Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mike Ault


 * 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.  Sandstein  10:34, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Mike Ault

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I think it would be preferable to go through the WP:AfD process to discuss this article.
 * It was created September 7, 2005 and this gives an opportunity for the editors who have worked on the article to review it and add to the discussion.
 * There are "About 756,000 results" in a Google search for "Mike Ault" (admittedly many of them about people of the same name who are not the subject of this article.)
 * While of course AfD is not for cleanup, perhaps this AfD might yield some good outcomes. To the best of my knowledge and understanding, the current buzzword for this is "teachable events". Shirt58 (talk) 09:56, 31 May 2018 (UTC)


 * Reluctant Delete. This guy (narrowly) fails the requirements for WP:AUTHOR. Although he clearly knows a lot about Oracle, I don't think this fulfills the requirements. He definitely isn't highly cited (RQ 1): a search of Jstor for "Mike Ault" and "Mike Ault Oracle" reveals little (the one paper that his name appears on is clearly not him, being a journal of political science). GScholar has more results, but they're all guides written by him rather than academic papers, and he isn't cited by anyone. There's no suggestion that he came up with any new concepts or theories (RQ 2) or gained fame from his work (RQ 4). A very shaky case could be made for the Oracle series being a significant collection of works (RQ 3), but I question its real significance. Delete, but reluctantly so.FirefoxLSD (talk) 11:38, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  MT Train Talk 10:18, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Shirt58 (talk) 12:17, 6 June 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Re

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Shirt58 (talk) 12:37, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete: Clearly Fails WP:AUTHOR. No strong references. Farahpoems (talk) 18:10, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete as original speedy delete tagger. Non-notable author. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 09:23, 9 June 2018 (UTC)


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