Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2014 March 19

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19 March 2014[edit]

The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
Semir Osmanagić (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

<hello Vasalloe1, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your addition to Semir Osmanagić has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.>

  • ""I sent an email to wiki editor and he has not replied. i did not post any copyrighted material. I simply edited erroneous data and added two links one for subjects book on amazon and the other to the youtube link to subjects youtube channel. DougWeller also speedily deleted my other entry for a bio of a living person with documentation because i included that i was the person's talent manager and son. How can i get both pages back? they don't seem to fit criteria for speedy deletion by Mr. Weller. Further research found that Mr. Weller is of questionable background and may present a conflict of interest. He is not a geologist nor an archaeologist. I have an archaeology degree from the University of Miami. He also removed references to recent articles to the same page. Seems like a personal attack. Unfounded deletion. Please help investigate this issue. reach me at [email protected]"
  • Wrong venue, but perhaps I can at least make sense of this. I am guessing that the material you added, at least the material the article history said you added, is captured in this "diff": [1]
    • Those additions include the addition of a good bit of text, quotes like ""lectures extensively and promote Bosnian Valley of the Pyramids Project and archaeological tourism". When we look for material using those quotes on the internet, we immediately find that they appear essentially identical to the text at http://www.semirosmanagic.com/en/ . As US law treates any written material as copyrighted until and unless it's disclaimed, that is, unless I've misstated any fact here, a contribution of copyrighted material. Whether that's what you intended or not. Doug Weller was, as near as I can tell, absolutely correct to remove that contribution under our policies and the laws of the United States.
    • In any case, you are lodging this particular complaint in the wrong place. Nobody deleted the article on Semir Osmanagić, and we only review procedural errors around entirely deleted articles.
    • In general, you will find it easier to communicate with other editors by placing messages on their talk pages. Most Wikipedia editors do not work via email, and in general, the Wikipedia community prefers the accountability that comes along with open communications.
    • It's not entirely clear what other pages you want back, if there are deleted files, it would help us to know what you're talking about. We are not mind readers.
    • Absoultely, unequivocally, do not simply insult other editors with comments like "questionable background." Please read the essay at WP:AGF, your comments read to me, as someone who is entirely new to this debate, as a personal attack.
    • If you have specific complaints about an editor, you may wish to pursue it in other venues, this isn't the right one. First try and work with the editor in question via discussion on their talk page. If that doesn't work, consider WP:DR next.
    I hope you find this explanations helpful. Best regards, --j⚛e deckertalk 02:45, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks Joe. I indeed deleted the copyright material that was added - I was the second person to delete it. What Vasalloe1 does not mention is that he also deleted quotations by Semir Osmanagić from the article that he apparently didn't like, stating that Semir Osmanagić no longer declares them (a dubious statement and unsourced). He also added in Wikipedia's voice that Semir Osmanagić actually discovered pyramids. He's at 3RR now at that article, having deleted information about the content of Semir Osmanagić's Osmanagic PhD. In addition, no one has deleted anything at the BLP he created about Isabel Gomez-Bassols. I simply added a conflict of interest tag as he says he is her talent manager, and raised the issue at WP:COIN. He has an obvious conflict of interest there. Dougweller (talk) 05:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
Template:GovLinks (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (article|XfD|restore)

