Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Christgau


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The result was   keep. NW ( Talk ) 20:18, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

John Christgau

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Non-notable teacher / local basketball coacher. The man is surely a nice guy, but, unfortunately, there's nothing specially notable about him. The article was written by one single author that knows him personally, and most of the information is unsourced (and overly positive). Some "references" actually used in the article are "eyewitness accounts" and the subject's own home page. Damiens .rf 16:06, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete If he writes a few more books he might meet WP:AUTHOR, but not now. Doc Quintana (talk) 20:14, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Article is not irredeemably bad, and he does appear to be notable enough. He has an entry in Contemporary Authors, and his books have received a decent amount of coverage:, , (which devotes about three paragraphs to Spoon), , etc. Christgau has also been interviewed/discussed on NPR a couple of times: , , ,   Zagalejo^^^ 22:02, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, nuts. A significant chunk of the article seems to have been copied from the author biography here. I've stubbed it down to a list of works. I still think we should keep the article, though, since it can be re-expanded. Zagalejo^^^ 22:16, 18 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep one novel from viking press, and at least 2 of his books from university of nebraska, which is well established as an academic publisher of both academic works and popular works (not extremely popular of course). I think it can be improved. he is not primarily a self published author.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 22:57, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep on the basis of the entry in Contemporary Authors Online, which is Gale's Contemporary Authors,  a standard reliable work of reference and in my opinion sufficient proof of notability. And on the basis of his works, (which of course is why he's in CA,  4 of which were published by U. Nebraska Press, 1 by Iowa State University press, and one --the best known, his first novel, by Viking, a major commercial literary publisher, and held in over 800 WorldCat libraries. I added the infor from WorldCat, which is not an particularly difficult source to use.    DGG ( talk ) 22:16, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep because Christgau continues to write and publish books. He has just published an updated version of his book Enemies, following the release of his new book on the first Japanese American jockey.  Several of his books are included at the main branch of the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a good indication of his importance.  Sallyrob (talk) 12:03, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
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