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I thought I could salvage this article, but it’s unsalvageable. Take the directories out and the most you can really find out there is her mom doing an interview defending her body type against critics of a Victoria Beckham ad she was in.
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Phil Bridger, this would still need an independent reliable source to verify that Scopus considers this journal influential. – bradv🍁 19:41, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Scopus itself is an independent reliable source in respect of this journal, and I cited it in the article before commenting here.
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Keep. Journal was indexed in Scopus, which is an indepedent reliable source and inclusion means that they found it influential. It's a bit minimal, but it meets NJournals. --
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Keep Being indexed in Scopus is enough.
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Keep: Agreed...being indexed in Scopus is enough. -
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The result was delete. —
JJMC89 (
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While the article's title is "Springhill Avenue shooting 1987", the majority of the actual content in the article is about the
IPLO vs
INLA feud during
the Troubles. Most of the content in the article that is about the actual topic appears to be
WP:SYNTH, which leads me to believe that this subject doesn't have notability independent from other topics related to the Troubles. As someone with only passing knowledge of the conflict, I'm not sure whether some of this content is worth merging or spinning off into a new article (for instance, we don't seem to have an article about the
INLA/IPLO feud that this article discusses) or if we should simply delete it, but either way the article should not exist as written under the current title. signed, Rosguilltalk 17:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete - I agree with the nominator's reasoning. This article's author seemed to use the Springhill Avenue incident as a reason for writing an article on a much larger issue. Note that Springhill Avenue itself is only mentioned once in the main text. The 1987 incident on that street appears non-notable due to lack of reliable coverage as a specific event, and the article is not really about that event anyway. The author could use some of the text here to build a future article on the INLA/IPLO feud, or contribute it to the existing article on
The Troubles. This Springhill Avenue article is nonsensical on its own terms. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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Delete - I tentatively agree. The 1987 event could very well be encyclopedic on its own, and an overhaul of this article is possible. However, a notice was placed on this page and removed without comment, similarly a note was made in the article's talk page and was not replied to. Both of these were done over a week ago and the article is not old/stale and the main editor is active. This strikes me as sufficient chance for the editor to begin to address the issues brought up. As they didn't, and as the article is a bit of a COATRACK, and as the event is not of obviously sufficient importance for other active editors to step in, I'm comfortable with deletion. I'm happy to change my !vote if a significant cleanup is carried out. I understand that AFD is not cleanup, but it isn't necessary to keep an article because it is possible that an encyclopedic article could be written for a given title.
Smmurphy(
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Delete I do not think we need an article on every minor incident of the Troubles.
Peterkingiron (
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Delete per
WP:TNT. Even if this were notable, which I doubt, it would have to be re-written from scratch.
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The result was keep. The general consensus here is keep and that he passes
WP:GNG. I'd generally like a little bit more weighted policy base discussion but since being relisted there were some more
pile on keep !votes. It's pretty clear here.
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Delete small town mayors do not get an inclusion pass just for existing. The fact that hard headedness has created an inordinantly high number of articles on New Jersey mayors does not make all such mayors notable.
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We don't keep all high school articles or delete all "small town mayor" articles by rote. The issue is notability.--Milowent • hasspoken 12:22, 10 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep The references look to meet GNG, there are dozens more references about him on newspaper archives, I'll start adding some more information.
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Keep - If he is remembered today (check) and the sources are multiple (check) and in depth (check) i say keep.
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Keep: Agreed... he is remembered today and the sources are multiple. -
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The result was delete. —
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A biographical article about a Japanese child actor, but there is no evidence of
notability - none of the films listed in the Filmography have
sources to show he appeared in them and the two that have Wikipedia articles don't mention him. He does have an IMDB entry, but it doesn't list any of the films he is claimed to appear in here. I suspect his parts are so minor to be significantly below the thresholds in
WP:BIO and at most the actor should appear in
List of Japanese child actors - if suitable sources are provided.
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Delete: This stub cites no sources and contains no evidence of notability outside primary sources.
Worldlywise (
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Delete per
WP:GNG and
WP:OUTCOMES. There are insufficient sources, and we tend to delete articles about marginally notable child actors.
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Very little or no nobility at all. I'm having trouble understanding what the article is about. This doesn't really belong on Wikipedia.
Lafayette Baguettetalk 15:24, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment it’s the syllabus of required readings in the Chinese education system. Only likely sources will be an official ministry publication in Chinese.
Mccapra (
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Delete per nom and particularly per
Mccapra. I get the feeling this could have been PROD'd or CSD'd if it wasn't. -
John M Wolfson (
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Delete - this is a list of recommended books for students. Poorly written and poorly sourced,
WP:TNT even if notable. -
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Delete - Fails
WP:GNG; not encyclopedic at all. -- Danetalk 04:13, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. --
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Delete as no sign of passing notability requirements and also a product of undeclared paid editing which is surprising considering the state of it - it must have been cheap!
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This article's creator contested a PROD and recommended taking it to AfD. First, this article makes no attempt to assert the company's notability beyond it's basic near-future
existence. More specifically, the notability requirements for
companies state that "No company or organization is considered inherently notable" (no inherent notability) and "The organization or corporation itself must have been discussed in reliable independent sources for it to be considered notable" (no inherited notability). The
"too soon" standard is also relevant because even after the company is created there is no guarantee that it will receive news coverage for some time to come. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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Keep I only created it as a redirect, but now that we're here: independent sources covering this globally major agricultural products company have been added to the article.
UnitedStatesian (
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Comment: Found sources not used on the page already
1,
2.
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18 and even more (many more through google). I have not checked all these sources for their suitability, but there are at least a good number which could be used.
Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 16:53, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Note that 2 of these sources are from abc and Huffington Post and most other sources are from websites which seem to be reliable and independent.
