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Allen L. Ellison

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Proposed deletion of Allen L. Ellison

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User:TheCampaign. Thank you. MER-C 08:46, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Deletion of article on Allen L. Ellison

At User talk:MER-C, you ask why User:MER-C should not be "desysopped" (as the process is called in the bizarre language of Wikipedia).

Because you haven't given any good reason for this. (If you're suggesting that the use of the ability to delete an article that somebody else doesn't want deleted constitutes using this ability to gain advantage in a dispute, you misunderstand.)

The article you created, and whose deletion upsets you, was vapidly promotional. Sample: His vision, core philosophies and strong principles are igniting young future leaders from around the country through The Emerging Leaders Initiative, a project placed under The Center. Even taking "igniting" to mean "inspiring" and putting aside the vague words "vision" and "strong", the question of which people will in the future become leaders is merely a matter of guesswork. This kind of vaguely uplifting nonsense is typical of US political rhetoric (I'm sure it's also used by/for Ellison's rivals), but it has no place in an encyclopedia (unless within quotation marks). So even if it weren't lifted directly from this web page, and even if it were clear that Ellison merited an article here, it should go.

Its promotional tone aside, your article recycled material that is not explicitly released under an eligible copyleft license, and although it was about a living person it came with no independent sources. MER-C was entirely right to delete it; I would have done the same. -- Hoary (talk) 05:37, 10 January 2015 (UTC)