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The result was delete per WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE. There isn't a rough consensus to either keep or delete here, she isn't well known, and it appears she has requested deletion. In these cases, policy allows us to be more cautious and honour the wishes of the BLP. That tips this to delete. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:02, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Suzanne Olsson[edit]

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WP:BLP1E of a self-published author, originally started by COI editors. Subject is butting heads with religious people, with obvious results. Resoundingly deleted in 2008. Guy (Help!) 12:53, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suzanne Olsson 2006, keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suzanne Olsson (2nd nomination) 2008, resounding delete
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:SuzanneOlsson/sandbox 2008, resounding keep
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Drafts/Suzanne M. Olsson 2013, keep
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suzanne M. Olsson 2013, delete
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Suzanne Marie Olsson 2014, resounding keep
Let me add to this comment that "Subject is butting heads with religious people, with obvious results", which I take to be derived from the claims in the latest BLP Noticeboard demand for the page to be deleted, is at best an over-simplification. Many of the editors with whom she and her proxies have butted heads are anti-fringe skeptics, not (or at least not only) 'religious people'. Agricolae (talk) 16:34, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
An editing error in the list above was later corrected. —BarrelProof (talk) 17:16, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oops, thanks. Agricolae (talk) 17:59, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
To answer your question, Fayenatic became the creator of the page in its current iteration on 11 August 2014, as is evident from the page's history. There is a long history here. The original page that Olsson claims was created by her grandchildren was deleted in 2008. User:SuzanneOlsson then created the page Suzanne M. Olsson in 2013, only to have it deleted shortly thereafter. Then Suzanne Marie Olsson was created by User:Granada2000, subsequently found to be a sock puppet of an account that was later found to be a sock puppet of SuzanneOlsson. The 2014 AfD for Suzanne Marie Olsson resulted in Keep, but then the page got deleted anyhow because it had been created by a sock puppet (Speedy deletion criteria G5). Fayenatic then resurrected the page and thus, at least nominally, is the 'creator' of its current incarnation, though with the deleted version inaccessible it is unclear how Fayenatic's version differed from the prior deleted version. Much of this arcane history is of little relevance to the current discussion, whether Suzanne Olsson is notable, and particularly, whether she is broadly notable or only noteworthy for a single event, as suggested in the nom. One thing does arise out of the history: Suzanne Olsson at least once and apparently twice created a page for herself. She obviously thinks she is notable, she just doesn't like the content that arises from others editing the page. Agricolae (talk) 23:50, 15 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If you have WP:RS to improve the article, bring them. The article has been peaceful since the latest socking, and history suggest that if deleted Olsson will recreate it. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:13, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hold on, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Groshnik has come from nowhere to request a blanking? Given the amount of sock-history with this article and previous AfD, we need to do a sock-check on this AfD also In ictu oculi (talk) 12:02, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The argument made on BLPN is strikingly similar to those previously made by socks and COI, proxies of Olsson, with its demand that she should be able to provide the text and then the article should be frozen to prevent anything negative from being added, or failing that, deleted. We have seen that exact either/or several times before. Agricolae (talk) 16:20, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The 7 first books in your gbooks link are selfpublished, how does it support NAUTHOR? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:09, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't be surprised if every one of those several 100 Gbooks isn't self-published, it's very rare for serious publishers to wade into the open cistern of populist fringe on this kind of subject, same as Mary Magdalene-Da Vinci-Lost Grail fringe. Bu that doesn't prevent those books having disproportionate popular reach. In ictu oculi (talk) 18:24, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Several 100? I see 3 pages, maybe it´s a EU-data-law thing. And the first page already has a swedish librarian by the same name. This [2] gbook-search may be more on point. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:39, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW, that section is a very recent addition, as I remember things were reasonably well-sourced after the war of ca april 2017. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:44, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I just dropped that in in a hurry related to the comments above that if it stays it should have some critical content on the basic thesis. Which is difficult because she is the latest rehash of things that were rejected by scholars in relation to the earlier fringe writers like Kersten. In the event of a delete I would rather a blank and redirect to the Roza Bal article (where she will still warrant a mention because of the Straits Times and Times of India references) in order to keep track on the sock issue. Should the socks come back trying to plant a promotional article. Unless they take the view that Wikipedia is hopelessly against fringe (hence their wish for it to be deleted this time). In ictu oculi (talk) 18:48, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If deleted, I agree. She's a "See also" there now, but that be changed to a sentence or two. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:53, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
