Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jan Klerks

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. -Doc^g 00:36, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jan Klerks

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NonNotable architect. Does not have recognation, therefore unarticle worthy. - User:BushCheney2004 19:31 UTC

COMMENT: But the focus of the article is less upon his occupation as an architect and more upon skyscapercity.com, the notability of which has been explained in the article. - Erebus555 19:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Question How many cases can you think of where someone's status as leader of a web forum has been considered sufficient notability to merit an article? Fan-1967 19:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Reply: I am not a regular visitor to the AfD pages so I would not know. But when this web forum has such a large number of members and was created by this person who has developed an internet celebrity status among architecture webforums, just like people on youtube have (not on architectural webforums though), then this could warrant as notable. - Erebus555 20:03, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Delete upon request by article's subject - Erebus555 20:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• Potentially move to SkyscraperCity. Alexa rank around 5,000 is highish for a specialty forum, and there are a handful of Google News Archive citations. If WP:RS cannot be found, though, delete. Delete per Erebus555 (although that bulletin post is not viewable without registration). --Dhartung | Talk 20:17, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Comment: Sorry, I did not realise this was the case. It says "I'd rather not. I asked it to be deleted." upon a reply to a general discussion on the article. - Erebus555 20:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Jan pointed the page out to me about 12 hours ago via MSN and mentioned his desire for it to be deleted. Now I know it's not Wikipedia's policy to delete articles based on the subject's desire, but to be blatantly honest, Jan's not worthy of a Wikipedia article. That said, the forum Jan founded, SkyscraperCity, is notable as the 98th largest forum on the internet, and this stub would make an excellent addition to a well-written article about the site. --DaiTengu 21:12, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete It's not that major a forum, certainly not enough to merit an article for the moderator/webmaster. Fan-1967 22:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
• Delete this is not about the forum (which is itself debatable) but its creator, for whom we have no reliable sources. Guy (Help!) 22:31, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

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