Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roger Maris (artist)

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. -Splash^talk 00:11, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Roger Maris (artist)

Vanity and self-promotion. Only contributors (aside from dead cat removers) are an anon (presumably up until the point he found he couldn't upload pictures) and User:Mgrest, whose sole contributions belong to that page. No links to page. His one assertion of notability is that he did some work for the EuroDisney theme park, which puts him in a class of about a million other non-noteworthy artists. NB: The billions of Google results for "Roger Maris" are for the legendary baseball player of the same name. StarryEyes 10:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as nominator. StarryEyes 10:26, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. When your official site is a geocities/.tk/myspace/whatever free page, you're not notable. Raggaga 10:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - googling "Roger Maris" + artist - baseball - "Home run" gave 450 hits - and most of them were about the baseballer, too. By way of comparison, googling my own name (which is an unusual one) + artist gave nearly 700 hits (most of them about my art). I don't have a page, and don't think I should have one. Grutness...wha? 11:33, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. PJM 12:15, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. --Terence Ong 13:09, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Interesting but non-notable biography. Delete as per StarryEyes and Grutness' comments.  (aeropagitica)  16:39, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per all above. --Kinu ^t/_c 19:29, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I am the author of this page and would like to point out that Roger Maris is a well known (relatively) artist in the UK. I feel this article is being put up for deletion primarily as he happens to have the same name as a famous Baseball star! This could not be avoided, sadly. Maris (the artist) is one of the few skilled craftsmen remaining in the UK who are experts in the now almost extinct art of clock-face restoration and his work at EuroDisney was and remains an attraction for many of Europe's skilled craftsmen. This article is not about self-promotion, as I doubt Maris is even aware of its existence. Sorry to go on about this, but I feel that the deletion of this article is not warranted. Mgrest 19:10, 5 March 2006 (GMT)

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.