Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joe Vitale (author)


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The result was   delete. Tone 19:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Joe Vitale (author)

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Fails WP:NOTE, lack of significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. Multiple editors have posted to the talk page, both noting the article's spam/advertising/vanity appearance, and its use of primary sources to websites that refer back to each other. I would tend to agree. Cirt (talk) 21:17, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions.  —Cirt (talk) 21:29, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  —Cirt (talk) 21:29, 21 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - The article does not make any claims that would qualify the subject as notable. Google books has 455 hits but after adding '-inauthor:"Joe Vitale"' to the search request that dropped it to three all of which are quotation books that take their material from WP. With Google Scholar using '-(author:"Joe Vitale" OR author:"J Vitale")' cut the list down from 325 to 60 and all 60 of these are authored by Joe Vitale. There's a lot of noise in Google News as Joe Vitale is a common name. After subtracting the musician, hockey player, soccer player, battalion chief, etc. I'm still at 719 hits from random people. I then added (metaphysics OR guru OR metaphysician). While the subject is mentioned in plenty of articles none of the ones I saw had significant coverage.  --Marc Kupper&#124;talk 09:15, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per Marc Kupper and nom B.Rossow talk contr 13:16, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
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