User:Geo Swan/bj/dv

In May 2009 you nominated the article on Darrel J. Vandeveld for deletion.

You didn't follow the usual courtesy of leaving a heads-up on the talk page of the article creator (me) of this discussion.

Your nomination? "Textbook WP:BLP1E case. Non-notable lawyer that has only been the subject of news articles for a single event, mostly unrelated to him."

I was mystified how you could write a nomination that was so profoundly incorrect, if you had complied with WP:BEFORE. Then, when checking your contribution history for May 2009, to double-check that you really didn't bother to extend to me the usual courtesy of leaving heads-up on user talk page when you nominated articles for deletion I saw this comment, which states: "You aren't going to get me to follow this for obvious cases..."

Well, if you regarded Darrel Vandeveld as an "obvious case", one where you didn't need to actually do any research, prior making the nomination, then please look at the following references:

Mike Melia (2008-10-15). "Gitmo lawyer consulted priest on trials' fairness" (in English). SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Fox News. http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2008Oct15/0,4675,CBGuantanamoMilitaryTrials,00.html. Retrieved 2015-01. "Struggling with orders to prosecute a young detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Army Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld went online and consulted a priest for help with his concerns about the fairness of the military tribunals. Vandeveld described a crisis of conscience over the prisoners' treatment and the ethical handling of cases that led him to quit last month." 

Daniel Shulman (2010-05-31). "Is The Army Forcing Out a Gitmo Whistleblower?". Mother Jones magazine. Archived from the original on 2010-05-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20100531141856/https://motherjones.com/politics/2010/05/vandeveld-military-commissions. Retrieved 2015-08-21. 

Stacy Sullivan (2008-10-23). "Confessions of a former Guantanamo lawyer: The inside story of a military lawyer who discovered stunning injustice at the heart of the Bush administration's military commissions.". Salon magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-08-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20150821223040/http://www.salon.com/2008/10/23/vandeveld/. "Reprisal from the prosecutor’s office was swift. Vandeveld was directed to undergo a psychological evaluation. He was ordered to stay at home and prohibited from coming into his office pending his official release from military service."	This article is long; It is mainly about Vandeveld, not Mohammed Jawad It describes how his superiors forced him to undergo medical leave and a psychological assessment when he expressed moral concerns over torturing minor In my opinion Vandeveld's bosses use of forced medical leave and a forced psychological assessment, is definitely a "second event"
John Dear (2008-10-21). "The resignation of Darrel Vandeveld". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on 2015-08-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20150821223252/http://ncronline.org/blogs/road-peace/resignation-darrel-vandeveld. "I hope that more of us will invite those caught in the web of U.S. warmaking, injustice and death, to make a bold move, like Darrel Vandeveld. And from the point of all things new, embark on Jesus' nonviolent path."	This is just one of multiple article that cover yet another "event" -- the coverage of Vandeveld's dialogue with the Catholic scholar John Dear.
Lisa Thompson (2009-02-22). "Vandeveld reflects on stand he took against terror prosecutions at Guantanamo Bay". Erie Times-News. Archived from the original on 2015-08-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20150821230930/http://www.goerie.com/article/20090222/NEWS02/302229928. "At least four other prosecutors before him had stepped down because of similar concerns. Vandeveld went a step further by filing a statement with the court that garnered worldwide media attention. Vandeveld, one of Guantanamo's top prosecutors, in the statement had declared the system irretrievably broken."	Some deletionists denounce BLP articles that can't list the mundane details of an individual's life, their marraiges, children, alma mater, previous career highlights. Other deletionists denounce these details as mere "puffery". Well, this article has those details. It also contains a detailed narrative of the evolution of Vandeveld's personal morality.
This article also concentrates on one of the other events -- Vandeveld's dialogue over morality with the Catholic scholar.

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