Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Linda Geenen


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The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:14, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Linda Geenen

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Non-notable poker dealer/blogger that has been interviewed by a magazine - however that doesn't make her notable Passportguy (talk) 13:12, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per the general notability guideline. Only one independent published work about her - GNG requires numerous. The second source in the article is a forum post about someone else. Google News has squat, normal Google search gives only the trivial mentions that the article does. Not notable. Nosleep  break my slumber 03:45, 13 May 2009 (UTC)

Linda Geenen has also dealt two World Poker Tour appearances on TV. And is the featured dealer in Howard Lederer's 'Professor' DVDs and is one of the few people in the poker world to have been photographed with Andrew Beal, the banker from Texas that played the Las Vegas Corporation and lost over 40 million dollars doing it. She was also one of the bloggers featured in the first publication of All-in Magazine's Best of Blogs and noted to be the first poker blogger on the internet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grupnesque (talk • contribs) 03:57, 13 May 2009 (UTC) — Grupnesque (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Can you provide us references to these sources? Cazort (talk) 00:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Then that makes her an accomplished individual, not a notable one. Notability is based on what sources say about the individual, not merely what an individual has done. And might I say how remarkable it is that you found this discussion in your second-ever Wikipedia edit. Nosleep break my slumber 04:07, 13 May 2009 (UTC) 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:10, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as per previously given reasons. –– Lid(Talk) 00:09, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete unless the person arguing to keep provides reliable sources to justify claims of notability, which seems unlikely as I have been unable to find any. Cazort (talk) 17:21, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Should I feel strangely about having this pointed out to me by a friend? I search Wikipedia all of the time. Is it unusual to have someone find a topic and make a comment on it? Let me proceed. Linda dealt the final table of the Ultimate Bet Aruba Classic WPT in 2005 - this post on her blog has pictures of the WPT table set-up before the event so the dealers could practice around the bubbles on the table: http://table-tango.pokerworks.com/2005/09/30/582/ and this post references the WPT in Aruba in 2003 http://table-tango.pokerworks.com/2003/10/12/ultimatewpt-trip-report/. Freddy Deeb won the 2005 event and Eric Lindgren won the 2003 event. You could verify it by watching the video.

Linda was the dealer on the first videos that Howard Lederer did for his Professor series: http://www.secretsofholdem.com/ please contact Howard for verification if needed - or buy the videos. If you notice all of the posts on her blog (http://table-tango.pokerworks.com/2003/10/24/friday-october-24-2003/)during the time the videos first came out, she carried a link to Howard's videos because she originally put (Rick Bierman the creator of the video project) in touch with Howard and she was offered a percentage of the video sales.

She also carries a section of her blog on Project City Center which has a pictograph from the ground up to approximately the middle of 2007. The link to the pictures was on Wikipedia Project City Center for some time - someone deleted it, without specifying a reason, of course. http://table-tango.pokerworks.com/category/project-city-center/

Delete if you must but Linda is a very key player in poker and its development over the years, including hands-on poker experience and dealing to and knowing all of the big name poker players. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.43 (talk) 22:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
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