Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Woody Norris


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The result was delete. Spartaz Humbug! 22:28, 26 May 2020 (UTC)

Woody Norris

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Fails WP:BASIC notability requirements. I thought the comment someone left on the talk page sums it up pretty well: Who is this person? Why do we care? If you hunt through this 900-word article you can find exactly one thing that this "inventor" claims to have invented, which appears to be a typical infomercial-hyped speaker system that may or may not actually be available for purchase anywhere. Is this person really important enough that we need a list of all the alleged corporations he has founded (many of which seem to have no web presence or products - anyone can register a corporation with their state government for around $100, it doesn't mean anything) and a bunch of people who are listed solely for being his "associates?" This really reeks of someone with nothing to promote self-promoting. Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 18:46, 19 March 2020 (UTC) Rusf10 (talk) 03:14, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Rusf10 (talk) 03:14, 18 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete a very non-notable businessman. We might avoid hitting 1 million articles on living people this year if we can removed enough of these vapid articles promoting non-notable people.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:55, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment The article dates to 8 August 2005. That means it has been around almost 15 years. It was also created not by a registered user but by an IP address. Of course I am one of the people who firmly believes Wikipedia would be better if we made people use their real names, as you can see I do. Some might say "yes, but how many people go by their full names?" My grandson calls me by my full name 2-3 times a day, and as those who once tried to villify me for category edits that they did not like (and in the process falsely accused me of creating a category I did not create, only expanded months after someone else made it) I use the same name on my facebook account, and I generally make public comments on other websites under this name. As I have said many, many times I think we should go to A-require the use of real names on wikipedia accounts, b-require more deep verification of existence, c-ban anyone under age 18 from creating an article on Wikipedia, d-make all new article creations go through the article for creation process. OK, I actually have never spelled out all 4 criteria at once before, but horredous vapid articles like this lasting 15 years makes me really think we need these reforms.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:01, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per JPL, man that was a manifesto! :) ——  Serial # 13:18, 26 May 2020 (UTC)


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