Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Spece
per Voceditenore's research (thanks for your work) and failure to meet |notability and |musician notability guidelines. I was hesitant to nominate this for deletion as I didn't feel like doing the sort of research that Voceditenore did and felt like that was the |good faith thing to do, although the burden of providing additional refs should really be on the article's creator. Although |conflict of interest isn't necessarily a criterion for deletion, that should also be taken into account. Per Wikipedia:Autobiography|the autobiography guidelines, if you're notable, let someone completely unaffiliated with you write an article about you! And if the anon editor from D.C. is reading this, it has nothing to do with academic snobbery and everything to do with the fact that |Wikipedia is not here to help promote anyone's career. If Spece's work gets substantively written about in multiple non-trivial sources (think ''The Washington Post'' for example), then certainly this article could be recreated. This is the avenue you might consider exploring
— User:Katr67, 16:37, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:NOTE||WP:BAND||WP:AGF||WP:COI||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Notability)