Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jon Erickson

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. - Mailer Diablo 06:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jon Erickson

Jon Erickson (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

The subject is a real writer of possible notabiliy (though some of the few backlinks seem to concern another Jon Erickson), but the article contains no verifiable biographic information at all. Prod contested by User:Jandrewbz, the only substantial contributor to the article. From his original version I removed a "controversy" section with the content

Erickson's name was tagged in Sharpie marker on the window of his ex-residence, the Bottom of the Hill House. To this day, the culprit remains a mystery. There are no suspects.

which even if true would hardly be something of encyclopaedic importance. The whole thing smells of either a strange hoax or an attempt at an attack page, possibly aimed at another Jo(h)n Erickson than the one who wrote Hacking: The Art of Exploitation. This makes the accuracy of two only remaining bits of (unsourced, unverifiable) information by the same editor extremely suspect. Without them (and arguably also with them), the article is not even stub-class and should be deleted until actual sourced biographical information about Jon Erickson surfaces. Henning Makholm 11:02, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - I'm not entirely sure how notable this person is, but this article provides no sources or references to show any notability, so I'm going to say delete it for failing WP:V. Jayden54 12:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete WP:V Scienter 15:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as subject doesn't meet WP:BIO even as an author.--Isotope23 15:27, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The book may be notable, but there's no notable content here. -- Shunpiker 01:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

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