Dreamy Jazz 🎷 talk to me | my contributions 16:59, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment from Nominator - The article has been expanded since the AfD so perhaps that motivated the article's creator. We can see if anyone still thinks the company is non-notable, but I have no disputes with the outcome of the AfD per the
WP:HEYMANN standard. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (
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Delete No evidence of notability. Google search turns up multiple people with the same name, neither of whom were the article subject.
sixtynine• whaddya want? • 17:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Based on content of article, the only possible notability would be for wining fencing medals, but as there are several winners of
Commonwealth Fencing Championships events with no articles, I do not think that this is sufficient to meet notability requirements. As an aside it is very unclear where the information in the article has come from.
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Delete - I don't see any notability; fails
WP:GNG. -- Danetalk 04:16, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
delete Lacks the coverage to meet the GNG so his only claim to notability are his Commonwealth Fencing Championship medals. Those championship aren't part of the Commonwealth Games and most of the medals were in team events which only had 7 or 8 teams. I checked the FIE website and he never competed at the world championships (or Olympic Games) so I don't think that
WP:NSPORT is met.
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The result was delete. And move as suggested. Sandstein 17:07, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete then rename
Gnostic saints (Christian) to
Gnostic saints. It seems this previously had other articles on the DAB page which have since been deleted and a disambig shouldn't have 1 article listed, as it's not then serving a purpose. Bungle(
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Delete and move, as above. Could just have been an unctontroversial
WP:RM?
PamD 09:09, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per above. No need for a disambig for only one article
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Delete and move as suggested.
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Keep: her club website looks reliable enough and is good enough for Slovenian wikipedia. She seems to have been national champion in several competitions, so being notable.
PamD 08:58, 2 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep Article needs work but she is notable per PamD. WCMemail 10:36, 2 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep: While it definitely needs expansion and outside sources (Perhaps from someone who can read Slovenian), She does seem notable enough as she has been named athlete of the year in her homecountry and seems to have quite some success.
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Keep I have added a couple of references, and there are more online that verify other wins, etc. I don't know what the nominator means by "no reliable sources" - is Slovenia's national public broadcaster not reliable? or the Slovenian Press Agency? Slovenian newspapers?
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The result was delete. Sandstein 16:31, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
None of the sources show notability. Sources 8-16 (out of 16 sources) are iTunes, source 7 is Instagram. Coverage falls short of requirements under notability guidelines and fails
WP:SINGER. Released a self produced album.
Vinegarymass911 (
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But what is defined as "notability"? Because according to
Wikipedia:CCS it makes a credible claim of significance and would not need a fundamental rewrite to become encyclopedic.
UserNumber (
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Ah, I see now why there could be confusion, but the point stands. –
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Delete Not-notable singer; there is a dearth of independent, persistent coverage in reliable sources, including
news outlets and the
relevant literature; what remains are blogs, itunes, social media and download platforms. All of which comprehensively fails the most basic requirements of
WP:ANYBIO.
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Delete Analysis of cited sources:
dissdash.com and musicalnoize.com are obscure sites that have no reputation for accuracy and fact checking, don't have the characteristics of
reliable sources.
youredm.com is also fairly obscure (no Wikipedia article and not in
Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources) but lists an editor-in-chief. The one time it was considered at
WP:RSN, the evaluation was "leaning unreliable" and the comment was "They have an established staff, but virtually none of them any any sort of credentials other than 'loving music' or 'listing where they live or grow up'. Seems like more of a fan/enthusiast group."
thedjlist.com appears to be a press release. The
site positions itself as a place for "DJs and industry professionals" to promote themselves. The one time it was considered at
WP:RSN, the evaluation was "undecided" and the comment was "Their About Us page states they've been around for two decades, but it was difficult to see any sort of staff list, editorial policy, credentials, or anything like that."
instagram and iTunes are reliable sources for "you can listen/buy song X" on instagram/iTunes, but they are not independent, and do nothing to establish notability.
The two Nadia Ali pieces on BBC Asian Network are primary source interviews where Muza teases and then launches his album.
Promotion is not the route to notability.
Jago News 24 contains a single relevant sentence, "Bangladeshi descent, expatriate artist Muza gave voice to the song."
Searches of the usual Google types, EDM magazines DJMag and Mixmag, and Bangladeshi news sources found nothing better. That is not surprising, since his first album was released only this month. Perhaps as his career progresses he will become
notable, but at present it's
WP:TOOSOON. --
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The result was delete. Sandstein 16:31, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I'm unsure based on this article what exactly he's supposed to be notable for and a search doesn't indicate to me that he actually is - in fact, aside from being related to John Kerry, I doubt the mentions that I can find would even exist if it weren't for
his family ties. His board positions and term position on CFR are not automatically notable either as far as I can tell. I see a bit of local minor coverage, but nothing that I'd consider in-depth, about being the "heir" to Heinz but I'd expect something like this to have received far more coverage. It appears also that there's been a bit of whitewashing to the article but even going back in the history, I don't see anything that's really significant. I also wouldn't object to redirecting it to Henry John Heinz III or Teresa Heinz, but the rest of this needs to go as there's nothing to substantiate it.
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Delete. No evidence of any independent notability. He is related to famous people, but notability is not inherited. The only source in the article is a marriage announcement. --
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The result was delete. The article remains completely unsourced (or rather, not reliably sourced) after three weeks of AfD, which makes deletion mandatory per
WP:V, a core policy. We simply do not keep unsourced content that is not sourced in a reasonable time after being challenged. Sandstein 16:30, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
This looks an obvious candidate to be redirected to
Everybody's Equal since the only differences between the two shows are the title, host and numbers; they are the same show. Do we need a separate article, or am I missing something? Launchballer 22:13, 2 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete/ Alternate redirect or merge (see below): I cannot agree to redirect one unsourced article to another unsourced article even though it would reduce maintenance. If there is some sourcing I would be agreeable to a merge/redirect but sourcing through the "External links" is not acceptable to me.
Otr500 (
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Keep: Yes, the article is unsourced, but having Googled it, it seems to be notable enough to have an article, and I'm sure we will find reliable sources for it.
Foxnpichu (
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Keep: Every other British game show has an article so this must as well.
Crocodile Dippy 2 15:31, 8 April 2019 (UTC)reply
So far I disagree with all three of you.
Otr500, the absence of sourcing does not necessarily mean it doesn't exist and is not a valid reason to delete.
