Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Robert Lewis


 * 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.  MBisanz  talk 14:11, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

David Robert Lewis

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This is a completely unsourced article about a South African writer/artist. I have looked for sources about the subject, but all I have found would tend to show him as a person notable for only one event, and that would portray him in a negative light quite different from the current content of the article. The current content also portrays him as an anti-apartheid activist, but I am concerned that the article may be exaggerating his importance in that movement. I recommend a delete. Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:47, 29 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. This person seems to be below our threshold of notability. Charles Matthews (talk) 10:43, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems to fail basic notability criteria. --Cameron Scott (talk) 12:26, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Metropolitan90 beat me to it, but only because I stopped off at User talk:Charles Matthews along the way to ask for sources for the content. Like Metropolitan90, I also went looking for sources, after this article came up on the BLP noticeboard.  I found only the following:
 * All of the other sources were either republications of the above articles (by News24 and others) or written by the subject xyrself. There is no way to build a biographical article from either.  The former give almost zero substantial biographical information, and the latter are self-promotional and flagrantly biased.  There are no independent reliable sources that document this person in depth anywhere.   This person has only been documented by xyrself, not by the world at large.  Delete. Uncle G (talk) 13:44, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:03, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 04:33, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. He managed to make the news twice (though, apparently, not for lack of trying in other instances) – once with what sounds like a frivolous court action and once by making a bomb threat. That's not notable, just sad. 9Nak (talk) 10:12, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * All of the other sources were either republications of the above articles (by News24 and others) or written by the subject xyrself. There is no way to build a biographical article from either.  The former give almost zero substantial biographical information, and the latter are self-promotional and flagrantly biased.  There are no independent reliable sources that document this person in depth anywhere.   This person has only been documented by xyrself, not by the world at large.  Delete. Uncle G (talk) 13:44, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:03, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Africa-related deletion discussions.   -- • Gene93k (talk) 04:33, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. He managed to make the news twice (though, apparently, not for lack of trying in other instances) – once with what sounds like a frivolous court action and once by making a bomb threat. That's not notable, just sad. 9Nak (talk) 10:12, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


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