Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Tom Barbalet

I am writing to ask for a review and reversal of the deletion of the wikipedia entry about me and my project, Noble Ape. The entries deleted were created by a series of listeners to my podcasts from 2007 through to about 2013. To be clear, I am only interested in the reversal for Noble Ape and Tom Barbalet on Wikipedia. The other two articles are less important to me.

While I appreciate the articles that were deleted were not ideal, the articles Tom Barbalet and Noble Ape did represent my work in a form which was comparable to others who have contributed a similar extent to the field of artificial life and still actively represented on Wikipedia - OpenWorm, Critterding, Avida, Boids, Polyworld.

They also show through Wikipedia and external academic references (http://www.nobleape.com/sim/#Academic) that my work is not a walled garden. It has contributed to a number of different areas and been used by Apple and Intel for their development.

As the article on Artificial life organizations also shows I have also fostered a community of developers and dialogue in the field of artificial life.

Probably unknown to you through this process is that a number of the external references to Noble Ape are currently being suppressed through payment to Google and other search sources by a comedian who aggressively promoted a comedy tour and album under the same name from 2016 to the present. This has lowered any chance of finding external references to Noble Ape.

I continue to work on Noble Ape to this day totaling more than ten hours per week on average. This is a voluntary effort to further ideas in social evolution, philosophy and open source software. I appreciate that working on Wikipedia is also a voluntary effort. I thank you for your time and considering my request to appeal this deletion.

Barbalet (talk) 23:44, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
 * please see WP:Deletion review to appeal, but first, please read this guideline on conflicts of interest. --DannyS712 (talk) 03:25, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * This is an extraordinary circumstance for reasons I have outlined. I have contacted the admin who did the deletion and the deletion participants to gather information to take back to the artificial life community. A process I am doing currently. I would much rather have someone who doesn't know me directly make this effort on my behalf but they would not be able to navigate the suppression of information I have experienced over the past couple of years. Barbalet (talk) 11:51, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Tom, I appreciate your civility during this process. That said, maintaining notability is a crucial part of what keeps Wikipedia going, and without significant secondary sources, articles simply won't stand. "Suppression of information" seems a little conspiratorial, but if there are other secondary sources out there that have not yet been brought to the attention of those of us who participated in the AfD, please share them! Skirts89 12:56, 14 May 2019 (UTC)


 * RebeccaGreen has done this. The articles are with her for re-editing. Thank you for your comments. Barbalet 15:44, 14 May 2019 (UTC)