Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Sceurman


 * 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 in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   no consensus. Spartaz Humbug! 19:46, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Mark Sceurman

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Individual does not appear to be notable. Philafrenzy (talk) 19:23, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete and redirect to Weird NJ. The subject does not appear to meet the notability guidelines at WP:AUTHOR.  He does not meet the general notability guidelines either as a gnews search for the past year yields only 2 results. Ryan Vesey (talk) 21:48, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I am the editor who created this page. Mark Sceurman may appear to be only a minor person, But the magazine he created, Weird N.J, has been around for nearly twenty years, it's been read and enjoyed by tens of thousands of people and not just in New Jesrey. He helped document history that was never reported anywhere eles. also it led to an entire series of best-selling books detailing weirdness in other states, including Florida, Texas, Pennsylvannia and Illinois, a line of merchandise, and even a TV series on the History Channel. I beleive The fact that he took an underground newsletter and turned it into a profitable publishing empire with interset in other states gives him notability. However it's finding the sources that is the problem, very little has in fact been written on him.Vincelord (talk) 15:21, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   06:21, 2 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete and redirect per WP:AUTHOR. Concur with  Ryan Vesey. --Noleander (talk) 13:54, 2 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - joint author of Weird N.J. book, joint publisher of the Weird U.S. books (correction/insertion) and co-host of TV series. . Nothing inspiring, but "notability" is a concept intended to prevent abuse, not to assess subjects' eligibility for the Nobel Literature Prize. Perverse to have a WP article on "Weird U.S." and kick out Sceurman. Opbeith (talk) 14:12, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I was not suggesting eliminating the information about the author: rather, just moving the information to another article. When a fairly minor author is notable for only one thing, and that thing already has a WP article:  it is best for readers to combine the two articles together for "one stop shopping".  A "redirect" will remain with the author's name, so users searching for the author will find the article. --Noleander (talk) 14:31, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * That's not too unreasonable on the face of it, but it's been my experience that Redirects and Merges tend to "lose" information on the way. Opbeith (talk) 22:04, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
 * n.b. above should not be interpreted as a retrenchment from a Keep position - he's still notable as an author and deviser of the book series and television series. Opbeith (talk) 13:36, 4 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - There's coveraqe about him when covering the Wierd franchise; for example and .  Also, per WP:CREATIVE he meets point 3 as being the co-creator of a well-known collective body of work that has been reviewed in multiple reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 16:05, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
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