Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russ Vernon-Jones

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The result was delete. --Coredesat 04:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Russ Vernon-Jones

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Non-notable biography, split from White antiracists in western Massachusetts Fightindaman 21:48, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete I'm sure he's a nice guy but nothing to indicate any particular notability (other than - possibly - in association with a single incident). Article also violates WP:NPOV ("Russ’s believes that racism can be ended, but that it won’t happen quickly or easily. But he is in for the long-haul regardless of the critiques that come his way. For when it comes to confronting racism, being active for Russ is the only way to be"), and (while I can't prove anything) reeks of a copyvio — iridescent (talk to me!) 22:35, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, Speedy close as bad faith nom I think this is a bad faith nom. Fightindaman split out the bios himself from White antiracists in western Massachusetts (see [1]), then created separate bio articles for the people listed ([2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]), and has now moved all of those individual bios to AfD as well. See: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diane Beers, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrea Ayvazian, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sandra Fitzpatrick, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anita Magovern, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patricia Ramsey (activist), Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Russ Vernon-Jones. Wl219 22:46, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
• I agree that this is a bad faith nominator to split off an article and immediately nominate it for deletion Corpx 23:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
• Not done in bad faith. If you look at Talk:White antiracists in western Massachusetts it was another editor actually posed the suggestion and said that he was going to split them, but never returned to do so. Fightindaman 23:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

• I just dont think that you should've split them off, and you turn around and nominate them for AFD. Corpx 23:52, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

• Fair enough, but it seems to me that splitting them gives each of the individual biographies its own review, rather than trying to judge them all as a rather loosely-affiliated group. Fightindaman 23:54, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Same as the rest of this group. MarkinBoston 01:45, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
• Comment He recieved some notice [8] by local and national papers because of an event at his school, and he was quoted in this one: [9] but it seems to be one of those things where they ask a random person what they think and quote them in an article. Sci girl 04:38, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

• comment by the author

On the advice of DGG I will withdraw this entry in its current form and recast pre-split article with more reliable sources.Sanlaw33 00:10, 29 August 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.