Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Coffland


 * 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. Mark Arsten (talk) 16:36, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Joseph Coffland

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Bio about a computer scientist that does not claim notability for the subject. Sources are either primary sources, forum posts or trivial mentions in articles about other subjects. There seems to be some COI judging by the article creator's user name. Per WP:BEFORE I've tried to find reliable secondary sources, but failed. It actually looks speediable to me, but taking it to AfD to allow time for sources to be added. bonadea contributions talk 21:07, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * If an admin does decide to delete the page, please copy the text to User:Jcoffland/sandbox first so that we can continue to work on it. The two names are the same person, but I'd disagree that it's a COI. &bull; Jesse V.(talk) 21:59, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * If the two names are the same person, and you know this for certain, then there's per definition a conflict of interest, as the article is an autobiography. It doesn't follow that a person who edits where there is a COI edits intentionally (or unintentionally) abusively, but the conflict of interest needs to be disclosed and uninvolved editors have to make the decision about the person's notability. --bonadea contributions talk 08:38, 29 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I've added multiple citations. Jcoffland (talk) 22:09, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
 * On a brief glance (I haven't had time for more than that) it seems that the citations all support notability for your various projects - but that doesn't automatically mean that you as a person are notable according to Wikipedia's idiosyncratic definition of notability. This has to be stressed. Wikipedia notability is not the same thing as being worthy or important - it's only about whether there are already multiple publications about the person. --bonadea contributions talk 08:38, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 21:36, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 21:36, 30 October 2012 (UTC)


 * delete Nowhere near enough content to outweigh the serious COI issues. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:30, 30 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete no reliable source given has significant coverage of Coffland and I can't locate one that has. Hekerui (talk) 00:23, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete - per criterion A7; I really don't think this is worth much of a discussion. Go   Phightins  !  22:16, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete Not enough coverage on reliable sources. — ΛΧΣ  21™  00:44, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
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