Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederick A. Aprim


 * 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. Tan  &#124;   39  21:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Frederick A. Aprim

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Non-notable individual [personal attack on article subject redacted per WP:BLP] Much of the vanity book promotion here  was done by an account that was permanently blocked for "racist rants, incivility, POV pushing, edit warring, disruption". Since vanity-press authors are usually the only ones who know about their own books, and certainly the only ones who go to all of the trouble of posting WP articles about themselves in order to promote those books, we undoubtedly have WP:AUTO and WP:COI here as well. Qworty (talk) 15:25, 8 November 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:26, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Google Scholar suggests that he has no notability whatsoever as an academic. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:08, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete per nom. Fails WP:CREATIVE, WP:BK.  No evidence at all of third-party coverage. Tevildo (talk) 11:05, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. I am appalled that no one has remarked on the flagrant personal attack by the noinator on the article subject. The derisive commentary directed at the subject was completely unnecessary and completely inappropriate. Moreover, the nominator also rather ineptly attempts to out a blocked user as the article subject, based only on the fact that the user added accurate citations regarding the books named in the article.  Even a casual review of the article history shows that a different user was responsive for the insertion of the inappropriate promotional material was added by a different user, more than tripling the length of the article (and that editor appears to be an associate of the article subject, not the subject himself). The subject also shows a significant number of GNews hits (searching on "aprim Assyria," although many of those come from a news source whose independence may legitimately be doubted. Given the peculiar behavior of the nominator, I fear that that this process has been irremediably disrupted by his misbehavior, and suggest that the closing admin invoke WP:IAR and close this discussion without a result and without any prejudice toward a renomination after a brief interval. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 20:25, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. The nomination was originally rather immoderate, but accurate: this is a self-published author of no provable notability. Guy (Help!) 20:42, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. ArcAngel (talk) 20:46, 15 November 2009 (UTC)


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