Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Hanau
per  and . Although the article "looks" good, so many of the cited sources are questionable that it's hard to imagine the article really establishes independent notability of Mr. Hanau. The use of primary sources is particularly troublesome as the general policy is for people NOT to create or substantially contribute to articles about themselves. It is important for us to always keep in mind that '''Wikipedia is about verifiability, not truth'''. These sources are - especially taken together - not sufficient to meet this bar, especially for a . '''Notes''' - I read the article and checked the majority of its sources to establish my position. I did this and decided my position '''before''' reading the controversy which appears on this page (most of which I ignored anyway). (Having read the nom, I was aware of the accusation that it is largely self-edited.) In addition, per the template near the top, I was '''not''' solicited to look at this page; rather, it was the last  left for its date
— User:Frank, 18:09, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:VER||WP:RS||WP:BLP||WP:AFD (Wikipedia:Verifiability)