Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David spett


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The result was Delete. Tikiwont (talk) 11:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

David spett

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This article deals solely with one news event, and Spett's involvement in it. According to "What Wikipedia is Not":

"Even when an event is notable, individuals involved in it may not be. Unless news coverage of an individual goes beyond the context of a single event, our coverage of that individual should be limited to the article about that event, in proportion to their importance to the overall topic."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#NEWS

This is the sole topic on which Spett has attained widespread notoriety, and as such, under the criteria listed above, and according to Wikipedia policy, the article ought to be deleted.

Spett is currently already mentioned in the context of this controversy on the Medill School of Journalism page, and that listing seems within the scope of what Wikipedia is looking for. Thus, this individual article, at this time, is unnecessary, and ought to be deleted. Plugstickcupbook (talk) 08:48, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom, and also because the name of an article about the subject should have his proper name (with a capital "S"). OTOH, it should be mentioned that the nominator appears to be a WP:SPA.    — Jeff G. (talk&#124;contribs) 09:33, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Kubek15(Sign!) (Contribs)  (UBX) 14:12, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT and WP:BLP1E. Blueboy96 14:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BIO1E and WP:Geogre's Law. But more importantly because being a student-newspaper columnist is just not enough, regardless of whether someone else picks up on the same story you did. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:26, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * delete I'm not even sure that NOTNEWS is relevant here, because he doesn't appear to meet WP:BIO. However, strongly disagree with David's comment above that "being a student-newspaper columnist is just not enough, regardless of whether someone else picks up on the same story you did" I could easily construct hypotheticals where that would likely be enough (say a student at a major university found that the president of the university had plagiarized, the president resigned as a result, and the matter got international attention). JoshuaZ (talk) 22:22, 18 March 2008 (UTC)


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