Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Douglass


 * 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. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  01:56, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Dan Douglass

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Despite citations, no evidence of meeting WP:BIO, and appears to be an WP:Autobiography of a blogger with a political slant and some minor community activism experience. Closeapple (talk) 17:04, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the lists of Hawaii-related deletions and Politicians-related deletions.  —Closeapple (talk) 17:25, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.   —Closeapple (talk) 17:25, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. WP:Conflict of interest article creation.  Carefully worded to appear like this person is more notable, and it's still not notable enough:
 * "Editor of Hawaii Liberty Chronicles" means "Guy with his own blog."
 * "Published most extensively on the Hawaii Reporter" seems to mean "some other website let me write pages there too" &mdash; though that website at least has a paragraph in a Wall Street Journal article for a (weak) chance at meeting notability.
 * "Campaign manager for Stop Rail Now" from the article becomes "deputy campaign manager" in one source and just "among activists" in another.
 * It appears that, at most, he's a commentator who headed a local community activist campaign in Hawaii, which still does not seem notable in the context of a general encyclopedia. (More realistically, it seems he's a blogger with his own domain name, whose stuff was occasionally repeated on another alternative-journalism website, and who was involved in a community group because someone wants to run a commuter train through his neighborhood.  Possibly civic-minded in some fashion, but definitely not encyclopedia material.) --Closeapple (talk) 17:25, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Notability not established. ChildofMidnight (talk) 17:56, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete No notability claimed in the article that passes WP:N or WP:BIO. No notability found that could be used to justify saving this article.  However, conflict of interest is NOT a reason to delete an article.  The lack of notability is, but if I was famous, and I created an article about myself, the fact that I am notable is reason enough to keep the article, the COI is only justification to edit the article, never to delete it.  Theseeker4 (talk) 19:00, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Oops-- I didn't mean to imply that COI/autobiography was a reason for deletion in itself; only that editors might need to take a deeper look at the sources, instead of accepting the article's words at face value with their normal meaning, since the author seems to have a specific agenda of maximizing the subject's reputation. --Closeapple (talk) 09:55, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:00, 20 November 2008 (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.