Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruce Harlick


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  10:37, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

Bruce Harlick

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WP:BLP on a dungeon master for a small company's D&D game who was also a copyeditor on two not notable books. Article is sourced to a mention in a single book of questionable RS. A standard BEFORE (JSTOR, newspapers.com, Google News, Google Books) fails to unearth additional RS other than this person's name as a byline on the products he's edited. Our BLP guidelines establish a high threshold of sourcing to protect the privacy rights of not notable individuals. Chetsford (talk) 20:15, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. YorkshireLad (talk) 21:01, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
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Delete per nom. --BonkHindrance (talk) 22:21, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

Comment I'm actually not sure about this one. He has been interviewed on Engaget, which from my perspective would normally point towards notability in spite of the pedantic view that interviews don't count towards NBIO (no rational reason why the sourced information introducing an interview shouldn't have the same status as the same information would if presented by the same publisher as a brief, freestanding article, has yet occurred to me). And the multiple mentions in Appelcline point to a storied career at Hero Games (which was not some random small company, either, but a significant contributor for this field that is the object of the nominator's special disdain). Also, he was line editor of a historically important game line - and while Chetsford may be unaware of this, line editor is an entirely different role from copy editor - and second author of multiple, clearly notable books. But WP doesn't offer much guidance about the notability of second authors or line editors, so I am agnostic about this one at the moment and will leave off from !voting until the article changes or more information is presented here. Newimpartial (talk) 13:22, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

Also note that Appelcline is regarded as a RS at the RSN; it is only the nominator who continues to insist that it is "questionable", as a minority of one. Newimpartial (talk) 13:28, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete interviews do not count towards notability. He is not notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:46, 2 March 2020 (UTC)


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