Wikiquote:Votes for deletion archive/Iain Wallace


 * 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. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 10:03, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Iain Wallace
Dubious notability, single quote unsourced. (Note that there are several other Ia(i)n Wallaces who score better on Google; I had to add "Melbourne chancellor" to the search terms in order to find anything that clearly related to this guy.) 121a0012 04:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 09:55, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete unless notability evidence provided and quote(s) sourced. (The latter would probably help the former case.) No Wikipedia article exists to help us determine notability. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. ~ UDScott 14:33, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. The single quote currently present seems to be, by it's very nature ("[said]…in meetings"), the sort of thing that can't be properly sourced. —LrdChaos (talk) 17:16, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Rather sadly typical of the articles on teachers and university professors where the quotes are "things they always say in lectures", a type of quote not eligible for Wikiquote except in utterly exceptional circumstances. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 21:25, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't make an exception even for William Archibald Spooner, as Fys suggests, but we don't need to. We know the congregation malapropisms for which he's famous because they are printed in mainstream books, and these secondary sources are acceptable as reliable sources. (It's a shame no one has sourced our article yet.) We can get Richard Feynman quotes from The Feynman Lectures on Physics, too. If a professor's pithy words were published in a mainstream work, this would adequately deal with the sourcing issue (although the notability question would remain). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:00, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 18:02, 8 November 2006 (UTC)


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