Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Nelson


 * 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 of the debate was userfy. Johnleemk | Talk 10:17, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Andrew Nelson
Vanity and personal publicity play a very different role in academics than they do in most other walks of life, and the notoriety of a particular research often depends more on that person's ability to sell and self-promote them self than on the quality of his or her work. I have found many wiki pages related to an active scientific field being used as shameless self promotion by one or another research group that would like to increase their notoriety, and interlinked academic bios are a big part of this. Most hot research topics now have wiki articles of this nature. Are those who acted first in this regard, those who are better seller of themselves, are they to be grandfathered in? This would make wiki a tool in deed. --Androidchild 05:08, 7 February 2006 (UTC) '''OK. userfy''' andrew l nelson 02:55, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * There are many academic user bios of current researchers who are not particularly well known. There are grad student bios, C.V.s, and even undergrad bios.  It does not make sense to target new articles of this nature when there is no automatic mechanism to remove the many many academic bios that already are wiki articles. Because of this inequity, I suggest the academic bios NOT be deleted or userfied until a reasonable method of vetting the huge number of existing bios it instituted.

Delete or Move to Userpage Article is WP:AUTO. Notability might be arguable, but its still a WP:AUTO Bugturd Talk 02:39, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Move into User namespace. Royboycrashfan 03:22, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Move into user namespace. --Ter e nce Ong (恭喜发财) 08:38, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete from article namespace. Userfy is fine. --Whouk (talk) 11:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Userfy &mdash;Brim 05:31, 2 February 2006 (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.