Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Buckland

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. Titoxd^{(?!? - help us)} 05:04, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Buckland

Contested prod so bringing it to AfD. Orig prod noted : No references cited, no assertion of notability, not a WP:NPOV Eusebeus 08:48, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, not notable. The awards he has won are also not notable (and I went here). - ҉Randwicked҉ 08:49, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. --Roisterer 12:34, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep, bad faith nomination. Eusebeus is systematically bringing disputed prods to AfD without regard to merits of dispute. Monicasdude 13:56, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Invalid speedy keep, firstly "bad faith" is not a valid speedy keep reason, and secondly there are two existing votes to delete. Stifle (talk) 01:13, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - if it can be proven and verified that this is the same "Richard Buckland" accused and exonerated in the Narborough murders in England in the 1980s (see Colin Pitchfork, [1]). Buckland was a 17-year-old kitchen worker in 1986, is he now a computer science lecturer in Australia? If so, the DNA information is notable, the academic career is not except as a closing mention. --Canley 14:53, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - Definitely not the same person! Richard Buckland (the lecturer) graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University in 1986 [2] - the same year he was arrested in England for a double murder as a 17 year old kitchen worker (by which time he'd also written several papers on Computational Algebra and Number Theory). Could also redirect to Colin Pitchfork? -Canley 15:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nice factchecking, Canley. The external awards of the lecturer don't seem notable to me, and the other Richarcd Buckland should just get a mention on one of the pages dealing with DNA evidence. -- Hirudo 15:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Randwicked.--Cini 17:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The article fails to show that he is notable for his academic work and in a brief search, I have failed to find many. A Google Scholar search for "Richard Buckland" shows 39 results but many appear not to be related. [3].Capitalistroadster 00:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Removed claim about being cleared by DNA evidence as it is obvious it is a different person. Capitalistroadster 00:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Capitalistroadster 00:25, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Upfront disclaimer: I know this guy -- when I was in university I kept on hearing his name and then did a bit of digging on his background (this was all about 3-4 years ago). He hasn't really done anything amazing on the reserach side (he still hasn't got his PhD!) but he did make a splash by picking up the ***first*** MQ Computing university medal in 91. That is probably his only claim to notability though. novacatz 02:42, 27 April 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.