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Note: This AfD is the result of the first, Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Tony Pierce being restarted due to being unsalvagable by trolls. As such, I must (regrettably) sprotect this page for the duration. --Deskana talk 04:06, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Note to closing admin: There appear to be a lot of sleeper accounts being used here, though curiously, they don't seem to all express the same opinion as one might expect. --Deskana talk 13:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Fails WP:BIO hard. Vanity and self-promotion. Apparently this guy did nothing in his life except writing in blogs. Femmina 21:26, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Please see my reasons from the first page. --lesalle 04:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • For clarity, Lysol, I request that you dig up the reasons and write them on this page. --Deskana talk 04:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Look, I don't want to toot my own horn here, but I'm a pretty notable blogger--I don't want to mention my name just in case these trolls decide to screw with my shit, but this guy just isn't notable. He's a nobody hack. I've never even heard of him before today. --lesalle 04:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The article needs to be rewritten, but its subject is notable, and, contrary to several comments above, does meet WP:BIO (even though this is not a requirement to keep the article). He has been the subject of published works, such as this article in the New York Times. He has won awards in his field, which is notable. It should be noted that there appear to be an extraordinary number of suspicious votes (WP:SOCK); it should also be noted that there is a concentrated effort to delete all blogging-related articles, without regard for notability or for following Misplaced Pages's guidelines. —bbatsell ¿? 04:11, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - First it should be noted that before the nominator was blocked indefinitely for being a troll, they demonstrated an extreme bias against blogs. . Now to duplicate my original comment: As bloggers go, he appears popular, popular enough that G4tv interviewed him . --Oakshade 04:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Note This is an AFD, not a place for ad hominem personal attacks against the nominator Adamn 15:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Not a personal attack, just a description of facts. Anyone is free to interpret what they will.--Oakshade 16:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Though they may not be definitive tests, neither nor Special:Whatlinkshere/Tony_Pierce suggest Tony Pierce is notable enough to justify having a wikipedia article. TerraFrost 04:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • For clarity, TerraFrost, I request that you dig up the reasons and write them on this page. --Deskana talk 04:17, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - 1) This AFD appears to be part of a concentrated and definitely NPOV effort to remove blogging related pages from Misplaced Pages. 2) Tony Pierce meets the Misplaced Pages qualifications as an award winning and notable figure within his field, as a published writer and as the subject of media interest. 3) The article does need a re-write - which this process should have began with, in the first place. Glowimperial 04:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

comment - He is not a 'published writer'. He has some self-published books on cafepress. Those don't count. --timecop 15:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

comment - He is a published writer - aside from his self-published works, he is paid to blog by Gothamist and his writing is published by them on a daily basis. While his individual posts may not be Gravity's Rainbow or anything, the body of his professional work is published online. I really don't see the difference between his gig and that of a magazine or newspaper writer. Glowimperial 13:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

comment - Are you suggesting that every magazine or newspaper writer in the world get their own Misplaced Pages article? cacophony 00:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete As per my previous comments, nothing in Mr, Pierce's missive on the other page is notable. Many people have shelves full of minor awards. Many people have contributed on the editorial staff of some small school or local periodical. Many people have kept diaries and influenced others to do the same. Many people have been interviewed by mid-market media for insights on their niche interests. None of the above, even in combination, is notable, and as such neither is Mr. Pierce's bio. Tfg 04:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep His blog meets WP:WEB given the number of other sources talking about him. JoshuaZ 04:26, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment WP:WEB is not a set of guidelines for the notability of people (including bloggers), but a set of guidelines for the notability of web content (including blogs). It should have no bearing on the discussion.
    • If his blog is notable then we should have an article about his blog. What do you know? This would do nicely for it. Whether we have the article at his name or at his blog is a matter of semantics and not a reason to keep or delete. In either case the content should stay. What to call the article can be addressed after the AfD. JoshuaZ 04:43, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
      • This wouldn't do nicely for it; this article is about the blogger, not the blog, and I think the article fails WP:BIO, the guideline most apropos for this article, in every way. I would argue that by WP:WEB, his blog is not notable, either, but that, again, is not relevant to the discussion. We're not discussing an article about his blog. Tfg 05:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete After reading the article, I'm not convinced that this deserves its own Wiki entry. Having inspired others to create their own blogs is not sufficient. Perhaps when Tony truly does something substantial for humanity I will feel differently. Mattucd 04:28, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - per Mattucd; clearly not-notable. Jmax- 04:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep He is a well known editor and writer who happens to use the blog form. In Los Angeles he is very well known.Metrofeed
  • And he's well known, too! Mattucd 04:36, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
    • In what way is he well-known in LA? BCoates 11:00, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or at least rewrite. The article reads like a resume with very little that can be verified. If the notability of the person is from awards and external sources, then they should be cited. Jaydjenkins 04:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

