Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Lockhart Lyman


 * 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. Eluchil404 (talk) 04:25, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

John Lockhart Lyman

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No indications of notability. EIC of a non-notable journal. Former (assistant) editor at Foreign Policy Digest. Has written for some other journals/magazines, but nothing that indicates that either WP:BIO, WP:AUTHOR, WP:PROF, or WP:GNG are being met. (Note: there are several people named "John Lyman" (or even "John L. Lyman", complicating the search for possible sources). Crusio (talk) 11:23, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:BIO. --Cameron Scott (talk) 11:33, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete No independent sources found to confer notability; fails every relevant guideline per Crusio's nomination. Yunshui 雲水 11:39, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 12:57, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Merge to Journal of Foreign Relations. Northamerica1000 (talk) 13:37, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Actually, that's a good idea. Change !vote to Merge. Yunshui 雲水 13:39, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment I disagree. That journal is not notable and is itself at AfD. Merging two sub-notable articles does not make one that is notable. In addition, if you read both articles, you'll see that all information that is present in this one is already also present in the article on the journal. --Crusio (talk) 14:07, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Indeed, Merge *what*? Are the people saying merging actually reading what is at both articles? --Cameron Scott (talk) 14:22, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * In my case, I'm afraid not - I didn't look at Journal of Foreign Relations (have done so now!); it simply seemed sensible to merge info on the editor of the journal to that page. Since Northamerica1000 had already proposed it, I assumed he had already confirmed that the information wasn't already there. That will teach me to rely on other people checking stuff... Returning to delete stance, normal service has been resumed. Yunshui 雲水 14:55, 2 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - not notable person with a job in journalism. Off2riorob (talk) 14:35, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment The AfD of the article on Journal of Foreign Relations has been closed as "delete". --Crusio (talk) 09:57, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete the person is even less notable than the Journal, which lacks any claim of notability. Sparthorse (talk) 06:09, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete fails to meet the WP:BIO criteria and a failure of WP:COI. --Fæ (talk) 12:17, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
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