Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ron Kolm (3rd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. I'm convinced that the subject meets WP:GNG - even with my due diligence including newspapers.com and his collection being held at NYU.

Thanks everyone for participating. Unhappy with this decision? If one wishes to renominate this article with another policy-based rationale, they are able to do so. I will defer to other administrators to review it. I will not re-review my decision. Happy holidays. Missvain (talk) 02:35, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Ron Kolm
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Last AfD was no consensus. Fails WP:AUTHOR. No notable publications. No major awards LibStar (talk) 22:35, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:41, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep I'll admit that when I first looked at this article I thought it was a delete. However, when I started doing media and book searches it turned out Ron Kolm pops up everywhere. Yes, the original article was too long and full of unencyclopedic fluff (no, Wikipedia doesn't need hundreds of words covering all the bookstores he's worked at). However, his work as a writer, editor, and archivist has been well documented in various news media sources such as The New York Times along with books focused on literary criticism such as A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture, Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature: Reformed Geographies, and Up Is Up, But So Is Down New York's Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. In addition, his writings have been published in notable places such as The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Between C & D: New Writing from the Lower East Side Fiction Magazine (released by Penguin Books, a major publisher). I have extensively reworked the article to trim a lot of the fluff while also making it more encyclopedic and adding a ton of citations. As stated in Wikipedia's notability guidelines for people under creative professionals, notability can be determined by "multiple independent periodical articles" and there are definitely enough independent articles and books discussing this subject to prove notability. --SouthernNights (talk) 20:24, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 11:24, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
 * KeepRon Kolm's work is collected by The Fales Library at NYU - http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/kolm/. He has a significant number of books for sale on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ron+kolm&ref=nb_sb_noss_2 He is a principal editor of many Unbearables collections including "The Unbearables Worst Book I Ever Read," "The Unbearables Big Book Sex" and "The Unbearables From Somewhere to Nowhere."In 2013 he received an Acker Award. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kayester (talk • contribs) 17:28, 16 December 2021 (UTC) — Kayester (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


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