Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John K. Melvin


 * 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. WP:SNOW  MBisanz  talk 09:40, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

John K. Melvin

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Biography of a living person that no one has been able to provide a verifiable reference for, even though it has been tagged for notability for 18 months. Trying to rectify this myself, I found that Google News had zero articles on this person. Edit history, and related info suggests main contributor may be subject himself. ike9898 (talk) 00:34, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletions. –  Ty  00:39, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as unsourceable per the nominator, with no third-party sources available to demonstrate any notability. ~ mazca  t 01:10, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete I did find one source: But a single source in the newsletter of the engineering department at a single university isn't enough to establish notability.  I can't find anything else.  Cazort (talk) 01:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The main contributer is me and I am hardly the subject of this article. I did provide the photograph of one of the subject's artworks that is in the article. A bit more research and you would have seen I have my own website and my own name and my own artwork and have not bothered to create a page for myself on Wikipedia. Just a wee bit more research and you would have found a number of references to the subject of this article and his works in French and American publications but not necessarily on Google News. Perhaps a library with access to art publications would give you more accurate results. Still, I am no longer on good terms with the subject of this article so you may do with it as you please. Just be sure your actions are not rash but fully educated. It could be an embarassment to you in later years to learn you had deleted someone of note. Friedco (talk) 04:04, 12 April 2009 (UTC) (Moved from the talk page of this AFD- Petropoxy (Lithoderm Proxy) (talk) 08:24, 12 April 2009 (UTC))
 * Delete per nom. Let's take that risk. Johnbod (talk) 11:16, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable, seems to be unsourceable. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) 16:05, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per above...Modernist (talk) 23:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. Like Johnbod, I'll take the risk. Arty pants,  Babble 11:39, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 14 April 2009 (UTC)


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