Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William G. "Bill" Bailey

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. -- ( drini's page ☎ ) 07:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] William G. "Bill" Bailey

Vanity page. Snalwibma 23:12, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This company seems to have little significance, although it does exist. DrIdiot 23:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Even though Bill will sell YOU supplies for LESS if you call NOW. Sorry, per nom. Obina 23:40, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. If you are not associated with the timber, logging, arborist or forestry industries I can understand why you might wish to delete. If however, you were associated with one of these industries/communities/culture or if you were one of the 100,000 or so customers of his, you would not likely consider deletion. Within these communities Bill is a bit of a legend. He has at times spoken before the US Congress to improve safety standards in our industry and has served on numerous timber and forest industry boards over the years. Additionally, his company is a small business success story. Current annual revenues are over 25 million US$. While this certainly isn't at the level of a Sam Walton, it is a success nonetheless. I had hoped to expand the page with more information and accomplishments at a later time and mainly put this page up as a placeholder. I've certainly seen many lesser-known and completely obscure people with pages. He also published a book now out of print, Reflections of a Timberfaller. That's my two cents and incidentally, in the interest of full-disclosure I do work for Bill, but I put up this page on my own without any coercion. --Jcon95482 00:14, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Please edit the article to point to the places in the Congressional Record where he has spoken and to list the book (with ISBN). The problem with the article as it stands is that there is nothing in it to indicate that the subject satisfies our Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies. Uncle G 04:33, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • The Library of Congress catalog seems to have no record of Reflections of a Timberfaller, or any book with "Timberfaller" in the title. u p p l a n d 08:21, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable vanity biography. Recommend the article author see WikiMe for writing biographies and/or WikiTree for writing genealogies. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-07 01:41Z
• Keep. I am amazed that this man, this mortal man started a timber company. This has an enormous amount of relevance to life in general. Every joe soap on the planet should be listed. Is there room for 6 billion entries??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.125.47.32 (talk • contribs) 10:13, 7 January 2006
  • This is an encyclopaedia, not a directory of "every joe soap on the planet". For such a directory, see WikiTree. Wikipedia is not a directory. Uncle G 02:12, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete, possibly notable enough but it seems that it is a vanity bio. Stifle 00:00, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 07:42, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
• Okay, I will defer to the general consensus as Bill's book was self-published and his presentations before Congress were prior to 1994, which is only as far the online Congressional record goes. His work with Congress was in the late 70's and early 80's when safety in the timber industry was mostly non-existent. He fought to upgrade safety standards for forest workers during that time. Anyway, delete per nom.--Jcon95482 23:44, 9 January 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.