Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ken Sunshine (2nd nomination)


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The result was   keep.  MBisanz  talk 04:20, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Ken Sunshine
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Promotional article on publicist. Fails WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO, relies mainly on college/self-published articles totally insufficient for a BLP. Coretheapple (talk) 17:33, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable person. Article appears to be primarily written for publicity purposes. BenLinus1214 (talk) 19:13, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep I am relatively bad at finding sources as i am new to Wikipedia, but from what i found below using Google News/Google Books is that he seems to be regarded as one of the best Hollywood public relations agents. He has a wide range of top celebrities as his clients and was even a Mayor of New York's chief of staff for 7 years (although i am Australian so i do not know how important that is). Also appointed to the "prestigious" Met's board of trustees by Mayor de Blasio according to what i found. I think there might be stuff to build an article out of here.
 * http://gawker.com/274443/ken-sunshine-would-never-have-paris-hilton
 * http://deadline.com/2013/06/sunshine-sachs-principals-ken-sunshine-shawn-sachs-start-production-shingle-for-film-tv-digital-531543/
 * http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Who-is-Ken-Sunshine.html
 * http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2009/01/27/meet-ken-sunshine-john-thains-spin-doctor/
 * http://pagesix.com/2014/09/13/ken-sunshine-joins-the-mets-board-of-trustees/
 * GuzzyG (talk) 19:42, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Keep What a great name for a PR guy. I don't think it's publicity for the firm. He would probably prefer not having a Wikipedia article. But he's clearly at the top of his profession, and at least a couple of the sources are reliable. Surely others can be found. – Margin1522 (talk) 19:24, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica1000 18:23, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Weak keep He mainly gets mentions in articles about others, but there are some reasonable sources here - none as strong as would be ideal (e.g. no in-depth article about him), but he is probably notable. Maybe time will tell. LaMona (talk) 17:25, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
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