Wikipedia has a set of articles requested for more than a year. Many of them arguably don't meet the notability requirements for inclusion in Wikipedia. I'm currently trying to clean these out.
People requests edit
If the article requested is a person, I search on Google, scholar.google.com, books.google.com, amazon.com and possibly http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/.
If I cannot identify the person then I delete the request. I'm conservative about this - if there are questions as to their identity then I'm more likely to leave a comment on the talk page than just delete straight away.
Requested articles currently processing edit
- None in progress
Removed requests edit
- Thomm Quackenbush - Non notable web author - article on him previously deleted in Nov 2004
- Josh Altesman, requested from Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Social_Sciences_and_Philosophy. Nloth 00:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
- Stewart B. Johnson, requested from Wikipedia:Requested_articles/Culture_and_fine_arts. Nloth 00:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
Requested articles created by me edit
Also see User:Nloth