Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Lattin


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Waggers (talk) 15:01, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Don Lattin

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Biography probably written by someone at HarperCollins who publish the guy's work. Is he notable? &mdash; RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 05:07, 20 August 2008 (UTC) 
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.   —Optigan13 (talk) 05:42, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Proquest has 276 articles that mention him, the most substantive being book reviews. The books apear notable but their author may not be. If the article is kept it'll need work to reduce the promotional tone. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 06:10, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Rewrite If not deleted it needs a rewrite to remove the promotional tone and wikify.  Mattie TK  12:41, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete, while he talks about notable things, anyone can. Anyways, should it be kept, we ought to clean it up.  Marlith  (Talk)   16:38, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  JForget  23:22, 26 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep/Rewrite - Per and . Plenty of WP:RS/WP:V sources, notable journalist. Cirt (talk) 23:01, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete without prejudice. There may be a good article about this person, but this isn't it. Stifle (talk) 11:53, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 18:51, 2 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep, per Deletion policy "If the page can be improved, this should be solved through regular editing, rather than deletion." Article asserts notability.  Richard Pinch (talk) 19:47, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. No significant coverage in reliable sources. Fails wp:bio. -- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 02:18, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  13:48, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - Have to agree with Richard Pinch & Cirt. The article needs work but that is clearly not a reason to delete.  The author has written several notable books with a quick glance over 30 reliable sources in the EBSCO database I looked in. --Captain-tucker (talk) 14:23, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've added some references to the article that demonstrate notability as an author. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:26, 6 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.