Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Sawyer (author)


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The result was   delete. Kevin (talk) 10:43, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

Robert Sawyer (author)

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Does "As a critic of advertising and consumer culture he has been quoted in a number of publications" make him notable? Polarpanda (talk) 09:43, 15 December 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 02:13, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
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 * Keep Gets in NYT . Published poet. Collect (talk) 15:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
 * weak delete Being a published poet does not mean the subject is notable. I would suggest being the winner of the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of the Unterberg Poetry Center is a better chance at claiming notability, but I have searched for articles that discuss the subject and have not found anything that will help verify the information on this page, save for the mention in The Nation. He is briefly mentioned in major publications as the auther of Kiss and Sell, but no biographical information is provided in the articles I have found, which means that these references do not provide content that helps claim notability. The subject may suffer from having a popular name, which makes it hard to do searches on him because one has to wade through articles on "Sir Robert Sawyer" and the Canadian science fiction writer, but I have not found any sufficient proof that the subject is either notable as a poet or as an expert on advertising writing. Mrathel (talk) 15:30, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Weak delete. The prize he won does not seem notable even if its issuer is. As for the New York Times article, it is actually an opinion which he wrote, conveying barely more notability than an entry in the Letters to the Editor section. --  Blanchardb - Me•MyEars•MyMouth - timed 02:59, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as not meeting the criteria at WP:AUTH. --Slashme (talk) 09:16, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
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