Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shawn Alan Harris
per nom. This article was written and sourced based on an apparent misunderstanding of . Most of the references are used to identify the web sites of organizations or institutions the subject is associated with, not to web pages that actually mention the subject or confirm the facts stated in the article. For example, the sentence "He is a graduate of National University and California State University" was cited to the main pages of the web sites of http://www.nu.edu/ National University and http://www.calstate.edu/ California State University. Since the subject is not mentioned on those pages, such references tend only to indicate that National University (California) and California State University exist ... which was never in doubt in the first place. They don't contribute anything to the biography of this particular person. In fact, of the first 12 references found in the first three paragraphs of the article, I removed 11 of them because they did not mention the subject. I have seen citation patterns like this before, and it would be useful to put into a guideline somewhere that these are not the kind of citations we are looking for. However, such citations tend to be found primarily in the biographies of people who are non-notable anyway
— User:Metropolitan90, 16:03, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:CITE (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)