Crocodile Dippy 2,
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is an even less valid argument.
Foxnpichu I disagree with you less, but I would argue that both articles are short and unlikely to be expanded, and thus could be merged per
WP:ATD-M.--Launchballer 14:48, 8 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I'm trying to draw up an idea (in my head) which we can agree on. I'm just not sure where to start.
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Comments: That
other stuff exists has continually been argued as reason to keep articles (even now) and just as continuously argued as poor reasoning. I have not looked at "Every other British game show" on Wikipedia, that may have just
flown under the radar. This is not merely a very poorly sourced article it is considered unsourced, yet... improperly sourced through "External links". I could not find any sources so actually sought out if someone else would. The best reply is that just because a source can not be found does not mean it does not exist, and a resulting "keep" !vote. This could be argued on every article on Wikipedia as a reason to keep or as an alternative to deletion.
WP:Notability still
"requires verifiable evidence" through
reliable sources. A "game show" is produced through an organization so should follow
Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) and/or
Wikipedia:Notability (media) that discusses notability in depth. Considering that
we like something is generally ineffective.
"Ignoring the rules" should only be used on the basis that the policies and guidelines hamper improvement to Wikipedia. Short of that
consensus is generally regarded as a "process of compromise while following Wikipedia policies" and is backed by more than
local consensus. In this case I do not see how allowing an unsourced article on a game show improves Wikipedia. Question @
User:Crocodile Dippy 2 and
User:Foxnpichu: Are there no reliable sources to back up the article, not even one confirming notability?
Otr500 (
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IMDb is not a reliable source as anyone can edit it, Adamnostalgia.wordpress.com is one person's blog. Neither constitute
reliable sources. Not sure about
UKGameshows.com. I would argue UK Gameshows.com is a reliable source as it is apparently good enough for The Guardian and The Times - what else have you got?--Launchballer 17:59, 10 April 2019 (UTC)reply
IMDb is certainly not reliable. I don't totally agree on the reliability of the source UK Gameshows.com and a discussion
almost three 1/2 years ago gave doubts on the editorial oversight. It is being used as a source (sometimes) and as an "External link" (sometimes) but I feel the general acceptability as a reliable source on notability (over content sourcing) is still questioned. This could be re-evaluated if someone wishes to use the link as a sole basis for stand-alone status bit I don't think it can be considered
significant coverage. Unless or until this is solved the site would likely not be contested when used for content. Here is a problem: If a closer decides there is no consensus or a close keep, for whatever reasoning with 1 redirect, 1 keep, and 1 delete/alt redirect/merge (the one keep simply referencing other stuff as reasoning likely will not count) it will just delay someone else bringing it up again. One source does not raise the bar of notability above any threshold to pass
GNG or
Wikipedia:TVSERIES. I have added "redirect"/ "merge" as alternatives until there is clarification on UK Gameshows.com.
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I know these aren't reliable, but there are quite a few forums regarding the show, meaning people must remember it.
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Hmmm... This discussion seems to have died, and we are still unsure what to make of the article. Should we close this as No Consensus or hold off for a bit?
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Article has no sources except to its own website. There is no evidence that this party has any elected officers or that it been mentioned in a non-trivial way in reliable sources. Any useful information can be folded into
Libertarian Party (United States). ToaNidhiki05 01:35, 9 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - It will be far better to keep the article and improve it rather than delete it as the Libertarian party is important enough to have state affiliate pages (like the
Green-Rainbow Party) and if you look at the article now I have greatly improved it and plan on doing so with more references in the future.
Jon698 23:22, 10 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep per
WP:GNG. Not a ton of sources at present but sufficient to meet notability standards.--
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The result was delete. Although it seems that a recreation from scratch by somebody not associated with this belief might have a better chance to be kept. Sandstein 16:28, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete, Maybe Speedy Delete. There's nothing new here to justify overturning old consensus. This is just someone who didn't like the consensus and did their own thing in spite of it. Perhaps redirect to
2012_phenomenon#Other_catastrophes where the topic is briefly mentioned.
ApLundell (
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Delete As proposer I support deletion and agree it might qualify for speedy. --
mikeutalk 20:02, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I'm in two minds about this one, but I think I want to go with a
WP:IARkeep. On the one hand, there seems to be a shortage of sources meeting Wikipedia's GNG. On the other, the sheer number of self-published and paid-for books on the subject by different authors over a long period of time shows that this is a well known belief.
[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] It is demonstrably nonsense, but I think Wikipedia ought to have some neutral coverage of it since readers will likely come across it. We cannot really expect academic sources to address the subject much unless proponents have first succeeded in getting academic publication (unlikely), at which point challenge would likely be forthcoming. The extant article is a vast improvement on the deleted one, the self-published sources are good for statements about what they themselves believe per
WP:SELFPUB, and The Straight Dope source provides some critical balance.
SpinningSpark 12:23, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep but improve. I have had a certain involvement with various New-Age types of people and events and groups connected with them, quite a long time ago now, and this idea is a real one within that realm - I encountered it a few times, and feel information on it could be useful to those researching New-Age beliefs. I do recall someone telling me that, depending on the exact position of the Earth at the time, the collision with the photon belt would result in either 5 days of light or 5 days of dark (I never quite understood the reason for that), and people were seriously exhorted to prepare for it, hoard necessary supplies, and generally approach it as a siege or disaster situation. This was in the 1990s, and the idea did seem to have a certain vogue at the time. I think the idea itself has zero credibility, but that's not really the issue; it is definitely a part of that broad spectrum of belief under the New-Age heading. I do feel the article could do with a lot of improvement, though, from someone knowledgeable on the topic. Unfortunately, I am not the one for that, because it is now a long time since I heard and read about this (some people I knew seemed to take it quite seriously), and I have forgotten much of the fine detail now. A lot of this stuff circulates by word-of-mouth and via literature, usually of an ephemeral nature, produced within small groups or movements, so I do realize that providing sources acceptable to Wikipedia will probably be more difficult for this than for many more "mainstream" topics. But, in general, when an article in Wikipedia is inadequate, I would support a default response of improving it rather than deleting it. Knowledge is precious, and sometimes very scarce, and should never be obliterated lightly.
