Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Vaccaro


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The result was  d elete. - Mailer Diablo 12:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Chris Vaccaro

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On the surface, this looks like a legit article, until you realize that this is a 20-year old who's only claim to fame is writing in the local press about his High School sports teams, and a soon-to-be-published book about, yes, his High School football team. This appears to be a vanity bio, given the history of who's edited it, so I have WP:COI concerns as well as notability concerns. It might be a candidate for userfying, but until this "journalist" is published a bit more widely, the ariticle doesn't seem to meet our notability standards. Akradecki 14:01, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The book has nothing to do with my own high school football team. I didn't play high school football. It's an objective book about the Dynasties of Long Island high school football and the first of its kind. The bio on wiki fits the criteria and is better than half of the bios that are not credible at all. Who are you to say that what I've done is not credible, at 20, I'm more successful than most of the people that age. CRV338 15 March 2007
 * Comment - you may wish to review Notability (books) and Notability (people), especially the section on the notability standards for journalists. If your book gets published, and highly reviewed, then you might be an appropriate subject for an article, but let someone else write it. For example, I myself have published a book, and it even has multiple non-trivial reviews. But, you won't find my writing about it or myself, as that would be inappropriate. I have mentioned it on my user page, which is exactly where you should be mentioning yours, hence my suggestion in the nom to userfy. Akradecki 15:34, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You may also wish to read wikipedias conflict of interest guidelines. By your own self admittance you have a conflict of interest in this situation.  Also, please remain WP:CIVIL, and try to keep comments related to the article in question, not other people.  Thank you. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 18:17, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity article. Cloveoil 14:22, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete and so marked on article itself. Autobiographical article fails to assert notability (Wikipedia standards of notability) of its subject. &mdash; Whedonette (ping) 16:41, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Author asserts notability however does not cite it or provide proper citation. Listed as the writer of a book and an author for several magazines is an assertion of notability.  The question is, is this assertion valid?  That can be handled in this afd.  I however feel that the assertions are not valid and not cited and therefore should be deleted. -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 18:13, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 01:24, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment An admin's rejected speedy on this one. &mdash; Whedonette (ping) 15:00, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - not notable. --Tom 14:20, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


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