Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Lee Graham (2nd nomination)


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The result was   delete. L Faraone  00:01, 23 May 2013 (UTC)

Andy Lee Graham
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Lacks notability. Promotional piece sourced by a bunch of primary sources, blogs and passing mentions. duffbeerforme (talk) 11:27, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

It's a biography of a well-known extreme travel writer. I seem to be in a Catch-22 here. If I list all the things that make him notable, I'm accused of writing a promotional piece...if I don't include enough things, he's dismissed as not being notable. Do a search on Graham on the web and you find that he's been active and has a reputation for over ten years. Surely that is notable. The Librarian at Terminus (talk) 13:50, 7 May 2013 (UTC)


 * He seems to have been discussed in this book:
 * The author Santeri Kannisto is not totally un-notable, as he has an article in both Finnish and Spanish. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 14:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
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Both Graham and his website were referenced in Yahoo Finance's recent article on 6 Cheap Places to Retire Abroad. Here's the link: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/6-cheap-places-to-retire-abroad-160709561.html The Librarian at Terminus (talk) 21:02, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. No reliable sources regarding the subject; the NYT links included don't mention the subject but their website "HoboTraveler", and only in passing. I can't read the interview mentioned above, but even assuming that it does provide significant coverage of the subject, there just aren't any other sources that do. A better case could be made for the website, and there are actually some results about it, but not enough to meet WP:N or WP:WEB yet — Frankie (talk) 19:31, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete – The web site may have had some interesting content 5 years ago, but now it is just flooded with spammy ads. No one will miss this article. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 18:27, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
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