M.J.E. (
talk) 15:10, 21 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment: I noted
this contribution from
LuckyLouie about the mini-bios in the footnotes section in the
2011 AfD, which are similar to the notes that were added in 2017 by an IP. I note that the same IP has been warned for copyvio (see
user talk:72.68.87.199) at another article soon after and added
a large amount of text in 2017, more than doubling the article by byte count. Just FYI...
EdChem (
talk) 02:01, 22 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:TNT and
WP:DENY. This was a gaming of Wikipedia. If someone wants to workshop a new article using
WP:RSes that are properly
WP:WEIGHTed, let them. But better to start from scratch. Nothing worth saving in this incarnation.
jps (
talk) 17:03, 22 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete or REDIRECT to
2012_phenomenon#Other_catastrophes. Not enough
WP:FRIND independent coverage to justify a stand alone article. What coverage there is
[17] ties this belief to the 2012 phenomenon. (I'm not sure what other sources existed during the 2011 AfD, but I don't see 'em currently). -
LuckyLouie (
talk) 19:24, 22 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete I'm just not seeing the case that this stands out as a noteworthy bit of pseudoscience. It might merit a paragraph or so in another article, but that text should be written from scratch, given the problematic history and
WP:OR concerns of the content here.
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delete. This was nominated for deletion but the PROD was removed. It was then re-added and removed again as per WP:PROD. The only references, sources and links on the article link to the BBC programme pages.
UK Wiki User (
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Delete. As above, the only sources provided aren't strong enough to meet requirements. In my opinion, this article doesn't pass
WP:GNG and
WP:BIO.Possibly self-promotion?
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The result was delete. The "keep" position in this discussion revolved around the opinion that all BBC presenters are notable (so long as they have a staff profile), regardless of coverage. This is adequately rebutted by the users in the "delete" position. Exemptions from the
General Notability Guideline do exist as their own specific notability guidelines, but no guidelines mention any such exemption for employees of an organization or company as is suggested.
Based on this, I see adequate consensus in favour of article deletion.
TheSandDoctorTalk 15:36, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep. All BBC presenters are notable, though I'm not sure about Toby and Smudge.--
Davidcpearce (
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I'm afraid I'm having to disagree with you. Just because people work for the BBC doesn't mean they're notable. If you can provide more reliable sources and references, feel free to contribute.
UK Wiki User (
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Delete Not notable and fueled by primary sources. Many similarly named people turned up on a Google search.
sixtynine• whaddya want? • 06:11, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. BBC presenters are notable if they can be shown to clear
WP:GNG as the subject of
reliable source coverage; they are not notable if the best source you can show is their staff profile on the BBC's own self-published website. Nobody but nobody ever but ever gets an automatic inclusion freebie just because they have a staff profile on their own employer's website — no matter what notability claim is being made, the actual notability test is always still the amount of journalism that sources other than the person's employer have been motivated to do about him.
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I don't see any independent reliable sources for this. It's possible there is
WP:RS for this in another language. --
David Tornheim (
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Our coverage of Burundi is so weak I would be very reluctant to see any of it removed. This appears to be the only article about any protestant church in the country.
Rathfelder (
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Keep--It is documented some in the article. Beyond this, consider that Burundi is a country of about 10 million. This denomination is more than 0.1% of the population. By percentage comparison, a church of similar relative size in the US would have over 400,000 members. There are many English language churches with less than 400,000 members which have articles that are never contested. The difference is that since the US is developed and speaks English, they are well documented. Burundi is small, impoverished, and foreign, so you are simply going to see less references for a country like that.
Epiphyllumlover (
talk) 18:32, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep--Found sources. It was an interesting rabbit hole.
Keep It now has sufficient independent sources.
Rathfelder (
talk) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep - per above.
Oculi (
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Keep as reliable sources coverage has been found and added to the article so that it passes
WP:GNG and it also has a major claim of significance of being one of the main denominations in Burundi, thanks
Atlantic306 (
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Keep -- This is a denomination, not a local church. Denominations are generally notable.
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The result was delete. ♠
PMC♠
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If I understand the structure of the English football leagues correctly, this footballer never played in a fully professional league, thereby failing
WP:NFOOTY. I do not see correspondence to
WP:GNG either.
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CAPTAIN RAJU(T) 07:28, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Per nom, nothing to indicate this player passes any policy.
Govvy (
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Delete Per my understanding doesn't pass NFOOTY (he was on the squad of
Cheltenham Town F.C. - but did not have playing time in the adult squad). Per my standards the sourcing out there does not establish GNG (though there is a smattering of local reporting, and this player has more coverage than many US minor league players).
Icewhiz (
talk) 10:56, 16 April 2019 (UTC) Added missing not.
Icewhiz (
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Delete – I added the rest of his career, as per
this site, but still nothing to pass NFOOTY or GNG. He never actually played for Cheltenham Town, was only on the bench three times.
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The result was delete. ♠
PMC♠
(talk) 04:42, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
content is is effectively advertising
Whizz40 (
talk) 06:18, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Weak delete Third-party sources check out but many of them are puff-piece interviews, while the article itself is promotional in tone and doesn't explain why the company is notable.
sixtynine• whaddya want? • 07:03, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete Does not appear notable in any sense and has little news coverage.
PhobosIkaros✉ 17:30, 22 April 2019 (UTC)reply
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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 08:20, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep. While an MBE is not usually held to confer automatic notability per
WP:ANYBIO #1, if it's awarded to someone in the public eye like a broadcaster then we would usually consider such people notable. I think it's fair to say that someone with such a long career in broadcasting and who has been honoured for it is notable. --
Necrothesp (
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Comments: I keep seeing the words "automatic notability" that equates to intrinsic or
inherent notability, and would like to see such usage reflected as "presumed notability. This is actually covered under
Wikipedia:Planned films#Coverage of planned films (WP:PRESUMPTION, WP:PRESUME, and WP:REBUT) but is relevant to any situation concerning the
notability of a subject as "worthy of notice". All notability guidelines, that I am aware of, include
reliable sources as a main criteria so they do not conflict with any policies. Even when there is presumed notability it is dependent on available sources and will still also be dependent on
WP:consensus to have an article.
