Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Greenberg (lawyer)
Just to reinforce what others have said, per our current guidelines Greenberg is not of marginal notability. No doubt like a number of others here I was certainly well aware of him, as would be anyone with a good amount of familiarity with the civil rights movement. I'm extremely willing to delete bios of marginally notable people when the subject requests it and think we should do it in basically every case. The current policy on this is found at , specifically Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Deletion_discussion|here, where it notes "discussions concerning biographical articles of relatively unknown, non-public figures, where the subject has requested deletion and there is no rough consensus may be closed as delete." It's just not credible to assert that Greenberg is "relatively unknown" or "non-public" so there's no getting around the fact that deleting would go against our current standards (undoubtedly some disagree with those standards, of course, and that's quite legitimate). Nonetheless, I'm still quite concerned given the subject's desire to have this deleted and wonder if there are other options here. First (and I guess this is for Alison), is it possible to get more detail on the OTRS ticket? I don't know if this is kosher or not, but it could be useful to note what the specific concerns were (obviously I don't want to infringe on the privacy of the request in any way). I'm also wondering if anyone has been back in touch with Greenberg now that the article is apparently improved, sourced, and stripped of some personal info. If he finds the current version acceptable, perhaps we could consider long-term full protection. He might be more amenable to the existence of an article if it was largely locked on a decent version. Finally I guess I'd be willing to consider going a bit WP:IAR and doing a merge if Greenberg was still not happy with this. However beyond NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund I'm not sure what our merge target would be, and that article might not be the best place to put a good chunk of info about one person. It's very hard to justify deleting this, but if that can't happen we should still try to do right by Mr. Greenberg as much as possible. Talking to him again via OTRS, if no one has done that as yet, might be a good idea for starters
— User:Bigtimepeace, 09:22, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:DEL (Wikipedia:Deletion policy)