Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William D. Cohan


 * 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. W.marsh 13:35, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

William D. Cohan

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Lonely page, creator also linnked to the book form several other articles, article appears to exist mainly to promote this book. Guy (Help!) 14:24, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete per db-advert Dep. Garcia ( Talk   + |  Help Desk  |  Complaints  ) 14:32, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Maybe made from single use account for advertising. Might want to look at the "brothers" article he mentioned too. Wikidan829 17:36, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete G11, tagged as such. --Whsitchy 17:45, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete as above. Note, Lazard Frères is clearly notable, if that's what Wikidan829 meant by the "brothers" article. --Dhartung | Talk 19:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - sorry folks, but notability is asserted, so can't speedy; I've removed the tag. Regardless of the source, if he is a published author, and independent media sources report on it, as is asserted, then speedy can't be used. Same with the brother's article. Please evaluate them on the basis of what the articles actually say...do the published works, and the media coverage of them, meet our notability standards? That's the test that needs to be applied here. So, from Notability (people), "The person has been the subject of published1 secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject". This person has, and it's documented in the article. Published authors are legitimate subjects for articles here.  AK Radecki  23:21, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, Per nom. -- Random Say it here! 23:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep won awards in the past, is an author and worked at Wall Street. Although, this article really needs some attention thought and especially expansion if info can be found.--JForget 00:00, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak delete unless the awards are notable. It isn't mentioned in the article what they were. Being a Notable author & woking on wall street is N,as is working there is a very important capacity. But there has to be more than said here. (an article asserting awards in any good faith way takes it out of the speedy category.) DGG 00:33, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep The entry needs to be expanded and cleaned up quite a bit, but it seems that the subject matter's publication record meets multiple notability requirements. It would be nice to know what award he won.  AlphaEta 01:59, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Following my "keep" comment above, I went and listened to the two National Public Radio interviews, and would suggest that others evaluating this AfD do so as well...in my opinion, they easily confer the notability that we require. Publisher's Weekly also reviewed the book (it wasn't a stellar review, but that's not what we require), and I've added a link for that as well. I have yet to find the awards he's won, but have seen several references to these, evidently they were for his earlier investigative reporting.  AK Radecki  02:53, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep Seems like with the reviews of his book he may just about meet WP:BIO for authors. Davewild 07:36, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep but keep an eye on the article for any potential conflict of interest style editing. Yamaguchi先生 07:18, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep and expand – I'd like to see more references, but it meets WP:BIO. Krakatoa  Katie  12:22, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


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