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Visitor pattern
I saw your complaints about the Visitor pattern article. I agree! The article is lacking a good Motivation paragraph. I've started to write such a Motivation section the Talk page of the article. Please add your comments and help me improve the Visitor pattern page. --Objarni (talk) 08:52, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Tom Hunter (novelist)


The article Tom Hunter (novelist) has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * No reliable third-party sources provided that could establish notability

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On The Contrary, Subject is Notable, Has a New York Agent and Big Novel
I oppose your deletion by pointing out several facts that you chose not to find since you self reported that you curtailed your search merely because the Google results were too numerous for you to bother. Your lack of diligence in no way justifies so summary an action.

The novelist Tom Hunter is represented by a New York Agent, The Doug Grad Literary Agency. http://www.dgliterary.com/the-butcher-of-leningrad.html "The Butcher of Leningrad" is forthcoming by Antenna Books, a New York City publisher. 

The magazine "Noggin" that you dismissed so peremptorily is held in the Special Collections department of the University of Iowa Library. The magazine was written about in every region newspaper for its groundbreaking content. This entry is justified and backed up with several outside sources.

This entry contains links to other Wikipedia articles, for "Noggin Magazine".


 * Hi Tom(?). I would like to help save the article. It can be saved. But we need sources. If the sources are not online that is OK but we need to know the dates, titles and so on for citation purposes. Myself and another person have put a fair amount of time into searching and have come up with very little so far. So your personal knowledge is the last best hope. Since you are the subject of the article(?) I highly recommend not voting in the AfD or editing the article due to appearances of Conflict of Interest, but I will add this page to my watch list and we can co-ordinate here whatever information you know of. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 07:37, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
 * In particular the sources for Noggin are going to the best bet, the The Butcher of Leningrad is not enough to meet WP:AUTHOR guidelines for notability (not every published author gets a Wikipedia article only notable ones), but the position of founder/editor of Noggins could be if we can show a number of good sources with biographical profiles. Honestly I don't think the article has a good chance of being kept, but even if it is a deleted, we can probably merge/redirect the short bio into the Noggins article as a sub-section about the founder. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 07:45, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Green, I see the writing on the wall. If two Wikipedia "Editors" are bent on rooting out a new article, it will be gone. You have assigned yourselves as the deciders in this matter. By all means, obliterate the article if that is what you always intended to do. I, however, will decline to dance further for you in defense of this article. If you wish this information, which is accurate, to be omitted from the wikipedia record, you have abrogated the right to do so. You can delete any information you deem unworthy. Let me give you an insight. Each of us live our lives in a milieu that makes us experts in certain areas. We bring that experience and knowledge of our part of the world to wikipedia. People doing what you and your article-demolition partner are doing arbitrarily eliminate subject matter that would be seen, without question, as being noteworthy in other regions of the United States. So, please, do as you wish. But I will decline at this time to dance to your requests. Delete away, knaves.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: "Tom Hunter Creates Noggin in a Bubble" by Ann Scholl Boyer, March 25, 1992. [NewspaperArchive.com free login needed. I will ask for a copy of these articles for a permanent reference. There was also an big story in the Iowa City Press Citizen. The Daily Iowan also ran several profile pieces.

