Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Levine (author)


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The result was   delete. slakr \ talk / 05:56, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Michael Levine (author)

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Inadequate evidence of meeting general notability guidelines for biographies. Inadequately sourced for BLP. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:40, 15 September 2014 (UTC)


 * comment based solely on the existing sources - delete. there are only two citations, one of which is a press release and therefore of no value in establishing notability. however his Address Book - How to Reach Anyone seems to have been a pretty standard go-to for the press looking for some filler. Not quite "reviews " so I am not ready to say "keep", but there seems like there might be something so I am not going to formally say "delete" yet. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  01:42, 16 September 2014 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  D u s t i *Let's talk!* 00:10, 22 September 2014 (UTC)




 * Keep - Are we judging this on the sources within the article or how we should be by using the available sources? This one clearly meets notability with a simple Google search, . Didn't waste my time looking for other sources as these two pretty much sum up what you will find. Wikipedia Article needs some MAJOR help but clearly notable. --CNMall41 (talk) 16:08, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Huffington Posts blogs are notoriously difficult to assess. This one looks to me like a blogger wishing a personal friend a happy birthday and blabbing about his birthday party, the other is a WP:PRIMARY interview where he promotes his books to a website (part of Purch) which give no indication of editorial oversight or importance. Grayfell (talk) 03:50, 30 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete - I've been keeping an eye on this article for a while, and the only WP:RS I could find was something about him putting his foot in his mouth about Michael Jackson after he died. Searching for reviews for his (supposedly seminal) book Guerrilla PR 2.0 I've found nothing but WP:SPS and vapor. The fact that he's a publicist who's also written some 'light' news articles himself is making searching very tedious and difficult, though, but I don't think there's enough out there. Grayfell (talk) 03:50, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - No significant coverage to establish notability. The sources in the article are both decidedly not RS, and no sources found to meet WP:AUTHOR. --Tgeairn (talk) 00:21, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete - I have some concerns about the subject's notability given the lack of sources. If more could be established than what can be found so far, I would not be prejudiced against recreation, but for now the notability concern suggests deletion is best.   Red Phoenix  let's talk... 00:42, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
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