Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matthew Alford
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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:10, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Vanity page. Recommend for deletion. Catbar (Brian Rock) 23:22, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. If there isn't an "obvious vanity" criterion for speedy deletion, there needs to be. android↔talk 23:29, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, I thought there was a speedy delete criterion for vanity pages, but when I got ready to do the deed, I checked and it looks like it isn't supposed to be handled that way. I think that we often do, though. Thanks. Catbar (Brian Rock) 23:31, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- ... which is an abuse of the speedy deletion process, and not to be encouraged. Enough vanity pages have been rescued from deletion as rewrites, name disambiguations, and whatnot, to show that two editors are not enough. My vote is Delete, by the way. This article (including the expanded version in the history) provides nothing, not even the pet cat, to distinguish this person from tens of thousands of other twenty-something computer programmers. Now Matthew Alford the Associate Professor of Oceanography [1] might pass the Average Professor Test ... Uncle G 01:14, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)
- Actually, I thought there was a speedy delete criterion for vanity pages, but when I got ready to do the deed, I checked and it looks like it isn't supposed to be handled that way. I think that we often do, though. Thanks. Catbar (Brian Rock) 23:31, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, vanity. Note that he also tried to add himself to May 7. —Korath (Talk) 00:52, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, I reverted it. It was how I found his page. Catbar (Brian Rock) 01:55, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 03:49, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete vanity. —Seselwa 10:10, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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