Premature deletion by Plastikspork (see discussion on User_talk:Plastikspork, because simultaneous discussion was occurring on Template:CongLinks. Deleter of GovLinks says to discuss reversal here; proposed deleters of CongLinks have agreed to re-open a discussion. Requesting a Relist while CongLinks discussion is ongoing; I will inform CongLinks participants that GovLinks discussion is separate (i.e. recommend posting comments there too) JesseAlanGordon (talk) 18:12, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Thargor suggests on the CongLinks discussion that I request restoring individual links rather than suggest restoring GovLinks as a whole. That is indeed my intent, but evidently I have not followed the process to do so properly, since that is not what people are commenting on. My understanding of the restoration process is that the template would be restored so that we could have a discussion on each individual link within it -- as was occurring for CongLinks at the time of GovLinks deletion. Please advise me what I am misunderstanding, since clearly I am misunderstanding the process. I would like to discuss restoration for these links in particular, as I discussed on the original CongLinks discussion before GovLinks was deleted, and which several other Wiki editors also discussed: The links are: Ballotpedia; FEC; VoteSmart; OnTheIssues; NYTimes; WashPost; and perhaps a few others. I do not know how to look at GovLinks to see what the actual links were, since it is deleted; the deletion review guidelines state that I should request that here, so I am requesting it -- please advise me if this does not constitute a formal request. My rationale for each of the above links is that they are immensely useful; they are reliable; and they follow all the purposes of Wikipedia. My detailed case for each link are on the CongLinks page; I'd like to re-open a discussion on individual links. I'm happy to post those here if requested, plus the same repeated from other editors on the CongLinks discussion that apply to GovLinks. Sincerely, JesseAlanGordon (talk) 20:01, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure as nominator for deletion. Consensus was clear, the discussion was open for three weeks, and the template clearly facilitated violation of our external links guideline. Thargor Orlando (talk) 18:42, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse closure. The template violated WP:EL by shoehorning a number of links into articles without subjecting each new one to increasing scrutiny. Binksternet (talk) 19:51, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse per Thargor Orlando (it was procedurally valid) and Binksternet (it was a crappy template anyway). --BDD (talk) 21:03, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Valid close, as Thargor notes. --j⚛e deckertalk 22:15, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 22:38, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Clearly valid close within policy and consensus. --Randykitty (talk) 11:55, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, and also a {{trout}} to the OP who has stated their intent to flout consensus. - The Bushranger One ping only 09:09, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Un-endorse closure: The "consensus" for closure of GovLinks ignored a simultaneous discussion on CongLinks, for the same links. Could someone please advise me of the proper procedure to incorporate that discussion here? I see that no one is reading the discussion at CongLinks -- I like to it in my opening arguments -- should I post them all here? JesseAlanGordon (talk) 19:12, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I've struck through your !vote, as the nominator your position is already known, you don't get to !vote twice. FWIW overturn would be the opposite of endorse at DRV. I looked at CongLinks and there appears to have been a consensus to remove many, a consensus you seem to be saying you'll ignore and restore the removed stuff because of the DRV here. Your last comment there states "I am proposing to discuss them further once GovLinks is un-deleted.", well I guess if this DRV doesn't result in the undeletion there won't be any further discussion there, presumably you'll drop the stick there? --86.2.216.5 (talk) 14:16, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The above is an archive of the deletion review of the page listed in the heading. Please do not modify it.
The following is an archived debate of the deletion review of the page above. Please do not modify it.
Belle Knox (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

