Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andrew Steinmetz


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The result was nomination withdrawn due to sourcing improvements. Bearcat (talk) 15:04, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Andrew Steinmetz

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WP:BLP of a writer who doesn't have the reliable source coverage needed to support it. He's been a past nominee for significant Canadian literary awards, so he'd certainly qualify for an article if it were sourced properly, but merely being an award nominee does not in and of itself exempt a writer from having to be sourced better than this: the referencing here consists of two primary sources and a Blogspot blog, and the depth of media coverage required to get him over WP:GNG just isn't out there anywhere else either. So no prejudice against recreation in the future if and when somebody can source the article better than this, but primary sources and blogs simply aren't good enough. Bearcat (talk) 14:04, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep meets WP:AUTHOR #3, for This Great Escape, which was reviewed in the Toronto Star, Literary Review of Canada, Montreal Gazette, and Publishers Weekly, and attracted comment in other publications, and WP:GNG. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:53, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid I can't just take your word for that, because when I Googled him two minutes before initiating this discussion virtually none of those claimed sources actually turned up at all — the Toronto Star was the only exception that I found, but is not enough all by itself. And because I'm the usual maintainer of our articles about both of the major literary awards that he was nominated for, he's already been on my radar as a potential article topic for years — meaning I've searched for references on him before, and found nowhere near enough to justify starting an article any of those times either. So, because your claims weren't borne out by my considerable WP:BEFORE work, I'd need you to actually show the evidence of those sources rather than just asserting their existence. Bearcat (talk) 15:18, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete: I found no significant coverage and the City of Ottawa Book Award doesn't seem significant. SL93 (talk) 01:05, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I see that better sources have now been added to the article, so I'm withdrawing this. Bearcat (talk) 15:04, 3 July 2017 (UTC)


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