Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John D. Lukacs


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The result was   delete. L Faraone  01:29, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

John D. Lukacs

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Biographical article does not meet notability standards in WP:AUTHOR. However, the book Escape From Davao does meet criteria 1 of WP:BKCRIT and much of the existing text could be salvaged if the article was moved to Escape from Davao. As the move is expected to be contentious, we'd like to formalize the process at AfD. Lesser Cartographies (talk) 03:31, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

*Move/Merge: Move and merge to Escape from Davao, concentrating on the book and retaining some of the author's bio. The book seems to have sufficient independent RS reviews and media, including the already linked (in the author's article) ESPN, WWII Mag (two reviews), C-SPAN, Pittsburgh Magazine. Also available are Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ; and according the the Amazon "Editorial Reviews" : the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, and the San Angelo Standard-Times. Also Kirkus and Booklist (do either of those count?). There may be additional post-publication reviews that we are not aware of yet. Apparently there is also a (PBS?) documentary underway based on the book:. In any case, I agree with the nominator that the author himself does not meet WP:AUTHOR, but the book has enough reviews to meet WP:BKCRIT. -- Softlavender (talk) 04:41, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
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 * Move/Merge per nom. Makes perfect sense to me.  Yinta n   13:53, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. All relevant info has by now been copied to Escape from Davao so the article can go.  Yinta n   22:57, 25 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Move/Merge The author could be notable, but the only sources (aside from book reviews) are articles he's written. I'd support a straight-up Delete, too; but Merge seems less drastic. --R.S. Peale (talk) 02:39, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Based on his recent edits, and assertion that literary editors are conspiring against him on-wiki. Unless we add mention of the cabal to his article page.--R.S. Peale (talk) 01:35, 22 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. Definitely does not even approach meeting WP:AUTHOR. Vanity self-created article. I have saved all relevant citation information for Escape from Davao on a userpage, but since the author himself has already created that article (again against WP:COI rules), there is no reason to merge or re-direct the non-notable author's article to it. Softlavender (talk) 22:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. Concur with argument put forward by Softlavender above.Finnegas (talk) 20:40, 24 July 2013 (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.