Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Gerber (parodist)

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The result was keep. Barely. henrik•talk 20:49, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Gerber (parodist) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

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Non notable author. Refs comprise a student magazine paragraph, a blog, a picture of a book cover and PDF extracts from the authors' books. No evidence of any sales or any critical acclaim (good or bad) despite the article being around for several years. No notability asserted. Fails WP:AUTHOR. Looks like WP:ADVERT to me.  Velella  ^{Velella Talk}   22:17, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Below is a bunch of articles with decent coverage of him and his books. One source had "Two hundred thousand copies of Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody have been sold in United Kingdom in just three years" (Hindustan Times, 2004) and was on multiple best seller lists, eg "spent 21 weeks in the Sunday Times best-selling fiction list" (Tinniswood, 2003), "TOP-SELLERS", Daily Telegraph, 2 August 2003, "BESTSELLERS", The Australian, 2 August 2003. duffbeerforme (talk) 07:25, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sookraj, Richard (21 June 2007), "Wicked Barry mocks Harry", The Toronto Star
  • Parmiter, David (20 August 2005), "BARRY TROTTER AND THE SHAMELESS PARODY", The Courier-Mail
  • "Next hits: Barry Trotter & Bored of the Rings", Hindustan Times, 13 June 2004
  • Tinniswood, Rachael (13 September 2003), "Book reviews", Liverpool Echo
  • "FIRST there was Harry Potter, now there's Barry Trotter.", Gold Coast Bulletin, 26 July 2003
  • Steger, Jason (10 May 2003), "Review - BOOK MARKS.", The Age
  • Dempsey, Laura (30 March 2003), "THE READING LIFE; AUTHOR TROTS OUT SPOOF ON `HARRY'", Dayton Daily News
  • Schroeder, Heather Lee (21 March 2003), "BARRY TROTTER' GIVES US ONE REASON TO SMILE", The Capital Times

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:14, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep with improvement The article certainly did appear to be link spam, I have attempted to clear some of this up. It needs citations, but if it is true that he has contributed to various other sources (New Yorker and SNL are mentioned) I believe he is notable enough for a short article, approximately the current length, but not much more. Per author notability, he did receive some mainstream attention for Barry Trotter, again just barely enough for a short article. If citations are not provided for the bulk of the information, then delete. Bakkster Man (talk) 14:58, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.