Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Lawrence Kuhn

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 keep. Daniel.Bryant ^{[ T · C ]} 06:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Robert Lawrence Kuhn

Hagiography and possible autobiography. Apparently being edited/created by one user using a series of differnt anon IPs. History shows editing by a series of IP addresses, each address has only been used to edit the biography. Author has highly detailed knowledge. If this is not outright autobiography then it's at least someone who knows the author down to the contents of his CV Saganaki- 07:12, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• KeepThis person seems notable, and the statements seem verifiable. If the article is too biased, and there is too much original research etc., then the solution is to boldly edit it, not to delete it.Obina 09:29, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep but clean up and pare down extensively - I'm concerned that the lead paragraph at least may be a copy-and-paste job of bios elsewhere. But he's obviously notable; a very quick Google search turns up quite a bit of reference, including this one from PBS, the first one that caught my eye. Lots to work with here, it just needs a lot of work. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Guys: Here's the story; I appreciate your sage advice/help. Some time ago, I was alerted to a Wiki bio posted on me that was very short and almost totally in error, and what was marginally correct was 30 years old -- there was little reference to anything I had done in recent years -- in other words, an embarrassing distortion. Friends, associates were emailing me -- I host a PBS series, Closer To Truth, on the implications of frontier science, www.pbs.org/closertotruth. What to do? So I added accurate, recent material, perhaps in the Wiki Spirit too much (which I've just taken out). Furthermore, a recent posting criticized my admittedly controversial biography of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, which was the #1 best-selling nonfiction book in China in 2005 and was published worldwide by Random House / Crown, “as being propaganda and largely untrue, having been commissioned by Jiang Zemin himself”. This calumny is wholly untrue, but in the Wiki Spirit, I did not delete its false and scurrilous accusation (almost anything related to Chinese politics, I understand, can become emotional and there are diverse points of view, all of which should be heard), but rather in response I quoted myself from Foreign Affairs magazine, a most reliable source, in answering the same charge. Seeing and appreciating your comments, I’ve just tried to pare down the bio, make it more NPOV, an acronym I’ve just learned. I’m an amateur at this; I'll happily have Hands Off, if’s that’s the policy, so long as inaccuracies are not promulgated and defacing (however subtle) is not permitted. Much of this material on me can be confirmed on the Internet (though some of the bios are outdated). In conclusion, I love Wikipedia, appreciate your commitment and vigilance, want to conform, but do not want errors of any kind to remain nor inserted biased commentary to go answered. Help, my friends! Robert Lawrence Kuhn 29 October 2006.

• Keep Looks to meet WP:BIO standards readily. I added the {{WPBiography}} tag to the talk page so that it will be on the BLP Patrol's radar screen, and the Biography Project's to do list. GRBerry 15:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

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