  — Possible single purpose account: Jaydjenkins (talk • contribs) has made few or no other contributions outside this topic .— Preceding unsigned comment added by Oakshade (talk • contribs) Jaydjenkins 03:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

  • You should sign when you accuse me and scroll down on my contributions Jaydjenkins 02:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

    I am disappointed that Oakshade has stooped to this accusation due to a discussion further down the page. I have been registered since Dec 15, 2005. I have contributed to 2 other articles outside of this topic. I use my real name. I'm sorry that I'm not as prolific as some others. Jaydjenkins 03:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep He's notable within his field, which just happens to be blogging. That blogging is considered a niche by some - or is unpopular with a select group - is not grounds for deletion. --Sprhodes 04:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment But how is he notable? That is what the article is missing. If I were to replace blogging with knitting does he deserve an entry? If he has inspired people to blog, who are they and how has he inspired them? Are they notable? Jaydjenkins 04:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment The ways in which he's notable have been mentioned repeatedly here... From my perspective your question argues for a re-write and the addition of citations, but not for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sprhodes (talk • contribs)
      • Comment I would certainly agree with a rewrite if there could be some notability (not to be confused with notariety) from independent sources. Articles linked to in the discussion and in the article only mention Mr. Pierce in passing. One could receive as much mention being interviewed in line for a PS3 (no offense intended). Jaydjenkins 06:08, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Mikemill 04:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and enough reasons have already been stated. I also do not appriciate that the front page of Digg implies that anyone who votes delete on this article is a troll. - Abscissa 05:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Wil Wheaton lost a lot of my respect when I read that. Tfg 05:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• KEEP Same reasons as last time, same reservations as well. Sean Bonner 05:21, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• And those would be? Jmax- 06:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Same ones I listed the first time I voted on Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Tony Pierce Sean Bonner 07:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - look at http://en.wikipedia.org/Blook, which nobody has proposed be deleted... if that's encyclopedic, then surely Tony Pierce's

