Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Roberts (reporter)

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 of the debate was CANCELLED. This debate was started by, is populated by and is being driven by a large family of socks. (Not all editors here are socks, but most of them are.) They are all blocked, and their AfD engagement is so misleading as to be useless. I'm going to revert to before the AfD tag, and editors can do what editors do. -Splash - tk 04:09, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dave Roberts (reporter)

Delete Not notable person, just because you are on TV somewhere doesn't mean you are notable! Also merge back with WPVI-TV Personalities as that is where the info came from orignally if you look at edit history! Nigel Wick 18:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Note: this seemed to be part of a bit of an ongoing edit war/attacks involving Morgan Wick (no relation), UncleFloyd, Bwithh, Ngsantia, Capsgm2002, WWACArtistand sockpuppets see deletion arguments for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WWAC-TV and Image:James_Goldman_WABC_2005.jpg on Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion/2006 May 31. Be watchful for sockpuppets! Nigel Wick 18:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

• Comment What edit war? What attacks? How does it involve this article or WWAC-TV? It's the first time I've heard of it or seen it. The Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WWAC-TV afd discussion ended several days ago with a full confession and retraction from the hoaxers (including Ngsantia and WWACArtist and maybe UncleFloyd). Anyway, I don't think Dave Roberts was ever mentioned in that discussion. I'm neutral on whether to keep or delete this article. Roberts does seem to be a real reporter though. Bwithh 19:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Keep. Roberts has been quite well-known throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey for decades. I cleaned up and corrected the information presented by the aforementioned troublesome editors, as well as expanded the biography with the external links. The information now in the article is greater than the summarized stub descriptions at WPVI-TV Personalities. Olessi 18:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Note: He is not widely known, I have never heard of him in Ohio. He is still not notable, but merging the new info back into the WPVI-TV Personalities article would work. Nigel Wick 19:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep He passes the google test. --South Philly 22:46, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and Merge per nomination. Non-notable local tv person. Sue Simmons he is not, as she has been on some national shows, appears to be one of the first African American woman televison news anchors and is on a channel with national and international distribution (according to the WNBC article). Comparing her to yet another white guy anchor who who has just been on local TV is comparing apples and oranges. Jerry Dunphy, Natalie Jacobson, Irv Weinstein (same name as my dentist), et. al along with Jim Gardner and Dave Roberts (reporter) all need to be deleted and merged into pages about their respective stations. They all may be well known in their local area but I have never heard of them, except Jerry Dunphy, but I live in the Southland. If you look at the edit history of WPVI-TV Personalities you will see that the relevant section was edited, and a good chunk of text was transfered in to the "new" article. It should be merged back. FunkyChicken! 23:04, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. He is very well-known in Philadelphia, and also his son (David Boreanaz) is a fairly well-known actor now.--Caliga10 23:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and Merge per nomination. Not notable outside of Philadelpha television viewers. UncleFloyd 23:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Philadelphia is one of the largest media markets in the U.S., anyone who appears regularly on TV is the sources of much curiousity to people. Also, rename to Dave Roberts (weatherman), since he's not a reporter. -- Mwalcoff 23:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and merge as per above. If anyone wants to know about this not notable person they can see the WPVI-TV Personalities article. Nertz 00:32, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per above. Voice of Treason 14:34, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and merge Not notable outside of a very limited area. I grew up in New Jersey as did my girlfriend and we never heard of this guy or his TV station. I'll get her to register and vote too. It isn't like this guy is Sam Champion or anything close. The Matt Feldman Experience! 15:17, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and Delete not notable minor market TV cruft not worthy of his own page. Just because his son is famous doesn't make this guy famous. TVXPert 03:30, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. ShigeruNomi 06:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.