This close was clearly a supervotd and the admin used his opinion instead of reading consensus. Beerest 2 Talk page 14:55, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Could an admin restore the page so non-admins can see the current available reporting and sourcing? Sportfan5000 (talk) 00:34, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
(Note: I've posted it off-project here:[2]]. Feel free to remove this note when its back for the DRV.--Milowenthasspoken 03:10, 20 March 2014 (UTC))[reply]
Milowent, are you still copying deleted pages without attribution to that Blogspot site? I suggested that you review WP:Reusing Wikipedia content back in May 2011. Flatscan (talk) 05:10, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I always make clear they came from wikipedia, no one has ever complained, in 5 years. No one has even resurrected this one for the DRV? I thought this link would be removed by now.--Milowenthasspoken 05:31, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Pointing back to Wikipedia is insufficient when the page history has been deleted. We can't even reuse that content on Wikipedia, per WP:Copying within Wikipedia#Reusing deleted material – as I reminded Tokyogirl79 below. As I wrote previously, you can request page histories at WP:Requests for undeletion to include on your site. Flatscan (talk) 05:04, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • No it wasn't and no he didn't. Endorse.—S Marshall T/C 16:45, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn to NC. There is a real debate if BLP1E applies. Two arguments were made that it does not. The strongest is that she's not a low-profile individual at this point. She's been on The View and Piers Morgan's show on CNN (if I understand correctly) and certainly has not been attempting to have a low profile. The second was that she has sparked a larger debate about a number of issues. There wasn't much from the delete side countering either of those. The second one I'd argue is a reason for having an event article and so mostly irrelevant to this BLP, but the first one is a reasonable argument with significant support and very little in the way of counter arguments. In fact it goes at the heart of BLP1E. I don't see how there can be said to have consensus to delete when there is such strong support for a reasonable policy-based view. Hobit (talk) 17:25, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion. The close decision was based on the policy arguments presented, which favored deleting the article. AfD is not a vote. And regardless of the intensity of the media frenzy, she is still only notable for a single event that has no lasting historical significance. This is exactly the situation that BLP1E is designed to address. Kaldari (talk) 17:41, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Just to be clear, are you saying that per WP:LOWPROFILE she is a low-profile person? I'd say there is at the least a solid argument that she is not low profile, but I'd like to hear why you disagree. Per WP:BLP1E "...WP:BLP1E should be applied only to biographies of low-profile individuals". Hobit (talk) 17:54, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • As WP:LOWPROFILE states: "A low-profile individual is someone who has been covered in reliable sources without seeking such attention, often as part of their connection with a single event." Clearly Belle Knox did not seek this attention. She was thrust into the spotlight by her outing and made the decision to defend herself. This may have caused her to be momentarily high profile, but she is back to being low profile at this point. As WP:LOWPROFILE states, "High- and low-profile status can change over time". I don't see any reason to believe that Belle Knox will continue to seek media attention now that this particular event has run its course. Many of the keep votes were arguing that the article should be kept because Belle Knox might turn out to be a prominent activist. To quote one particularly extreme example: "For all we know, she could become the next Gloria Steinem". If and when that happens, a new article can be created. In the meantime, the BLP policy dictates that we wait and see. Kaldari (talk) 18:05, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I'd say someone who chooses to show up on major TV show like The View and other media outlets is seeking out such attention, but I suppose it depends on your definition of seeking out. I think the keep !voters, at the least, have a pretty reasonable point and policy doesn't firmly stand for deleting this. Hobit (talk) 18:17, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'll grant this is a pretty good argument, and it's possible you can prevail with it, but this looks like it's still at a pretty early stage. For the policy to mean something, we can't say someone is "high profile" the moment they snap back at a reporter and thereby "voluntarily" appear on the air, but at the same time, we can't give someone a lifetime pass as low profile either. But at first glance my overall feeling, skimming a couple of the sources that pop up in a news source, is that we're still more interested in her as an example than as a person, which means, try to work her into an article about something. Wnt (talk) 19:33, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
She has made at least a dozen national media appearance that i count so far, this is in addition to many on web blogs that are likely not to be needed, or count, toward reliable sourcing, as they don't seem to cover new ground. They are interviews with her however. Sportfan5000 (talk) 00:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorsement (but nothing else): it seems undeniable at this point that BLP1E still applies; she's still in an initial burst of publicity. She is still only interesting (so far as the sources I've seen tell us) as a case of the unofficial policy of harassment and intimidation of pornography performers that undermines their legal rights. It is appropriate for an admin to uphold the clear letter of WP:BLP1E when many voters have made a strong case for it. However, the flip side of this is that nothing in BLP1E prohibits her from being mentioned in articles about the topic. For example, Belle Knox can and probably should be made a redirect to something like Sex workers' rights (while I'm hesitant to blur the legal distinction between that and porn performance in a BLP, there are sources using that term [3]). Most if not all of the article about her (minus some duplications of content imposed by a standalone biography format) can be integrated into a section of that article about the controversy, and appears to be presently available at Deletionpedia.org and Speedydeletion.wikia.com. It's OK to honor the AfD so long as it is not interpreted to interfere with any of that. Wnt (talk) 19:26, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think the BLP1E arguments were sufficiently responded to in the discussion, I have also detailed why none of the three BLP1E points, and all are required, has been met. Sportfan5000 (talk) 00:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn to no consensus. It's true that a closer should make closes based on policy rather than plurality of opinions, but the policy as applied by many delete voters and the closer seems transparently wrong. That's my opinion, of course. I agree with Kaldari that Knox didn't initially seek this attention, but it's pretty clear that once the story broke, that was no longer the case (I'm sorry if that sounds like judgment; she dealt with the controversy proactively, so more power to her). It's also a novel interpretation of policy to call a pornographic actress who has appeared in films from major porn studios a "low-profile individual." (I'm sorry if that sounds like a judgment on the porn industry; it's not meant as such.) If Belle Knox were just a person who had appeared in a leaked sex tape or something, sure, you could call that low profile. A pornographic actress, though? No way. --BDD (talk) 20:50, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I could be persuaded by this opinion. But can you cite some sources about the films she starred in? I mean, $1600 sounds like a lot of money, but she's not exactly Tom Cruise. If the actors and actresses in the films are notable, we should cover them all. Wnt (talk) 22:16, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It's already been established that she doesn't meet WP:PORNBIO. See the deletion discussion. Kaldari (talk) 00:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Well, that's kind of a red herring. The commenters there were speaking of the "additional criteria" which are supposed to be an alternative to WP:GNG, not a replacement for it. (Which, if it is the deciding factor, would justify an overturn due to incorrect interpretation of policy) Besides, in this case, she's primarily known for the political/social issue rather than for her work, and the issue is only if we have a second event. That said, I'm still a bit skeptical that she really has GNG-worthy sources covering her acting career independently of the recent news flap. (I mean put it this way: "How Do You Like It" and "Lick My Lips" only seem to turn up hits about the news, torrents, and reviews of movies by those names made before she was born) So I'm open, but not convinced, at this point. Wnt (talk) 00:32, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I don't think anyone's seriously arguing that she meets PORNBIO, which is probably our silliest notability standard anyway. But GNG is a pretty clear-cut case. Has she been the subject of significant coverage in (multiple) reliable sources independent of her? Absolutely. I'm not sure what you mean by "GNG-worthy sources covering her acting career," however. Editors aren't really arguing for WP:NACTOR either. When you have significant coverage in independent, reliable sources, you have GNG regardless of the specific context in which the subject is covered. Does that make sense? --BDD (talk) 16:07, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • endorse The nominator said on the ed's tp that they don't agree with the close but no policy based reason to overturn the close has been presented. This was well within discretion and "I don't agree" is empatically not a reason to overturn a close. Spartaz Humbug! 21:18, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • While the nomination did suck, I think many of the arguments above raise the issue that BLP1E didn't apply here. That the first person to list it at DRV made terrible arguments isn't overly relevant. Hobit (talk) 00:53, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • I don't agree that BLP1E doesn't apply and its within the closers discretion to consider that against the strength of arguments. The question for us is surely did the closing admin have discretion to apply BLP1E given the state of the discussion and was their decision to do so so unreasonable it can't be allowed to stand. I think the answer to that is yes and no. Spartaz Humbug! 13:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn to no consensus, I don't feel the discussion could reasonably be closed as anything but a non-consensus. The case centered on WP:BLP1E and WP:GNG. The subject flies over GNG, and, for those unaware, the subject is a 18/19-year old college student who started doing pornography films in 2013 to pay for her college tuition. She was outed as a pornography film star, but defended her choices, and brought up several related ideas that sparked new, or renewed national conversations:
    • Women cast, or caught in, the virgin-whore dichotomy;
    • College students doing porn work to pay for tuition is a subject that she has brought new attention to, including the issues of tuition being prohibitively high for students;
    • Consumer's of porn, men in particular, condemning those who participate in making the movies, and images, they are themselves consuming.
  • There are other ideas she was bringing up in her national appearances but these are the main ons I recall without being able to see the article itself. To address BLP1E: many votes were citing BLP1E, but those citing it were directly addressed several times.

