Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darryl Dobbs


 * 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. -- Cirt (talk) 00:02, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Darryl Dobbs

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Contested prod. The article gives examples given of what Dobbs has written, unfortunately no evidence of significant coverage in independent reliable sources about Dobbs, So fails WP:GNG. More refs have been added since the article was proded, but still nothing that meets notability requirements Nuttah (talk) 19:17, 31 July 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:03, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Strong delete. "I tried to put this page through for him three years ago but was declined." Wholly non-notable spam piece. Article uses deceptive methods in an attempt to mask lack of notability (refspam for example). For example, it says "Labeled an "honest-to-goodness expert" on fantasy hockey [10] by the editors of Yahoo! Sports". This goes to an article written by nobody other than himself. The actual bit isn't part of the article but safe to say he had a huge say in deciding what went into it. Saying his website was "referenced" by ESPN's John Buccigross is an attempt to play up its importance. It was simply mentioned in his question and answers section with his readers in his column. All the refs are either things he has written, coverage from minor publications, or brief mentions. Very little towards WP:N. Reads like a promotional piece. Both himself and his website fail WP:BIO and WP:WEB easily. Christopher Connor (talk) 20:50, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
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