Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ted Lacey

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[edit] Ted Lacey

Likely hoax. "Stephen Whelan Prize" gets zero Google hits. -- Curps 06:02, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Ah, I should have googled "Stephen Whelan" + "prize" instead of one big phrase. Well, he's a student at Harvard Law School who's won an academic prize... well done and a very promising future... but is he truly a notable legal scholar? The title of his prize-winning work doesn't seem to get any Google hits. -- Curps 07:04, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. I see no evidence for the vainglorious assertion that he is "considered by some to be an important and potentially influential critic of Supreme Court jurisprudence". Sharing a prize for an undergraduate thesis doesn't make you notable of itself. Overall: vanity, non-notability. Sliggy 11:29, August 17, 2005 (UTC) (corrected minor error in vote Sliggy 11:30, August 17, 2005 (UTC))
  • Delete...is considered by some to be non notable, as yet. Alf 14:09, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, extreme vanity. Sdedeo 15:46, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep somewhat noteworthy article he also wrote hit on yahoo: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/helvidius/archives/2004_lacey.pdf

luddy 17:23, 17 August 2005 (UTC) -- Duplicate vote by 67.82.186.242 (talk ยท contribs), who is the original author of Ted Lacey

  • That there's some strong vanity. Delete.  RasputinAXP  talk * contribs 19:33, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Two undergraduate awards add notability to a person but are not enough to establish notability. Other claims of notability appear to be unsupported. ManoaChild 20:39, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete the guy isn't out of Law School yet, let him actually DO something before he finds his way into an encyclopedia. --Outlander 22:25, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
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