Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan J. Steinberg


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:21, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Alan J. Steinberg

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I started to clean up this article, but then I realized that this person likely doesn't meet WP:BIO notability guidelines. In fact, I couldn't find any coverage about Steinberg that wasn't a press release. I don't think Regional Administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency is a sufficiently important position to establish notability outright in the absence of independent coverage to justify this article's inclusion. Currently, Steinberg is a columnist for newjerseynewsroom.com where his bio, incidentally, is either a rip-off of his Wikipedia page or the source of a copyright violation on Wikipedia. TabASlotB (talk) 22:49, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  -- Jclemens-public (talk) 01:34, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree that this person would probably fail in WP:BIO or WP:POLITICIAN. I also agree that there is plagiarism at work one way or another, unless the person himself created both.Wolfstorm000 (talk) 06:02, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable. The closest thing to notability I could find in a search was an award from a local chapter of the Sierra Club, and a few press releases. That's all the article provides also, and it does not amount to "significant coverage by independent reliable sources". --MelanieN (talk) 05:12, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
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