Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dr Jan Adams


 * 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 Keep. No consensus to delete. --JodyByak, yak, yak 18:48, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Dr Jan Adams

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Non-notable. Ontheveldt 17:11, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Google comes up with very little - Google News shows nothing. Unless appearing on a television show guarantees notability, it's a delete. MarkBul 19:14, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 *  Keep  Strong Keep Google comes up with enough. He doesn't appear on these tv shows, he hosts or presents them.  There appears to be a lot of misinformation and acrimony and off-topic personal comments about this AfD that again make this appear to be about something other than this man's notability.KP Botany 21:37, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Note This nomination was the nominator's 3rd contribution to Wikipedia, right after creating the category, "people from Middletown, Ohio," Jan Adams' hometown.  did not immediately add Dr Jan Adams to the category he/she just created, but rather nominated Dr Jan Adams for deletion as the second step after creating the perfect category for Jan Adams.  I've taken care of this omission, and there don't appear to be any notability problems with this person--but rather some personal issue between the nominator and the subject of the article.  Please do reveal any conflicts of interest you have with Jan Adams, Onthveldt, and if it is personal, stay away from the article, as this is a biography of a living person.  Thank you. KP Botany 20:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Please do reveal any conflicts of interest you have with Jan Adams, Onthveldt, and if it is personal, stay away from the article, as this is a biography of a living person. Thank you. KP Botany 20:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Attn: KP Botany - I have no conflict of interest whatever with Dr. Adams or any other subject I worked on. I actually had never even heard of him previously. (I don't have cable TV and am not a woman of color.) I came across the name while compiling the category about people from Middletown, where my significant other comes from. I did not add Adams' name to the list because I did not consider him as "notable" and felt the article was crappy (you have since improved it somewhat, although I am still not crazy about it.) I asked a friend, who introduced me to Wikipedia and uses it extensively, what to do. After viewing the article, he agreed and recommended that I put the article up for deletion and showed me how to do so. Sorry for any misunderstandings. Btw: total number of Google hits I came across for "Dr. Jan Adams": 30! Yours, Ontheveldt 15:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Link to your search, please. This encyclopedia isn't about who you consider notable.  He has far more than 30 google hits, in fact, he's had over 30 tv appearances as a guest on various talk shows and news shows, on top of the shows he presents.  So, give a link to your google search with 30 hits.  KP Botany 03:53, 5 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete as article fails requirements of WP:BIO. Doc Hollywood he ain't; notability to come. --Gavin Collins 09:59, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Reply Again, you haven't provided how he fails Bio. He doesn't.  It's nominated by someone who doesn't want him in the category, who apparently knows he's written a book for "women of color," and is on cable tv, but finds this insufficient for notability, because she "did not consider him as 'notable'" and felt the article was crappy.  Did you ever consider that once you identify what you perceive as his target audience, then remove yourself from it, you might not be the person whose "considerations" about notability matter?  Your arguments that you are not a "woman of color" don't really have anything to do with this AfD.  So, let's take your personal situation out of the AfD, especially since that is, again, what your AfD seems to be about, something personal between you and Dr Jan Adams.  And please read about nominating articles for deletion rather than just asking a friend, and the instructions do request that you do this. These are NOT reasons for AfDs--no users considerations on a topic are a reason for an AfD.  A claim about the total number of google hits without a supporting link also is not sufficient.  KP Botany 03:56, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 03:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep He presented a 14-episode series on network (not cable) TV in the UK. That in itself should be enough to establish notability. Iain99 09:18, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


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