connection to the origin of that term makes him notable enough for inclusion? At worst maybe it suggest merging the Tony Pierce stuff into the Blook entry? --Sprhodes 05:28, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - Just because there have been no discussion on a related article's relevancy does not affect the discussion here. Jmax- 06:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - Most bloggers are not notable. Some are and he is not one of them. --Ineffable3000
• Keep He has been the subject of multiple "non-trivial" works. Further, the article is informative. --Falcorian  06:04, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - g4tv has also mentioned GNAA, and that was chosen to be deleted. Therefore, I believe a precedence has been set that being the subject of a non-trivial work, does not make one notable. Jmax- 06:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - I don't think one afd overrides WP:BIO. --Falcorian  15:34, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - per nom. --Jeff 06:34, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Non-notable. Awards have been from very minor sources and publications. Viscid 06:40, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Non-notable and vanity. Self-proclaimed 'blogfather', never held a job for more than a year and Maintains a personal blog which contributes little value to the internet as a whole. alexa ranking in 350,000s, clearly showing non-notability (no, alexa test IS valid here because ACTUAL NOTABLE BLOGS have a MUCH LOWER alexa ranking. Every 'news source' (which are mostly blogs) mentioning Tony do not have anything more than a passing reference about some of his blog-related activities. Spams his blog to other sites repeatedly (no need to prove this, I hope), and begs for money from his very few readers. All in all, non-notable, personal, vanity, irrelevant for encyclopedia, etc. --timecop 06:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - As Mr. Pierce does not have an account and cannot post here to defend himself since this AfD is protected, he has indicated to me and others that this statement is an outright libelous lie, and due to this lie and an easy link path to this AfD from this article about this AfD in Digg, already people he knows in real life are asking him about his job record. This user tried to post a hacked link (they might try again) to an old resumé of Mr. Pierce's dated from 2000 as alleged "evidence" of this claim. The resumé ironically indicates Mr. Pierce held several jobs more than a year. This kind of behavior is extremely inappropriate to say the least. --Oakshade 06:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - Individual made no notable innovation in the field, nor was the first to blog. Article is mere vanity fluff, and the efforts of the noted individual to keep the page up is only further proof of his desperation for fame and noteriety. LordFate 06:53, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - For one thing, a lot of people end up on G4TV and do not belong on here. My friend, Brian has appeared on G4 before, and he is certainly not notable to end up on Misplaced Pages, save for a piece of software he wrote. There is nothing notable about this particular individual. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 08:51, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. per nom. yandman 09:02, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete this mix of original research, puffery and resume padding. Note: books available form Cafepress are self-published. This is almost certainly vanispamcruftisement. Guy (Help!) 09:30, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Clearly, the blog as a media format is not going to be going away any time soon. As a blogger prominent enough to have won a Bloggie Award at SXSW, this article should be kept. No doubt that in years future, there will be numerous wikipedia cross-links for articles on Bloggy Award winners in various years and categories. In fact, there already is an entry for the Bloggie Awards. --Barneyg 10:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment As a blog is, and always will be, self produced original content involving only oneself, most bloggers will probably always fail Misplaced Pages's notability reqs, unless there's something really special about it like Matt Drudge. I could go start the Jeffy awards and give myself an award; does that entitle me to a wikipedia article? --Jeff 09:47, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment I agree that the vast majority of the thousands (millions?) of bloggers out there would most certainly fail such a notability requirement. However, as an artist with a large following and recognized numerous times by multiple major media sources, Tony Pierce is an obvious exception. As to your Jeffy Award, keep in mind that most artistic awards—such as the Oscars (a.k.a. the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards) and the Bloggies—are given by organizations representing the artistic community producing same said art. While your Jeffy Award might not offer much credibility in terms of representing the larger community, a Bloggie