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Do we really need this article?

Is this person important enough to warrant an article on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:C64F:300:85C8:E406:A0B5:219B (talk) 18:56, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If it is at all helpful, I came here looking for an article on David Andelman, trying to assess how his education and career might have biased an article he wrote. So he was notable enough for me to come looking for him. Jason Fruit (talk) 14:09, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No, he's not notable. I strongly support deletion. ahess247 (talk) 18:25, 16 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Non-notable lead

Terrible lead, practically no reason for this article to exist. ahess247 (talk) 19:10, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

David A. Andelman (born October 6, 1944) is an American journalist, commentator and author.

If that's all it takes for a lead, I could have my own page on Wikipedia. I report, I comment, I write.

In a 1975 letter to Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, the writer and journalist Hunter S. Thompson described Andelman as "...one of those people you'd automatically choose to be plunged into a vat of aboriginal clap-spoor, just to test the effects."

Apparently some editor desperately wanted to put the phrase "clap-spoor" on Wikipedia, and so we got the lead above. (Could it be? Or what else am I missing here?)

My sentiment: either make the lead notable without referencing Hunter S. Thompson's sparkle-pony racist bile, or terminate this article with extreme prejudice. — MaxEnt 13:53, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]