Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew M. Potts


 * 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. — Aitias // discussion  13:36, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Andrew M. Potts

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This article is about a living person with no extraordinary accomplishments. The article seems to be self-promotional in nature. There is little, if any evidence of NPOV and other appropriate language. The references are, in almost all cases, to self-authored articles on external websites A7914371 (talk) 16:54, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- the wub  "?!"  18:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not a very good article, but appears that substantial improvement is possible. "No extraordinary accomplishments" is not grounds for deletion. Nominator is an SPA who appears only to be interested in deleting this article. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 19:01, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - see also the edits of who left the exact same text as the nominator (A7914371) on the article talk page.  Astronaut (talk) 02:42, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - No effort to establish notability might be a better description, and regular inclusion of potentially defamatory information. Also, in the first section alone there are eight non-existent links. Established Australian journalists have much more succinct entries. If you can clean it up, please clean it up. The point of deletion was that it didn't seem to merit a proper going-over (A new account is not automatically an SPA) A7914371 (talk) 06:16, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.  —Grahame (talk) 10:53, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete While the article has many references, they're all things written by Potts as part of his work as a journalist or in response to his work. There are no sources about him, so WP:BIO isn't met. Nick-D (talk) 08:10, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete unless more secondary sources are found. He seems notable, but it fails requirements of WP:BLP. Gosox5555 (talk) 16:31, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I can't see where he passes notability. He writes articles, that isn't in dispute. But absent awards or other third part recognition or coverage, he is simply a guy doing his job. Niteshift36 (talk) 03:48, 22 July 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.