Award IMHO would. --Barneyg 13:04, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Clearly fails WP:BIO and smacks of vanity and self-promotion. Eusebeus 11:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:BIO, WP:VSCA. Don't see any good reason why such a person deserves an article here on Misplaced Pages. Terence Ong 11:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Blogging is not notable, inventing a word is not notable, delete. more vanity blogcruft Adamn 12:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Blogging is indeed notable. Despite attempts to vandalize Misplaced Pages, the nominatee has been banned indefinitely. Notable pages about notable people should not be kept on the chopping block. Cipherswarm 13:48, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't think he's been blocked depite attempts to vandalise Misplaced Pages... That's ad-hominem, by the way. yandman 13:50, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom 凸 13:52, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Notable in his field; many press mentions. Certainly far more worthy of inclusion than, say, the ridiculously extensive Misplaced Pages articles on the extended Star Wars universe. Note that opposition to the entry seems to be driven mostly by an irrational animus towards bloggers. As noted elsewhere, charges of vanity and self-promotion seem too be inaccurate, as TP isn't the author of the article. Pfrankenstein 15:22, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• • Note see: Logical Fallacies, just because Star Wars is kept, doesnt mean another unrelated article should be kept. Keep your arguments to WikiPediA Policy please ♡ 15:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This type of rubbish, if left to contaminate wikipedia unchecked, will result in even more useless content.--Impi.za 15:30, 5 December 2006 (UTC) This template must be substituted.
• Delete per JoshuaZTfg--Trödel 15:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Trodel, perhaps you could elaborate a bit, as JoshuaZ actually voted keep. Patstuart 17:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
    • LOL - that is pretty good - I just looked down one line User:Tfg is the comment I was reading.
• Delete The non-trivial sources I have examined make mention to Mr. Pierce as "a blogger" and are not interviewing him explicitly. All of the articles content would remain primarily unchanged if another (I will say popular) blogger were substituted. Misplaced Pages is not a directory of people who have been interviewed by newspapers. Mr. Pierce does seem to be popular within the blogging community, but it is unclear what he has "contributed" to it outside the existence of his own blog posts. I think perhaps in retrospect, historically, we will be able to determine if he has had an "impact" on some industry. However, being listed as a contemporary, I do not think it is obvious that Mr. Pierce is notable, instead of just popular; thus I vote deleted. There's also the matter that notable people should not mention, and especially not get personally involved in their own listing in an encyclopedia; and while being singularly not evidence of anything, along with other things it slants my opinion in the direction that this is a vanity entry being supported by Pierce and friends. Xiphoris 16:14, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete an article starting with “$SUBJECT is a blogger who…” is strong indication of weak notability. Sam Hocevar 16:32, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per bbatsell. I think we're going down a slippery slope here when we start deleting even prominent bloggers from WP. The fact is that bloggers are notable in the year 2006, and deleting a subject simply because he/she is a blogger is a very bad idea (I think I hear some people using this argument). These people make major contributions to the web. What, are we going to be deleting bloggers who are getting 100000 hits a day on their blog because they're non-notable? And I really doubt that anyone will appreciate us putting up a WP:WEB article about them later (though their site fits the criteria). This is all a very very bad idea IMHO. Patstuart 17:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • The question isn't whether or not bloggers are notable; it's whether or not this blogger is. I think I speak for many of the editors here when I say that if there were a discussion of deleting an article of a blogger as notable as, say, rms, then we would probably have different opinions. Jmax- 00:15, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Denis Paradis. Just the fact that this discussion is ongoing here is enough to mark him as being "Notable".— Preceding unsigned comment added by Denis Paradis (talk • contribs) JoshuaZ 17:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely not. Under that logic whenever we have socks and junk flooding us from other websites that somehow makes them notable? JoshuaZ 17:31, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Comment Should the article on the GNAA be recreated, then, since it's being nominated for deletion ten times surely must constitute notability, in your eyes?

