Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Merla


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The result was Keep.  (aeropagitica)   (talk)   15:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Patrick Merla
Appears to be more notable than the ones above, but still not sufficiently notable. Delete. --Nlu (talk) 07:06, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Patrick Merla and his publications are cited to by hundreds of other publications. He himself gets ten thousand google hits.  All for him.  He was perhaps the most well-known gay person in the US for over a decade. Wjhonson 07:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


 * delete per nomination. 842 Ghits for "Patrick Merla" + writer, a majority pointing to book sites and/or concerning the book "Boys like us" (1995 book by Avon with no Amazon rank). "Tales of Patrick Merla" scores in the 4 millionth per Amazon. Subject is apparently winner of a Lambda Literary Award in 1996 for this book. Note that he was Editor of this compilation of essays, and that over 100 books win a literary award from this organisation each year. Ohconfucius 06:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep authors with books published by non-vanity presses, especially ones with multiple books. --badlydrawnjeff talk 11:03, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
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