Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Levin (fourth nomination)
This article has been plagued by subjectivity since many years ago, and this discussion is following suit, sadly. AfD is '''not''' a vote and if everyone registers ''strong'' opinions that just looks silly. Anyway, the article is really short on quality sources. |Significant coverage by secondary sources is very scant. IMO, Rob Levin's personal notability could derive from the basic fact of running OPN/freenode/PDPC for some time, but this may reasonably be contested as not particularly notable per se, not only because of the general notability guideline but because several other people held positions of similar importance/relevance in these organizations and aren't considered notable enough just because of it. However, again IMO, the actual source of his personal notability would be his running OPN/freenode/PDPC in a manner that attracted much negative attention in the community at the time. This should help the notability argument in general - he didn't just fulfill a role, he did it in a manner that was noticed. Yet, that could be contested as unverifiable because apparently we've lost (or never had) the reliable sources attesting to the variety of peculiar practices that made him stand out in a negative manner. Once the article is gutted of this information, it does look non-notable - a lot of people found charities and a lot of people operate IRC networks
— User:Joy, 10:02, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:SIGCOV (Wikipedia:Notability)