Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Sarmast


 * 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. per WP:BLP and WP:UNDUE v/r - TP 00:08, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Robert Sarmast

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The article fails WP:NOTABILITY. It is about an author with another in the long line of fringe theories about Atlantis that is not taken seriously by the scientific/historical scholarly community. Other than his personal web site, there is no evidence that the usefulness of his work extends beyond his own writings. --Taivo (talk) 06:13, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 20:33, 4 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Very reluctant keep Looking at the Google News hits, he has certainly received significant coverage over several years in a large number of sources that are independent of the subject and that are usually regarded as reliable by Wikipedians, so he seems to pass WP:GNG quite handily. Whether on not he should do so is quite a different question. PWilkinson (talk) 19:00, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
 * 'Delete as a WP:Attack page. Most of the content is criticism. Stuartyeates (talk) 10:26, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 11 September 2011 (UTC)




 * Keep As noted above, has certainly received plenty of coverage. I also disagree that this constitutes an WP:Attack page--there is no disparaging or threatening language at all, that I can see; merely an admirably neutral-toned presentation and footnoting of the arguments against the subject's interpretations. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 01:28, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
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