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Charles Read (historian)

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Hello, I hope this is the right place to ask. The page for Articles for Deletion said to write something here if one is unsure about Deletion. The following living biography article I came across some time ago Charles Read (historian), originally included a large number of uncited claims (before my edits resulting in the current version) that I believe did not conform with Wikipedia's best practices. These were claims such as that the subject's thesis received the most academic awards ever from learned bodies of his generation, that he predicted various economic collapses or issues, and other spurious claims mostly referenced from the subject's own bios and statements he has made. The article also listed minor academic (college) prizes in the biography box, and made lots of "best X, first ever X, youngest X" claims that essentially read like a CV/personal statement.

Looking into the original user who created the article, that user only edited articles that were related to organisations that the subject of the article is part of, as well as the very specific academic field of the article's subject. I am fairly convinced (though of course impossible to prove) that the author of the article is the subject themselves.

I made a host of changes, each one annotated both in the history and talk pages, to try and make the article more neutral. I extensively set out reasoning for each edit there and in the "Talk" page. Earlier this month another user has reverted these changes to the original page with the spurious claims - without engaging in dialogue - simply claiming "vandalism". Possibly again the subject themselves.

The subject appears to be a (well-respected I'm sure) young academic with two books, who had a twitter post that received 1400 shares and which was mentioned in the Guardian. A human interest journalist at a local newspaper (20K circulation, which so far has not been seen as notable enough to merit its own wiki page) also wrote a piece in which he said the subject claims to be Cambridge's avatar economist of the 21st century, which was of course also proudly displayed on the original Wiki page as fact, without clearly stating the nature of the source. Next to that, the twitter post seems to be the main argument for relevance and featuring on Wikipedia. I am myself not sure if that merits to have a biography on Wikipedia, but also don't want to biased against the subject simply because he himself appears to have written the article, so wanted to check here if I should schedule the article for deletion. One thing I am certain, however, is that if not monitored this Wikipedia page will be continuously edited to restore the original grandiose claims.

I'm open to any suggestions (and hope this is the right place to post).

Et in Arcadia 1 (talk) 20:08, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure you're right, I see no reason to think that Charles Read (historian) is notable. It looks like a vanity page. It fails every test of notability in WP:N (most importantly including WP:ANYBIO and WP:ACADEMIC). I think this is unlikely to be controversial, so you should go ahead and use Wikipedia:Proposed deletion, which is a pretty simple process. nhinchey (talk) 04:52, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: I just changed the title of this section to be the name of the article you're asking about nhinchey (talk) 04:55, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

2025

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How to renominate a page for deletion? XYZ 250706 (talk) 14:56, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AFDHOWTO includes instructions for what to do if a page has previously been nominated? DonIago (talk) 03:21, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sam Bloch

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This is not a notable person 174.197.65.221 (talk) 21:10, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If your intention is to nominate Sam Bloch for deletion, please follow the steps outlined at WP:AFDHOWTO. DonIago (talk) 03:29, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Marissa Kurtimah

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Hello. I'm nominating Marissa Kurtimah for deletion due to my belief that she isn't notable for inclusion. I have included my reasoning on the talk page. 99.142.64.153 (talk) 00:27, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marissa Kurtimah. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 00:54, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge nominations

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Can I ask that the following almost identical nominations are merged into a single discussion to avoid having the same debate three times:

Thanks. MRSC (talk) 05:03, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Motorsport articles' nomination process to complete.

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Can please someone help to complete the afd nomination process for 5 similar articles?

Main issue is WP:GNG/WP:NOTNEWS violation, but there's stand-alone detailed reasons provided for each of it on their talk pages under the "justification for deletion" section.

Here they are:

Thank you in advance. 83.142.111.90 (talk) 23:27, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your main concern here is a lack of secondary sources and... the fact the pages have "mostly not been updated" since the seasons finished? Do you understand these are all past events?
All articles seem complete to me – 2020 and 2021 are well-sourced with independent coverage, WP:GNG certainly not an issue – WP:V not an issue either for 2022, 2023 and 2024 as the results PDFs are linked in the respective results sections ([1], [2], [3]). WP:NOTNEWS doesn't track. Doubts arise on whether you've done the research before mass-pinging these for AfD. MSport1005 (talk) 00:46, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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