Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve P. Taylor (writer)


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 00:07, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Steve P. Taylor (writer)

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Unsourced biography (possibly autobiography) with an unclear assertion of notability. I tried to source this with a quick Google search, but other than an Amazon profile, none of the "Steve P Taylor"s Google chooses to serve up in the first 5 pages of results appears to be the subject in question. However, the article has existed since 2006, so community input is much needed. ➲ redvers sit down next to me 13:03, 24 February 2009 (UTC) 
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. None of the subject's publications appear to be particularly notable.  Cannot find any reliable sources that discuss him.  I would say this is a clear failure of both WP:CREATIVE and WP:GNG. JulesH (talk) 16:25, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —  Aitias   // discussion 00:00, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. per nom and at least a borderline failure of WP:CREATIVE. Benea (talk) 01:23, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - His primary claim to notability seems to stem from his work with the Forum on Prisoner Education, and in that context I've found a few sources that discuss him to various degrees - this seems to be a fairly substantial Financial Times article entirely about him and contains some interesting information not included in the article currently. I also ran across a few other sources which seem to feature quotes and information from and about him. However, most of these other ones do not seem to be substantially about him, and are just using him as an expert to quote. There may well be other sources to draw on - most of these came from a Google News search for "Steve Taylor prisoner"; with most of the ones relating to this particular Steve Taylor coming from 2004-2005. ~ mazca  t 12:50, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep - he is an expert source who is quoted by major international news agencies. That establishes notablity in my books. Unionsoap (talk) 11:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. All the sources seem to only use him a as quote source, none of the sources are bout him, therefore he doesn't have non-trivial nor independant sources.YobMod 16:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


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