I agree with above. Meta-discussion does not constitute notability. I am here because I noticed it in the Digg.com article, and that constitutes popularity. Xiphoris 01:14, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Also, if meta discussions such as this constitute notability, then surely the Jordanhill railway station should mention the fact that it was the one millionth article within its article? Atleast in your eyes? TerraFrost 17:37, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

• KEEP I am amazed that another round of deleting entries about famous bloggers have popped up again.--LifeStar 19:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned from the AfD results, then. Sam Hocevar 22:01, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete User is non-notable sufferer of chronic blogharrea. Recomend speedy deletion followed by all of us making a very minor effort to forget he ever existed .d2america
  • Go read the speedy deletion criteria and tell me exactly which one you're talking about, there. --Deskana talk 19:11, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. In the other AfD, subject claims to either be 428th or 520th most popular blogger, depending on how you measure it. Like any subject with internet-fame, attracts much non-useful attention (like the collapse of previous AfD), making a good article less likely. "The blogfather" is Glenn Reynolds. BCoates 20:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. No evidence of importance presented. No verifiable source citations to reliable sources. The only source mentioned at all is an interview on the G4TV website. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:38, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, Blogging itself is article worthy, somepeople who has done work outside the blog area are worth articles but I just don't feel Mr. Pierce has done enough outside his area of expertise. Also people are finding it necessary to talk about their blog experience or comment on blogs themselves -- thats not on debate here. A rewrite is necessary, and if a rewrite fails to pass the tests again this needs deletion. I believe it fails to pass theWP:BIO test and follows WP:VSCA in most cases fairly well. MrMacMan 22:27, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable. All of the (now removed) links were back to his own blog. One interview on a gaming cable channel does not make someone famous. Nonforma 22:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable Modesty84 00:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Comment After reviewing other articles, I've been finding it hard to come up with a list of sources we're considering as establishing Mr. Pierce's notability. I have only found one source, the G4 article. I would appreciate if anyone would list other non-trivial sources about Mr. Pierce below. Also please consider Misplaced Pages's guidelines regarding blogs as sources before listing any blogs here. I also feel I should point out that I have previously voted delete earlier in this AfD. I think it's worthwhile to continue discussing. Xiphoris 01:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • It might also be useful to note which articles are about him and which articles only mention him in passing. Jaydjenkins 01:27, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
    1. http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/50589/Ten_Minutes_with_Tony_Pierce.html Xiphoris 01:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
    2. New York Times (Mentions and quotes Tony Pierce about blogging addiction. Tony Pierce is not the focus.) Jaydjenkins 01:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. A Google News Archive search shows that he is notable enough for mine. . Capitalistroadster 01:57, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

UPDATE: Per Capitalistroadster excellent research, 2 new stories on the subject have been added to the article. One from the PC Magazine and the other from the LA Weekly. . --Oakshade 02:11, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• • Comment The LA Weekly article in the "LA People" section is specifically about Tony Pierce the blogger. The other from PC Magazine mentions him in a quote about blogging. He is not the focus of the article. I will also note that removing the word blog from that search ends up with much different results. Most results seem to be for ASU coach Tony Pierce. Searches on current news show no results for Tony Pierce the blogger. Jaydjenkins 02:27, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

    — Possible single purpose account: Jaydjenkins (talk • contribs) has made few or no other contributions outside this topic .— Preceding unsigned comment added by Oakshade (talk • contribs) Jaydjenkins 03:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

    • You should sign when you accuse me and scroll down on my contributions Jaydjenkins 02:50, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

    • I don't know which articles you're reading, but the PC Magazine article not only "mentions" him, he's in the title and the whole openning is about him. As for the LA Weekly article, you seem to confirm that the article is primarly about Tony Pierce the blogger (that's this article's subject). What you find in othe seaches has nothing to do with these references. --Oakshade 02:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
      • People can read the PC Magazine article and decide for themselves. I do confirm that the LA People article is primarily about Tony Pierce. It should also be noted that the LA Weekly LA People issues included everything from waitresses to actors that you would see around LA. Jaydjenkins 02:46, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep WP:BIO states as a criterion for inclusion: "The person has been the primary subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the person." It continues, "This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, magazine articles..." etc. Pierce meets that criterion. A quick search of the Dow Jones/Reuters Factiva service shows Pierce has been the subject of articles from the New York Times (27 May 2004) (followed by an echo to the Times-owned Int'l Herald Tribune on 29 May); Reuters (10 July 2004); Straits Times (Singapore) (5 March 2006); Reforma (Mexico City) (2 April 2006); EL PAIS (Madrid) (20 April 2006); Los Angeles Times (16 October 2003, 27 Feb 2003, 12 July 2004, others); Le Monde (25 June 2005); and others. The search string was (Tony Pierce AND blog). Factiva is a proprietary service, and thus articles in it cannot be pointed to easily. Re the argument that these appearances are "trivial", to maintain that you also have to implicitly maintain that all the reporters involved, in different countries, continents, and languages, all just happened to stumble upon the same "non-notable" source by random chance. While not impossible, Occam's Razor suggests the simpler explanation -- that Pierce is known worldwide as an expert on blogging, and worth getting a quote from -- seems more likely. Re the argument, "But I've never heard of him" -- neither had I, prior to this discussion. I am modest enough, though, to regard my own limited knowledge as not the end-all and be-all. Re the observation I may be a sock puppet -- I've been on Misplaced Pages since January 2005, and have over 100 edits. If I'm a sock puppet, it seems I may well pass the Turing test. Hal 03:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I have to say that based on the articles cited here in this section, I have to say that I think he meets the criteria for inclusion, certainly well above that used for bit-characters in Looney Tunes cartoons. wraithe 12/5/06 16:39:22 PM (UTC) — wraithe (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Jmax- 01:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

