Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Cushing (poet)


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Complex / Rational 18:38, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

James Cushing (poet)

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This poet appears to be non-notable under WP:GNG, WP:NACADEMIC, and WP:NAUTHOR. His books of poetry are functionally self-published (Cahuenga Press is a cooperative owned and run by five "poet-members" that exists to publish its owners' work). No substantial reviews of his work appear to be available. I can only find one item of WP:SIGCOV, a local news story. The rest are WP:TRIVIALMENTIONS or non-independent mentions in affiliated sources (e.g. college magazine). Dclemens1971 (talk) 17:42, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Authors, Poetry,  and Radio.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:40, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  19:47, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete It's hard to be notable as a poet, but even giving some latitude I don't think this person achieves notability. He has published books of poetry but all of the ones I can find were published by Cahuenga Press of which he is one of the owners. The books aren't widely held in libraries (cf WorldCat). He is an academic but I only found two articles by him and neither had any citations. Lamona (talk) 01:36, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete. I didn't find sourcing for WP:AUTHOR or WP:GNG. Even local news doesn't appear to have much coverage of him, and we have no evidence of any kind of distinguished professorial title that might pass WP:PROF. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:48, 17 June 2024 (UTC)


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