    BLP1E states that each of three conditions is met:

1. If reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a single event.

Reliable sources covered Belle Knox, A) in context of the outing itself, B) that she was a college student paying for tuition with porn work, C) That she was getting death threats for doing pornography, D) That she was unapologetic about her work, and E) Her views on being a sex-positive feminist and pornography star. Some of these were in combination but all of these were death with independently and solely to one subject. So this point is not met.

2. If that person otherwise remains, and is likely to remain, a low-profile individual.

As Belle Knox has been, and continues to make online films, available internationally, that alone may not rise her past being low-profile, but we may not have to argue that as she has done, and continues to do national television, and online appearances, discussing many of the issues. This point is also not met

3. If the event is not significant or the individual's role was either not substantial or not well documented.

She was the center of the reliable sourcing on the events, and many aspects were very well documented. This point is also not met.

In essence BLP1E concerns were considered and answered, what remained was GNG, which was also met. The remaining concerns were the ongoing issues of not outing Knox's real name, which editors were doing. A WP:BLPN report was opened to specifically find consensus on this. Sportfan5000 (talk) 00:34, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, these online films are available to who? I mean, if someone ran a search on one site for girls from Duke University, watched the film and figured out who she is, that's not the same as genuine fame. We wouldn't call everyone with an Encyclopedia Dramatica page about them "high-profile". I suppose I'm still going by an overall sniff test here. Does anyone care where this girl grew up, who her father/brother/sister is? If the biographical details are totally irrelevant for someone we're considering only as the ball in a political game, let's just focus on the game. Wnt (talk) 00:47, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The films are available to anyone in the world with an online connection. The distinction should be made that Belle Knox is her chosen stage name, and the one she uses in all her interviews. She was outed as Bell Knox by a male student who either recognized her from films, or in his side of the events, she confided her work secret to him - and he agreed to keep it secret - but in both cases he revealed that Belle Knox porn star is student X. She then started doing interviews but has kept her personal life generally private. Our article avoided any identifying information, if, and when she reveals her real name, that bio information can be included. If anyone seeks that information they won't have our assistance, at least for now, until Knox outs her own name. Sportfan5000 (talk) 00:57, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
My talk page is available to anyone in the world with an online connection. Does that make me notable? I don't really think I'm asking for much here, just a "secondary source independent of the subject" that describes a Belle Knox film independently of the present news story. I don't know if you can do that or not. Wnt (talk) 02:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • <ec>It's fairly rare anyone cares where BLP subjects grew up etc. More they want to know what this person has done and understand more fully their role in a subject they care about. For example, I might look to see what a previous director has done when he gets selected as a director for some property I care about. In this case, biographical details like where she went to school and how she paid for it are clearly relevant. Learning about how society reacted to her might also be interesting--very much a biographical topic. She passes WP:1E and has a high enough profile she probably passes WP:BLP1E. And certainly there is an interest in who she is, why she made the choices she did in the past and what discussions this outing have prompted in society. Hobit (talk) 01:02, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn to keep and strongly reprimand closing admin for a blatantly improper close. The outcome of the discussion was obviously keep; the closer effectively acknowledges it himself in his closing statement. Everyking (talk) 01:48, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Let's assume better faith. And the votes were split enough that a keep would be unlikely. I think a "non-consensus," which results in the article being kept, was the most likely outcome. Sportfan5000 (talk) 02:11, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • The correct outcome of the discussion was consensus to keep. Both the numbers and the strength of arguments was overwhelmingly in favor of keep. To judge otherwise, to call the matter in favor of a minority viewpoint that was thoroughly rebutted in the discussion—and then most astonishingly of all, to claim that the minority viewpoint is a "consensus"—is simply disgraceful. We allow some limited discretion in closing AfDs, but to allow someone to turn the whole thing upside down goes well beyond that. It's simple fiat—in essence, "the community disagrees with me, but so what; whatever I think is right shall be defined as consensus". Everyking (talk) 20:48, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. The closing admin explained exactly what he did; he refused to play "count the votes" and instead used his best judgment to weigh the strength of the policy-based arguments. I object to Beerest 2 (talk · contribs)'s statement that, This close was clearly a supervotd and the admin used his opinion instead of reading consensus.. WP:AGF applies to admins too. It's fair game to disagree with the admin's judgement call, but there's a big distance between I disagree with the judgement call, and it's a supervote. -- RoySmith (talk) 02:19, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't dispute the admin using their judgement here, I do think they erred, citing BLP1E which was refuted, and has been spelled out, in the AFD, and here, as poorly applied. BLP1E was simply not met, there are three components, all which must apply, and none do. Overturn to non-consensus without prejudice to the close is all that I think is needed here. Sportfan5000 (talk) 02:23, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn to no consensus. Article should then be moved to something like 2014 Duke student porn controversy as we do all the time for big events like this. Yes, we've been here before, many, manytimes. Controversial event involves sex. An admin swoops in to make the "difficult decision" in the face of a messy debate with no consensus. The chivalric intentions in a delete close are understandable (Ed once tried to save, I mean remove, Linda Tripp!), despite failing to respect the lack of consensus in the discussion (and the irony of "Belle Knox" 's points about feminism). As an aside, I truly believe the subject is actually harmed by deletion in these cases, because searching the subject or her stage name "Belle Knox" will lead the world to sources far worse than the product normally produced by Wikipedia policies. E.g., right now the second google hit for Belle Knox is not us but a Huffpo article titled "I Watched Duke Porn Star Belle Knox Strip At A Gentlemen's Club". No matter the outcome here, let's not delude ourselves into thinking there was a consensus to delete.