The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Disregarding the vote-stacking by those who do not understand Wikipedia's notability guidelines, there appear to be enough non-trivial secondary sources in the article to meet GNG. Of note, many of the refs are broken and either lead to 404 pages or blank content, and overall the article has something of an improper tone. Cleanup is needed, not deletion. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 14:00, 15 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Eric West[edit]

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This was nominated for speedy as a vandalism/hoax, but I'd rather give it a better view. No opinion from me. Stifle (talk) 19:10, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

keep - Is this a joke? I like Eric West. I just saw him on tv he is appearing at the Red dress awards with larry king today so I decided to google him to see what else he's up to. 32.136.128.161 (talk) 19:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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keep - maringally notable D list actor/model.--Rocksanddirt (talk) 20:20, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
keep - There are articles for him on US Weekly, Daily News. Very notable. [1] -- MusicManMadness (talk) 22:02, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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- Voceditenore (talk) 09:02, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

keep . what is the reason this article is up for deletion? he is googled more than a grammy winner jody watley that must make him notable. http://trends.google.com/trends?q=eric+west%2C+jody+watley&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 69.112.56.8 (talk) 14:17, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep - at least someone's bothered to put in a load of references Kipof (talk) 14:29, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - non-notable; vanity article exaggerating his notability to the point of near-hoax. Kipof, if you follow most of those "references" you will find they are either fakes or uber-trivial passing mentions of West. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:39, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~Keep~~ - i would disagree orange mike. he has appeared on various red carpet events. [2] has articles on aol [3] and has appeared in a lot of news articles. [4] wikipedia is an adequate way of reading about eric west if someone reads about him. i find this notable . maybe it just needs to be edited down otherwise there is nothing wrong with it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.112.56.8 (talk) 16:12, 11 February 2009 (UTC) — 69.112.56.8 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
- Struck duplicate !vote. Remember that this is not a majority vote. MuZemike 19:57, 11 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and tag for expansion as notability has been shown. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 08:50, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep. Seems to pass wiki-notability. Fortunately this has little in common with actual notability :-).Yobmod (talk) 14:06, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep. I've contributed to Eric West and I don't know how notable you have to be on Wikipedia, but he was on the Women's Day Red Dress Awards to present an award to Larry King today, I think that must mean something. http://wireimage.com/ItemListings.aspx?sr=41&igi=353873&nbc1=1 Vinci33 (talk) 20:24, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. KingU (talk) 16:49, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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