Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbara Comstock


 * 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. Jaranda wat's sup 23:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Barbara Comstock

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Based on the current article, the subject was at best a minor personality within the Department of Justice with some marginal involvement with the Jose Padilla case and an occasional talking head on news shows--unclear where there is any encyclopedic notability. older ≠ wiser 03:09, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete As per nom. The article, even if kept, would need a rewrite - it's not NPOV as it stands. Orderinchaos78 03:40, 31 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete, PR person who has done some TV appearances but only in her capacity as a USDOJ spokesperson, not in her own right. Demiurge 10:32, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom SUBWAYguy 00:34, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and Rewrite I usually vote delete on 99% of the AFD's, but this is one I feel could be rewritten to be NPOV (I agree it is POV btw). Her name got over 70,000 google hits. She may be a minor figure, but the Padilla case was a rather important case in terms of the war on terrorism. Davidpdx 11:02, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. I, too, am mostly for weeding out non-notability, and in general a spokesperson with no independent activity/identity (i.e. who is just one staffer among many in a public-affairs operation) is not notable.  That said, if she is/was in fact senior spokesperson for the DoJ, at a time when the Department's role, because of issues such as the Patriot Act and factors such as the Padilla case, is especially important in national politics.  The article would indeed need much rewriting/bolstering. Robertissimo 07:13, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'm not able to make up my mind on this one. Perhaps this article could be merged into the Padilla one in some way. Somehow I'd like a record of who she is, but she's not really done anything notable per se: as a spokesman she was just doing her job, which isn't notable. She seems to have had a walk-on role in somebody else's story, and that's it. I'm mildly drifting to Weak Delete. WMMartin 18:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


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