Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Slavick (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. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 22:50, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

Bill Slavick
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This is an example of the type of articles that were kept in 2006 but we now do not accept. Candidates for US Senate are not default notable, but that is the only thing this person has that even comes close to a claim to notability. All the coverage is related to the campaign where Slavick got less than 6% of the vote. Nothing at all close to notability exists. John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:55, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:31, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Maine-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 22:31, 4 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. No pass of WP:Prof or WP:Politician. Xxanthippe (talk) 23:41, 4 November 2020 (UTC).
 * Delete Due to failing the notability guidelines for politicians. Less then 6% of the vote is way to low even if a person was to be on the more relaxed side of the guideline. --Adamant1 (talk) 07:17, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete — Re-echoing, the subject of our article fails to satisfy WP:PROF. Celestina007 (talk) 08:33, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. As well as the failure of WP:PROF and WP:NPOL already discussed above, we need to consider WP:AUTHOR. But I only found one published book by him, DuBose Heyward (1981), and one published review, . It's not enough. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:38, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete I can't see any grounds for a keep. -Kj cheetham (talk) 12:39, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Does not meet notability with only 3 sources. Expertwikiguy (talk) 09:15, 8 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I find curious that Lambert and Eppstein use their time in efforts to delete Wikipedia reports. I think before I ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006 (partly because the Maine Democratic establishment honchos had illegally removed the Israel-Palestine plank I largely wrote in the convention-adopted platform calling for recognition that we were not an honest broker and should defer to the UN to gain Palestinians' independence in the Occupied Territories) snd I was contacted by Wikipedia, then considering deletion of my entry. I replied that I did not care what they did (which seemed to shock the caller).  But Lambert and Eppstein gets my back up.  I coordinated the Catholic peace movement, Pax Christi, in Maine for over 20 years which role included organizing the 1995 national assembly in Maine;  created its Oscar Romero Award which brought Brazilian Cardinal Arns, Haiti President Aristide, the Sandinista priest/foreign minister Miguel d"Escoto, Richard Rohr, Joan Chittister, David Dellinger (standing in for mugged Dan Berrigan), a Nobel Peace awardee, and other notables to speak in Maine.  I published hundreds of feature articles in the foremost U.S. Catholic diocesan weekly, organized several notable academic conferences. I renewed Maine criticism of Israeli racist repression of native Palestinians after the second intifada.  Besides  Wikipedia detractors'-noted publications, I published a review of the work of Lewis P. Simpson in Cross Currents and a long Faulkner obituary in the National Catholic Reporter, as well as at least a half dozen articles in Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society book collections and dozens of Portland, Me. press op eds.  [Perhaps most notably, I sired a Carnegie Mellon first University Professor of Art, a U. of North Carolina Art chair holder, a Maine biennial art exhibition exhibitor, and a Hong Kong and New Zealand poet and book author.  I have long felt that my former SUNY Geneseo colleague Leo Rockas, now retired from U. of Hartford, to be more deserving of Wikipedia attention than I have been.] 70.16.196.85 (talk) 07:22, 10 April 2023 (UTC)


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