Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tzvi Berkowitz
to Yeshivas Ner Yisroel or '''Delete'''. Article contains no claim of notability that is backed up by secondary sources (and hardly any claim of notability at all). For example, http://www.torah.org/learning/mlife/ch5l2.html# one "reference" has "''(I heard this from my teacher R. Moshe Eisemann, of the Ner Israel Yeshiva, Baltimore, I believe in the name of R. Tzvi Berkowitz, also of Ner Israel.)''"  This parenthetical note is not a secondary source which analyzes the subject, but instead is the very definition of a "trivial mention". The article is strung together with |original research to compensate for the lack of sources. All the keep arguments rely on the most insidious kinds of special pleading, all the while ''admitting'' that the sources aren't sufficient. One user says that "''Anyone who is the son-in-law of Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky...''" must be notable, even though |Notability is NOT inherited. No sources are presented to bolster the claim that all rabbis at his institutional level are notable. Finally, I note that the article lacks the most important thing; any description of what scholarly contribution(s) the rabbi has made. Not one word of his wisdom is related. Without this sort of infomation there is nothing encyclopedic to say, and therefore no reason to have an article
— User:Abductive, 11:45, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Stance: merge
Cited policy: WP:OR||WP:INHERITED (Wikipedia:No original research)