Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matt Barber

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. T. Canens (talk) 15:39, 19 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Matt Barber[edit]

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After trimming fluff for a half an hour or more, it became clear to me that this person is not notable (see also this). Look at the references (and feel free to look at the 'references' from past versions of the article)--they are basically spam links, leading to the subject's self-published books. Drmies (talk) 01:43, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete An author of an Xlibris self-published book about ballroom dancing. I could find no significant coverage of either the author or his book in reliable sources. Cullen328 (talk) 02:11, 11 July no2011 (UTC)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. —LadyofShalott 03:16, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. —LadyofShalott 03:18, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I normally hate giving !votes without adding additional reasoning to the discussion, but, well, y'all pretty much covered it. No significant third party coverage, no real claim to notability. Kevin (talk) 07:24, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Nice Southernism, KG. We sure appreciate it! Drmies (talk) 01:29, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've spent a plurality of my life south of the mason-dixon line. Y'all is just too damn useful a word to stop using. Kevin (talk) 18:34, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a born and bred northerner, never spent more than a week at a time south of the M-D and much of that was in South Florida, which is really the North - but I use it a lot, because English doesn't have a non-colloquial, non-antiquated second person plural pronoun. ;D Delete, by the way, non-notable. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 04:07, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Do NOT Delete The argument as to whether or not to delete this article seems to stem from whether or not Matt Barber is notable... Unless You know the ballroom world, this is hard to prove. However, by way of comparison to other ballroom notables, the "Matt Barber" article has been viewed close to 1600 times in less than a week, and if Wikipedia is going to allow any ballroom writers or dancers it needs to seriously consider that fact. Juliet McMains, another ballroom writer, in the same time period has only been viewed 30 times. Victor Silvester, arguably one of the most popular ballroom writers of all time, has only been viewed 210 times in the same time period and his article - just so You know - only has one reference: his own autobiography. Even Fabian Sanchez has been viewed less than 50 times in the same time period! Alex Moore, who wrote more books on ballroom than anyone else ever, is nowhere close to the number of views Matt Barber has received! The only ballroom personality that is even close is Tony Dovolani of Dancing with the Stars fame and even he has less views in the amount of time the "Matt Barber" article has been up. Again, I mention all this only to show how huge Matt Barber is in the ballroom dance world, so again, I say Do NOT Delete. If Wikipedia hopes to be the source of all relevant information, it needs to include Matt Barber. Give the internet time, the article will get improved by better writers and sourcers than me. Do NOT Delete ShirleyKeith (talk) 22:54, 15 July 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.