Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan J. Baverman


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 04:43, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Alan J. Baverman

 * – (View AfD) (View log)

Delete, notability not established despite a thin patchwork of attempts in the article. First, being a U.S. Magistrate judge does not make one presumptively notable; they are not true federal judges appointed by Congress, but rather are court employees who relieve the burden of U.S. District Judges by presiding over preliminary hearings. Their opinions are rarely reported in case law reporters and are in the form of recommendations to the actual U.S. District Judge sitting on the case.

In the case of this particular individual, the article attempts to buttress his notability by reference to matters in which he was involved. The article claims he "gained national recognition as a criminal attorney for his representation of Roy Cicola in the Atlanta Gold Club Case"; neither Cicola nor the Gold Club case have articles (The Gold Club redirects to strip club), and the only news story offered as a reference for that statement doesn't even mention Baverman, let alone establish "national recognition."

He is also called out for being sanctioned for judicial misconduct, but the only citing references are to primary source documents and a story about judicial misconduct generally that doesn't mention him at all, so there is no indication that this was ever a notable event with coverage by secondary sources. Finally, his role presiding over the pretrial proceedings of rapper T.I. is mentioned, and the cited story does describe his role at a particular hearing, but his involvement in that one event does not confer notability upon him personally; the news story mentioned him only incidentally to cover what was happening to T.I. postdlf (talk) 16:38, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Notability not established through reliable sources. Lara  02:33, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - he might be notable, it is not possible to tell from this poorly sourced hit piece. --Rocksanddirt (talk) 16:06, 29 October 2009 (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.