Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chei Mi Lane

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 of the debate was no consensus. W.marsh 00:29, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chei Mi Lane

• Delete The author of one non-notable book. She gets 402 Google hits, nearly all of which are e-commerce or index listings for the book. It appears that this page was created by Ms. Lane. djrobgordon 19:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I believe the subject of this article meets WP:BIO. To quote from the notability criteria: "Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more or in periodicals with a circulation of 5,000 or more." Whether this is an appropriate guideline is debatable, but until we have a consensus to change it we ought to follow it. NoIdeaNick 20:37, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. He (according to his coauthor, although some sources list Lane as transgendered) is credited as the author, and the book certainly appears to meet the notability threshold. But Lane is apparently not the author or coauthor in the traditional sense, but the primary researcher (and, probably, the drafter of significant sections of the text) [1]. Monicasdude 01:37, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep published author. Possible merge into article about the book, if one is created. Kappa 08:45, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

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.