RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/John Best

John Best | Result: Deleted

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Delete

1. To me, this article seems to be a piece of social pornography. The subject does not seem to have done anything except writing to his obscure hate blog. Antagonizing non-public characters who apparently have issues does not further RW mission, nor does feeding the trolls. Precedent: RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Oliver Canby. 2001:2003:F4A4:B700:A9C6:5D42:F3B4:2D69 (talk) 14:42, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
2. I looked at the blog. It hasn't posted anything since 2017 and never got any comments or reactions on those posts either. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 01:30, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
3. I do not find the keep votes convicing, hence my vote is for deletion. Andrew5 (talk) 01:36, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
4. A complete nobody Christopher (talk) 15:51, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

   Andrew5 (talk) 23:54, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

   It's worth noting that we do have other articles on nobodies, and the part of our mission that says "to document the full range of crank ideas" makes that inevitable. Is there anything that separates this from similar cases? Plutocow (talk) 00:38, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

   We have too many articles on nobodies. As has been stated before, this is the same as Oliver Canby, which had 7-0 consensus in favor of deletion back in August. Honestly, if we were to document the full range of crank ideas then UShistoryanalyzer would have an article already. Andrew5 mobile (talk) 11:44, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

5. -Hastur! (talk) 15:50, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
6. Documenting the full range of crank ideas doesn't mean we have to document every single nobody that expresses them. Quite the opposite in fact. We should be primarily about ideas, not people. Spud (talk) 14:27, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
7. None of their blogs have been active in years, and I'm sympathetic to Spud's take on this. 𝒮𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝑒 ^talk 14:30, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Keep

1. Seems like enough of a crank to keep, though we may want to refocus it on the other blogs as per Serene. Plutocow (talk) 02:32, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
2. Bongolian (talk) 07:09, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Goat

• The blog seems not to have been updated since 2017, and a search for 'john best hating autism' returns our article first, the blog seventh. The guy has four other blogs, one of which (called HANG CONGRESS FOR TREASON) was updated as recently as 2019. 𝒮𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝑒 ^talk 23:04, 14 March 2022 (UTC)