Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Obadiah Shoher


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The result was Delete - Yomangani talk 11:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Obadiah Shoher
Unverifiable, possible vanity. His name is not known in Israel and searching for עובדיה שוחר yields almost nothing. The only thing that can be notable about this is the fight against Amazon.com, and even that is dubious. Seems to me that whoever is behind this is trying to use social websites such as MySpace, Amazon.com and now Wikipedia to promote his extremist political ideas. Amir E. Aharoni 10:46, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete unless sources are found: there are no reliable sources in this article whatsoever (4 are his website, the other two are pay-to-post press-release sites). However, I don't find that the article tries to paint him in a positive light. I'm more concerned that this whole thing is either a) Libel or b) A hoax. yandman  11:06, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: It doesn't paint him in a very positive light, because i tried to neutralize it a bit and removed the most preposterous claims in hope that this article might be useful as a study case on Internet censorship (see article's talk page). It is also possible that it is, indeed, a hoax - i am not sure at all that he is Israeli. For all i know Obadiah Shoher may be as real as Ouze Merham. --Amir E. Aharoni 11:35, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete I agree with yandman. Its needs real sources. His book is sold on Amazon, but that does not make this notable. I can see a possible trend developing here, were people create a load of web sites focused on an individual in the hope that they will become notable enough to be included in Wikipedia. scope_creep 14:23, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: His book is sold on Amazon.com, but it is published by Lulu.com, which is pretty much the same thing as printing a blog (correct me if i'm wrong.) --Amir E. Aharoni 15:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment In that case Amire80, I'd say delete.
 * Delete There are enough things going on with this page, as if it hasn't been marked with enough wiki-mark-ups too. Amazon means nothing, my butt can have a book published and put on Amazon too. Missvain 17:25, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * You must have a very intelligent rectum, madam. I didn't know it was that easy to get on Amazon, though. Good to know for future AfD's. yandman  18:02, 16 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete. Looks vanity, anyway it's awfully written. --Attilios 17:32, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
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