Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rusty Foster

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was ambiguous. Reading through the discussion thread, many of the comments refer not to the article but to the way the nomination was made. Those comments which to address the content are about evenly split but still seem to be to be tainted by the controversy of the nomination. I am going to call this a "no concensus" defaulting to keep but without prejudice against a renomination. Rossami (talk) 20:45, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Rusty Foster
"Blogger cruft"? Vanity? Encyclopedically notable? Which is it? --GRider\talk 21:37, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This is getting out of hand. Please see Requests_for_comment/GRider2.


 * I don't know. You tell me. Chris 21:53, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Beats me. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:27, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * No vote. Lacrimosus 02:23, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * And we too, as we know not the nature and qualities of virtue, must ask, whether virtue is or is not taught, under a hypothesis: as thus, if virtue is of such a class of mental goods, will it be taught or not?  Let the first hypothesis be that virtue is or is not knowledge,--in that case will it be taught or not? or, as we were just now saying, 'remembered'?  For there is no use in disputing about the name.  But is virtue taught or not? or rather, does not every one see that knowledge alone is taught? Faethon387 02:41, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Reply hazy, try again. Magic 8-Ball 14:11, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep; nomination is malformed. —Markaci 2005-03-22 T 03:04 Z
 * Delete, not notable, blogger vanity. Megan1967 05:14, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * He claims to be a notable weblogger, but gets less than a thousand google hits. Sounds like vanity to me. Radiant_* 09:27, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * "Rusty Foster" produces 8370 hits. Kuro5hin+rusty produces 21,400. How did you get less than 1000? Average Earthman 09:21, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Vanity indeed. Delete Mgm|(talk) 11:54, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and de-vanitize. He created the Scoop software for collaborative web-content development... uh, blog software, more notable than most of its type.  He created (and edits) kuro5hin, which was an influential early tech-and-society discussion forum and still is more notable than most of its type.  Radiant, did you try Googling kuro5hin?  Or Scoop + software?  Barno 16:00, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I do not dispute Kuro5hin's notability. Merely Rusty's. Radiant_* 18:53, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keepish - he's of the same caliber of importance as Slashdot's Rob Malda. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 16:07, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and de-vanitize. Seems like it could be informative. Needs serious editing though. -- 16:10, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Radiant, you should put in some basic effort before continuing your VfD crusade. Rhobite 16:20, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * No personal attacks please, Rhobite. My crusading efforts are strictly limited to here. Radiant_* 18:53, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-encyclopedic, vanity. Martg76 16:45, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, this one is probably notable enough. Grue 17:06, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * You must be kidding. Who is this GRider fellow? Rusty Foster is extremely notable! - Ta bu shi da yu 01:38, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity blogcruft. ComCat 02:25, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not a vanity blogger, and the lack of hits for his name probably is due to his signing himself just 'rusty' (a google for Kuro5hin+rusty provides 21,400 hits). I suspect that photo is putting a lot of people off. At most, merge with Kuro5hin. Average Earthman 09:21, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, bloggers are not inherently notable--nixie 09:42, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep; ban troll. &mdash; Dan | Talk 04:46, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Whatever, Hi, this is Rusty, the subject of the page. I don't really have a stake in what happens to it, but for informational purposes, it should be noted that I didn't create it, and I don't maintain it. I did change the picture once (that picture is terrible) but apparently someone changed it back. This is all fairly entertaining though. :-) Kuro5hin 01:27, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, You know, on second thought, I'd vote to delete. It's got all that trolly stuff about $70,000 and tax fraud in there, which is nonsense. Dropping it would make Wikipedia a more accurate place. Kuro5hin 01:31, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've spoken to Rusty several times and never detected vanity in his nature.  I'm slightly less confident, but only slightly, that he's encyclopedically notable.  I think he deserves a small article at least for Kuro5hin's sake (this is me trying like mad to restrain my pro-Rusty bias here). -Kasreyn

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