Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yves Engler

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 keep. - Mailer Diablo 01:13, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Yves Engler

This is a vanity page Knave75 07:09, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. He is a published author, and notable figure in Canadian activism. He has been reported on in both the independent and the corporate media. --GrantNeufeld 08:38, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:34, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Mentioned at http://www.legrandsoir.info/article.php3?id_article=2914 and http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20051201/CPACTUALITES02/51201071/5363/CPACTUALITES02 - well, they appear to be the same person, they're both political activists. Actually lots of results show up here http://news.google.ca/news?hl=en&q=%22yves%20engler%22&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wn Stevage 17:51, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
  • You're right - those news articles are all referring to the same Yves Engler who is the topic of the WP article we're discussing here. --GrantNeufeld 18:18, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep if citations are given for the claims for national notability. My concern is that the only reference currently given is to a site apparently run by one of the activist organisations this person is involved with. The article claims, firstly, that Engler has had articles published in the national newspaper The Globe and Mail, and secondly, that his act of protest in June made national headlines. Both of these claims for notability should be easily verifiable if true, but we need precise references added to the article. — Haeleth Talk 22:49, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I just did this. Macho Philipovich 17:32, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, he has published two books, and comes up often in Candian news. Macho Philipovich 17:23, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

”keep” Yves is a well known Montreal activist and published author. His books appears in numerous well known bookstores across Canada and a quick google search reveals his prolific journalism on numerous political subjects. Lastly, I think the work that he's doing is important and find it suspicious that at this particular time, during the federal election campaign period, as Yves faces charges for confronting and heckling Paul Martin abbout Canadian foreign policy in Haiti, his Wikipedia article is being dubbed a vanity site.

• Knave75, the definition of a vanity article is "the article was written by the subject himself". There's no evidence that this is the case here, as far as I can tell, and a lot of evidence that it isn't — just look at the creator's contribution history: Anne Baxter? Edgar Allan Poe? Raven-Symoné? Ozzy Osbourne? Butter tart? Do edits like that seriously imply "this user is Yves Engler" to you? Because I gotta say...they sure as hell don't say that to me. At 82,000 Google hits, in fact, and being someone who's currently the centre of a major news story, he's so much an obvious keep that I expect you to provide some proof of your assertion that this is a vanity page; I'm fully prepared to pull admin rank and deem this a closed debate if you don't prove the claim. Bearcat 04:22, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
• 'Keep. Obvioulsy, published author and activist in the news. Luigizanasi 05:57, 7 December 2005 (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.