You underestimate the fact that Looney Tunes has been watched by millions, while Tony is still as non-notable as it gets. --timecop 04:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete- I thought quite a bit about this, and I think there is more of a slippery-slope danger in letting the article stay than in deleting it. There are a gazillion blogs out there and each one claims a gazillion readers who will gladly come to wikipedia and create an article on it and then vote a gazillion times to keep it. I think we have to use a stricter rubric with these kinds of things, and in the absence of WP:BLOGGERS, I think the notability guidelines have to be applied ruthlessly. Having been quoted in this or that newspaper, having won an award for knitting given by a community of knitters who do nothing but sit and knit ALL day, this is not the stuff of notability.--Dmz5 06:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• I'm sorry to say, but it may actually come down to WP:BLOGGERS, given the recent controversy over this matter: WP:AN#Trolls_try_to_get_entries_on_bloggers_deleted. Patstuart 07:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Hey look, a knitter in Misplaced Pages! Pierce is surely more notable than Mrs. Pearl-McPhee. She did write several books about knitting but Pierce wrote several books about blogging. Oh, and according to her article, "Pearl-McPhee’s writing and work is best known through her blog." Actually, the reason we're having this discussion is because Tony is notable, there are many less notable people in Misplaced Pages, no one would know or care if Pearl-McPhee's page was deleted. PermanentE 08:01, 6 December 2006 (UTC) This template must be substituted.

