Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Kleist
Now now. Let's not get too carried away. I think it's important to point out that no, the http://www.whoswho-teachers.com/1whoweare/beinghonored.aspx Who's Who Among America's Teachers is not a reliable independent third-party source. For one thing it's not clear what criteria they use and they mostly try and evaluate an individual's qualities as a teacher, not as a poet. Now I may be a petty demagogue and an imbecile but I sure know |vanity when I see it. Let me remind you again that |Wikipedia is not a soapbox and it should strike you as odd that in the month and a half that your article stood no one (besides yourself) has cared to edit it except to tag it as inappropriate. As hard a landing as this might be, we the petty demagogues of Wikipedia feel that you fail to reach the threshold of importance which would justify the effort of maintaining this article in the future
— User:Pascal, 22:08, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:VAIN||WP:NOT (Wikipedia:Conflict of interest)