Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jimmy Kessler (2nd nomination)


 * 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. No arguments for deletion aside from the nominator. (non-admin closure) Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Jimmy Kessler
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 * Delete basic issues of notability have yet to be addressed. Mr. Kessler has books to publicize and sell, but that alone isn't very substantial.  His inclusion seems to be based on the notion that anything connected with the State of Texas is of extra consequence. I would respectfully disagree. Shockoegrind (talk) 20:21, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - sources not significant or independent enough to establish notability.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 22:03, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Change to Keep. Upon closer inspection, the person does seem to pass something along the lines of WP:ACADEMIC. However, I maintain that the sources aren't as great as the other voters seem to think. Only the Houston Chronicle article and the Texas Senate resolutions appear to be independent sources, and in the first the coverage isn't really significant while the second offers a resolution that's not directly about him. The rest are not independent (for example, he was on the editorial advisory board of the Handbook of Texas) and can't be used to establish notability. So the article does need more independent sources, but that's an editing issue.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 12:58, 12 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep - Texas Senate resolutions, newspaper articles, and Handbook of Texas entries are all widely accepted WP:RS and help to establish notability. I would ask the closing admin to keep in mind that the nominator has under 50 account contributions, with the majority of the edits involving changes to their own talk page and edits required to nominate this article for deletion. -- nsaum75 ¡שיחת! &lrm; 22:41, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions.  — nsaum75 ¡שיחת! &lrm; 23:08, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Notability is demonstrated by substantial coverage in secondary reliable sources. Although we're required to assume good faith, it is difficult to do so under these circumstances. A new editor should not be nominating articles for deletion within his/her first edits.-- brew crewer  (yada, yada) 23:12, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - notability demonstrated by sources, clearly meets WP:BIO/WP:GNG. I suspect that this is a bad-faith nomination. Claritas § 13:34, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a hasty nomination by a very new user with hardly any edits who seems bent on deleting this topic. At any rate, there was already an earlier AFD in 2007 and it was agreed to let the topic stand. This article is part of an informative and growing group of articles relating to Jews and Judaism in Texas (such as History of the Galveston Jewish Community, Congregation B'nai Israel, James Simon (Businessman), Henry Cohen Community House, Rosa Levin Toubin, Simon Theatre, Simon family, Joe Levin (Businessman), Alex Simon, Sam H. Toubin, Temple Freda) that taken as a whole are a valuable set of records about a topic in a key US state. This article cites adequate WP:RS to meet WP:N for the requirements to be kept. The nominator is requested to reconsider his hasty nomination of this article. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 06:45, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Notable for founding historical society, adequately sourced. Carrite (talk) 16:46, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Snow/Speedy Keep. Per all of the above keeps -- no reason to keep this open any longer.--Epeefleche (talk) 05:25, 12 July 2010 (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.