Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shawn Alan Harris


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 17:53, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Shawn Alan Harris

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Lack of coverage in reliable sources to show notability. -- aktsu (t / c) 05:41, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. This article was written and sourced based on an apparent misunderstanding of WP:CITE. Most of the references are used to identify the web sites of organizations or institutions the subject is associated with, not to web pages that actually mention the subject or confirm the facts stated in the article. For example, the sentence "He is a graduate of National University and California State University" was cited to the main pages of the web sites of National University and California State University. Since the subject is not mentioned on those pages, such references tend only to indicate that National University (California) and California State University exist ... which was never in doubt in the first place. They don't contribute anything to the biography of this particular person. In fact, of the first 12 references found in the first three paragraphs of the article, I removed 11 of them because they did not mention the subject. I have seen citation patterns like this before, and it would be useful to put into a guideline somewhere that these are not the kind of citations we are looking for. However, such citations tend to be found primarily in the biographies of people who are non-notable anyway. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:03, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  22:41, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete very close to a speedy a7, as none of this actually shows anything which might be thought of as notability for an encyclopedia   DGG ( talk ) 01:05, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete only primary sources, I can't find anything else. Hobit (talk) 05:18, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.