Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William d. middle brook

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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. Seraphim♥Whipp 23:56, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] William d. middle brook

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Article is an unsourced biography that appears to be a hoax. I am unable to find any information that suggests the inventor of the pencil was William Brook. Nick—Contact/Contribs 23:13, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

  • G3 Utter hoax/nonsense/whatever. So tagged. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 23:15, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete This page is hopeless per Fabrictramp. William Middlebrook, inventor of paperclip making machine, might be notable, but no proof that any one person really "invented" the pencil. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 23:27, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment FYI, I have actually found some information that suggests that a William D. Middlebrook was the inventor of the paper clip. Still nothing on pencils. --Nick—Contact/Contribs 23:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. William Middlebrook the paperclip machine inventor (not the inventor of the actual paper clip itself) has some marginal notability, but the article would have to be renamed anyway. Can't find a thing on Middlebrook+pencil. Since pencils have been around for many hundreds of years, it's unlikely he "invented" them.--Fabrictramp (talk) 23:25, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, either a hoax or terribly confused. WillOakland (talk) 23:54, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete, even if this guy did invent the paperclip, that's not what the article suggests and it's under completely the wrong name anyway. There's no reason why a new article under the correct name can't be started from scratch, and I would encourage anyone to do so. -- Roleplayer (talk) 09:15, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete This article is not about the paperclip inventor, but about the alleged inventor of the pencil. Seeing as early pencil-like instruments date back as far as ancient Rome, graphite pencils dating to the 1660's, and Hymen Lipman being the inventor of the pencil with eraser we know today. This is a hoax (and a badly written one at that). Likely made up at school for some sort of report seeing as the creation of the article is the creator's sole edit on Wikipedia (and the poor writing). In any case it has no place on Wikipedia. Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 15:56, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Word salad. (jarbarf) (talk) 22:28, 19 May 2008 (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.