Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Lee (activist)


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The result was   Closed early as keep, per the addition of reliable sources. Hiberniantears (talk) 21:45, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Richard Lee (activist)

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This page, as well as another variant Richard Lee (advocate) has been deleted a number of times for lack of notability, most recently by me. After User:Yonskii left a note at my talk page, I dug a little deeper, and decided that this article does not warrant speedy delete afterall, but that it does merit nomination for an AfD discussion. Both this article, and the related Oaksterdam University, which I have been editing this evening to clean it up, smack of advertising, and are rather misleading in nature. Hiberniantears (talk) 00:04, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - I was all for deletion when I first saw the article - it cited no source but the so-called "university". But then I did a little research and found plenty of citations for Richard Lee. He has been mentioned in the New York Times (more than once) and on Voice of America news. His "university" has generated a ton of publicity in reliable sources including Newsweek, Business Week, and Fortune. The only problem with this article was that his notability was not properly sourced. I have now added sources, so please take another look. --MelanieN (talk) 04:18, 16 November 2009 (UTC)MelanieN
 * Keep: There also appear to be other reliable sources besides the ones already cited by MelanieN, such as here, here, here and here. I found those after only a brief search, so I'm sure there are plenty more out there that can be found with just a small effort... —  Hunter  Kahn  ( c )  07:07, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
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