Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Donia

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:11, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Joseph Donia[edit]

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Individual who does not meet WP:BIO. Appears to have some local stage actor credits, but no significant coverage of his work in third party sources. Claims to have received write-in votes in the 2003 California recall election are dubious; the claim that he received 1 vote was added to that article by the creator of this article, and cannot be substantiated by any sources. The 2008 election information is also dubious, and insertion of information about this person into that article and other places seems to indicate that this is some sort of hagiography, with the subject failing WP:GNG and the article, if not an autobiography, is a possible WP:BLP violation. Kinu ^t/_c 22:39, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete – NN individual lacking GHits and GNEWS of substance. Fails WP:BIO and WP:CREATIVE.

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:04, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Clearly does not meet GNG or WP:BIO. Appears to be a vanity article or other type of WP:COI violation - note the edit history with contributions from 2 new accounts and an IP with no edits other than the ones to this article, all within hours of its creation. Note also that an earlier version was speedily deleted less than a week ago.--JayJasper (talk) 20:58, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Digging through the fluff, it appears that he is a high school drama teacher. (My hunch is that the article was written as a tribute/joke by his students.) His only hits at Google News are about the school board deciding to build theaters at a couple of local high schools. The political claims have already been removed from the article. --MelanieN (talk) 14:36, 5 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.