Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William Robert Plumlee


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 00:05, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

William Robert Plumlee

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Biographical subject was the ancillary focus of an investigative series of two articles by Nick Schou for the free alternative newspaper OC Weekly. Those two articles, "Men in Suits" (2006) and "Cocaine Airways" (2006) have more to do with allegations of CIA drug trafficking than with the primary subject. Plumlee has not been the focus of multiple secondary sources about his career. Aside from outright deletion, a redirect to the Kerry Committee report may be acceptable if it can be proven that he actually testified before that committee as he claims. Viriditas (talk) 00:34, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:PERP. In my search for reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject, all I could find was the Playboy article... and that was only in conjunction with an allegation he made. The rest of it is built from primary sources or from self-published conspiracy authors who take his claims of being a CIA pilot as fact. If someone else finds reliable source, please post them. [Edit: Don't hold your breath on the Kerry Committee testimony. Like with every other assertion about this subject, the OC Weekly said his "testimony remains classified until 2020." Sure it is.] Location (talk) 01:12, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - coat rack for material about CIA drug trafficing. Too few reliable secondary sources for a biography. Tom Harrison Talk 12:02, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete as per Viriditas, Location, and Tom Harrison. Using cherry-picked primary and self-published documents to accuse anyone of criminal activity is not acceptable practice, ever. (Note: by the time I viewed the article, the only citation left was the one from Playboy, referenced above by Location. However, the history shows the FOIA requests and the external links to conspiracist and other dubious sites.) I doubt it would be possible to ever construct and article about this individual which complied with BLP, NPOV, and RS guidelines and policies, and although WP:COATRACK is only an essay, this is a prime example of it, since it's not about the subject, it's about the others whose alleged dirty deeds he has abetted.  Horologium  (talk) 03:07, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - Fails WP:GNG's requirements for multiple, independent and reliable sources giving non-trivial coverage to the specific subject of the article. DreamGuy (talk) 21:15, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - it fails WP:GNG. Inks.LWC (talk) 03:51, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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