Talk:Kent Ninomiya

message: I nominated this for speedy deletion because, foremost, the person isn't notable, and secondly, because of the incredible spammy PR firm behind its creation.  If you check the edit history of the article, you'll notice a great deal of sock puppets used to add information.
The article also has a great deal of obvious spam sites filled with keywords meant to manipulate search rankings and bolster the presumed popularity of this person.  It comes across as the result of an extremely aggressive -- but misguided -- PR firm trying to advertise the person. Markusbradley (talk) 22:44, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD 

message: Viewing the history shows edits done by multiple accounts whose contributions are reserved to just this article.  They're sock puppet accounts responsible for creating and pruning the article, as well as adding a bunch of links that add absolutely no value whatsoever.
Viewing the links takes you to pages that advertise "Kent Ninomiya Travel" links and "Kent Ninomiya Shopping" resources, surrounded by ads and full of the same, duplicate content which seems to be aggregated from a single news source.
These links are of the same quality as the numerous accounts set up seemingly to promote this non-notable individual on social sites like digg.  You can view the quality of the posts made by the same author to see the self-serving nature of the account, with 10 links in each signature of each duplicate comment.
While Wikipedia is not digg, nor would activities by a user with the same name be evidence against deleting this article, the person still more than qualifies as a non-notable local TV news anchor.  Furthermore, if the person posting on digg (and infinite other social media sites) is the one posting the same links on this article, he's clearly responsible for creating sock puppet accounts to create a self-serving article for promotional purposes.  In the end, it's still not useful to Wikipedia, because of its encyclopedic unworthiness, its creation by sock puppets, its external links meant to give credibility to spam, and its rampant violation of numerous Wikipedia policies.
I originally thought that conclusion was obvious and made it a candidate for speedy delete, but DGG cleared it.  I feel it's better left up to the judgment of the community at large. Markusbradley (talk) 00:43, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion; evidence & discussion 

message: *SHOULD STAY ON WIKIPEDIA I agree with DGG that this person is indeed notable and worthy of a Wikipedia page.  What Markusbradley fails to realize is that Kent Ninomiya was the first Asian American male to be a primary news anchor at an American television station.  This is a significant, and so far unparalleled, achievement.  The lack of Asian American men on TV news, especially as anchors, is a topic of much discussion in journalism.  The Asian American Journalist Association or AAJA devotes a lot of attention to the topic.  This is an important subject in journalism and the Asian American communities.  The reference links are valid.  They show numerous articles written by reputable publications siting Kent Ninomiya's significance, as well as information about his background and samples of his extensive writing on numerous subjects.  There are no sales or commercial links as Markusbradley claims.  "Kent Ninomiya Shopping" does not exist.  Any spam by suspicious authors should be removed, but Wikipedia has decided that the article belongs on Wikipedia and I agree.  Georgiamonet (talk) 05:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Humorous, but untrue.  Please see , which I'm more than positive you operate. Markusbradley (talk) 05:38, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: More sock puppets. Markusbradley (talk) 18:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ARGUMENTS FOR KEEPING KENT NINOMIYA PAGE ON WIKIPEDIA 

message: I am proposing this article for deletion for several reasons. First of all, it is full of factual errors, unsupported statements, and most of the links are to dead pages. Second, this person is no longer notable if he ever was. I know that this page was previously proposed for deletion and the result was keep, but the decision was for two shaky reasons. One claim was that he was the first asian anchor which I can't find any evidence of, and the other is his connection to the drunk driving incident. Neither of these things are particularly notable and this person apparently has not been on TV in more than 5 years. Third, this page seems to be a forum for personal attacks on this person. There are repeated attempts to advertise an unsubstantiated accusation when this person was never charged with anything. This violates the BLP policy of not repeating hearsay.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.182.116.229 (talk) 04:30, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROD