Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mick Finlay


 * 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. W.marsh 18:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Mick Finlay


We cannot create page for each scientist unless he is significant and encyclopaedic. I had created page of my supervisor who had PhD degrees from Stanford University and numerous publications but that page was speedy-deleted by an admin. Similarly nothing significant about this scientist and this page should be speedy deleted. ابراهيم 15:54, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * WP:POINT issues with the nominator aside, I think this should be deleted for not saying whether this person is notable. Kavadi carrier 16:04, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete (G10) Text of page is copied from here. Site has a copyright notice at the bottom of the page. Also, the article fails to assert subject's notability. Caknuck 06:03, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: No comment on this particular article, but I don't think this is the right way to react to some other article being wrongly speedy deleted. You should request that article to be undeleted and brought to AFD, or simply recreate it in expanded and improved form. up+land 09:46, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Reply to your comment: I have not said that my Professor article was "wrongly" deleted. It was the first article I had created when I did not know anything about wikipedia. I now understand that it was rightly deleted. See I also have seven publications and working towards more. It does not mean article related to me should be created and all other such people (we are in 1000s). However, if someone do something really extra-ordinary ONLY then an article should be created about him. Only then ones work becomes encyclopaedic. --- ابراهيم 09:53, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the misunderstanding, but in that case I don't think you should have brought that up. It is better to refer to WP:PROFTEST, which is a quite decent proposed guideline for the notability of academics. As far as I can see, Finlay doesn't really pass the test yet. (And notable academics are at least nominated for deletion quite often around here; we have had a Yale professor and member of the National Academy of Sciences on AFD recently, and I deprodded another NAS member and a Fellow of the Royal Society just a few days ago, just to mention some very recent cases. That an actually notable scientist might have been speedy deleted by mistake is quite believable.) up+land 10:20, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * "... in that case I don't think you should have brought that up". May be you are right about this. --- ابراهيم 10:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:PROF . Leibniz 13:28, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete This is a copyvio, why is it still here? HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 16:27, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.