Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Clark Young


 * 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The result was withdrawn by nominator. 28bytes (talk) 10:33, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

Robert Clark Young

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This author is notable, but by his own admission has written the article himself using his main account as well as a variety of IPs and throwaway accounts. Hosting this hopelessly compromised version damages the integrity of Wikipedia. I believe the existing, autobiographical version should be deleted and a new version, free of conflict of interest, should be written in its place. I tried to boldly stub the article to a non-COI version, but was reverted, so here we are. 28bytes (talk) 21:48, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * What is your argument for deletion, in this case? Nothing would prevent further/dramatic trimming. Is there some reason you want to delete though? --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 22:09, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Apparently [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Clark_Young&diff=555570773&oldid=555570496 something would prevent] that. Occasionally pages are deleted with no prejudice to an untainted version being created (for example in this deletion discussion) and I believe that would be the proper response here as well. 28bytes (talk) 22:22, 17 May 2013 (UTC)


 * oppose I have no problem with stubbing this down to nothing, but having followed the trail of sinning, it should remain on public record rather than being obliterated. Mangoe (talk) 22:24, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * oppose per an even better reason by Mangoe. Unless there are BLP violations, there's no reason to hide the history of what happened to this article. Whether people revert your efforts at stubbing is a content issue, not a 'delete this article' issue. --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 22:29, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose I just spent part of an afternoon starting to clean up some COI articles. What makes this one any more special than the tons of others scattered around the place? Intothatdarkness 22:34, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
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