Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marvin Francis


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) 🌀 Locomotive207 - talk  🌀  00:02, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Marvin Francis

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Biography of a writer, not reliably sourced as having any strong claim to passing WP:AUTHOR. The notability claim being made here is that he existed, with no evidence being shown of the distinctions (awards, significant critical attention, etc.) needed to establish his significance -- and three of the four footnotes are primary sources that are not support for notability at all (a piece of his own bylined writing, profiles on the self-published websites of directly affiliated non-media organizations, etc.) -- and while the one remaining source, an academic journal article by Warren Cariou, is genuinely solid, it takes a lot more than just one acceptable source to clear the bar. Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have considerably more than just one reliable and independent source. Bearcat (talk) 19:41, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:41, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Manitoba-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:41, 29 August 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, RL0919 (talk) 22:22, 5 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Strong Keep I did a quick search on this poet and there is a ton of information proving his notability, including he and his poetry being discussed in such reliable sources as The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature and The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature. I have added some of this information along with additional citations to the article. --SouthernNights (talk) 16:50, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. Author and his work are covered in highly regarded published academic reference works. Clearly passes both WP:NAUTHOR and WP:SIGCOV.4meter4 (talk) 18:29, 12 September 2021 (UTC)


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