In a message dated 4/9/2009 12:30:25 PM Pacific Daylight Time, billdeancarter@yahoo.com writes:

Please ignore this Green Ink Day nonsense, and address the Alan Cabal article that has been expunged from Wikipedia's mainspace to its userspace for unjust reasons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MichaelQSchmidt/sandbox_The_unloved_articl...

-------------------- I read through the comments at the AfD. I also seperately looked for something about Alan Cabal. The comments at AfD were interesting. I'd never really thought about the issue of whether a trivial google search for someone who is an actual journalist/writer would be top-heavy on their own writings.

If a person is solely known through their own writings, or if other mentions of them are trivial, I'd have to side with the deletors. When I look for Barbara Walters, I find lots of references to her, not writen by her. It does make sense that journalists/writers would have many incidential mentions, and lots of detailed mentions by them. The problem is finding detailed mentions about them... but not by them.

That's the issue with Alan Cabel isn't it? Has that issue been adequately addressed? Keeping in mind that most websites cannot be used as [[WP:RS]] because either they are personal sites masquerading as corporate sites, or they have little to no editorial oversight.

Will Johnson

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