Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Tooze


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The result was Delete--Anthony Bradbury"talk" 16:08, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Andy Tooze

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Non-notable poet, fails WP:BIO and WP:CREATIVE JMHamo (talk) 16:36, 31 March 2016 (UTC)


 * KEEP - He is a notable poet. He's impacted on many people's lives and has wrote and sold many of his poems or whatever you call them books. There's loads of sources and references on his page too.Thursby16 (talk) 16:38, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete - Article fails to meet any notability criteria. - Aoidh (talk) 17:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete - Article as written does not meet WP:CREATIVE for poets. The article might fare better if he was recast as an educator. None of the references talk about how great his poetry is, but a lot of them talk about his workshops and how many kids they've influenced. But I'm not even sure of that: there are a lot of non-notable people who give workshops for children and can probably dig up as many local references saying they did a workshop. It's not really a testament to notability until he gets some national notice for it. ubiquity (talk) 17:42, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Could you edit it so it say that then please?Thursby16 (talk) 18:40, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * No, because, as I said, I'm not really convinced that that makes him notable either. ubiquity (talk) 18:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:07, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:07, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  20:36, 7 April 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Omni Flames   let's talk about it  06:29, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete He does a lot of good work in schools, inspiring children, but this doesn't make him notable (if it did, thousands of teachers would also qualify). He doesn't meet WP:CREATIVE in respect of his poetry at the moment. Neiltonks (talk) 10:46, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete Sadly, no, he does not meet GNG, and does not meet WP:CREATIVE. All of the information here is heartfelt stories of him teaching children, and they are brief stories with photographs that do not say much about him. The remainder is name checks. In addition, the recognition is quite locally limited. What is entirely missing (and I could not find in my searches) are any reviews of his poetry. There may be poetry magazines that aren't easily accessible that have these, but I can't base my !vote on what may exist. LaMona (talk) 00:38, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as this clearly has no context for any notability such as WP:CREATIVE. SwisterTwister   talk  04:42, 22 April 2016 (UTC)


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