Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John D. Freyer

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The result was keep. Mr.Z-man 14:05, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Insufficient indication of notability - the article is also a borderline copyvio of this and this. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 14:43, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak Delete - Very little apparent coverage in RS. NickCT (talk) 14:51, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment. He does get a substantial article in the Observer and a significant percentage of another in the NYT. -- Hoary (talk) 06:26, 7 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep There is this, which says "His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The Sunday London Times, Art Forum, Print Magazine and NBC’ s The Today Show. His first book All My Life for Sale was optioned by Scott Free Productions and the Oscar nominated writer/director team Shari Berman and Robert Pulcini are attached to write the screenplay and direct the feature film adaptation." Along with the NYT and Guardian pieces that puts him well over the bar for good, in-depth RS. On his own website he appears to be too modest to list those sources, so it may take some digging to find them. The article needs to be updated. And the lead isn't borderline, IMO it's flat-out copyvio. It should be thrown out and completely rewritten. – Margin1522 (talk) 18:48, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep--I think this current sourcing makes it squeak by. I took care of the copyvio. Northamerica1000, is this enough votes to close the AfD? Or should we ask Mandarax to weigh in? Drmies (talk) 19:20, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment – I found another book source with information about the subject ([1]), which along with the The New York Times and The Guardian articles are all about one event, the subject's project of selling all of his possessions on Ebay. As such, thus far the sources all demonstrate notability only for one event (see WP:BLP1E), which does not support an article. Perhaps the subject can qualify for an article per WP:NACADEMICS if evidence is available to support this. Also, it appears that the subject has authored a book [2], so perhaps the subject may meet WP:AUTHOR, again, if evidence is available that supports this notion. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:53, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Are we actually reading the same article and sources? I don't see anything here that qualifies this person as notable -- at least not yet. A rather light-weight NYT article, one page in a book.. the article in the Guardian is the most substantial, but they are all about the same event/performance art piece of him selling his belongings on ebay. So he's essentially done one thing that got some attention. I'm not sold. LaMona (talk) 03:50, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per WP:BIO1E. The subject is only notable for one event. See my comment above for more context. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:48, 17 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Northamerica1000, LaMona, as per WP:AUTHOR, notability is likely to be present if "the person has created... a well-known work...that has been the subject of ...multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." In the case of authors, considering their writing of one book as a BLP1E event is not standard practice. If an author's book has attracted multiple independent book reviews, then it is likely that the author is notable. In this case, Freyer's book All My Life For Sale has attracted book reviews in Newsweek, Guardian, CityPaper, Portland Mercury, Seattle PI, apart from others. This is enough to qualify Freyer's notability on AUTHOR. Wifione ^Message 19:55, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep – (Struck my !vote above): Passes point #3 of WP:AUTHOR, per the reviews posted herein by User:Wifione. NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:35, 25 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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