Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles A Adeogun-Phillips


 * 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   keep. There are numerous sources found through a quick nexis search. We will keep and clean it. JodyBtalk 22:14, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Charles A Adeogun-Phillips

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This is a biography that appears to be well sourced but in fact is largely promotional and many of the sources (e.g. ) do not even mention the subject. It is autobiographical by whose only contributions are to this, an article on his company  (G11'd) and an article on his father. Google finds fewer than 100 unique pages and almost all of them appear to be directory pages, often containing largely the same text though not obviously mirrors (so independently submitted). The term "internationally renowned genocide and war crimes prosecutor" is present in all such cases. Guy (Help!) 15:28, 21 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Speedy Delete (G11), then rebuild from scratch. It's intended solely as a vanity page. Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry (talk) 15:50, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * weak Keep/Keep Some of it is over general & promotional, but if the material in paragraphs 2 through 8 of section 3 is correct (the African trials) then he is notable  for them if his role was indeed as specified.    DGG ( talk ) 04:59, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately the sources for this appear to be the subject and author. Other cited sources in the article don't even mention the subject. Guy (Help!) 09:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * keep , charles Adeogun-Phillips is a gencoide prosecutor. There are not many people like him in the world. There has not been a gencoide in the world since the Holoccust. Genocide is the crime of crimes, and he has prosecuted several international trials. Clearly there cannot be many like him. The trials are not African trials, rather they are International trials that have contributed to the develoment of international criminal law.


 * KEEP , May be article way too intellectual for the average reader, but it is, what it is. 04:59, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * A MUST KEEP , To describe this as vanity page is an insult to the million Tutsi who were killed during the Rwanda Genocide. What is so vain about this article? the fact that it concerns the acheivements of a British born African man who is proud to claim his African roots?


 * STRONG KEEP , is Charles A Adeogun-Phillips any different from the following well documented Nuremberg prosecutors? Robert Jackson, Sir Hartley Shawcross, Francois de Menthon or Henry T. King, Jr. Is the holocaust more relevant or important than the Rwandan genocide in 1994?


 * KEEP , What makes American and Britons genocide prosecutors more renowned than Adeogun-Phillips?? His African roots heritage?


 * KEEP , Can anyone contradict anything in this article or biographphy? How is the entry for Charles Adeogun-Phillips any different for that of Sir Hartley Shawcross, that of Robert Jackson or Francois de Menthon? Perhaps his colour and race?


 * Off course a must KEEP , Why is it that a Blackman has to struggle for recognition even in the face of such obvious international achievements?


 * KEEP , please save us all this embrassment and close this discussion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.204.66.185 (talk) 09:58, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak keep and scrub. Article is full of WP:PUFF and WP:SYN, and needs a lot of clean-up, but appears to be notable and easily sourced once you omit the middle initial. NB that all those "KEEP"s above are from a single SPA who isn't fooling anybody (I've never seen someone try to sock from a single account), but don't let that disruption prejudice you. I'll leave it to others to factor out that nonsense. THF (talk) 15:13, 24 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak keep - seems notable, but obviously article is full of crap. Nonetheless, witness Jim Al-Khalili, started as a bit of a vanity page by one of the finest quantum physicists (I think that's what he does) in the world. The subject/author is truly notable and, with some help, he's made it into a decent article. I think that, if sources could be found, this too could end up like this.--Vox Humana 8' 03:03, 26 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Speedy Delete (G11), then rebuild from scratch. I don't think it's necessarily intended to deceive anyone, but the degree of WP:PUFF and WP:SYN is very high. His achievements appear notable from the (genuine) citations I can see, and I can vouch for his personal integrity having been at school with him in the UK. --gilgongo (talk) 00:44, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
 * We're not too concerned about his personal integrity - and even if we were, we'd need reliable sources stating it. I think perhaps the best course of action is as you say, however - delete it, then wait till someone unrelated to the subject recreates it properly. Chase me ladies, I&#39;m the Cavalry (talk) 17:24, 28 February 2010 (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.