Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Watanabe

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. Herostratus 17:43, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

David Watanabe

Sub-stub with no possibility for expansion, as there is no verifiable information about the subject available. Notability doubtful. Target of frequent anonymous edit warring ([1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]) regarding Acquisition's GPL compliance; the claim of illegal actions has not been established and may be considered libel. Occasionally edited by an anonymous editor whom I believe may be the subject, who has removed information from the article and related ones ([10][11]. — Miles←☎ 22:48, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

• Neutral. He generates quite a bit of hits (450,000+), which looking through the first few pages seem mostly relevant. Like MilesK said, verifiability is a question here, and that seems to keep a doubt on my mind regarding what should be done. --Nishkid64 01:16, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Consider that a search for "David Watanabe" limited to sciforums.com returns about 490,000 hits. — Miles←☎ 05:41, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Delete - 422K google hits, but once you cull out the blogs, wikipedia mirrors, and chat either on or about sciforums I can see <1K remaining. No news articles to be found and cannot see how he passes any of the WP:BIO requirements. Peripitus (Talk) 11:47, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
• comment PS, "Watanabe" is a name as common in Japan as "Smith" in the US. (He could have a Japanese granddad or something...) So you get a David Smith with a Japanese surname. The point is, how many of those hits are actually referring to the same person? Nekohakase 23:29, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. David Watanabe (at least, this particular one) is completely unknown outside of the various Macintosh-oriented online forums, and only barely known there (usually for non-positive reasons that I won't get into here). And nominator MilesK is 100% correct that this stub is going to be an edit warring/vandalism target for as long as it exists, for those same non-positive reasons. Regardless of the WP:V problem, let's just delete it for failing WP:BIO. --Aaron 16:17, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

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