I defend myself of this spurious charge below. PermanentE 00:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it would seem you are not a single-purpose account; However, Your comment leads me to believe that you feel that the existance of one article is enough proof to keep another. That is simply not true. That is to say, this discussion is for the notability of this article, and has no relation to that article whatsoever (which is actually of a somewhat-notable person) Jmax- 01:18, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• • Firstly, Being in Misplaced Pages is not in itself a sign that an article actually meets Misplaced Pages's notabaility standards. Secondly, Pearl-McPhee is vastly more notable than Pierce; I type her surname into Amazon and get a list of books written by her, one of them with #686 sales rank despite being a special-interest book released 9 months ago. I put in "Tony Pierce" and get... one book by him that they don't even sell, with no sign of his blogging book at all. Pearl-McPhee vs. Pierce is a perfect example of how web-fame and the ability to throw readers at Misplaced Pages in realtime causes people to vastly overstate the notability of full-time bloggers compared to people who are known for something else, and may or may not have a website. BCoates 09:05, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep Considering the New York Times, LA Weekly, G4TV, and Washington Post have all used him in their pieces on blogging, that SXSW has invited him to speak about blogging, that the country of Amsterdam handpicked him among twenty other bloggers to visit and write about their country, would all indicate that he is, indeed, notable in his field. Timecop and others fail to distinguish the difference between FAME and NOTABLITY. Arguing that someone is not notable because you haven't heard of them defies all logic. A "random article" click on Misplaced Pages will likely turnup someone or something you've never heard of - this doesn't mean the piece should be excluded. Moreover, Misplaced Pages isn't catalog of things everyone knows, as Timecop and Deskana seem to be in favor of. --LADude 08:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC) This template must be substituted.
• Comment An awful lot of "keep" votes are coming from spa's or people who haven't edited wikipedia in months (LADude's last edit was in June, and PermanentE's was in September), leaving me to believe that this is due to pierce complaining about his deletion here. yandman 09:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - you're right, this is getting a little fishy. However, there's a good chance he's written about it on his blog, and his fans are coming back to comment. I think it's time for an anonafd tag. I'm going to put an spa tag for the sake of the closing admins, simply because I believe this qualifies as meatpuppetry, even if it's WP:AGF meatpuppetry. Still, that point by LADude is an awful good one. Patstuart 09:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment If Pierce writing about it on his blog matters, so should the fact that this and other of timescop's desired deletions are discussed on the GNAA chatroom that encourages members to vote en masse. --LADude 10:31, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Why does the fact that I haven't edited since September make mine a Single Purpose Account? I'm sure there are administrators that don't edit for longer periods. I have been a minor contributor for almost 3 years on diverse topics and have always tried to be respectful of Misplaced Pages. It just so happens that I read Pierce's blog and I've had a long standing Misplaced Pages account, I think that qualifies me perfectly to participate in this discussion. What is suspicious about that? You are assuming I'm operating in bad faith just because I have a different opinion than you. PermanentE 00:57, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Self publication on Cafepress does not count as publication. An award on blogging by some random guy does not count as an official award. This is completely non-notable. What is notable is that this article was started by a user named Shakey Bear, who has no edit history whatsoever other than on this article, and even uploaded a picture of Tony Pierce before it was successfully deleted. Because of the lack of preexisting edit history, because of the creation of the article by such an amateur account (which doesn't even have a talk page, indicating that it was created for the sole purpose of creating this article), because of the possession of a picture of Tony Pierce by said account, I can only conclude that THIS ARTICLE WAS CREATED BY NONE OTHER THAN TONY PIERCE HIMSELF, AND IS THUS DIRECTLY IN VIOLATION OF WP:Vanity. cacophony 09:57, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Certainly you can't know that for sure. It could be him or maybe not. I mean it could be a friend or just someone who reads his blogs -- who knows, its not very clear that its him and so push the vanity issue aside for the fact that is is nn and fails WP:Bio by very large margins. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrMacMan (talk • contribs)

***WHOA, EXCUSE ME, something suspicious is going on. The previous comment was NOT added by LADude, but by the contributer MrMacMan. LADude then came along and added the unsigned template claiming the comment was made by him, when MrMacMan was the one who wrote it. Is this a case of template misuse, or something far more sinister? cacophony 10:56, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• • • • Calm down there, bud. It was my mistake. -Patstuart 11:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment I have to agree with LADude in this instance. It's extremely common for people to make new accounts, make a page, and have few other contributions. In fact, the good majority of the new pages created come from newly created accounts; and I can tell you, from personal experience, that most of them never return (try going through some of the Misplaced Pages:Dead-end pages. Besides, we're bound by policy that, unless it becomes obvious otherwise, we must assume good faith and assume it wasn't Tony; not the other way around (assume it was him until it's not obvious). Secondly, as noted above, he wasn't just on cafepress, he was on several major newspapers. Patstuart 10:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment There's too many coincidences to not be true. If I may direct you to the original revision, you'll note several claims that couldn't have been made by just a friend or somebody who reads his blogs:
      • "His writing style is impromptu, frank, respectfully opinionated, humorous, and uniquely careless of capitalization."
      • "He is patriotic but politically critical, while at the same time charismatic and quite the ladies man."
      • "He has published much other material online including photo essays, podcasts, and photos. He has completed several books via cafe press including How to Blog in which he discloses some of his blogging secrets, and Stiff, a novella in which he travels to hell, to meet Kurt Cobain."
      • "He has also been known to converse with such celebrities as Howard Stern, and Matthew Good."
      • "He ... believes in writing straight from the heart, and encourages others to do the same.

