User talk:Flyersam
Nomination of David Hawkins (author) for deletion
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A discussion is taking place as to whether the article David Hawkins (author) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Hawkins (author) (David R. Hawkins 6th nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Iconoclast.Horizon (talk) 06:06, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of David Hawkins (author)
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A tag has been placed on David Hawkins (author), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G4 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be a repost of material that was previously deleted following a deletion debate, such as at articles for deletion. Under the specified criteria, where an article has substantially identical content to that of an article deleted after debate, and any changes in the content do not address the reasons for which the material was previously deleted, it may be deleted at any time.
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David R. Hawkins
[edit]Flyersam- This is a long drawn out issue, that you have not been privy to over the last several years. This came to a head last year shortly before Dr. Hawkins death. I created the last two incarnations of the David R. Hawkins article; we editors had mountains of research on everything Dr. Hawkins ever was involved in or had written. You may or may not be aware that there is a German Wiki article regarding Dr. Hawkins that is still in good standing. The English (American) wikipedians tend to be deletionists regarding subjects and authors they deem "pseudoscience". Though Dr. Hawkins wrote multiple books, worked with scientist Linus Pauling, was on several national shows, including an interview with Oprah and Barbra Walters, lectured in the U.S. and overseas, was acknowledge by authors such as Deepak Chopra, and other authors have written books about him, etc, etc,-individuals much more suited for encyclopedic cataloging such as Riley Schillaci the swords swallowing girl who was eliminated from some talent reality show gets to post her job resume as an article or such the Wellington local homeless guy Ben Hana who had a drunk driving accident in the 70's. Questionable people like Dr. Hawkins and his work shouldn't be shown to the general Wikipedia readership. Iconoclast.Horizon (talk) 18:07, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
Deletion & Talk Page Aug 24, 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/David_R._Hawkins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion/David_R._Hawkins
Deletion Page Sept 27, 2012
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/David_R._Hawkins_(2nd_nomination)
Article Page of deletions going back to 2007 (Apparently there was another one back in 2004 deleted in 2005, yet I have never found a trace of it)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Hawkins
I had a file with over 22 pages of listings for everything he had ever published or released. It may be in the talk pages or I may still have a copy. Much of the dialogue took place on the deflationist admin's pages. Multiple versions of the article existed form average to stripped down. All were revised according by 'anti-spiritualist' 'anti-psuedoscience' proponents, even though Dr. Hawkins work has been well established. A one point they tried to delete it because they could not say with certainty that his birthdate was correct since a birth certificate had not been found online. Granted, I am not an acolyte of Dr. Hawkins (as I was accused of in the AfDs) but do recognize that he and his work is far beyond worthy of being listed here and that the campaign to keep his kind of work off Wikipedia goes far beyond just this article.