Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ben Mercer (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Qualified for speedy deletion as a recreation of a preveiously AfD'd article; virtually unchanged from previous version. SALTed without prejudice to recreation via Deletion review, but someone seems determined to re-re-mount this article. Accounting4Taste: talk 00:53, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

Ben Mercer
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Recreation of a deleted page, short bio deleted through AfD for WP:N and WP:BIO. Creator of the first page recreated it this morning. If I'm reading the WP:RPDA policy proposed policy correctly, it has to go through AfD again. Doonhamer (talk) 18:37, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Summary Three participants in the first nomination discussion reached consensus that the first article didn't pass WP:N and WP:BIO. Although notified, the creator of the article didn't participate in the discussion. The closing admin deleted the first article yesterday. The original author recreated the article earlier today. The current incarnation is also short and provides no assertion of notability; its only link is to the Wikipedia article for the radio station where Ben Mercer hosts his programmes. I've notified the original participants, the closing admin of the first nomination, and the article creator of this discussion, and invited the creator specifically to engage the discussion. My view is to delete the article as it now stands, though am open to keeping if the creator or other interested authors can improve the article to meet notability criteria (though the original participants did some research and thought that that might be difficult). Doonhamer (talk) 19:25, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - That page is not policy.--Rockfang (talk) 19:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you for pointing that out, I missed the proposed at the top of the page, just saw the section where it says that previously deleted articles must go through AfD again. I've corrected that above. Doonhamer (talk) 19:28, 20 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete no significant improvement since it was last deleted.Zero references. Fails WP:BIO RadioFan (talk) 20:02, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, possibly speedy - I don't remember the exact text of the original but it looks as though it falls under CSD:G4. If not then the subject still fails WP:N and WP:BIO and WP:ENT, nothing has been added which changes this. Delete! PanydThe muffin is not subtle 21:40, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
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