Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Allen (author)

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was keep. —Xezbeth 16:26, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] David Allen (author)

Delete Reads like an ad Bloghate 04:53, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• The book (Getting Things Done) appears to be notable, so the author should be too. Abstain, while I check for sales. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:26, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. POV is listed in the table of problems that don't require deletion. David Allen deserves an article but this one badly needs some POV removed and real content added. --Beirne 12:07, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)  ; (23skidoo: After my first post I removed the POV as well as unrelated links. Chunitaku: David Allen has actually written two books. I agree that the article needs content, though. --Beirne 22:21, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)). Another update. I was close to changing my vote to Delete since the article had just one line, but decided it is useful to know something of David Allen's background. I follow the GTD program but have always wondered what David Allen's background was. The material from his business says next to nothing but I used some of the information from the Atlantic article to build up the Wikipedia entry. --Beirne 14:36, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, though it appears to have been reduced to a stub, so need expansion. But certainly notable enough. POV is not grounds for NPOV. Be bold and edit if you feel something violates NPOV. 23skidoo 16:32, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notably is subjective, and his book is notable, so not him? I don't think so. Antares33712 21:33, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Only one book. Not very valuable. It duplicates everything in the article about his book. Until new information comes, I say delete. Chunitaku 21:44, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete agree with Chunitaku. JamesBurns 00:00, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I did some more editing and added references for his two books. His bio, as scant as it is, does lend a certain context to his gospel, so I vote to keep the page. I'm not sold on the name, though. Maybe David Allen (productivity consultant) would be more accurate since he's apparently not much of a writer. (See reviews on Amazon) Dystopos 05:32, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. --ElfWord 14:52, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Book is notable, author is of interest to those who follow its methods. The "David Allen" disambiguation page [1] lists him as the author of Getting Things Done, and that's probably how most wiki-users know him; few of us are huge corporations picking out productivity consultants to hire--even though David Allen's own website emphasizes that role. betsythedevine 15:03, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Meets the writer criteria for notable inclusion (1 book, over 50,000 copies) --TNLNYC 22:29, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand... notable to me.--Poli 03:43, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

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