Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brendan Loy
I appreciate your contributions to the discussion and your evident hard work on the entry, although I still disagree with your conclusions.  But I disagree with any characterization of the previous discussions, including my own, as "demonstrably false claims" or personal attacks.  You will notice that I qualified the statements I made with things like "as far as I can tell" and "seems like."  This is because I am not friends with Brendan Loy and know only what I read online.  For example, I said it seems like the only attention his blog got from outside sources was connected to Katrina--and I stand by that, qualified by the "seems."  It's great that Mr. Loy can give an exhaustive account of every time his blog has been linked by another blog, and I wish him the best in expanding his readership, but the average user on Wikipedia who does not read his blog regularly would not know or care about a two-day spike in traffic to his website last month.  Nor would they particularly care that a fake South Park video clip linked to by another Wikipedia entry happens to be hosted on his blog in one of the two places it is linked to on the page.  The only larger significance that the blog seems to have achieved was in relation to Katrina.  This is not a claim that nobody has ever linked to the blog in relation to another topic, or that I'm committing character assassination on Mr. Loy by failing to recognize his achievements in other areas.  I just don't think, as a casual reader and relatively new acquaintance of the blog, that it has significance of the type generally required by Wikipedia.  I have referred to Wikipedia's guidelines previously, but to repeat: Brendan Loy does not meet the guidelines of Notability (people)().  He has not made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his field.  He is not a published author with multiple independent reviews of or awards for his work.  He has not achieved renown or notoriety for his involvement in in newsworthy events.  At best, he has achieved minor note for assembling information on Hurricane Katrina, so at most I think it it would be accurate, if generous, to mention his blog as related to media coverage of the hurricane.  He has not been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the person.  Brendan Loy does not meet the guidelines of Notability (web)().  I do not consider the handful of what I would call puff pieces on Brendan Loy multiple non-trivial published works.  No disrespect meant, but I do not believe articles headlined "Weather nerd" are non-trivial pieces.  His website has not won a well-known and independent award, nor is it published by any site independent of Mr. Loy himself
— User:Nautikale, 20:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:WEB (Wikipedia:Notability)