Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Smalling


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The result was delete. Can&#39;t sleep, clown will eat me 09:55, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

David Smalling
Was prodded but that was removed by anonymous. Appears to be a non-notable biography. It also appears to have some WP:AUTO issues. The author is User:Small774 who says on his talk page that "David Smalling is aHigh School Student from Kingston Jamaica". I can't find any more coverage of him aside from the two links given in the artcle. Delete as non-notable biography. Metros232 13:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as the article falls short of notability. Nuttah68 13:36, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as nn bio. Ifnord 14:42, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep, but rewrite. It appears he is some young hotshot that is notable because of his age and accomplishments based on that.  The article needs a complete rewrite however Antares33712 15:18, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Doesn't quite make it. Bright student with a couple really nice projects, and he was asked to give a paper at a conference. Impressive for an undergraduate, but not groundbreaking. Fan-1967 02:09, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. The inclusion of his theses give him the barest of assertions of notability, or I'd say to speedy delete it. He's clearly non-notable and fails WP:BIO. —C.Fred (talk) 03:39, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The two references given do not provide enough material to base an article on. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 05:49, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep because, as a student at Yale, he's already suffered enough. Strong delete Neither, per Cfred, do any of undertakings presently enumerated in the article appear to confer notability (such that notability really isn't asserted), nor, per Fan and a simple Google search (which, AFAICT, returns only three relevant results), do there appear to be any other achievements in view of which notability would entail (or, in any event, other verifiable notable achievements for which sources exist). As Fan notes, the subject may surely become notable in the future, but he simply isn't now.  Joe 04:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


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