Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oliver Denton


 * 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 speedy delete. Strictly speaking, WP:CSD does not apply, since Articles for deletion/Oliver J. Y. Denton was itself closed as a speedy deletion. However, I too had already looked for proof of the existence of the three books named in this article before noticing this discussion, and come to the same conclusion as both the nominator and Jim Douglas, which is the same conclusion that at least one editor came to in the previous AFD discussion, namely that this is a hoax. The article cites no sources, and a quick search turns up no sources documenting this person, let alone what xe once said in a student debating society debate. I'm therefore deleting this under a combination of our Biography of living persons policy and WP:CSD for being a clear attempt to advertise the subject with a hoax biography whose contents cannot be substantiated. Uncle G 15:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Oliver Denton

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Possible vanity article of a non-notable author. Article was created by a single-purpose account. Claims to have published two books; the first is a 40-page pamphlet issued by Hudson History, a tiny independent publisher of local history. (The positive Amazon reviews of it look suspiciously like the work of sockpuppets.) I can find no evidence that the second book even exists; Amazon and Google searches turn up empty. Psychonaut 18:58, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Have to agree with nominator, this guy does exist but not notable by any means. Being a member and vocal person of a polictial party does not automatically make you notable an if that was the case, we could have literally hundreds of thousands of local politicans getting articles and a bio. --PrincessBrat 19:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and per WP:BLP Alf Photoman  21:59, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as repost of a previously deleted article. Here's what I found when I researched it last time: User talk:RadioKirk/Archive06 -- Jim Douglas (talk) (contribs)  22:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I wasn't aware that the article had been posted previously. I've therefore marked it for speedy deletion with db-repost. —Psychonaut 23:26, 6 March 2007 (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.