neutral. I really should recuse myself from discussion, but this AfD nearly shocks me because I've been visiting Richard's site for some time now and seeing his name pop up in the emulation scene for years. I grudgingly accept that Wikipedia cannot be bloated by gaming topics with little relevance for the mainstream, but still, Mr. Bannister does quality work. --Edwin Herdman
    • Comment I'm not necessarily suggesting that the person isn't notable, however there is nothing in the article that suggests that he is, and there are no sources/references in the article which allow me to check that for myself. Now since this article has been flagged for notability for over six months, and there has been no contribution since then to suggest otherwise, I suspect that the subject doesn't meet criteria for inclusion, and therefore it time to get rid of it. Please feel free to prove me wrong. Guinness 13:41, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete He may be notable in the 'emulation scene' as you say, but there are no reliable and verifiable sources to back up anything here. A personal web site is not generally acceptable as a source, and especially not as the only source as it is here. DarkAudit 13:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete The notability tag was applied to this article about nine months ago; that surely was plenty of time for interested parties to clean up the article. As such, the article's deletion will probably go unnoticed. --Aarktica 14:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I added the "notability concern" tag to the article quite some time ago (I didn't even realize it was as much as 9 months). I forgot about this article entirely. Seen as how it still hasn't been cleaned up in some way, I guess that it's safe to remove this article. —msikma (user, talk) 14:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak delete let's first see if anyone can improve it now. There ought to be discussions of his emulators in the various specialist magazines, as well as blogs. DGG 04:40, 24 May 2007 (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.