Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Simkin


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The result was   delete.  So Why  13:45, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

John Simkin

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 * Delete Doesn't establish notability and is based largely on original research ChildofMidnight (talk) 07:41, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Can be improved. If more sources can be found, the article asserts his notability (founded a historical encyclopedia) pretty well. David WS  (contribs)  14:15, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete If more sources are found he might be notable. The closest I see is a blog. Founding an encylclopedia which appears non notable is not notable. Duffbeerforme (talk) 14:30, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:07, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.   —David Eppstein (talk) 04:03, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I couldn’t find enough evidence for passing WP:PROF or more generally WP:BIO. A Google News search doesn’t return much when the false positives are removed. Also, Spartacus Educational does not seem to be notable enough for him to qualify for WP:PROF c. 4.--Eric Yurken (talk) 17:35, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't think there is enough here to pass either WP:PROF or WP:BIO. The main claim to notability for Simkin seems to be his involvement in the Spartacus Educational encyclopedia. However, the latter does not appear to be notable enough to justify a bio article about Simkin. Perhaps the thing to do here is to create an article about Spartacus Educational encyclopedia and to include a bit of info about Simkin there. Nsk92 (talk) 20:19, 14 November 2008 (UTC)


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