Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nicholas Beale (3rd nomination)
So I've spent the last hour reading through all this info.  I read through the source description write up by Slim and essentially agree with his/her assessment of each article.  The best the article seems to have is 2 very weak secondary sources.  There was once a mention of him being a professor on the talk page which I was interested in but, as was also pointed out on the talk page, there's no actual mention of him being a professor in the article.  Even if there was, he would need to fulfill some part of Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)#Criteria|WP:PROFESSOR which I don't see any verifiable information to prove that he does.  From what I can tell, the book would be the best chance of a claim at notability but I don't see how he would fulfill  as a co-author of the book.  As a side note, I don't believe that NBeale was originally out of line in editing his own article but it's becoming apparent that he has an agenda besides creating a decent Wikipedia article.  I find the post on his blog to be a flagrant proof of that.  While I (and no one else seems to) have no concrete proof that he has meat/sock puppets, his defense of them is interesting.  If I was accused of sock/meat puppetry, I'd be defending myself and not the puppets.  I guess if I had puppets though, defending them would be defending myself.  I think that this AfD should be closely monitored for possibly sock/meat puppetry and his blog watched for signs of meatpuppetry. I'd say snow but there's certainly the possibility that he will become notable but it should be made clear that Mr. Beale shouldn't be editing this article in any space
— User:OlYeller21, 06:33, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:CREATIVE (Wikipedia:Notability)