Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shane Gericke


 * 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   no consensus.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 00:36, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Shane Gericke

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Does not appear to be notable. The only reference is to the subject's website. Rrius (talk) 20:29, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This article has been nominated for rescue. Silver  seren C 20:53, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment I have tagged this article for rescue. Silver  seren C 20:53, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I have added references to the article and included information about other books he's done. There are a number of news reviews for his books alone, so I feel that he meets WP:N and WP:AUTHOR handily. Silver  seren C 20:53, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- --Darkwind (talk) 21:20, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep I think three novels, one with multiple translations, is adequate to keep. Kdammers (talk) 09:51, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Not quite; see WP:Author. -Rrius (talk) 15:18, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR. Lots of trivial local (Chicago area) news results, but none appear to provide significant coverage of him. VernoWhitney (talk) 14:59, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Passes WP:NRVE. Tucoxn (talk) 21:39, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Click on the Google news link at the top of the AFD. They talk about the writer.   D r e a m Focus  09:53, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
 * It isn't that simple. Look at the quality of the mentions. There are several book reviews, a smattering of announcements of Chicago-area book signings, stories where he is referred to as a staff editor of the Chicago Sun-Times (in one he is clearly a witness to some event), one where he is mentioned in a story about people at the Sun-Times winning awards. That is not enough to establish notability. In fact, if you remove "sun-times" hits from the search, there are only 35 hits, essentially all being book reviews and book signing announcements in local press. In fact, only one hit is not from a Chicagoland source, a notice of a book signing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and only one is not for a book signing, a Chicago Tribune book review. Mentioning his name in reviewing his books is not a discussion of him. Notices that he is going to sign his books are clearly "the result of promotional activity" and are likewise not really discussion of him. The combined knowledge obtained from these sources is that he wrote such and such book, at least was an editor at the Sun-Times, was a contributor to American Handgunner, and wants a local shooting range. If he is so notable and he truly has had significant enough coverage to establish notability, why is that all we can glean? -Rrius (talk) 15:18, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
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