Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Adam Goldstein (author)


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The result was   keep. ( X! ·  talk )  · @178  · 03:16, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Adam Goldstein (author)

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Appears to be a biographical page for an unimportant person. Gary (talk) 01:05, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Possible Speedy Delete as attack page. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 01:47, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Change !vote to delete, pending outcome of my question below. -- Dennis The Tiger  (Rawr and stuff) 20:27, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Change !vote to Keep per discussion below. -- Dennis The Tiger  (Rawr and stuff) 22:44, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. I removed the attacks (or at least the most blatant of them) so that the article can be discussed on its actual merits. If this is kept it would seem that it needs more watchlisting to prevent similar attacks from lasting as long in future. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:09, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep Lots of coverage in reliable source . ChildofMidnight (talk) 16:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I see a lot of book reviews and miniblurbs about the author, but more content on his work. Would this follow WP:N in general?  If so, I'll change my !vote. -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 20:26, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * He's an author. So it's appropriate that he's discussed in relation to his work. His work being reported on is what establishes his notability which is normal as far as I can tell. I've seen it argued that an author should sometimes be covered in their work if it is more notable. But in a case like this where there are numerous works it seems to me to make much more sense to cover the works in the author's article and split them off down the road if they become unwieldy. ChildofMidnight (talk) 22:31, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Good enough. -- Dennis The Tiger  (Rawr and stuff) 22:44, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * He looks much more notable with the vandalism removed from his page. However, I looked up his books on Amazon and he wasn't the primary author of most of them. His name does not even appear on the front cover of Google: The Missing Manual, Mac OS X Tiger: Missing Manual, Mac OS X Power Hound, or The Internet: The Missing Manual. We should probably at least remove these books from his bibliography.
 * I also looked up the last five presidents of the APDA, and Adam Goldstein is the only one with a Wikipedia article. Gary (talk) 02:18, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
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