Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Hurst


 * 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. Closed a bit early per WP:SNOW. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 02:50, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

David Hurst

 * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)

This article was created earlier this month and tagged straight away for conflict of interest and notability, mainly because it appears to be a relative of David Hurst who is writing an article. Since then, the same author has added further text which not only does nothing to address the matter of notability but goes even further away from neutral point of view, the worst offender being the sentence "Nevertheless, it was the child who shyly said that the Emperor had no clothes who turned out to have had the better view of the matter." I would re-write the article, but having had a look through Ghits, Gnews and Gbooks, I can't find anything to support notability - just purchase sites, wiki mirrors, one review on a possible self-published site, and a few trivial mentions. I'm happy for someone to step in and salvage this, but I can't find any reason to do so myself. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 10:19, 19 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete- subject may be notable but there is no evidence of it! If he is worthy of an encyclopedia article, the article needs to be re-written with a NPOV anyway. HJ Mitchell (talk) 10:52, 19 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions.  —Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 11:03, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  —Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 11:03, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, unsourced. The book On Westernism is the only thing that has some hits, but not enough for wp:bio. -- Jeandré, 2009-04-19t12:15z
 * Delete. I did some poking around on google scholar for the first book "The London Dialogues" and it seems to not be referenced in anything.  Also, I can't even find a single reliable source saying that the pen-name "Tiresias" used for that book is actually associated with this guy!  If he actually did write that book it seems to not have gotten anyone's attention at all.  Cazort (talk) 14:11, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete -- The book is on an academic subject, but the author is not an academic, but a school teacher. The publisher is also a non-academic one.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:40, 19 April 2009 (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.