--Milowenthasspoken 03:07, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think renaming, refocussing the article is a bit premature. I do agree that having a Wikipedia article serves her better than not. Sportfan5000 (talk) 03:32, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • Milowent, I haven't thought about Linda Tripp in years. That was prompted by a talk page thread that argued essentially what I did. Obviously that view wasn't widely shared. ;-) Still, I think you'll find that these are the only two articles in my entire eight-year history that fit this profile, so your attempt to ascribe a pattern to me doesn't exactly work very well. Regards, Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 08:23, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn to no consensus. I believe the closing admin erred in deleting this article, and I think we have gone far past a BLP1E rationale for deleting this article, as others have noted in the vast amount of media coverage surrounding her. If the article is restored, also consider a possible renaming, per Milowent. Canuck89 (chat with me) 04:48, March 20, 2014 (UTC)
  • Endorse. Repeating the weak arguments for keeping does not strengthen them and is against WP:DRVPURPOSE. The closing admin made a difficult call and explained the reasoning behind it. Suggestions that the closing admin ignored consensus or supervoted are not called for. Lagrange613 05:17, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Suggestions that the arguments for keeping are weak, is not supported by the evidence at hand. BLP1E is the main reason for deleting and that was disputed thoroughly at the discussion and here. Sportfan5000 (talk) 05:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I see you're still insisting on having the last word with everyone you disagree with. We'll see whether it's any more effective here. Lagrange613 05:46, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It won't be. Spartaz Humbug! 06:18, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. All three conditions of BLP1E have been met. 1) Knox is known for being an "outed" porn star. That's it. That she has gone on a publicity tour to talk about the event is irrelevant. All the coverage is related to that one event. 2) She is likely to remain a low profile individual, i.e. she's probably on minute 14 of her 15 minutes. 3) this event has NO significance. As Langrange pointed out, this is DOGBITESMAN, not MANBITESDOG. College kids have been raising funds by stripping, prostitution, drug dealing and other various forms of "filthy lucre" for as long as there have been colleges. Someone else noted that the 90's tabloids couldn't get enough of these types of stories. Unless something else happens (get out your crystal balls) this story has smaller legs than Herve Villechaize.Two kinds of pork (talk) 06:23, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. The ed17 clearly combed through the various arguments and found the strongest ones pointed to delete. If Knox demonstrates lasting notability in the future then the article can be built again, from whatever future sources. Binksternet (talk) 06:52, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Userfy. I'm still somewhat undecided about all of this, although I lean more towards it surpassing one event at this point in time. However in the spirit of compromise, I would say that it would probably be a good idea to allow an interested party to userfy the data and work on it until more coverage has been received. However as userspace copies do show up in Google search results, I'd probably recommend renaming it something else like "userspace draft 2014" to avoid any vandalism. Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 08:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've had someone request a copy, so there's a userspace copy out there and I've added that tag to it. Thanks! Tokyogirl79 (。◕‿◕。) 13:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The history-less copy at User:Ktr101/Untitled currently violates WP:Copying within Wikipedia, Reusing deleted material and Userfication. Usual DRV practice is to restore in place, blank, and tag with {{TempUndelete}}. Userfication can wait until the DRV concludes. Flatscan (talk) 05:10, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse per Kaldari. The ed17 based his call on Lagrange613's argument. As a matter of boomerang, I think Everyking deserves to be led to the proverbial yardarm for principle's-sake. Chris Troutman (talk) 09:12, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse - Yes, AfDs are not voter counts and sometimes the numbers won't carry the day. If a BLP1E-related article cannot be argued for with anything other than BUBUTBUTSOURCES, then those arguments are weighted less. This is solidly within admin discretion. Tarc (talk) 12:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • What should we use to judge besides reliable sources? Sportfan5000 (talk) 12:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • You would have to show that this person is notable for something other than the event in question. Piece of advice; don't be the guy who responds to every DRV weigh-in that is in opposition to your own p.o.v.; it never ends well. Tarc (talk) 13:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. There was a long and contentious discussion and nobody would have faulted Ed to cop out with a "no consensus". Instead, they carefully weighed the arguments and decided that policy favored deletion. This is within admin discretion and, as pointed out above by Binksternet, if ever at some point in the more distant future it turns out that this person does have lasting notability (something impossible to say just yet), recreating a bio will be possible. --Randykitty (talk) 13:48, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. This is the kind of closing analysis we want administrators to perform in controversial cases. I happen to believe that according full policy weight to all aspects of BLP1E is inappropriate, and greater deference should be given to community sentiment in many cases -- but community consensus holds otherwise, and we don't make exceptions to BLP-related policies on a case-by-case basis. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:15, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Apology I didn't realize the deletion discussion shouldn't be rehashed here. I'll try and do better the next time around. Two kinds of pork (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. I would have favoured no consensus but I think delete was within discretion. My understanding of WP:BLP1E is that articles may be deleted even if the subject is high profile but only when that publicity concerns a "single event". The word "otherwise" is important in the second condition of BLP1E. In this case the individual is clearly high profile for the event but is arguably low profile otherwise. It depends on what is regarded as the event. So, a legitimate argument on both sides. Thincat (talk) 21:23, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse - the outcome was within the bounds of reasonable discretion and we shouldn't be "re-trying" matters because a different outcome might also have been reasonable. Thincat is right, though I would argue the subject is zero-profile without this one event. But those are matters for AFD. The question here is whether the closer got it right and I think he did. Stalwart111 23:27, 20 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse. AfD is {{notavote}}. BLP1E is applicable (one event does not mean one day) and the closure was appropriate. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Arg. This is clearly going to stay deleted and I was tempted to let your comment go. But that was a heck of a strawman there. There are questions of being low-profile and what exactly makes a chain of events a single event. Hobit (talk) 03:19, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Ordinarily, I would say that a discussion such as this should have been closed as "no consensus". However, this case is exceptional in terms of the BLP considerations presented. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 06:21, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, proper application of admin discretion in the spirit of BLP. Fut.Perf. 07:09, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse The closing statement shows no supervote, and the reasons advanced here to claim that BLP1E does not apply are not convincing—come back in a year and recreate the article if the event is still notable. Johnuniq (talk) 09:07, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse, a rational, correct (and brave) close, especially given the sensitive BLP nature of the topic. Lankiveil (speak to me) 09:39, 21 March 2014 (UTC).[reply]
  • Endorse - per Tarc and others; Ed was well within normal discretion to make the delete call. Parsecboy (talk) 17:12, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn to No consensus. I !voted delete at the AfD , but re-reading the article and the sources convinces me I was wrong. This is not tabloid material, nor ephemeral news. The has been continuing fairly intensive coverage, and based on what's in the article, it will probably continue. Predicting the future is difficult, but I think this will continue to be cited as a classic instances of several things: the impossibility of internet privacy, the intolerance exhibited towards sex workers, higher education costs, and things radiating from there. I do not thing BLP applies: the basic principle is do not harm, and the continuing publicity makes further harm from WP quite unlikely. the subject may have originally not wanted publicity, but once it has happened, it appears from the sources that in self-defense, she's continuing to make use of it. DGG ( talk ) 21:28, 21 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • While I agree that having a Wikipedia article is unlikely to do additional harm in the short term, we should remember that Wikipedia articles have a very long-term impact. Having an article on Wikipedia means that everything you do for the rest of your life is open to vigorous public scrutiny for inclusion in your "permanent record". For people who want to live a private life, that can be a nightmare. Once you are deemed "notable", pretty much anything is fair game: arrests, employment termination, blurry flickr photos with free licenses, etc. Obviously Belle Knox isn't seeking the private life right now, but we should still give her that option once this has blown over, especially since her current notoriety was due to outing. Even if it can be argued that BLP doesn't require deleting this article, I still think the spirit of the BLP policy clearly supports deletion in this case. Regardless, this is all just rehashing the deletion debate. The real issue to be determined here is did the closer exercise proper discretion or did they overturn consensus based on their own opinion. Kaldari (talk) 00:53, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse because AfD was closed properly. This DRV is degenerating into AfD round 2. jni (delete)...just not interested 18:34, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Although I don't necessarily agree with the result of the discussion, Ed made the right call here and I endorse his decision. That said, there is still the possibility that down the road, she will gain more importance, so we can revisit the topic when that time comes. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 23:17, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse Judging from the news cycle pretty much moving far from the subject since it was brought to AfD as I thought it would, closure based on BLP1E was appropriate. If we went by voter count, every insufferable AfD with canvassed SPA's voting "do not delete" would pass, but that's not how the process works. Nate (chatter) 00:54, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion Wikipedia is not a tabloid, and ought not become one. Classic BLP1E article. Collect (talk) 18:17, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse I !voted to defer deletion for a while, but this seems to be a wholly reasonable closure. VQuakr (talk) 22:38, 23 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • overturn While she doesn't pass WP:PORNBIO she passes WP:GNG by a wide margin. Possibly the article should be renamed to be an WP:EVENT (something about The outing of Belle Knox perhaps) Gaijin42 (talk) 14:56, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • As the issue was BLP1E do you have any comment on that? Spartaz Humbug! 15:00, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Spartaz The BLP1E issue would be handled by a rename to the event. Gaijin42 (talk) 15:24, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Endorse deletion.--ukexpat (talk) 21:12, 25 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Overturn - BLP1E was misapplied since a pornographic actress is not a low profile individual due to the nature of her profession. Her behavior after the outing is also not of a low profile individual given that she's made the media rounds and continues to use her fame to promote her career. Morbidthoughts (talk) 00:01, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Favorite betrayal criterion – Specifically citing softdelete means there is no strong consensus to delete and this should be treated like a prod so I have undeleted. If anyone has the energy for round 7 go ahead but for the love of god can you stop at that??? – Spartaz Humbug! 21:25, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Favorite betrayal criterion (talk|edit|history|logs|links|watch) (XfD|restore)

