Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Broda Otto Barnes
Wow. What an incredibly looooooong discussion. I see it boiling down to this: Notability IS notability, and we are not here to decide if its quackery {which could even then be notable). In this case we have a well-written, encyclopedic and well-sourced BLP about an individual who was a noted author and who was in numerous peer reviewed journals. Even if his views are not well-received currently, they were in the 30s, and |Notability is not temporary. Also, I am quite concerned with the deconstruction done by an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/208.124.200.138 anonymous SPA immediately before the nomination, leaving nothing but a http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Broda_Otto_Barnes&diff=next&oldid=286436514 stub. Doesn't seem quite cricket, and feels like the SPA was Cold deck|stacking the deck
— User:MichaelQSchmidt, 22:27, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NTEMP (Wikipedia:Notability)