Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johnathan James Recor


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The result was   speedy delete. I'm speedying this as G11, entirely promotional without any way of improving it by normal rewriting. If it wasn't clear from the enough from the article, its clear from the discussion  DGG ( talk ) 00:14, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Johnathan James Recor

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Promotional article for a local college personality of questionable notability. Significant WP:COI of late, as the article creator and major editors have been blocked for sockpuppetry. Google news search on "Johnathan James Recor" shows zero results. Standard search shows primarily social media, blogs, unreliable and/or primary sources. Some minor coverage from the school paper, but no significant coverage found from independent reliable sources. MikeWazowski (talk) 20:12, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
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 * Strong Delete No indication of notability and no significant independent coverage. Strong possibility article is autobiographical--certainly there's a COI. Papaursa (talk) 00:06, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Article is self-promotion. Even if everything in it is true, I don't see how he's notable.  It also lacks good independent sources. Mdtemp (talk) 15:06, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep The article has independent sources with minor notability, is cultured with Dartmouth College, and through the page's controversial history has demonstrated a potential to prove itself if written properly. User:dartbeat (talk) 13:09 6 November 2011 (UTC) — Dartbeat (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Dartbeat has now been blcoked for sockpuppetry.


 * Strong Delete Clearly not notable; blatant self-promotion and meat puppetry (see http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Sun-God/155670074870?sk=wall) --129.170.94.158 (talk) 21:00, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete Wikipedia appears to be the final frontier of JJR's blatant self-promotion (Google 'JJRecor'). Although everything in the article is accurate, the page is essentially a personal webpage and violates multiple line items on the 'What Wikipedia is not' page. Also, sockpuppetry. S943f50voh (talk) 22:11, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: the rampant socking is not a reason to delete. Rich Farmbrough, 03:49, 7 November 2011 (UTC).


 * Strong Delete Definitely a personal vanity page. Recor is actually campaigning on his own Facebook page for his friends to vote against deletion of this article. It is clear that this article is an autobiography. Recor does not meet the notability qualifications, and is hardly considered notable even at Dartmouth. -Bonus Onus (talk) 06:14, 7 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep The article has a subject of minor notability. "Clearly not notable" is not a viable position. Subject was a primary part of Dartmouth College/Hanover culture with a wide-spread message and cultural significance. With proper editing and clean-up to maintain neutrality, this article will provide important information on an significant series of events that defined an entire town and college community. Contents are verifiable. Please note: many people on Dartmouth College have a personal vendetta against J.J. Recor and many entries in favor of deletion may be the result of prejudice and personal opinion, unrelated to any concern for Wikipedia guidelines. Naysayers have also been brought to this discussion by Recor's Facebook page and are not impartial.  Their disruption of this article due to personal prejudice iagainst the article's subject is a violation of Wikipedia's anti-harassment policy.  ALSO, no concrete proof of sock puppetry.  Fellow editors who have broken no Wikipedia rules are being banned just for editing or associating with this article.  This is unjust and against Wikipedia policy to ban users who have done nothing wrong.  People need to take a careful look at what's going on here and understand that this isn't a trolling fest; some of us here are actually concerned about the important/relevant content of this article!  Thank you. GW9IFAL804 (talk) 19:00, 7 November 2011 (UTC) — GW9IFAL804 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Delete This isn't about sockpuppets, it's about the fact that he doesn't meet any notability criteria and there's a lack of good independent sources that show notability. Astudent0 (talk) 19:15, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong keep I ran into this individual several times at my local frame shop in Hanover. Overtime I learned that recor has somehow become a pop-culture phenomenon at Dartmouth College and is certaintly notable - *this is without dispute*. I would imagine that any of his credientials could be easily verified with a simple phone call to anyone at the College or surrounding area as literally there is not one person in town who does not know his name or the things he has accomplished. TheGildedEdge (talk) 13:15, 8 November 2011 (UTC) — TheGildedEdge (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
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