Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael F. Bamberger


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The result was   speedy keep, withdrawn by nominator. I moved the page as suggested. I'd recommend Bigtimepieace promptly put in some of the good content he found. DGG (talk) 09:01, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Michael F. Bamberger

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The article makes a claim of notability, that the subject's work has appeared in anthologies of best sports writing. This means that the article cannot be deleted under CSD criterion A7. However, a quick google search actually doesn't turn up much on this person, so I'm not sure if the claim of notability is true. Danaman5 (talk) 02:55, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, it looks like there might be a conflict of interest with the article's creator.--Danaman5 (talk) 02:59, 13 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep. A little more due diligence on the part of the speedy delete requester and the AfD nom might have saved us some time. The guy has indeed written multiple books, the latter of those two having been reviewed positively by both Publisher's Weekly and The New Yorker per Amazon. He also wrote what appears to be a pretty sycophantic book about M. Night Shyamalan, though the New York Times reviewed it. Plus he clearly does write for Sports Illustrated and other sporting-type publications so he would fit well in this category. The current article text is a copyvio so I'll quickly but inadequately fix that, but aside from that I don't think we have any problem having an article about a guy who has written multiple books reviewed in multiple publications and who writes (or wrote, I'm not sure) for the most well-know sports magazine in the U.S.--Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 03:43, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I edited the article to remove the copyvio material and included cites to a couple of reviews of his books. Assuming we keep this it should probably just be moved to Michael Bamberger since he seems to go by that name sans the middle initial, but I guess we can wait on that until the AfD runs its course, or someone can go ahead and move it and make Michael F. Bamberger a redirect. --Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 04:01, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I should have looked more carefully and seen those things. At least it didn't get speedy deleted.--Danaman5 (talk) 05:18, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
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