Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tom G. Palmer

Tom G. Palmer

This article was clearly written by Tom G. Palmer himself, as is evident by visiting his website, TomGPalmer.com. While I applaud Mr. Palmer on his various achievements, including that he, "smuggled books, photocopiers, and fax machines from an office in Vienna, Austria and traveled throughout the region to hold seminars", I find him lacking notability for the encyclopedia. Further, his page violates the Wikipedia:Vanity page guideline. Alterego 15:39, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Agree with above, clearly a vanity page.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Evomutant (talk • contribs) 10:05, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, vanity cv, self promotion. Wyss 16:19, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Do Not Delete, presents useful information and links to significant articles by a significant figure in libertarian movement — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laidbacklibertarian (talk • contribs) 10:34, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Seems notable, though needs cleaning up certainly. Dunc|☺ 17:32, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Refactor or delete Sufficiently notable for some sort of page, but better nothing than something so shamelessly self-promotional --Dfranke 17:48, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Palmer's been involved with libertarianism since the movements real beginnings in the 70s. Edit maybe, but keep the bulk of the article. --Merkanleveller 17:55, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Possible Wikipedia:sockpuppet, (special:contributions/Merkanleveller) - discount vote, Dunc|☺ 18:23, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, Palmer is of minor importance in the libertarian movement, but his ego is enormous, as witness this obviously self-written panegyric. User: jriggenbach
  • Not by User:Jriggenbach (there is no user registered by that name), but by 64.81.69.94 (talk · contribs) Dunc|☺ 18:26, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

• NOTE: See vendetta campaign launched by "Stephan Kinsella" page deleted some time ago at this ___location [1], located on a site maintained by Kinsella for sole purpose of stalking Palmer (including obscene sexual comments, etc.)' — Preceding unsigned comment added by Laidbacklibertarian (talk • contribs) 10:34, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Stephan Kinsella does not maintain the Palmer Periscope webpage. He posts there, but did not create and does not maintain the website. He has used that web-page as a place to counter some of the outrageous libel against Hans-Hermann Hoppe that comes from Palmer's webpage.

• Furthermore, aforementioned "obscene sexual comments" were just comment spam which Palmer falsely portrayed as being written by Kinsella. --Dfranke

• Come on this is a campaign by Kinsella to get rid of a Wiki entry! Has the man got nothing better to do?

I find Palmer to be a figure of not enough significance to be mentioned in an encylopedia. He is not a key figure in libertarian thought. There are libertarians of much more significance than Mr. Palmer who do not have a Wikipedia entry, or who have a shorter entry than Palmer's.