Having stated the above I tend to agree with User:Necrothesp. Being awarded an MBE would seem to indicate this would be considered a very high award, possibly on par with the
Presidential Citizens Medal, so I think does add an element of reasoning for notability. Although the article is lacking, the condition of the article is not a determination of notability, but the availability of sources. It would seem there would be sources for such a long career.
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Non-notable Islamic seminary based on Chemmad, led by
Bahauddeen Muhammed Nadwi. Doesn't touch
WP:GNG. The seminary doesn't seem to be a degree-awarding university, it appears to provide a high school education, including "secondary" and "senior secondary", according to
their website. But the seminary does not follow the
Kerala State Education Board or
CBSE or
CISCE the 3 main boards in Kerala but follows Islamic religious curriculum not sure if it is a recognised school and hence it cannot be presumed to be notable.
MalayaliWoman (
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Atlantic306 (
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Keep, there are multiple English-language sources, including international ones, that mention and discuss DHIU. I strongly suspect that local sources (in Malayalam) also exist, but I lack the language skills to look for them. University "accredition" is dubious (and not mentioned on the website Nadwi Kooriyad linked to above) since it doesn't award any university-level degrees but relies on its students to get those from an open university, but it does seem to operate as a high school.
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Comment -
MalayaliWoman, I am aware that someone said so in the previous deletion discussion, but what's the evidence that they don't follow the
Kerala State Education Board or
CBSE or
Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations? Are those the only boards in Kerala, and something not following them is not a high school? DHIU seems to require that its "university" students attend an open university, and I find it difficult to believe that a degree-granting university would accept people without a genuine high school diploma. That said, I disagree with the GNG assessment; the article cites quite a few reliable sources, I know that some additional ones, including more international media coverage, exist but aren't particularly helpful, and that's not even touching Malayalam or Hindi sources which are also likely to exist.
Huon (
talk) 23:38, 8 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep as per the sources analysis by @
Huon:, also note the references referred to have been deleted with much else of the article by the edit warring nominator who has added unreferenced non-neutral assertions that are immediately contradicted by the first of the remaining references
Atlantic306 (
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Comment - I have reverted the page to a better-sourced version without the patently false claim of it being a "diploma mill". There seems to be quite a bit of sockpuppetry going on, on both sides.
Huon (
talk) 13:41, 10 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep as per the sources analysis by @
Huon: and previous deletion discussions.
Csgir (
talk) 05:36, 12 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete –
WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES is not a legitimate argument for deletion discussions. I have examined the available sources, and it does not seem that the criteria of
WP:SIGCOV under
WP:NSCHOOL,
WP:NORG and
WP:GNG is met. Analysis: (i) the
Saudi Gazette source is largely
WP:PRIMARY, as large chunks of the article include the author quoting or paraphrasing the interviewee, and in that it is at most a second-party source, and therefore cannot be used for the purpose of establishing notability; (ii) the
Hindu source reads like a press release/
churnalism (see
WP:PRIMARY), and it probably is one too; (iii) the
DHIU source is
WP:PRIMARY as well as it is from the school's website; (iv) the
second article from Hindu is an obituary of an individual who served as the Pro-Chancellor of the institution, and does not give significant coverage to the institution; (v) the article in the
New Indian Express is about a student magazine that makes a transitory reference to the institution. —
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Keep I actually nominated this for deletion back in 2013, for reasons I came to understand were mistaken. I've not seen anything change in the sense of the subject becoming less notable, and the fact that this was nominated by a sockpuppet raises the possibility of bad faith being involved here.
MezzoMezzo (
talk) 03:43, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep: Meets
WP:GNG as there is significant coverage by multiple independent reliable sources. --
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Article only links to self-published sources. It does not appear to have any elected officers or any non-trivial coverage in reliable sources. Any useful information can be folded into the article for the national
Working Families Party. ToaNidhiki05 19:29, 8 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Redirect to
Working Families Party as even the article sources/external links are about that party. There has been some local coverage (e.g.
[18]) but basically this party is the answer to a trivia question about Vermont politics (see
[19]). We can't merge unsourced information to the larger article, so that leaves a redirect from a plausible search term to the larger article where this party is already mentioned.
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Redirect to
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Comment The citations on this article seem to be divided into two camps: those where Robert Shaw was involved in the production of the citation and those that don't mention Robert Shaw but rather connect to claims the article itself makes concerning Robert Shaw. Almost all of the edits by the original creator of the article are for this page or pages that relate to Robert Shaw, which would not be a problem in itself if the page could back up more of its claims with evidence. I'm sure the article could be made to satisfy
WP:POET, but it looks like the page would require extensive archival work; I could see the page getting moved to a draft until then.
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CommentPossibly Move to draft Some industrious Wikipedian needs to improve the layout and readability of this article. And then I can vote. Lubbad85 (
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Totally unsourced even after 13 years, no apparent notability. Sourced content could be covered elsewhere.
BilCat (
talk) 03:20, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete, for not being verifiable.
Dannyniu (
talk) 03:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Move content to
Rolls-Royce Trent, its only link in the main space. Seems not unsourced but badly referenced.--
Marc Lacoste (
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Sources and references have been added since
my nomination. Agree with merge with Trent article. -
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The result was soft delete. Since Atlantic never returned to vote, soft deleting.
WP:REFUND applies. ♠
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Not voting yet, but it does not have to be notable outside Russia, as
WP:GNG accepts non-English references and sources as proof of notability, so it's a question of whether the sources in whatever language pass
WP:CORPDEPTH, thanks
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The result was keep. Or at worst no consensus, but more recent comments trend towards keep. Sandstein 08:10, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Not a shred of philosophy. The article sits here as a poor summary of the basic laws of thermo and Maxwell's demon. Started in these old exciting times (2003) when the concept of Wikipedia was vague. Original writer has long since gone, so I cannot ask for fixes. Nobody else cares . I think it is time for the demon to consume it.
