Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Micheal Martin Goldstone

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:18, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Micheal Martin Goldstone

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Poorly sourced article speculates on potentially living people connected to a putative homicide. A biography of a student who died while resident in student accommodation, citing a publication of the students association as the sole ref and created by a user with the same name as the student accommodation, so also delete as per Wikipedia:LOCAL. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:13, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The article claims that this person is "widely regarded" to be the source of a popular ghost story, but there's absolutely no sources that back this up. A look under various different versions of the name with and without the term of "Weir House Ghost" does not bring up anything except hits back to this article. For that matter I can't see where this ghost story is as popular as the article claims it is. I see where there's a haunted Auckland location named Weir House (not to be confused with another Weir House that seems to be in Europe), but I don't see where anyone specifically thinks that Goldstone is the cause behind it. One lone book does not supply us with enough reliable sourcing to warrant an article.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 09:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:57, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 11:58, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as non-notable and poorly sourced. Will be blocking creator after this. Daniel Case (talk) 14:36, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Tokyogirl79 (and thanks for all the research work you've done) looks at best to be a vanity article of some sort. MarnetteD | Talk 14:42, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Non-notable person supposedly turned non-notable ghost (?). --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:01, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - After some source searching, under the search terms "Micheal Martin Goldstone, Weir house ghost", "Micheal Martin Goldstone", "Micheal Goldstone" and others, not finding coverage in reliable sources whatsoever. Northamerica1000^(talk) 07:37, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:55, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Because I know the people who wrote the article. It was a joke to scare other residents in Weir house. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.195.107.39 (talk) 21:02, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Pure fiction, nothing published in Wellington newspapers in 1937 about Goldtone. NealeFamily (talk) 03:46, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Tokyogirl79. -- Joaquin008 ^(talk) 21:09, 9 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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