Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John D. Scott


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The result was   delete.  Phantom Steve / talk &#124; contribs \ 01:25, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

John D. Scott

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I honestly cannot see what makes this person notable. Though carefully worded to boost the subject's image, what we actually have is someone who sings, has taught some people to sing in a church, has started a studio, but no suggestion that there is anything notable about any of these "achievements". His students include and award winnere, it says, but the award is not noted and the singer is not notable anough to have a Wikipedia page. He has sung on recordings (not named) by people who also have no Wikipedia articles. Similarly, his studios do not appear to be notable in any way. Only possible claim to fame (and here I cinfess my ignorance of the matter) is his day job - a 'Senior Investigator' at the University of Washington. But is this just a glorified job description for a lab technician? And is his work there in some way out of the ordinary? There are zero references to the substantive issues; the only references given (that he wrote a song for example) are trivial and not independent. I note that the article is almost entirely the work of one editor, who has edited no other pages apart from List of University of California, Santa Cruz people, and that was to add John D. Scott to the list! Emeraude (talk) 15:19, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article doesn't even make any claims of notability.  Clearly fails WP:ACADEMIC too. —Psychonaut (talk) 20:21, 24 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Lacks evidence of notability, from the article or from what I could find on the web. Note: This San Francisco/Oakland area vocal coach is not the John D. Scott who is a U. of Wash Medical School (Seattle) professor/research scientist. That person, widely cited and a member of the Royal Society, almost assuredly is notable. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 01:20, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:40, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:50, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete. Article makes no convincing claim of notability and is full of WP:OR. SPA-creation suggests the purpose is actually promotion. The article does indeed conflate the singer with the (notable) scientist of the exact same name. (We should have an article on the latter.) The sources are ephemeral or not independent of subject, etc. etc. This is an uncontroversial delete. Agricola44 (talk) 15:29, 30 May 2012 (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.