Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Kastelein


 * 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. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 15:49, 16 August 2018 (UTC)

Richard Kastelein

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Autobiography, dubious notability Antispasm (talk) 14:49, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

All new content comes from non-logged users. Logged users tend to remove content, fake citations, exaggerated claims, etc from it.

The article was tagged for POV in 2013, but hours afterwards a non-logged user reverted it.

There seem to only be 2 other Wikipedia pages linking into the article. One is Qwest, which contains a citation inserted by a non-logged user, and itself smells of WP:UNDUE: a couple of lines provide a disproportionate 9 out of 27 notes for the whole article, and all of them link to light mentions about a self-described "one-off activist site" by this Richard Kastelein. (see this edit)

The other article is Atlantic Free Press, which was a website (now defunct?) led by RK. This article is also advertisement-like and abundantly edited by a non-logged user with the same IP as one of the main writers in RK's article (87.208.27.131).

Looking for other mentions of RK online, there seems to be a pattern of self-advertising, including being nominated to "awards" that apparently allow for self-nomination. And a print-on-demand "biography" in what appears to be some kind of "biography farm" in Amazon.

(I'm wasting a ton of time here, but this kind of thing is fascinating :P)

--Antispasm (talk) 08:27, 8 August 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 01:39, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete This article is nothing more than an extended resume. The vast majority of the "sources" are links to websites that the subject supposedly had involvement with, but provide no support whatsoever to the content of the article. The only meager coverage I could see were Kastelein being name-checked in a USA Today article, and links to a few books and newspapers articles that he has written. Fails WP:GNG. Curiocurio talk) contribs) 03:17, 9 August 2018 (UTC)


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