Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rick Steeves


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The result was delete. No prejudice against restoring the earlier redirect if someone wants. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 05:44, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Rick Steeves

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Delete and redirect to Rick Steves (as was originally). Self-published travel writer with a name extremely close to another famous travel writer. No independent reliable sourcing showing notability. Green C  12:33, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Support restoration of the redirection to notable Rick Steves, I couldn't find any additional sources for cyclist Rick Steeves. Geo Swan (talk) 14:16, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Support deletion - three cites, two to his own sources and one not important, and also looks like a blog site. The only book is self-published. Just not notable. KJP1 (talk) 15:07, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect - I got nothing.  G M G  talk   17:28, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * An fully automatic redirect to a different search confuses those searching for Rick Steeves, given the overlap in content (both travel authors, both widely traveled in Europe). That's widely evident when searching on-line for "Rick Steeves". I left in the reference to the other author, because he's certainly MORE notable. However, the error itself is notable in permitting those to find the correct source. Searches for Rick Steeves will generally turn up "Rick Steeves" pages, which primarily are for the same individual: Rick SteevesRickss03 (talk) 18:40, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Rick, please read the policy on writing your own autobiography at WP:COI. Understood your concern about disambiguation. The idea of Wikipedia is not to disambiguation from every "George Bush" in the world, but only those George Bushes who have a Wikipedia article. And that is determined if they are notable or not. So we discuss if Rick Steeves is notable. If not, there is no reason to disambiguate with Rick Steves. -- Green  C  00:25, 7 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete or Redirect - I could find no reliable sources to indicate notability. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:47, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete no notability. Self-published material, and the claim of "2016 world champion at Roborally" should be ignored as trivia. power~enwiki ( π,  ν ) 19:20, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete As aboveSlatersteven (talk) 12:45, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete as above and not need to redirect.--Rusf10 (talk) 22:34, 13 December 2017 (UTC)


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