Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harry Q. Bovik

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 20:07, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Harry Q. Bovik[edit]

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Bovik is a fictional person (basically a local urban legend), famous only at Carnegie Mellon. I don't see any reliable sources, and the only unreliable ones are all associated with the campus itself. Unless this legend can be shown to have wider notability than Mellon, it does not qualify as encyclopedic (in formal terms, it doesn't meet WP:N or WP:V). Qwyrxian (talk) 06:19, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 06:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. -- Jclemens-public (talk) 06:44, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - utterly fails general notability guidelines. Eddie.willers (talk) 16:48, 25 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete lacks independent sources to WP:verify notability. Shooterwalker (talk) 01:23, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Though the name is included in the text of some independent academic articles, I found no significant coverage. --Pnm (talk) 04:29, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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