Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J. J. Dewey
Notability cannot be established, proved, or disproved, through a list of wikipedia references.  Notability and encyclopedic suitability are independent of whether or not the subject has a wikipedia entry and also independent of what the wikipedia entry looks like.  "Notability is not temporary."  See .  I don't know how high this would rank on the notable scale, but I do know that deleting this article without giving the newbie who's furiously working on it the chance to fix it would be a flagrant violation of .  Flagging this article for deletion without any discussion flagrantly violates .  See also  which directly deals with the issue of badly-written articles
— User:Fredsmith2, 23:28, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTE||WP:BITE||WP:CONSENSUS||WP:PROBLEM (Wikipedia:Notability)