Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Brandt (14th nomination)

This is an archive of a closed deletion discussion for the article Daniel Brandt. Please do not modify it. The result was A COMPLEX MERGE. I think I've arrived at a solution. We have a handful of conflicting interests, namely:

Brandt's activities are subjects of significant commentary, and as such should be covered in this encyclopedia.
This article causes Brandt distress, largely because of previous and potential coverage of minor things he'd rather not have discussed in public but which have been mentioned in minor self-published publications Brandt has mostly tried to bury. (I'm aware of some examples but I won't be mentioning them here out of respect for Brandt; they're strictly comparable to the urinary tract infection example given by 81.62.) The potential for vandalism is also a factor, but a lesser one; any WP article can be vandalized.
This article cannot hope to be complete, due to incomplete coverage in the sources, which largely treat him as a private figure. "Daniel Brandt, 57, of San Antonio, who makes his living as a book indexer" in NYT is a prime example.

I feel this compels us not to treat Brandt as a biography subject. What then, do we do about our first interest, completeness? We merge this info to the subjects we want to cover, then redirect this article somewhere. (I suggest NameBase, if that is sufficient for an article, otherwise Google Watch. This may merit later discussion, and Talk:Daniel Brandt would be an appropriate place to redirect it.)

This article's content will need to be merged into these articles:

NameBase (which will need to be turned into an article)
CIA HTTP cookies controversy (which will need to be turned into an article and may later be merged to another article or deleted; I'm not 100% sure it's worth an article on its own)
Google Watch (into which it seems to me Public Information Research needs to be merged as well, but this is neither here nor there)
Criticism of Wikipedia (the info on Brandt's criticism there may need to be spun off into Wikipedia Watch)

To start this, I will be merging the info on NameBase into the NameBase article, and redirecting this there (and protecting the redirect, out of respect for Brandt's wishes). We will need to keep the article history at Daniel Brandt, because of GFDL concerns. Should Brandt need old revisions of Daniel Brandt oversighted, he can use OTRS or list the specific revisions on my talk page.

Hopefully, this will serve both the needs of Wikipedia and the needs of Brandt, while allowing us to move past this wasteful, internecine fight. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 00:34, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The actual discussion is hidden from view for privacy reasons. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

See also: Wikipedia:Deletion review/Daniel Brandt 2.