Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom Spilsbury

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. --Coredesat 03:57, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tom Spilsbury

Tom Spilsbury (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Contested speedy. The man's claim to notability, besides being a fan of Swindon Town F.C., appears to be that that he is some sort of a functionary at Doctor Who Magazine - which, not to put too fine a point on it, ain't the Economist or the New Yorker. It appears to be some sort of fanzine for a TV show. You know when they have to pad out your short article with achievements such as "...writing to the Doctor Who Magazine letters page at the time to say it {Deep Space Nine] was better than Doctor Who" that we're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Ridiculous, but at least two editors believe the article should exist, so here we are. Herostratus 03:57, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete or redirect to Doctor Who Magazine. Apparently a notable figure within Doctor Who fandom; appeared very briefly on BBC News[1] and was quoted in The Guardian[2] as a notable source of opinions on Doctor Who. --Muchness 04:35, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

• They're only trivial mentions so they don't count towards meeting WP:BIO. MER-C 05:45, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

• THIS ARTICLE IS NOT COMPATIBLE. IT MUST BE DELETED. MER-C 05:45, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, plenty of Doctor Who fans, but what makes this one notable? --Dhartung | Talk 07:50, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• EX-TER-MI-NATE, nn, even within Dr. Who fandom. SkierRMH,07:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above, with relevant Doctor Who clichés as applicable ;) --Chrisd87 11:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete main claim to fame is being a "deputy editor" for a Doctor Who magazine, and the article is mostly trivia: a list of other TV shows he likes, etc. This is bordering on Speedy Delete territory IMHO, but regular delete is okay too. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:05, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete per nom. FirefoxMan 16:57, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Note that the Fleming Way article on this very AfD page also relates to Swindon. This article even tells us he's a fan of Neighbours. Orderinchaos78 17:28, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete -- non-notable; I agree with earlier editors that this might well have been a "speedy" candidate, the article is so unencyclopaedic -- Simon Cursitor 07:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - I hope Herostratus isn't including me in the two editors who believe the article should exist - I just suggested it shouldn't be speedily deleted is all - most of the trivia is obviously unencyclopaedic, but he has edited two reasonably well-known magazines Stephenb (Talk) 11:13, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per commenters above, does not meet WP:BIO guidelines. Yamaguchi先生 03:08, 15 December 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.