RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Philip Cross

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1. Not missional CowHouse (talk) 12:43, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
2. Other than documenting some internet drama and spreading his personal information over the internet, what purpose does this article serve? ☭Comrade GC☭^{Ministry of Praise}

   This is a pseudonym, no doxing is going on and I would never do doxing. Dysklyver (talk) 12:59, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

   In that case if the article survives this AfD you might want to edit the "Outing" section to reflect that claim. In fact, a good chunk (if not all) of this article could easily be summarized as "far-left British MP George Galloway gets into fight with anonymous Wikipedia user" without losing much in the way of substance. ☭Comrade GC☭^{Ministry of Praise} 13:09, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

   Or we could just zap the article and stick that paragraph in George Galloway, there's no point having a short article. Dysklyver (talk) 14:13, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Merge/redirect

1. The conflict with George Galloway suggests a merge of some or all of the content would be possible with that article. RoninMacbeth (talk) 13:04, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
2. This site is (probably) here to document politics and conspiracy theories and other related things that occupy the imagination of people. This has occupied the time of a good few important journalists, the Russian media, Wikipedians, and the prominent English politician George Galloway. It even ended up on the BBC several times. I say it's on-topic, or I would not have written the damn thing in the first place. All that said, it's highly debatable if it needs a whole article, summary merging to George Galloway would be fine. Dysklyver (talk) 12:57, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
3. Worth merging with the Galloway article. I think the referencing here is somewhat sucky though: we should be exceptionally dubious and clear about citations of Russian media sources (e.g., Sputnik & Kremlin Post). That is not currently the case. Bongolian (talk) 18:12, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
4. The whole article is about Galloway. Merge Benn (talk) 20:52, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
5. If the person who created the page now thinks it should be merged into the George Galloway one, then it should be merged into the George Galloway one. Spud (talk) 00:21, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for all the feedback, I have summarised a short paragraph into the George Galloway article, minus all the cruft and not using the dubious Russian material. Dysklyver (talk) 09:55, 19 June 2018 (UTC)