Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vincent Covello


 * 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   speedy delete as copyvio. If someone independent of the subject is interested enough in him to write an independent article, we can judge the notability of that once it happens, but there doesn't seem to be any point in holding a full discussion over an article that's essentially just a straight copy of a web site. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:04, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Vincent Covello

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Tagged for notability for two years. A few quick searches reveal only brief mentions and nothing where Mr. Covello is the subject of a substantial work. CorporateM (Talk) 15:10, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment This had been tagged for proposed deletion, which I had objected against primarily based on his fairly high citation numbers (about 5000, h-index of 31, according to GScholar). A second look reveals, however, that most of the article's text is a copy from here. --Axolotl Nr.733 (talk) 15:30, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * @Axolotl Nr.733 Should we still let the AfD discussion roll even if it's copyvio? I know generally speaking copyright infringements are seen as an immediate priority and I am not willing to rewrite the content every time someone copy/pastes their bio into Wikipedia. CorporateM (Talk) 15:38, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * @CorporateM I'd have no problem with clarifying the copyvio issue first. Even though I'm confident that the academic literature on risk communication would provide enough information on his contributions to this field, I agree to your general statement on copy/pasted bios. --Axolotl Nr.733 (talk) 17:31, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * Comment I apologize. I tagged for CSD before reading these comments fully. I'm fine if we want to remove the tag to address the copyvio. EricEnfermero (Talk) 02:00, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
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