Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harry Rossney


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The result was   delete. StarM 04:35, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Harry Rossney

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Looks to be part of User:Britishlocalhistory's campaign to promote some organisation called British Local History (see user's talk page, and user's edits, most of which have now been reverted as link spam). Seems to be non-notable ("one of over 10,000 refugees from Nazism who took the unprecedented step of swearing allegiance to King George VI..." - why does this one of over 10,000 deserve an article?) with so many unsourced biographical details that it MUST have been written by a family member or something. The only thing that might suggest notability is that he wrote "an extraordinary collection of poems", which is "a tribute to his self-strength, and dedication to preserving the memory for the sake of humanity", but again this is shameless self-promotion - this "extraordinary collection" was published by "British Local History", the name of the original creator of this article, making this whole piece a lengthy advert, IMO. Pince Nez (talk) 07:43, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note Most of User:Britishlocalhistory's (now-reverted) edits seem to be promoting the works of a Dr Helen Fry, which suggests that this article is a form of promotional spam. Pince Nez (talk) 07:51, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - I moved the article to correct capitalisation, suspecting while I was doing it that it was a bit fishy. Fails WP:N as well as being largely unsourced. --  role player 11:14, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Self-promotion for Dr Fry and 'British Local History'. AlexTiefling (talk) 11:24, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom: fails WP:NOTE and is effectively spam. Twilight1701 (talk) 17:43, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
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