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Revision as of 00:40, 17 March 2006

The article John Bambenek was deleted after a drive-by bad-faith nomination who didn't even enter the AfD correctly (because anons can't start AfD's). You can view the comments at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/John Bambenek (2nd nomination) and at the deletion review here. For reference, the first AfD was less than 3 months earlier, the result was kept, and nothing changed except the subject was referenced in both the New York Times and Jackson Clarion-Ledger since the first AfD. Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/John Bambenek. The subject has multiple REAL books published (which can be bought in paper form in edition to writing some of the certification material for SANS/GIAC. He has a few papers out there, including the only study that estimated how much money has been compromised by spyware. Notability is achieved a number of ways. There are about a dozen mainstream media mentions for his information security work. He contributes regularly to several blogs that reach over 5000 a day. He was referenced by the New York Times in a front page article. Namely, this suffices to meet criteria 6, 8, and 9 in WP:BIO. The deleting votes actually argued that being mentioned in the New York Times as an expert in computer security and used for a source in an article that had a global audience was evidence of non-notability. User:Tony Sidaway, not known for being an inclusionist, voted to keep the article because the deletion was absurd. 14 of his articles for the self-financed paper Daily Illini with a circulation of 20,000 have been syndicated (also generally considered as making one notable) according to Lexis-Nexis.

1. The AfD should have never taken place because the original nominator didn't even do it correctly, nor had the ability to start it.
2. It was an obvious bad faith nomination.
3. The AfD should have never taken place because it was too soon after the 1st AfD.
4. The notability of the subject is established meeting not one, but 3 of the criteria in WP:BIO.
5. Many of the people voting for deletion claimed things that were not even true. The books were not online, they were paper, for instance. The Daily Illini is not a "college paper" but a self-financed publication that is entirely seperate from the University. Check the corporate listings for Illini Media Company (DI's parent company) here.

-- Alpha269 00:01, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

WashPo article mentioning research. -- Alpha269 23:46, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Several computer experts and executives are mentioned in the Washington Post article, none of them have Misplaced Pages articles. This article was deleted in an AfD and its deletion was confirmed at WP:DR. It is not clear what policy you want changed. -Will Beback 23:53, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I'd like policy followed, not changed. Someone made the same argument that some people mentioned in the NYT as experts don't have articles. Maybe they should have them because it certainly follows that they are within the guidelines of WP:NOT and this exact thing has been used as de facto proof of notability in not a few AfD's. -- Alpha269 23:58, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

The appropriate venue for discussing whether the deletion policy has been followed is WP:DR. The purpose of this page is:

• o request comment on policy or guideline topics. That applies both to disputes about any current policy or guideline, and any new proposals or amendments to those. Further, policy matters are also discussed at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy).

Since you do not wish to change the policy this does not belong here. Please do not keep venue shopping. As for guidelines about notability, they are simply guides for AfD. AfD is the point where notability is actually decide. Since you have appealed it already there is nothing left to do but wait until the subject does something new which increases his notability. -Will Beback 00:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

PS: WP:NOT is Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not. I don't think it is the policy you were looking for, but you should read it nonetheless. -Will Beback 00:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Another sysop said if I thought the DR process was wrong, I could appeal here. I'm appealing. This is also listed in the process of handling disputes. I have a dispute. I'm not venue shopping, you are assuming bad faith. AfD's can be appealed to DR. Doing it isn't venue shopping. I was told and the dispute page suggests RfCs can be used for disputes. I'm using it. I'm sorry you don't like me rolling over here, but I have a dispute and I'm following the appropriate policies. Fine WP:BIO is what I meant, my bad. I pointed to a new Washington Post article as proof that this isn't a one-hit wonder, but no matter how many large media outlets thinks he's notable, apparently we disregard notability guidelines because it has been predetermined to delete this article. This is a dispute, I'm following the process that's been established and I'm getting damn tired of sysops accusing me of bad faith simply because I am following the process. I was accused of forum shopping for going to DR, despite that being the right place to appeal deletions. Now I'm being accused of the same after a sysop who voted to delete told me this is where I should take it. The more you bash me, the more it seems like you have skin in this game and have a personal grudge. -- Alpha269 00:40, 17 March 2006 (UTC)