Staszek Lem (
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Speedy Keep Not a shred of a
reason to delete. We don't delete articles because they were written in 2003. We don't delete articles because their original authors have moved on – that will happen to every article in time. We don't delete articles because they are poor – see
WP:IMPERFECT and
WP:NOTCLEANUP. And we don't delete articles to
feed demons. For an example of an external article of a similar kind in a reputable work, see the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Andrew D. (
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The reasojn is stated clear; you saw it and even mocked it: the article has not a word on its subject. I mentioned the original authors because I could have asked them per WP:AGF to fix the article, -- but could not.
Staszek Lem (
talk) 16:10, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Don't speedy keep As of right now I'm neutral on what should be done with the article, but Andrew should be given the boot if he makes any more counter-policy "speedy keep" !votes, and he should be blocked if he doesn't retract the above unprovoked personal attack on the nom: we can disagree about things until the cows come home, but when you start calling people trolls (and demons!) solely because you disagree with them, that's a sign that you perhaps need to take a break.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや) 10:21, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
It was the nom who first raised the "feeding the demon" idiom, not Andrew.
SpinningSpark 22:03, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Spinningspark: The nom appeared to be using "consumption by a demon" as a metaphor for deletion; Andrew referred to the nominator as a demon, and the page he linked made it clear he was implying the nominator was a troll. I see these as substantively different.
Hijiri 88 (
聖やや) 23:29, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. I couldn't find a suitable source to establish notability of this topic (as opposed to the more inclusive "
Philosophy of physics"). There are several forks of Wikipedia's article online. I also found
this source, which seems to be part of a university curriculum.
Axl¤[Talk] 13:48, 16 April 2019 (UTC
Delete per (i)Davidson.
∯WBGconverse 13:57, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep I see no reason to delete. The article has relevant and respected sourcing.
WP:NOTCLEANUP. The article passes
WP:GNG. "Original writer has long since gone?" This is mot a valid reason to delete.
WP:NOTPAPER so there is no practical limit to the number of topics Wikipedia can cover or the total amount of content. Lubbad85 (
☎) 14:41, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Please explain how the sources cover the subject, namely Philosophy of..."
Staszek Lem (
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What is the nature of the probabilities in statistical mechanics?
Is it correct that classical thermodynamics can be "reduced" to the consequences of statistical mechanics, or is there more?
To what extent can it be said that statistical mechanics "explains" the second law of thermodynamics and the directionality of time -- or does this depend on important assumptions and approximations?
However, the present article appears neither to raise nor address any of these questions, giving just a capsule summary of the laws of thermodynamics, which really could be anywhere & really has very little connection to the specific topic. I would therefore say keep to preserve the history and the talk-page; but really, IMO, the entire content ought to be scrapped, and the article started again, focussed on actually, what are the philosophical (epistemological, ontological) questions here.
Jheald (
talk) 15:13, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
One more ref: This background material
[20] for a course by Gábor Hofer-Szabó on "Philosophy of Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics" gives a useful overview of historical technical development, through which some of the philosophical issues peek through (and I like the advice to try to identify the "point of intractability").
Jheald (
talk) 15:57, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Also, his more fleshed-out notes
[21] for a course
[22], which conclude with this interesting set question: "Where does coarse-graining come from? Limited capacity of the observer? Does equilibrium make sense to creatures with unlimited capacity? Does coarse-graining have any physical basis or it is plainly arbitrary?" -- what is it we seek from a scientific theory?
Jheald (
talk)
Delete: Non-notable and does not provide any useful encyclopedic information that is not already outside the article.--
MaoGo (
talk) 15:41, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Declaring something non-notable does not make it so ipse dixit. Several contributors have offered sources. If you wish to argue for nn ex post facto then it is incumbent on you to give a rationale why those sources do not meet GNG.
SpinningSpark 22:31, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment There's definitely a notable topic here, as the references provided above demonstrate. The only question is whether it is easier to fix up the current page or go the
WP:TNT route.
XOR'easter (
talk) 16:19, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep but stubbify. There's a substantial and valid topic here - that completely fails to be addressed by current article contents. Looks as if it needs to be rewritten from scratch; we might as well replace contents with a one paragraph precis until that happens. I find
Jheald's outlines of what could be done here convincing. --Elmidae (
talk ·
contribs) 18:04, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep. Clearly a notable topic, and now the irrelevant material has been removed, we have a servicable stub. There are numerous sources that can be used to build a good article from this. Book sources include;
Martinas et al., Thermodynamics: History And Philosophy - Facts, Trends, Debates[23]
Hoyer, Thermodynamics and Philosophy: Ludwig Boltzmann,
[24]
Sklar, Physics and Chance: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics,
[25]
Ernst & Hüttemann, Time, Chance, and Reduction: Philosophical Aspects of Statistical Mechanics,
[26]
Rename something to the effect of "Philosophy of Thermodynamics"; a more inclusive and well-known name. That said, with such title the current stub has potential for expansion and improvement. -
John M Wolfson (
talk) 01:19, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I don't agree with this rename. Statistical physics is the essential feature that links phenomenological thermodynamics to more fundamental mechanics.
Xxanthippe (
talk) 01:26, 17 April 2019 (UTC).reply
How about a move to "Philosophy of statistical physics" or "Philosophy of thermodynamics and statistical physics" (although the latter is a bit long)? The current name seems overly obscure and clunky, IMO, although I'd like to generate more consensus on the name if felt appropriate.
John M Wolfson (
talk) 03:32, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Yesterday, I actually considered proposing a rename to "Philosophy of thermodynamics and statistical physics". It is longer, in terms of character count, but it's easier to digest.
XOR'easter (
talk) 15:25, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep The clutter is gone, and with it the concerns about possible
Original Research. We have by now more than enough references to establish notability. No policy-based argument for deletion stands.
XOR'easter (
talk) 15:34, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
I don't think that there was very much in the article that was genuinely OR, just uncited which is not the same thing. An expanded article would doubtless have to have some discussion of the laws of thermodynamics, but I agree with its removal for the present – there is no point to it if it is not in the context of imparting philosophical ideas, which is what the article is supposed to be about.
