Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yuval Levin

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The result was no consensus Mangojuice^talk 16:07, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yuval Levin

• Delete. Non-notable as per WP:BIO: "...merit their own Wikipedia articles, as there is likely to be a good deal of verifiable information available about them and a good deal of public interest in them." Article creator deleted prod and unreferenced templates without comment or page alterations, and regarding WP:BIO, it is difficult to find much verifiable information or interest in this person. (528 GHits, including Wikipedia) I believe this may be WP:VAIN. —Trevyn 23:49, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep seems notable as cofounder of magazine, if not as midlevel White House staffer. NawlinWiki 23:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Interestingly, the claim that he is a cofounder is unverifiable as per the magazine's own website. —Trevyn 23:55, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. See Google hits at http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Yuval+Levin%22+site%3Agov which confirm his White House activities. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 00:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete unless more evidence of notability from reliable sources turns up. He's the author of an unremarked book on a vanity press (with a number of dubious-looking reviews on Amazon), a senior editor at a minor magazine [1], and a minor White House staffer. None of that to me pushes over him the WP:BIO line. William Pietri 01:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per William Pietri and in rebuttal to TruthbringerToronto: having a staff job somewhere in the bowels of the West Wing means nothing per se. If someday he parlays that into a gig on the Republican-rubber-chicken/conservative-thinktank/Sabbath-Gasbag-Show* circuit, then maybe. Now? No. --Calton | Talk 04:31, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

*TM Calvin Trillin.

Keep This doesn't even rise to the level of silly. He is the former head of the entire staff of the most controversial Federal Bioethics Commission in history. I myself do not think they should be that controversial, but after all the attacks on him and Kass-assuming they were even all too charitable to him-to say that he doesn't merit this entry is indefensible.-Bradford W. Short, Sept. 15, 2006

• Delete per nom.--Peta 04:42, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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