Hunter was also a columnist at the Daily Iowan: Daily Iowan, Column (August 31st, 1993, Page 10A) "Political Correctness: unexpected Problems" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1993/di1993-08-31.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (September 14th, 1993, Page 8A) "The God Myth: the emperor unclothed" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1993/di1993-09-14.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (September 28th, 1993, Page 6A) "Bullet Ban Would Solve Gun Problems" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1993/di1993-09-28.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (October 12th, 1993, Page 6A) "Sports Incompatible with functions of university" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1993/di1993-10-12.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (October 26th, 1993, Page 6A) "Indoctrination into the cult of beauty common" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1993/di1993-10-26.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (November 9th, 1993, Page 6A) "Testosterone identified as real culprit" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1993/di1993-11-09.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (January 18th, 1994, Page 6A) "Definitions: A Glossary of Modern Politics" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-01-18.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (January 25th, 1994, Page 6A) "Messiah for hire: mystical curiosities" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-01-25.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (February 1st, 1994, Page 8A) "Apple and IBM's Conceptual Differences" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-02-01.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (February 8th, 1994, Page 8A) "Monarch Butterflys' Existence Imperiled" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-02-08.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (February 15th, 1994, Page 6A) "Examining Drug Company's Sacred Cow" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-02-15.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (February 22nd, 1994, Page 6A) "Cop and Alleged Shoplifter Loses Job" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-02-22.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (March 1st, 1994, Page 6A) "Conservatives Should Help Conserve Nature" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-03-01.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (March 8th, 1994, Page 6A) "CIA Has Outlived What Usefulness It Had": http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-03-08.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (March 15th, 1994, Page 6A) "At the Pyramid's Base: male powerlessness" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-03-15.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (March 29th, 1994, Page 4) "UFO Sightings in Michigan the real thing?" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-03-29.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (April 5th, 1994, Page 6A) "Continuing to keep America beautiful" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-04-05.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (April 12th, 1994, Page 6A) "Federal Debt Attributable to Reagan era" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-04-12.pdf Daily Iowan, Column (April 19th, 1994, Page 6A) "Do Professors Teach or Just Pad Resumes?" http://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1994/di1994-04-19.pdf etcetera

Hi, the Daily Iowan columns are not considered reliable sources due to being primary sources, Wikipedia relies on secondary sources, as described in WP:V and WP:RS. Basically what the article needs is articles about Tom Hunter published by journalists (other than Tom) in newspapers and magazines etc. Typically 3 or 4 such articles are enough to meet notability guidelines. You can follow the delete discussion on the AfD page. It is an open community process which anyone can participate. The closing Administrator will weigh all the evidence and make a decision based on how well the arguments follow the rules, in this case, if the article passes WP:GNG. Please note I did not nominate the article for deletion, nor did I vote for it to be deleted. I am telling you this information in the hopes you will be able to improve the article. I suspect Tom is notable, but have exhausted all online databases so believe you are the only one who might know of other additional sources. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 20:44, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Green Cardamom, 1. http://newspaperarchive.com/ 2. Create a free account. 3. Advanced Search 4. Parameters:  "with the exact phrase" = Noggin, Check "Narrow by Publication Location": Country = United States of America, State = Iowa, City = Cedar Rapids, Publication = Cedar Rapids Gazette. 5. Search 6. First result at this URL: http://newspaperarchive.com/cedar-rapids-gazette/1992-03-25/page-47?tag=noggin&rtserp=tags/?pc=4783&psi=39&pci=7&pt=16732&pep=noggin 7. Story with half-page photo: "Tom Hunter Creates Noggin in a Bubble". 3-25-1992 by Ann Scholl Boyer, staff reporter.

8. Story in Iowa City Press-Citizen. 9. Story about Tom Hunter in the Daily Iowan from before he was a columnist there.


 * Ok added the Cedar Rapids source but if you have the citations for 8. and 9. that will help (author, "title", date). -- Green Cardamom (talk) 06:12, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Green Cardamom--So you found the source and deleted it anyway. And now I see that your crew is looking to delete Noggin as well. The presence of an actual source made no difference.

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Please read the following policies
Instead of attacking other editors, you'd be better served to read the following policies: WP:AUTO, WP:COI, WP:AUTHOR, WP:BK, and WP:RS. You think you deserve two Wikipedia articles because you have an agent? Jesus. Qworty (talk) 23:08, 8 November 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Noggin Magazine, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  23:36, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Tom Hunter (novelist), you may be blocked from editing without further notice. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  23:38, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

Mike, you are not being logical. I created the article. You opposed it. You won. It gets deleted. That's what you wanted, isn't it? You intimated that you were coming for Noggin Magazine's article next so I cut to the chase. I am in no way "vandalizing" an article. I wrote the article and defended it until you shot it down. Do you prefer the death be slow?
 * You don't get to decide what belongs or doesn't belong on Wikipedia, even if the two articles are related to you and written by you. Work on Wikipedia is done by WP:CONSENSUS.  Please also read WP:OWN.  Take the above warnings seriously, and please stop vandalizing Wikipedia.  Thank you. Qworty (talk) 03:53, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Nomination of Noggin Magazine for deletion
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File permission problem with File:IowaCityPressCitizen 11-25-1991 Noggin Article.jpg
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