Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Plotz

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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. Yamamoto Ichiro 会話 00:16, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Richard Plotz

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Several tiny reasons he might be notable, but I don't think any of them add up to anything. 1) Founded a club with 2000 members. 2) Once interviewed JRR Tolkien. 3) Is a scientist (but has, at my most generous counting, published 7 papers and gotten <20 citations). Calliopejen1 (talk) 06:14, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete per lack of significant coverage from independent sources and I dont think the other stuff is enough for notability Corpx (talk) 09:20, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, no path to notabilitiy. Could be mentioned briefly in Tolkien Society of America, which could probably pass WP:ORG. [1] --Dhartung | Talk 10:07, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - the information could be merged with various articles, but no separate article needed. Also seems to have been started by a single-purpose account with the same name (plotz): Special:Contributions/Cplotz. Probably contributed in good-faith at the time (November 2005). How do we credit the contributions if the information (once sourced) is merged into other articles (if needed)? Carcharoth (talk) 12:50, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Weak keep Full disclosure: I'm a lifetime Tolkien fan - I've sourced it a bit, trimmed the peacockery; his successor as Thain of the TSA was the much-better-known Edmund R. Meskys, who is long overdue for an article. --Orange Mike | Talk 18:44, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 23:49, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete - WP:BLP1E might apply as the only thing that is remotely notable is founding the Tolkien society. Sbowers3 (talk) 22:49, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


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