Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aaron Goldfarb (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. -- RoySmith (talk) 17:27, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Aaron Goldfarb
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non notable author of 3 non-notable books--2 of them are in WorldCat but in a single library each; the 3rd isn't even in WorldCat. The references are a mixture of blogs, notices, and his own work.  DGG ( talk ) 07:19, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete For all we know this clown has been promoting himself even possibly profiting from Wikipedia. Possible example of self promotional vanity page created by a SPA who is not here, it was unfortunately on this encyclopedia for 4 years. DGG I'm curious to know if the first version that has been deleted was also created by a SPA.  Valoem   talk   contrib  22:48, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Davidholt.  Unusually for a spa, he had created a fairly decent article several years earlier .  DGG ( talk ) 00:57, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey, can you restore the history by any chance, though this may cause me to reconsider my vote, I've changed it to delete from speedy because there is nothing I hate more that a self promoting editor creating a promotional vanity article and abusing Wikipedia, but it appears this might not be the case. Unfortunately, I do not have the admin privileges I need the difference between an editor who is only here to promote himself with no other articles and an editor with one other article is huge. It is the difference between 100% not here and 50% here. Valoem   talk   contrib  04:51, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * done, it's a little unusual, but I don't see how it will do any harm; they can be removed later, The 2010 entries in the page history were the ones deleted at the first AfD. DGG ( talk ) 05:55, 27 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete as I simply found nothing better than some links at News and browsers, certainly nothing for a better article yet. Notifying the only still active past users and .  SwisterTwister   talk  06:40, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per Swister. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:18, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment SwisterTwister  Chris Woodrich I will consider my opinion based on other editors' opinions, it does appear the writer has done more that the two published sources on WorldCat. He has written over 300 articles for Daily Beast, Esquire and Milwaukee Magazine it was hard to find secondary source because he has written so many articles which flood the search. I was able to find these two source Huffington Post and NYTimes, the second source is about a wedding I don't know if you can pay to be listed or not.  Valoem   talk   contrib  22:41, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete - as it fails WP:Notability.--DaeafcMnnC (talk) 08:51, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep: Per wp:AUTHOR - "The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors." - The subject and his work being discussed numerous times. (Incomplete list)here and here Forbes is talking about his work here here here here here here here here here Also Valoem 's comments point to notability. Yogesh Khandke (talk) 20:34, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - The mentions in other sources, imho, do not rise to the level of WP:BASIC, and he clearly does not pass WP:GNG.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:57, 4 December 2015 (UTC)


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