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Article International Committee to Free Russell Smith listed on WP:VFD July 1 to July 7 2004, consensus was to delete. Discussion:

And it looks like I did find something else. One Google hit. - Lucky 6.9 05:33, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

  • Delete: Even if RD Smith passed muster and warranted a mention, I was living in the area where this guy was when this stuff was going on, and this movement didn't make a ripple. One Google hit? Lack of significance. Geogre 12:30, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Does that mean Marion area? Marion is described as an ultra-super-max facility, so Google is IMO far more relevant than local awareness. I see the 3-person "international" org as more reason to infer overblown claims. But for the record, this is the kind of article where Google does not prove insignificance, but rather shows that the retentionists need to take on the burden of verifying by other means. Could have sig effect w/o public visibility; it so, show us. --Jerzy(t) 17:44, 2004 Jul 1 (UTC)
    • No, it means that I was in the region and involved with capital punishment opponents and prison reform groups. This movement did not achieve local notability. Since I had already not found a reference externally, I went back to the groups that would have been most likely to have been involved at the time. I.e. there was already a failure of external verification. Since VfD is now longer and longer with bitter debates every day, I thought it best not to be so verbose. N.b. that I voted for the essential contents of the case being in an article, but one that would be more likely to be searched for. The same would be true here. If this is rose beyond a very small number of participants, then it ought to be covered in a logical heading. If, on the other hand, you have any evidence that the International Committee to Free Russell Smith is famous enough that users will be searching the database for it, I will be happy to be proven wrong. More to the point, it would have been even better if the article's author had taken the trouble of providing notability. Geogre 18:25, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Redirect to wherever the Russell D. Smith material ends up. -- Jmabel 00:17, Jul 2, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. No evidence of notability. Wile E. Heresiarch 03:41, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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