The article was created in its "current" form, with references, after its 2nd deletion (4th nomination). After that, it has been nominated twice for deletion by somebody with a clear secondary motive, in that a voting system which fails this criterion bears his name. In those two deletion discussions, there have been 3 people who !voted to delete (including the nominator), 3 to keep, and 3 to merge/redirect (with various targets). Yet in the latter of the two, only the nominator had an opinion, so he prevailed. It seems to me that this process is flawed; when someone doesn't like a decision, can they prevail by simply re-nominating, with no new arguments or evidence, until the people who disagree don't notice, and they are unopposed? I'd be happy to rerun this discussion openly, with (for instance) a notice on Talk:Voting system so that any editors, on any side, who are interested in this general topic can comment; but it seems to me that, pending the result of that broader discussion, the "stealth" 6th deletion nomination should not stand. Homunq () 02:00, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: Prior to coming here, I attempted to contact the closing admin, but it appears he's taking a wikibreak. Homunq () 02:03, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I've alerted all the editors who participated in the last two deletion discussions to comment here. (Including myself, derp.) I still believe that someone else should put a notice on Talk:Voting system but I won't do so myself to avoid the appearance of canvassing. Homunq () 02:11, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
temporarily restored for discussion at Deletion Review DGG ( talk ) 04:35, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The "favorite betrayal criterion" has never caught on. There are only 4 papers from 3 different authors in Google Scholar (one thesis and three self-published papers that have never been accepted for publication somewhere else). There is not a single hit in Google Books. Markus Schulze 05:51, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • I think Homunq's strongest point is that the deletion process should be one in which the stronger arguments prevail. It should not be one in which you win by exhausting the other side's voters. Homunq alleges that in this case, all that's happened is the article has been persistently renominated until the keep side failed to show up. If that's so, then although I wouldn't take any issue with Mark Arsten's close, the deletion process has simply failed in this case. We should restore the disputed content for the time being, until there's a proper consensus about it among informed editors.

