Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eben Pagan


 * 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. -- Cirt (talk) 02:29, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Eben Pagan

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References to the article are blogs, wikilinks, press releases, dead or passing mentions, subject appears not to be notable--he has written a lot and is sometimes quoted, but I haven't found significant coverage in reliable sources. Article needs a rewrite, but I thought to bring it here first to make sure notability can be established. Nuujinn (talk) 22:25, 12 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep - There are a few decent and reliable sources present in the article, but additional sources would be nice. I would guess there's probably some unsupported statements in there; I haven't read it completely though. Dawnseeker2000   22:57, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment and Question, which two would you say were the best references? I do think the article needs substantial work, but AFD isn't cleanup, and we can deal with that aspect later. Nuujinn (talk) 23:19, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Choose any one of the newspaper sources and the Stephenson/Robbins book. Those would be the ones that I would say establish notability.  Dawnseeker2000   00:21, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * The Stephenson/Robbins book looks like passing mention to me, and the newspaper articles I can reach aren't about him, but rather about the dating techniques he promotes. -- Nuujinn (talk) 01:44, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Found a link for the "Dumb approach may work for smart guys" article and it does look like the bulk of what's there is about the dating methods as opposed to Eben himself so, meh, I dunno. I'll stay with my weak keep. Dawnseeker2000   02:00, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks, discussion is why we're here! Nuujinn (talk) 12:58, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Delete This is a long standing piece of spam about a self-promoting, self-published person of no authoritative external note. -Quartermaster (talk) 16:07, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete This is exactly what Wikipedia is not:  self-promoting spam with few reliable sources and minimal impact/significance Vartanza (talk) 22:46, 25 August 2010 (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.