Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. David Lewis

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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 was Keep. Notability concern addressed. Shimeru 07:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A. David Lewis

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This article should be deleted because it is a non-notable vanity (and COI) article. Lewis wrote this article about himself, and has exaggerated his awards and accomplishments. The Day prize is the only one he won outright (and it was for a collaborative work); the Broken Frontier is a web community-based award with no official standing, and Cinescape chooses multiple winners, hence "a winner" (their usage - Lewis skips that bit). The first hit for Lewis on Google is his own company, and there is no way to verify easily that he was ever more than a student contributor to the IJOCA. He's also not an "educator" but, given his current education level (self-stated PhD student), perhaps a teaching assistant. The sources on the article are his company site and his blog, and thus fail WP:RS. MSJapan 18:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

  • delete Absolutely not an academic -- at least yet. Whether he qualifies otherwise I doubt, but cannot say for sure.DGG 08:41, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, KrakatoaKatie 02:05, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete His credentials are unconvincing. YechielMan 02:34, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Not notable as an academic, no, but his credentials are there in the comic book world. He's not wildly notable, to be sure, but I found a couple of sources and went ahead and added them to the article. His name definitely has decent prominence once you get into comicbook-specific press and web sites. Nonetheless, two of the sources I added are more mainstream, so as to be more clear about his overall notability. Mwelch 05:03, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Weak keep. borderline notability, but glossy secondary sources do cover him and his work. John Vandenberg 05:27, 1 April 2007 (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.