Tony Sidaway wrote:
Bryan Derksen said:
It seems to me based on what I've seen over the past week or two of this debate that Wollman is both notable and public.
Well that's a judgement call, and we can respectfully disagree on this.
Dratted respectfulness. :)
In rebuttal I recall that Wollmann's Wikipedia entry was listed for deletion in January and it was deleted because the consensus at the time was that Wollmann was *not* notable. During the discussion those voting had access to all public documentation, as this was in links from the article at the time and summarised in the article itself (most of which was written by me as the original article had been severely POV).
The current context is just the alt.usenet.kooks article, though. In the little microcosm that is this newsgroup Wollmann has been voted as the Kook of the Millennium, which suggests a significant degree of notoriety. I can envision Wollmann not having enough notability outside that context to warrant his own separate article but still enough to be mentioned within the alt.usenet.kooks article, much like how many fictional character articles have lately been folded into the main articles on the works of fiction they belong to.