Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merrill Shindler

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The result was delete. Yunshui ^雲_水 10:54, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Food reviewer with no evidence of notability. Sources are all examples of his work. Nothing with anybody talking about him. Fails WP:GNG  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   21:34, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Purely local, and no evidence of even local fame. --Calton | Talk 00:10, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:22, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:22, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Radio-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:23, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 22:24, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:42 - while there might a lot written by him, there's very little about him. Bearian (talk) 18:32, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Agree with Bearian. He's prolific, but not enough written about him to make him notable. ABF992 (talk) 02:25, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep As well as writing newspaper articles and broadcasting on radio, he has also written books, including American dish : 100 recipes from ten delicious decades and El Cholo cookbook : recipes and lore from California's best-loved Mexican kitchen - and there are reviews of those books (eg in the Tampa Bay Times, Florida [1], so he might well meet WP:NAUTHOR. He has also written for the Los Angeles Magazine and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, according to articles quoting him in the Boston Globe [2] and the Newark Advocate (Newark, Ohio) [3] - the latter from a film review, so he appears to be a film critic as well. I wonder whether the nom has done WP:BEFORE, and some of the !voters don't seem to have done much research either - Florida, Massachusetts and Ohio are hardly "local" to Los Angeles. The article is a stub which does not provide a good summary of this person's achievements or evidence of his notability, but there is evidence that he is notable per WP:NAUTHOR #1 and probably #3 as well. If no one else does, I will try to add more info and sources to the article. RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:49, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I should perhaps have said above "extensive on-line searches found nothing with anybody talking about him". Please assume good faith, otherwise your arguments sound a bit ad hominem which I am sure was not intended.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   14:01, 24 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comment, Velella, and my apologies. Although I said "I wonder whether the nom has done WP:BEFORE", I do see that saying "some of the !voters don't seem to have done much research either " suggests that I was assuming that you hadn't. I didn't intend to convey that - I was really not sure from your wording (and while I do try to assume good faith, it does seem, from how they word their nominations, that some AfD nominators don't look beyond the article). It would have been clearer if I'd left out 'either'. RebeccaGreen (talk) 09:55, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Rebecca Green has located WP:RSs and this person is notable. Lightburst (talk) 03:59, 26 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The few passing references that were dug up are not enough to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:49, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - not enough evidence of notability, and stubby article - Jay (talk) 06:29, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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