Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bernard Unti

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. Majorly _{(o rly?)} 21:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bernard Unti[edit]

Non-notable biography, does not appear to meet WP:BIO. All references are self-references, no multiple, independent sources. Leuko 04:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, fails WP:BIO, WP:ATT. 157 G-hits [1] for this fellow, his book has a sales rank of just under 300,000 on Amazon, and I just wound up deleting half the references from the article because they didn't actually pertain to Mr. Unti, but were generic advocacy links for his favored cause. Ravenswing 15:37, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's incorrect. He is either the subject, author, or a commentator in each of them.

Comment: Well ... after having gone through the first several of them, they are either posts from a bulletin board, articles where he is named as an arrested protester, articles about someone else where he is quoted speaking about the article's subject or (in the first case) where he isn't mentioned at all. Those are completely trivial and non-applicable references. Ravenswing 14:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Go ahead and get rid of the entry if you insist-- I am relatively new and perhaps I don't comprehend the criteria well enough. Let me just point out that first you wanted to strike the entry because you claimed the items didn't pertain to Unti. Discovering you were wrong, you now offer another set of reasons based on triviality. He's one of the top officials at the largest animal group in the country. If someone wants to ever start reading about the issues they are going to run into his work. He's an encyclopedist himself if you look at the DAH and encyclopedia entries he authored.Schweizerbueb 12:47, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In general, I would prefer the sources being left inside the article for everybody's so that everyone can easily check for themselves whether they pertain and if so, whwther in a more than trivial sense. That being said, I also do not see the in-depth coverage of Unti as required by teh notability criteria for persons cited above. As much of his work and publications seem to be either about the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) or related to or performed in in his role as Policy Adviser of the HSUS, I would suggest to (slightly) merge and redirect there. Tikiwont 13:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete without prejudice to recreate if better sources can be located. I half suspect that the subject could meet WP:BIO, but I am unable to find decent sources online.--Kubigula (talk) 03:48, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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