Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Samuel J. Abrams


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The result was Delete,  Nakon  06:04, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Samuel J. Abrams

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Self-promotion by someone without any notability whatsoever. This guy is just a PhD candidate at Harvard without any significant publications. Even the book mentioned is not really his book as the main author is Morris P. Fiorina, and he was just a glorified research assistant. This article has been created by Samuel Abrams himself, a fact that has been widely discussed in the political science profession, as has his academic fraud where he misrepresented his academic credentials, claiming for example to be a professor at NYU, whereas in reality he still is a PhD candidate.}} Elliep (talk) 12:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, but not exactly for the reasons given by the respected nominator. This is kind of a "one fact" article.  All a reader learns is that Mr. Abrams is an author of some articles, which he probably knew already or else why would he be looking for info on him in WP in the first place.  There are no secondary sources that tell us anything more about Mr. Abrams or even comment on his works or opinions.  If it is true that he was dishonest in promoting himself that's a bad thing to do, but not uncommon among writers and not a reason to delete his article. Steve Dufour (talk) 13:51, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as per Steve Dufour. I don't see how notability has been established. Eddie.willers (talk) 15:44, 16 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as well as per Steve Dufour's concerns. I raised my original concern due to the lack of sources and the apparent personal issues raised by the "Elliep" poster. That being said, the article should simply be removed due to the Dufour concerns. "Chill687" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chill687 (talk • contribs) 17:27, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:04, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails our notability criteria. Dougweller (talk) 11:31, 17 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Strong delete Clearly non-notable. ukexpat (talk) 15:34, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  —David Eppstein (talk) 01:54, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable; plenty of gnews hits for Samuel J. Abrams, but almost none to this one. Nomoskedasticity (talk) 13:47, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Wouldn't it make sense to change the article so it's about a notable person (one with some of those gnews hits you mention) that has this name? Edward321 (talk) 22:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * A combination of a first and last name can get lots of ghits and still not involve a notable person. My name does. Steve Dufour (talk) 05:24, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * p.s. When he gets his PhD and a teaching job that will not make him a more notable author. That will only happen when other people start writing about him. Steve Dufour (talk) 15:23, 19 April 2009 (UTC)


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