Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Torre DeVito

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. Sango123 03:09, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Torre DeVito, Commuting (poem), Landscape of my Childhood, A Long Way South of Now, and I Knew a Hominid

NN poet, could barely verify the existence of a poet with this name, let alone anything about him/her. Contested prod. Mangojuice^talk 04:15, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Adding several nn poems by this author. There is some kind of vanity going on here; all those articles were created by either User:JAnderson or User:JAnderson@pagecandy.com, and pagecandy.com comes up with "Torre DeVito;" apparently, Torre DeVito is a web designer involved with pagecandy.com. Delete all. Mangojuice^talk 05:04, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Note: there are also a couple of redirects to Torre DeVito, and technically, Landscape of my Childhood is a "collection" of poems rather than a single poem. Regardless, none are verifiable or notable. Mangojuice^talk 05:10, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as unverifiable. I went through all of the links that come up for Mr. DeVito on google with this search [1]. Every single site that referred to this poet was a mirror or took its information from Wikipedia but for the subject's "official website" ([2]), which references this Wikipedia article, and otherwise has all broken links, and this site, [3], which lists him as a favorite poet among six other giants in poetry, but is apparently a homemade page and thus of no reliability. No relevant hits on google scholar. I think this afd should be extended to include the article subject's three other poems (currently prodded): Commuting, Landscape of my Childhood and A Long Way South of Now and vote (prematurely) to likewise Delete as unverifiable (googling the last listed poem's unique name returns nothing but mirrors).--Fuhghettaboutit 04:46, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Now that they're listed—Delete All--Fuhghettaboutit

• Delete, unverifiable Seems to have been written by a friend to promote Torre DeVito. Otherwise non-notable poet. --Coredesat talk 04:48, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete the others, too, as they're non-notable poems written by a non-notable author. Google turns up only Wikipedia mirrors and the author's website, where many of the links are broken, so some of these poems are unverifiable. --Coredesat talk 05:16, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Hey, it's a walled garden! Yaaay! I mean, oh no! In all seriousness, I see no verification within the articles or elsewhere that this poet even exists, to say nothing of whether he has ever been published. Zetawoof^(ζ) 05:23, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete fairly obvious vanity. Danny Lilithborne 06:36, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Vanity articles doktorb _words^deeds 07:16, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Claim of one poem being 'often' confused as Maya Angelou's lacks any verification. Also per above. Universitytruth 15:32, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete it all, per all the great comments above. And, what do we know about the creator of these articles? Is it the author himself? If so, he needs a warning about creation of vanity pages. ---Charles 20:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete all Pascal.Tesson 02:59, 29 June 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.