Bottom line:
"Therefore Delete, without prejudice to recreation if a significantly improved source demonstrating clear notability should appear later."
So if someone wants to do the work, it is simply a matter of crafting a decent article.
I don't actually agree with the closing, as Minos P. Dautrieve's comment should have been given stronger weight, but the obvious remedy is to flesh out the article, not just argue.
Fred
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lar#Gary_Lynch_deletion
List readers can decide for themselves whether the summary below is accurate. Some people aren't cut out for a collaborative editing project
and I'm not referring to Lar.
Nathan
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Enchantress of Florence enchantf@gmail.com wrote:
You'd be surprised on just how close to an accurate prediction this was. The article about one of the most prominent lawyers in the USA, who led the civil prosecutions of Boesky and Milken, was deleted after next to no discussion, over the objections of my husband (who pointed out hundreds of news citations verifing both the notability of the individual and the accuracy of the article (nearly ne hundred from the New York Times alone).
The administrator who closed the discussion shortly after my husband posted responded by not only dismissing his points (even though no one else actually made a substantive argument), but launched into a gratuitous personal attack on him as deceptive, and falsely characterized the references he provided; then, after my husband gave a restrained (if rather annoyed) response, refused to provide any substantive response, and castigated him for incivility and personal attacks for, among other things. "impugning" the administrator's "reasoning." Then one of the admin's began posting rather rude messages on his talk page.
And that about sums thing up for Wikipedian discussion these days. It's uncivil and insulting to point out that someone has made a flawed argument. It's uncivil and a personal attack to point out that an administrator has made obvious factual errors.
I doubt you'll see my husband editing any more. He'd amused himself by actually cleaning the garbage out of various biographies of living people, bu got little out of it but harassment, three increasingly nasty rounds of it.
But so it goes. I told him when he began devoting time to Wikipedia that he'd soon enough have the experience made unpleasant by a thin-skinned, poorly informed, opinionated soul who viewed expertise and competence with hostility, and he was. So it goes.
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