Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will Hurd


 * 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. JForget 22:03, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Will Hurd

 * – (View AfD) (View log)

An autobiography of former Student Body President of Texas A&M University. In my opinion the article doesn't meet the notability criteria for people. Article was speedily deleted, recreated again, nominated as. Creator, User:WilliamHurd, contested the nomination with this rationale: ''I have posted a biography of Will Hurd. The reason it was nominated for speedy deletion states that the article is about the person himself, and not his accomplishements. However, the majority of the article talks about his involvement in the Bonfire at Texans A&M University and his courageous work with counterrorism, etc which are all properly cited from newspaper articles and publications. I motion to keep this article.'' I think we need more opinions here. Vejvančický (talk) 17:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - autobiography is strongly discouraged but not actually prohibited; however it makes us look extra hard at the claims of notability, and what we find here is that refs 1 to 5 are about his time as Student Body President at University ten years ago, when he helped answer the phones at the opening of a carpool service, and made several statements to the press after the bonfire disaster. Being in the media as a spokesman is not notability. His "courageous work with counterrorism" is not actually cited: the reference no. 5 beside it is another bonfire interview. The last reference is his campaign website as a candidate for Congress; that is not an independent source and anyway WP:POLITICIAN expressly provides that being a candidate does not confer notability. JohnCD (talk) 17:38, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete I can't find the significant coverage required by WP:GNG  Chzz  ►  18:57, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, no evidence of real notability. When the only possible significant coverage is in self-published sources, there's no notability.  Nyttend (talk) 20:30, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete This is the second recent attempt at promoting Hurd. WP:POLITICIAN is not met. His involvement in the bonfire was serving as a spokesperson who was on TV. WP:ONEVENT.Cptnono (talk) 23:40, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per JohnCD. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:26, 3 October 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.