Testwiki:Articles for deletion/John A. McPake

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, consensus is that the article fails the relevant notability guideline. Davewild (talk) 09:12, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

John A. McPake

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There is no assertion of notability whatever in the article, and none available through the Internet. The article was created by the same person(s) who created Gleda and the Sparkling-Cloth, a vanity-press book which I have also nominated for deletion, along with Frank Wilson (children's author), which was also created by the same person(s). You may want to see the related deletion discussions. Neither McPake, Wilson, or the book in question are notable in any verifiable way. Qworty (talk) 04:31, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. —Littleteddy (roar!) 10:16, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Wknight94 (talk) 21:12, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

• weak keep and comment - Actually, I do see assertions of notability in the article - that he has exhibited locally and internationally, and "has been elected President of Manchester Academy of Fine Arts". I've found a few links - [1] and [2] and[3] - that mention him. I feel I'm unqualified to comment on how notable he is as an artist, and I can appreciate the nominator's suspicion that this article could have been just part of a walled garden of non-notability - but this artist seems to pass an initial smell-test, for me, anyway. The article is poor quality, but could maybe be improved to Wikipedia standards. There are indeed some web-references, at least. Shouldn't punish a possibly notable artist just because he illustrated a wikispammer's book. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 14:27, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. No sources given. I would not object to a recreation if the editor takes the effort to show why McPake should be considered worthy of inclusion based on independent sources. I see little such here. B.Wind (talk) 05:11, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete - lack of media coverage. PhilKnight (talk) 23:40, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete- even if the person is notable (of which there is litle proof), it is not the reader's responsibility to go digging around the internet for notability. The AfD is to determine what to do with an article as it stands, not what it may be. We need to keep the bar set high for notability and citations.--Sallicio^$\oplus$ 04:38, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

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