SpinningSpark 15:55, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Yes, there's a difference between what "Original Research" often means and "miscellaneous pile of probably roughly correct, uncited material that meanders about the stated topic without really contacting it".
XOR'easter (
talk) 20:03, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep Jheald found a college course and other evidence this is a real thing and gets coverage.
DreamFocus 18:09, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep for reasons cited in the last four keeps. This is a content dispute, not a reason to
WP:AFD. 7&6=thirteen (
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This article fails
WP:GNG, Dream Machine is only a minor section of sony's products. Reads like an Advertisement and wikipedia is not an advertising platform. Best course of action would be to start over and rewrite the article from the ground up or merge.
Buckaroo bob 91 (
talk) 01:09, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
keep Satisfies WP:GNG. Product section size irrelevant. The blurb about advertising is false: it is purely technical description of rather vintage devices. Of course, the language looks like copied from adverts, but this is easy to fix.
Staszek Lem (
talk) 02:20, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep. I believe this should pass
WP:GNG. The parts that read like an advertisement are taken from reviews.
Mosaicberry (
talk) 12:41, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep and rewrite. A significant line of products, suitable for an article. Some of the parts that read likeadvertisements may be not reviews, but puffery, and are in any case easy to remove. DGG (
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The result was keep. ♠
PMC♠
(talk) 04:40, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
De-PRODed with a rationale I'm struggling to understand. Minor advisory body; little-to-no coverage in RS besides the announcement of its creation. Any coverage that this body has received or will receive will have to be covered at
Premiership of Narendra Modi or elsewhere, as being related to national policy. No obvious target for a redirect, except possibly the page mentioned above. Delete, or redirect at best. Vanamonde (
Talk) 21:32, 8 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: PROD opposition not very strong, but it's there so treating this as
WP:NOQUORUM just yet seems inappropriate without at least a further attempt at input.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~ Amory(
u •
t •
c) 00:43, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep. This is hardly a minor body. The subsidies that it was examining are a fundamental part of India's economy and any changes would probably have significant effects on voting patterns. The references are enough to establish notability, and I added additional ones about the delivery of the commission's interim and final reports. The capitalisation in the title is wrong. The article should be moved to
Expenditure Management CommissionEastmain (
talk •
contribs) 02:35, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep. The promise of this commission seems to have been a political issue for some time.
Business India notes in 1997 that the commission has not yet been realised, meaning that the issue dates back even further than 97. Something that has been a matter for political comment over several decades is more than a "minor advisory body". The reports of the commission are always newsworthy with substantial articles:
NDTV, 2014,
Economic Times, 2014,
The Hindu, 2014,
NDTV, 2016.
SpinningSpark 18:20, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep significant political body with SIGCOV.
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The result was delete. Consensus is that this is a
WP:BIO1E case. There are only two opposing views, and only one of these makes a cogent argument. The other is an appeal to
WP:IAR, which only works if it is explained how exactly ignoring the rules in this case would improve Wikipedia. But no such argument is made here. Sandstein 08:07, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
There is already some discussion of his potential notability on
his talk page, where the consensus so far is that this is a case of
WP:TOOSOON and that any coverage of him belongs in other articles at this point.
He is a postdoc born in 1990/91, who earned his bachelor's degree in 2013 and who just recently started his career in research. He was one of over 300 people who contributed to the Event Horizon Telescope project. While the project is notable itself, it doesn't in itself confer individual notability to the over 300 people who were involved with it. Many members of the team have in fact emphasized that the image was the result of a large collaborative effort and that it isn't appropriate to credit one or a few individuals with it. He also doesn't claim any such credit. This kind of tabloidization, based on the "genius myth"
[27], also harms science, as pointed out by some interviewees in a recent NYT article that discussed the case.
The relevant guidelines for assessing his notability are
WP:PROF,
WP:GNG and
WP:1E.
He clearly isn't anywhere near passing
WP:PROF – our notability guideline for academics. Those not already familiar with WP:PROF should read the criteria.
While it is possible to be notable under WP:GNG, all the media coverage that he has received relates to single comment he made on social media in response to an image of someone else that was also discussed in social media. That is a textbook case of
WP:1E and would at most merit a redirect to a more appropriate article where the issue is covered.
Clearly there is no basis in policy here for keeping the article, other than as a redirect.
Wikipedia has well established standards and procedures for notability, and we can't be bullied into ignoring them by people on social media who lack familiarity with our procedures. Articles like this, and indeed articles on much more accomplished scientists, are routinely challenged on notability. His or anyone else's gender plays no part at all in the considerations of his or anyone else's notability; I'm generally opposed to the phenomenon of creating articles on postdocs or other junior academics the moment they are mentioned in the media, regardless of their gender, when we have specific criteria for academics that set the bar so much higher. I'm also stating here, for the benefit of anyone recruited via social media to come here, that this is a discussion among Wikipedia editors of his notability based on Wikipedia's notability guidelines – it is not a vote.
