Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Zissou (jurist)


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The result was delete. Missvain (talk) 01:03, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

Steve Zissou (jurist)

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Aside from an implausible unsourced section - this guy's claim to fame is having the same name as a fictional character. Paul &#10092;talk&#10093; 21:17, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom, the controversies section is WP:OR as it stands. Geschichte (talk) 22:36, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:GNG and more specifically User:Bearian/Standards. I've never heard of him, although he was an assistant DA in Queens. It appears he was in the past a co-worker of my best friend from high school. Bearian (talk) 17:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Zissou is not a lawyer. He's a criminal masquerading as a lawyer. Any and all marketing assistance he receives, like a Wikipedia page, subjects unsuspecting clients to theft of their money followed by long periods of prison time. POSTED 12DEC20 by Howard Leventhal — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hlev3 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The only thing that is a claim to fame is he allegedly got a reference to him as a prominent lawyer, basically a free add, at the end of a film that happened to unintentionally use his name. Even if there was a full length film that was a fictionalized version of his life, that would not make him clearly notable. In this case it is a passing mention, film companies are not our standard sources for what lawyers are notable, "prominent" is not notable, and the prepondenance of evidence suggests Zissou is not "prominent". He does not meet the one somewhat useable test we have for lawyers (which has not been adopted officially, but it is better than just declaring any lawyer who spends enough on advertising notable. When a three or four paragrpah article is mentioning when the subject made a motion for a trial to be declared to have a hung jury, it is pretty clear the subject is not notable. Even being the actual DA in Queens is not going to be a sign of true notability, there are DAs or county prosecutors as is the Michigan equivalent, who are notable, such as Kym Worthy, and others go on to become notable, such as the soon to be vice president of the United States. I would not be surprised if most Queen DAs pass notability, but assistant DAs rarely do (Kym Worthy might have been notable back when she was in a position that in other states would be called assistant DA, she lead out in prosecuting Budzyn and Nevers for allegedly murdering Malice Green, this was the biggest trial in Detroit in the 1990s, and recieved coverage outside Michigan, although as a metro-Detroit resident, I have no easy sense of how much. For the record I created the article on Worthy. That was back in 2008, so she was county prosecutor for about 4 years before there was an article on her, so no one ever had to justify having an article on her before she was county prosecutor).John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:45, 21 December 2020 (UTC)


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