Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Caruba


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. 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.

The result was delete. This is a close case, as there should be (and often is) an encyclopedic home for persons who are notable through their sheer eccentricity. However, the key word there is notable, and there is a consensus here that this subject is not. I will gladly refund the article to draft or userspace if someone thinks that they can find more convincing evidence of general notability. bd2412 T 01:59, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Alan Caruba

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Contested PROD. Fails WP:AUTHOR. His books and other works are not notable and not much has been written about him either. Yes there are some references, but most are either to Caruba's own work (and thus are not independent) or are dead links. I listed a few currently unused sources to the article's talkpage, but even with those I do not think there is enough for WP:GNG. Yilloslime (talk) 04:25, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey -related deletion discussions.  We Are All  Here   talk  04:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  We Are All  Here   talk  04:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Here's a profile from the Washington Post, Paula Span, December 28, 1993 America's Snooze Alert; The Man Who Sniffs Out the Bogus and Boring. Here's a 5 August 1989 profile in the Montreal Gazette, credited to The Canadian Press, There's never a dull moment for the guru of boredom. [[Anchorage Daily News, 22 September 1986, Nancy Montgomery  Bored Stiff]. Another by  Tanya Barrientos, in the Philadelphia Inquirer 13 July 1995 HE'S THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BORED: NOW, ALAN CARUBA IS SHOWING HIS SERIOUS SIDE.  Believe it or not, there are many more, similar long profiles of this man I have never heard of until a few minutes ago.  I have been doing AfD on authors for a couple of years now, and I've never seen anything like it.  I have the advantage of access to Proquest News Archive searches, and all I did was key his name in.  It would not be hard to write a good page on this man.  I haven't even tried keying in the titles of his books, but with all of this inthe firet few hits in a search, I wouldn't be surprised it they were reviewed.  Nom ran into two of our endemic problem:  1. we have a great many paltry articles on notable people and topics.  and 2.) many editors fail to realize that google and other search engines suffer from recentism and are not an effective way to check subject form ancient periods, like the 1990s.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:29, 10 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. almost all the books are self published. The newspaper articles seems clear examples of indiscriminate coverage. Articleson people who have  done a little bit of a number of things tend to leave me with the impression of lack of notability. DGG ( talk ) 05:34, 16 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Here: is an open-source link to the Washington Post profile I mentioned above.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:06, 16 April 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spartaz Humbug! 15:59, 18 April 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * I rewrote the lede and improved and sourced the first two paragraphs of the "Career" subhead. He was undoubtedly an eccentric who published a series of odd books that an obit  pegs as "polemics," but he was also something of an figure on the national scene in the 1980s an 90s for his extremely popular spoofs.  Long profiles of him ran in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and other papers.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:08, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Szzuk (talk) 12:04, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: does not meet WP:AUTHOR and does not meet WP:NFRINGE either. Coverage is in passing or incidental. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:51, 26 April 2018 (UTC)


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