Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timothy Hill

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 no consensus. Arguments for both keep and delete are present and fairly equal. GDonato (talk) 16:48, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Timothy Hill

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This page is primarily being nominated because it appears to be of a nonnotable subject. There are hundreds of press secretaries on the 1.5 sq miles of Capitol Hill. Also, and this is perhaps conjecture, but this subject has been the focus of some investigations by the media as to whether or not it is autobiographical. See here and here. I am simply trying to begin some debate on this topic and am interested on what the Wikipedia community has to say. Daysleeper47 19:56, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Delete - Per the nom, as the person is simply not notable. - NeutralHomer ^T:C 19:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Weak keep I would agree that being a press secretary in and of itself means NOTHING with regards to notability. However, there are some tenuous claims to notability, per the Wikipedia page blanking scandal, which are cited in the article. I can see where this might be used to establish notability; heck, the Seigenthalar controversy made some Wikipedia users notable enough to have an article for themselves. Its not MUCH, but it is SOMETHING. --Jayron32|talk|contribs 20:09, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:BLP1E. Basically a content fork of David Davis (Tennessee politician), which is the only place this information belongs (and info on the incident has been added and removed from that article in the past). Not a significant event, not a claim to notability for the staffer. Just because it involves Wikipedia doesn't mean we cover it.--Dhartung | Talk 21:41, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
• Merge to USA Congressional staff edits to Wikipedia. Speciate 22:58, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep People who try to edit WP in the way described, are caught at it, and are then the subject of multiple newspaper articles for that, are notable. It becomes politics, not merely news. Better here than in the article on the Senator, as there is no proof the Senator was himself involved. But conceivably merge as Speciate suggests just above. DGG (talk) 00:43, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per DGG, albeit a very weak motion to do so. Burntsauce 16:24, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Dhartung. I don't think this is notable enough. Doctorfluffy 05:16, 3 November 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.