So here we have somebody who knows about Tony's writing style, in great detail, knows about Tony's political views and behavior around women, his publication and the content of each publication, who he talks with, what he believes in, and what he does. If this were written by anybody other than him, then the police should get involved, as it would clearly be a case of stalking. Also notable is that this first revision is clearly devoid of any negative claims. Reguards, cacophony 10:41, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Actually, pretty much all of these details you mention have specifically been covered in his blog postings over the years, many of them on numerous occasions. Any regular reader could easily have written this article. Barneyg 13:31, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

We have to assume good faith on this issue. Regardless of the final decision on Pierce's notability, it has been well established that he is a popular and well-known figure within his field. From my observation, it's highly likely that this article was started by an enthusiastic fan. The problem with this debate is that the irrelevant vanity issue (if vanity was the issue, but the subject is notable, we could do a re-write and be done with this) is muddling the more relevant notability issue. Glowimperial 13:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - His work is good, but I don't find him to be more notable than, say, editors of weekly alternative newspapers around the country. Norg 14:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Has independent non-trivial mentions. This seems to pass. HighInBC 17:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment What he has are just what you said - mentions - passing references - which are by their very nature, trivial. cacophony
• Delete per Xiphoris. Tizio 21:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. In terms of references, all I've seen are passing mentions in articles about blogging, or short interview blurbs used alongside many others. Is there anything specifically about this person? I can appreciate that he's been interviewed, but lots of people have been interviewed and it doesn't establish notability. I don't see references which would allow us to write more than "He is a blogger, he invented a word". I also don't see any evidence to support him being a blogging pioneer. Am I missing something here? Would there even be a debate if he operated a non-blog website? If I'm wrong about the references, please show me. shotwell 22:17, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Possibly one of the most worthless articles I have ever seen. Time to send it to the great recycling bin in the sky. The Mirror of the Sea 00:47, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - perhaps you could specify why you think this, as afd is a discussion, not a vote. -Patstuart 04:38, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
• keep please has references in pc magazine and la weekly and should be notable for bio guidelines as a award winning and notable figure of media interest Yuckfoo 00:52, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

What leads you to believe that he is "a award winning and notable figure of media interest"? Slight mentions on the LA Weekly website, and the PC Magazine website do not make one award-winning or notable. They simply make you the basis of an article. Once, when I was about 17, I was in the local paper for breaking the county track record. I don't deserve a wikipedia article whatsoever, and am hardly notable in any respects. Jmax- 01:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete vanity. Mukadderat 01:36, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Does it need to be pointed out that according to WP:AFD: "The accusation VANITY should be avoided , and is not in itself a reason for deletion." --LADude 04:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
    • 'Comment could you elaborate? We've already stated above that's it's quite possibly not vanity, but written by fans, that we must AGF and assume it's not (besides, LADude is right; that's not a basis for deletion alone).

Keep - per User:wraithe. He is more notable than most of the Loony Tunes bit characters. Tony Pierce has 592,000 Google hits. Bosko has 434,000 Google hits. Pussyfoot has 181,000 Google hits. Gossamer has 1,210,000 Google hits. Petunia Pig has 16,500 Google hits. Pete Puma has 9,750 Google hits. Slowpoke Rodriguez has 638 Google hits. Henery Hawk has 15,500 Google hits. He's even more notable than some Looney Tunes primary characters. Yosemite Sam has 307,000 Google hits. Tweety Bird has 449,000 Google hits. Elmer Fudd has 430,000 Google hits. Bugs Bunny has 1,210,000 Google hits. Daffy Duck has 746,000 Google hits. Pepé Le Pew has 138,000 Google hits. Porky Pig has 393,000 Google hits. Jecowa 05:05, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

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