Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justin Fritz Leiber


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was DELETE as copyvio and no offer of a rewrite and a marginal debate here. No prejudice against rewriting this one, however. -Splash talk 01:49, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Justin Fritz Leiber
Copied verbatim from http://www.hfac.uh.edu/phil/leiber/vita.htm. Doesn't appear more notable than any other college professor, except for being the child of a notable author. Al 17:21, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Cleanup and Copyvio are trumped by the fact that this is a non-encyclopedic nn-bio.--Isotope23 18:42, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete copyvio, but keep rewrite if one gets written. Has published a number of books with notable publishers like Duckworth of London and Basil Blackwell of Oxford. Five of his books are available in Swedish libraries: one in six libraries, one in five and one in two (and that only includes those libraries whose holdings are traceable through the Swedish national library catalogue). According to the article one book has even been translated into Japanese. I'd say that makes him at least as notable as the average professional baseball player or musicians with two albums. Uppland 20:58, 21 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep. This article is dreadful, but aside from his academic work/writing (which at least borders on notability) he's a moderately well-known SF/fantasy writer with five mass-market-published novels to his credit.  Monicasdude 19:02, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep is not a valid option on a copyright violation. User:Zoe|(talk) 02:42, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * That wasn't the rule in July ; what's changed? Monicasdude 23:48, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * That decision is incorrect. I was not involved in that decision, but if it's a copyvio, it's a copyvio, and we can't keep it in the history.  User:Zoe|(talk) 00:01, 24 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.