Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stewart Swerdlow
Stewart Swerdlow was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. 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
Apparent nonsense, as attested by User:Mirv. [[User:Poccil|Peter O. (Talk)]] 23:20, Oct 25, 2004 (UTC)
- Advertising. — Bill 00:37, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete. NeoJustin 01:37, Oct 26, 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: Advertising, sort of, but also nonsense, sort of, and crank celebration, sort of, and proselytizing, sort of. Geogre 01:56, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Crackpottery. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 14:46, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Keep: the article is not NPOV at all, so rewrite it, but that doesn't make the underlying subject (however farfetched) unworthy of critical examination in an encyclopedia article. Vadder 19:24, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- The underlying subject being Stewart Swerdlow? No, I don't see it at all. Geogre 03:24, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Swerdlow is an author (search your favorite online bookseller), a figure of some worldwide interest (Google has almost 1000 hits), and a notable crackpot. The remedy for a bad, non-NPOV article about a notable crackpot should be no more than to wipe the offending text out of his article, even if it just leaves a stub behind. Deletion implies that no article about Swerdlow is needed here; the fact that people care enough to buy his books and discuss him on the web implies otherwise. Vadder 04:38, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- The underlying subject being Stewart Swerdlow? No, I don't see it at all. Geogre 03:24, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Keep, he's a fairly notable crackpot. It's possible to turn Khranus's stoned rants into real articles, but it takes a lot of work. —No-One Jones (m) 04:40, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. Someones sanity does not detract from their notability. Agree with Mirv aka No-One/Jones. - Radman1 16:24, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Delete: nonnotable crank. Wile E. Heresiarch 06:03, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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