Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan Smoot


 * 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 of the debate was keep but cleanup. - brenneman (t) (c)  04:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Dan Smoot
Article seems to be copied and pasted from elsewhere, and it was already speedily deleted earlier for being a copyvio. Further, the subject of this biography does not appear to be notable (800 or so hits on Google). I'm on the fence right now, but leaning towards delete. (see below) -- Locke Cole  ( talk )  (e-mail) 16:31, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. Dan Smoot was very prominent as a right-wing kook in the 1950s and '60s, and was a prominent bigwig with the John Birch Society. At least one of his books, The Invisible Government, was widely reviewed and discussed. The current article is terrible, may still have copyvio sections, and is not remotely in Wikipedia style, but the subject is definitely article-worthy. MCB 01:24, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, agree w/MCB. HGB 01:27, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup, in light of the comments so far. -- Locke Cole ( talk )  (e-mail) 06:54, 21 November 2005 (UTC)


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