    Homunq's allegation that MarkusSchulze is not an uninvolved editor does not seem relevant to me. Mr Schulze appears to pass all of our relevant tests (WP:COI and so forth) and be editing perfectly legitimately, and WP:INVOLVED is only concerned with administrative actions. I think that the best evidence we have is that Mr Schulze is a subject matter expert. We need those in our encyclopaedia and we should most certainly not deter them from editing in their field of expertise! I think that one of the findings this DRV should make is that MarkusSchulze is completely free to nominate material for deletion.

    DRV does need to give more consideration to the question of how we handle content that nobody's shown up to discuss. As productive editors leave the project and are not replaced, this situation will get more and more common. To treat unopposed nominations as PRODS is the current fashion but it cannot, in my view, be correct. If nobody's participating then the subject article may be of no interest, but it may also be that it's complicated and technical and genuinely does need more input.—S Marshall T/C 08:46, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Homunq here again. I'm not exactly sure what this discussion is supposed to focus on — process, or substance? In any case, here's my opinions on the various issues:
  • Though I have no doubt at all that Mark Arsten acted in good faith, I would hope that in the future, AfD closers would consider all arguments made for or against the article in a recognizably similar form, not just the arguments in the latest nomination. I feel that if that had been the standard in this case, the outcome of the fifth nomination would have been unchanged in the sixth, as Schulze brought nothing new to the table in the latter.
  • As for Schulze: I think that re-nominating the article, without any new arguments, was a bit "rude"/ "cheesy"/ "gauche", but I can't point to any policy it violated, and I am willing to assume it was done in good faith. Thus, as S. Marshall seems to suggest above, I'd like to see this kind of re-nomination discouraged in the future; but I wouldn't reprimand Schulze in this case. He is without doubt a subject matter expert. In fact, the community of (English-speaking) experts on these matters is pretty small, and I'd bet he could guess my own real name in one or at most two guesses (though I'd ask him not to). In other words: I myself am in a very similar position as he is, with longstanding involvement with the community of experts, and a personal position on certain contentious issues. If that would make his participation illegitimate, the same would go for me.
  • As for the specifics of this case: I recognize that, to someone not versed in the field, it's a bit borderline. If I look for things that are unquestionably WP:RS, I get... a thesis, a passing mention in Poundstone's book "Gaming the Vote", a number of mentions in articles and videos that have a clear advocacy agenda, and a few more marginal matters like that. However, as someone who participates in both the academic and amateur discussions of this field, I can absolutely attest that the FBC ranks alongside "LNH" as one of the most-discussed criteria. Though of course anything by Condorcet or Arrow is better-attested, I'm sure you would get more google hits for "favorite betrayal criterion" than for, as an example, any of the voting criteria invented by Saari, despite the fact that Saari is an acknowledged academic expert in the field. In particular, the FBC easily passes what I think should be a basic test for something that should be included in Wikipedia: it's jargon that you'd be expected to know in more than one of the voting methods sub-communities. (That is: it's not a term that's used only by advocates for a particular voting system, but rather something that's discussed in terms of both its pros and contras by various groups on various sides.) Homunq () 11:47, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd like to respond to Homunq's question: I'm not exactly sure what this discussion is supposed to focus on — process, or substance?

    The primary purpose of Deletion Review is to see that the deletion process is correctly followed. In normal circumstances, by convention process-focused commentary may receive additional weight in the close, and closers will often reason that DRV is not a place to re-argue issues that were fully explored in the AfD.

    However, these are just conventions, and exceptions do apply. DRV is not totally confined to process-focused commentary. If a consensus forms that we should do a particular thing because it's in the best interests of the encyclopaedia to do so, then that's the thing that DRV will do. And the nature of DRV is that it's often the more complicated and difficult things that make it here, so closers need to be quite sensitive to that possiblity. Thus discussion participants are given quite wide latitude to raise any content-related issue that's of concern to them and to discuss it in full. (They're not given much latitude to make allegations about user conduct, though: those belong elsewhere.) There have been occasions when DRV has set aside the rule against re-arguing the AfD and overturned an AfD to the opposite result, on the basis that the AfD participants were simply wrong.

    In this case I think it will be sufficient to focus on the process.—S Marshall T/C 12:47, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks. In terms of process, here's what I'd suggest/support:
  • Renomination of an article for deletion by somebody who participated in the previous AfD, and most especially by the previous nominator, should be discouraged. Obviously there would be exceptions if new evidence came to light, especially around WP:BLP; but in general, I'd expect new evidence (new references) to be more likely to argue in favor of keeping, not deletion. This should not mean that a new editor, who had not participated in the prior discussion, could not re-nominate, especially if they had a novel argument.
  • If an article is re-nominated, all arguments from past AfDs which apply to recognizably-similar versions of the article should be given equal weight as arguments in the present AfD.
  • Since this is new policy I'm proposing, I mean no serious criticism of Mark Arsten's or Markus Schulze's actions here; however, I think the policy I suggest would lead to overturning the deletion of this article.
Homunq () 13:59, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wrong venue this belongs at WP:REFUND as the closer specifically sited it as a soft delete. I do think the above discussion is productive, but I don't see how there can be doubt the material should be undeleted per policy. This could also be viewed as a speedy undelete--same thing. Hobit (talk) 17:37, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
But I tried there, and they emphatically sent me here. Homunq () 17:48, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I should have checked. Ideally S Marshall's idea of taking a new look at soft deletion should happen, but we should also get that issue sorted out. Per soft delete, this should be treated like a PROD and restored on request. Like PRODs, there can be reasons to not restore, but I can't imagine those apply here (BLP issue etc.) Hobit (talk) 17:57, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Minor point: whatever happens here, I'd like it to be linked to from the latest (6th) AfD discussion. Homunq () 18:32, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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