Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Edwin Hubbel Chapin


 * 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. —LrdChaos (talk) 04:19, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Possibly notable subject, but only one unsourced quote and no editing activity since creation. BrainyQuote lists several quotations attributed to this fellow, so it should be possible to make this a real article if he is actually notable. 121a0012 03:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote closed. Result: delete (five votes to delete (one implicit), no dissent). —LrdChaos (talk) 04:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The subject could qualify as notable, but the quote itself seems like a hoax and yields no search results. - InvisibleSun 16:55, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless valid quotes are added. ~ UDScott 20:18, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm always a bit curious when the only results I can find about a person are quote sites; on the one hand, it doesn't seem like the person was notable enough to get any other attention, including a Wikipedia page. On the other, a quote of theirs did manage to make it onto at least one quote site, where it was probably "mirrored" a host of others. I do suspect that the quote given here is a hoax, though; the only trace of it on the Internet is Wikiquote. &mdash;LrdChaos 14:34, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with LrdChaos. Any person whose primary Google presence is from quotes sites and includes no reference sites like Wikipedia is almost always unnotable by Wikimedia standards. Sites like BrainyQuote don't state or appear to enforce any notability standards, so they can't be relied on. (I suspect that many of them rely on Google for their unpublished inclusion guidelines, but Google only measures popularity and/or skill at Internet self-promotion.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:32, 7 September 2006 (UTC)


 * 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.