Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Farber

Vanity. "Self-styled" indeed. --Shibboleth 04:44, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Delete: J. Random Teacher at a high school who has designated himself a sociologist who works on "C-changes?" "Those are pearls that were his eyes/ Nothing of him that doth fade/ But doth suffer a C-change," as Shakespeare wrote (Ariel talking about coding a new cyborg of Ferdinand's father, no doubt played by Arnold). Geogre 17:38, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete, vanity page. IP scan of user verifies location in Massachusetts. Goobergunch 17:40, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Delete. --Ianb 15:51, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC), self-styled anti-vanityologist
Delete. Vanity and/or simple lack of notability. Skyler 02:15, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
Delete, but we can delete vanity pages without making fun of them, I hope. (No offense, Geogre.) Even though this article is written in the 3rd person--as if about somebody else--I always worry that we're merely seeing a newbie attempt to create a userpage or subpage, and that the person might come to read the things said about him/her on VdF. Apparently it's not uncommon to write one's userpage in the 3rd person on the German Wikipedia, for example, and German speaker might bring this custom along when trying to create a userpage here. Bishonen, who mistakenly created a subpage as an article a week ago, but fortunately nobody put it up on VdF 18:25, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Comment: In this case, I felt that I, anyway, sought to "lash the vice but not the man," as someone said. The person is an American teacher, and it seemed self-aggrandizing. I do not want to turn away potential users (indeed, a function of VfD, to me, is to ensure usable content so that people aren't turned away), but the entry set me too much on edge with its malapropism on Shakespeare. Geogre 18:47, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Whatever the intentions of the author, it is NOT a user-page - so it must go: Delete Giano 06:50, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)