Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zeke Vanderhoek

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The result was delete - Nabla (talk) 20:30, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Zeke_Vanderhoek

The wikipedia is not meant for advertising. The person mentioned in this article is not notable enough to merit an entry in the Wikipedia. He is no famous well known educator in America —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakesteed1965 (talk • contribs) 20:53, 18 July 2008

Comment. Note the reference from the New York Times. Perhaps the school is more notable than the person. --Eastmain (talk) 21:43, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. —Eastmain (talk) 21:43, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. —Eastmain (talk) 21:43, 18 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. I'm not seeing any sign of encyclopedic notability here. His school would be notable - if and when it opens - but that's not scheduled to be until 2009, it seems to be a violation of WP:CRYSTAL to speculate on its notability now. Also I get more than a whiff of advertising about the article, created as it was by a single-purpose account whose only other contribution was a (deleted) article advertising Vanderhoek's Manhattan GMAT company. --Stormie (talk) 01:26, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral. I am not very familiar with the US education scene, so I am for the moment not casting a vote. However, some aspects of this AfD are peculiar. User:TenPoundHammer removed a {{SPA}} tag from the nominator, with the cryptic edit summary of "srsly, he's a n00b, let's AGF". As I am one of those dinosaurs that still try to write English (and not being a native speaker at that), I had a hard time with that one! I know what AGF means and I guess that "srsly" is meant to indicate "seriously", but what kind of animal a "n00b" is I cannot fathom. In any case, a SPA tag is just a notification that the person in question has only edited articles related to one singe issue and the explication given with the tag explicitly says that this does not assume there is no good faith. Anyway, I looked up Jakesteed1965's edit history and I must say that I am impressed by someone who arrived in Wikipedia and within a day figured out that AfD exists and how to use it (cost me several months...;-). Turning to the issue at hand, I have Googled "Zeke Vanderhoek" and got hundreds of hits, one of them a biographical article in the NY Times (I have added that link to the article). Many other links appear to be to blogs, which does not necessarily confer notability, but there may be more out there if one looks for it. One final note to the nominator: it is not necessary for a person to be "famous", notability is enough. --Crusio (talk) 09:42, 19 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There are many charter schools (approximately one for every well-to-do suburb in America); this one has not even opened; on top of that, we are talking about one would-be founder of a charter school that has not even opened. Bear in mind that the New York Times is a local paper as well as a national one. These articles strike me more in the way of local interest rather than as serious news. RayAYang (talk) 05:59, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete He doesn't seem to be notable, though I do think the Equity Project would be (provided proper sources exist, of course). All the information seems to come from his company site, and thus shouldn't be reliable as the basis for a neutral article on its own. JDbruin (talk) 17:35, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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