So to be absolutely clear the option here if deleted is redirect to preserve page history rather than just atomize. In ictu oculi (talk) 22:19, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Drmies: GBooks drives me nuts at times. As you suggest, many of it's hits are simply useless as they contain nothing substantial (or trivial) about what you think you're looking for. GScholar pulls up all sorts of non-scholarly nonsense, someone should gets the trades description act people after them. Doug Weller talk 14:18, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Drmies, better? [3]. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 12:46, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Um. No, not really better, unless the first one actually mentions Olsson by name as "fiction", he doesn't just mean all the Ahmaddiya/Kersten material is "fiction". It is easy enough to source the big name scholars who have already rejected the thesis since Olsson is just recycling Holger Kersten and others. Rather than deleting the scholars who reject the thesis simply copy across sources from the Holger Kersten article. Sourcing isn't a problem here. The lack of anything new with Olsson rather than her self-promotion and run in with the local muslim gravekeepers is the only issue. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:04, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Let's do this at Talk:Suzanne_Olsson#Critical_reception. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:30, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It has never been Wikipedia's policy to allow notable subjects to whitewash their articles, to remove well-documented material or an entire well-documented page just because they don't like it. When (hypothetically) someone has managed primarily to get themselves reported repeatedly in a negative light, that can produce an article that, though negative in tone, is fully in line with Wikipedia policy. Wikipedia aims at giving a 'fair and balanced' representation of the individual from the perspective of the coverage they have received (WP:UNDUE), not based on their own self-image. Articles on the clearly non-notable should be deleted and those of marginally-notable people can be, but in saying "in no way are these people accused of being unotable for discussing fringe theories" you seem to indicate you consider yourself notable, that you have received sufficient coverage to have an article. However, if that is the case, the article must reflect that coverage, giving particular weight to the coverage that provides the notability, even if that coverage is negative. Without commenting on your entire WP:SOAPBOX, Wikipedia cares not one iota about what you happen to think "is a vital step to arriving at the truth" nor your predictions about what you personally think "will be clear" at some point in the future, all completely irrelevant. What is happening "behind the scenes that is not yet known publicly" is by definition not fodder for Wikipedia.(WP:V) This discussion is not about Speedy deletion, which is distinct from the AfD process, and previous requests for a speedy deletion of this page have been declined based on a failure to meet any of the established criteria - this AfD must take its course. (And since User:Groshnik appeared out of nowhere to make the same demand for a speedy deletion, I have to wonder. . . .) On the other hand, if on conclusion of this discussion it is determined that the subject is not notable at this time, any attempt to create a new page will be subject to speedy deletion (WP:G4) unless notability will have since been acquired by additional coverage. Agricolae (talk) 19:25, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Agricolae:: you completely misrepresent this discussion -- this is not about "me" or if I 'think' I am famous or notable, or if I rehashed an old story - a fringe topic---or if I dont like the way I am represented in the article. This is about bad Wiki editors who denegrade and misrepresent a topic and person..."in a negative light..." knowing that supporting facts are ignored-(for example, overlooking the entire Taliban War as a major contributing factor to the problems at the tomb)- done with intention and - deliberate malice- Your defense-- "this is fully in line with Wikipedia policy" is totally false. No it is is not. This has never been wikipedia policy. You have not applied the same standards of reporting to other authors and researchers connected with Roza Bal and 'Jesus in India' theories. My goodness, you all didn't even have the decency and normalcy to insert a proper link to my "dreadful self-published book." I can find no other author, self-published or not- anywhere on Wikipedia- where such an appropriate link would be missing....no matter how bad the book or the author is regarded! I have many years of records of wikipedia editing that reflects malice and bias. Enough is enough. Delete the page. Go edit some of those more 'notable' people you are always comparing me with....I'm sure they'll just love you for it. Thank you. 205.173.37.113 (talk) 21:29, 17 February 2018 (UTC) Suzanne Olsson[reply]
Except I don't think I do misrepresent it. The only non-stale objection raised in the nom is lack of notability. You say 'delete', but leave the distinct impression that you think you are notable, which would mean you think that sole rationale for deletion is untrue. There is a dissonance there. What you dispute is not that you are notable enough for there to be a page, but what the content of that page should be, an entirely different complaint and one usually addressed on Talk pages and through conflict resolution, not by deleting the page (not what AfDs or speedy deletion are for). You call for the negative press to be tempered based on an external context you think is relevant, but were one to distort the plain reading of a source text based on anything else, that runs the risk of violating WP:NOR and/or WP:SYNTH - appropriate representation of sourced material requires that the text be changed to match the sources, not that the sources be reinterpreted to match the desired text. It is indeed within Wikipedia policy to have a page with a negative tone if that is what is found in the majority of reliable, independent sources about the individual. The problem comes when someone creates too much bad press to be balanced by what little (if any) non-negative coverage they receive. And are you really complaining that Wikipedia isn't helping you advertise your book? Finally, you don't get to decide what pages I edit (and I have never compared you to anyone else, except your various sock and meat puppets). Agricolae (talk) 23:35, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
This rather suggests whatever the result here, delete or merge/mention, a sockwatch will be ongoing. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:26, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, merge-mention, or keep. I don't see any outcome that will bring an end to the problem. The Groshnik sock already said as much if it gets kept, and after the 2008 deletion the subject waited 5 years and then tried to sneak in a recreation under two different namespaces, once using a sock account. Any way it comes out, it seems, there will likely be need for sockwatch. Agricolae (talk) 23:22, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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If you look just under the first comment on this page, there´s 6 afd/mfd's in total. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 16:01, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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