Tataral (
talk) 00:36, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete per nom. Fails
WP:GNG,
WP:PROF and
WP:BLP1E. Like the nom mentioned, there are too many scientists. Perhaps we will reach a point where creating articles about scientists will almost be forbidden, but that will be necessary per
WP:BLP1E. If this article is deleted, that would be good precedent to delete
Katie Bouman, where in the previous AfD some editors admitted to completely ignoring BLP1E because of a random dubious keep closure of an AfD of AOC's chief of staff (who is not even an academic). wumbolo^^^ 21:18, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Keep Passes notability guidelines. The black hole image received wide national coverage (as the subject also made news defending
Katie Bouman, including on
CNN, the
Washington Post,
People magazine,
Huffington Post,
Fox News,
NBC News, and
Astronomy magazine, to name a few. It appears a
PBS article featuring Bouman prompted the brouhaha, then social media ran with it. As a member of the team, Chael, according to reliable source reporting, wrote most of the code for one of the 3 software imaging pipelines that simulated the black-hole image, while Bouman wrote the algorithm, which is why the two have been singled out from the black-hole team of researchers (although social media seems to have missed the two's true roles). Thus, Chael's role -- and notability -- in creating the black hole image has been shown in the significant coverage in mainstream news that discussed it and is still covering the issue. This is not a
WP:BLP1E. Besides the significant role the subject played in simulating the Black Hole image, his notability is also shown in his having received a
NASA Hubble fellowship and a
Harvard award for best disertation. Add that to his continuing work on the Black Hole through his post-graduate research work at the Black Hole Initiative and as an assistant professor at Harvard, and notability is shown. The subject clearly passes
WP:GNG. Also, can the nom
User:Tataral please name the source of the 300 number of researchers working on the black-hole image? I cannot find that mentioned anywhere. Thank you. -
AuthorAuthor (
talk) 22:17, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Which notability guidelines and criteria specifically? It does not follow from the fact that the black hole image itself has received media coverage that Chael is also notable, and it hasn't been demonstrated that the image is mainly his work, as opposed to a collaborative effort in which he played a part along with many other people, or that his role was such a large one compared to those other people. The number 300+ was mentioned in a recent article in The Washington Post, but I see that the number 200+ is also mentioned by many sources
[28]. It doesn't matter for this discussion whether it was 200+ or 300+.
Also, a dissertation award from one's own university doesn't confer any notability, as anyone who has ever read WP:PROF will be aware of. What constitutes a "a highly prestigious academic award" under WP:PROF is discussed in detail and it's stated explicitly that "internal university awards are insufficient for this purpose" and that "victories in academic student competitions at [...] university level as well as other awards and honors for academic student achievements [...] do not qualify under Criterion 2 and do not count towards partially satisfying Criterion 1".
There is no evidence of him being an assistant professor anywhere (he is only listed with the title Graduate Student on the Harvard website), and the rank of assistant professor does absolutely not confer any notability. The WP:PROF criterion based on academic rank requires "a named chair appointment or "Distinguished Professor" appointment at a major institution", at the very opposite end of the career spectrum. In general an assistant professor is a neophyte academic. --
Tataral (
talk) 02:29, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Speedy Delete It is imperative that we delete this page as soon as possible. I've just checked, and the Wikipedia servers are completely out of space. We've amassed too much knowledge, and are sinking under the sheer weight of it. People who Google things are coming to our site, and we simply cannot keep up anymore! Indeed, if we do not delete this right now I might not even have enough space to finish typing this sente
TheOtherBob 23:41, 16 April 2019 (UTC)reply
This is a joke, right,
User:TheOtherBob? Please strike through your !vote so that it is not included and counted as part of this discussion. Thank you. -
AuthorAuthor (
talk) 02:03, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
April 1st is thataway <===. Besides, we've ordered fresh supplies of virtual paper and are expecting delivery any microsecond now.
Clarityfiend (
talk) 19:40, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Speedy Keep. The established rules of Wikipedia are against this article: specifically,
WP:BIO1E, as well as
WP:BLP1E, would suggest that it should merely be a redirect to the actual event that this person is a part of, and they don't (yet) qualify under
WP:ACADEMIC, either; however, the rules themselves may be wrong, outdated and/or overly-established. We as Wikipedia editors should exercise our judgement similar to the concept known as
Jury nullification, and vote to keep even if the subject is not eligible for an article based on the established rules of kingdom, on the sole basis that we may disagree with said rules. (In fact, in doing so, we'll be following the precedent already set in the
prior AfD about this event.)
MureninC (
talk) 20:40, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
The other AfD was based on largely the same rationale as the one outlined here. However, while neither Chael nor Bouman are notable as academics (WP:PROF), there is a difference between them in the coverage they received (and thus their GNG-derived notability); the coverage of Bouman (most of it from after the article was created and indeed nominated for deletion) has been much more extensive and focused directly on her, while the coverage of Chael was merely about him weighing in on the coverage of Bouman itself, and it was of a much more limited and narrow (1E) nature. I therefore don't think there is a relevant precedent either way here. --
Tataral (
talk) 03:43, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete This may well not have been the article creator's intent, but it comes across as a
WP:POINTy "what about the men?" creation as part of the
sexistbacklash against Katie Bouman's new-found fame for the black hole image. Like Bouman, it is too early in his career for
WP:PROF notability. And like Bouman, participation in the project by itself is not cause for notability (not even enough of one to save this from BIO1E); the question is the depth and long-term significance of the media coverage specifically about the subject. Unlike Bouman, who has had in-depth profiles published on her in connection with the black hole image story and then a second wave of coverage about the sexism, Chael is not singled out among the other 200 researchers on that project in the media coverage of the project itself. The only non-trivial coverage of Chael himself is for his elevation as a hero by the sexists and for his repudiation of that elevation. So the media coverage is both significantly less extensive and also more problematic with respect to BIO1E (the only thing he is known for is that some trolls picked his name out of a hat among all the other men they could have picked). —
David Eppstein (
talk) 22:11, 17 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Bouman's 2nd wave of coverage was directly connected to the reaction to the first wave of coverage, and in an unhappy way. I don't think keeping Bouman's article satisfies
WP:BLP1E and
WP:AVOIDVICTIM. wumbolo^^^ 06:50, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
That's irrelevant here, except inasmuch as Chael's case is clearly much weaker, so if you don't think she should be notable then you should agree that Chael isn't. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 15:37, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete without prejudice against possibly recreating at a later date, as it seems plausible enough that he might come to meet
WP:PROF or
WP:GNG. (For example, if he becomes one of the "public faces" of the EHT collaboration during their next announcements, then BIO1E would be irrelevant.) Prizes for "best doctoral thesis" are insufficient for
WP:PROF#C2; his fellowship is
the kind that pays for a postdoc, not the "lifetime achievement award" that is being elected Fellow of a highly selective society, as required for
WP:PROF#C3. I wouldn't object to stashing the page in User or Draft space, since I don't see anything really troublesome about the text itself, and the situation might change within the typical expiration timeframe of Draft pages. Bouman is wiki-notable; Chael isn't (yet).
XOR'easter (
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