Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Farrah Gray

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 keep. Easily meets Wikipedia's notability standards. Turnstep 14:46, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Farrah Gray

contested prod, so bringing it to AfD for review. Orig prod notes this seems like a vanity page and/or self-promotion by the book author; non-notable. However, business success, authorship and coverage from NPR add substance to potential notability [1] Eusebeus 08:53, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete the guy has a real talent for self-publicity, and massive chutzpah, but thus far appears only to have published one book, with a pretty minor lifestyle press. May well become notable in future, but I'd say not yet. Just zis Guy you know? 10:00, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, notable as author. With an Amazon sales rank of 15,000, that book has got to have sold 5000 copies. Mangojuice 12:28, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep, bad faith nomination. Eusebeus is systematically bringing disputed prods to AfD without regard to merits of dispute. Monicasdude 13:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• What? How is that a bad faith nomination? Prod is only good for uncontested deletion, contested ones should be brought here. Mangojuice 22:12, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Because he's simply going through the contribution list of several editors, myself include, who have been actively reviewing and challenging prods, and bringing the articles to AfD without regard to the merits of the dispute. In some cases, it appears that he hasn't even read the reasons for deprodding. He's said that his standard is whether the original prod makes a "prima facie case," indicating that the other side of the argument is irrelevant to his decision. ANd I think that can fairly be characterized as bad faith, or disruption, or WP:POINT, or whatever. It's indiscriminate action, no more appropriate than me nominating for deletion every article created in a particular one-hour period. The fact that some might deserve deletion doesn't make his indiscriminate actions appropriate. Monicasdude 22:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep, but needs some serious cleanup to remove irrelevant gunk. -- Hirudo 15:31, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, Gray has been featured in hundreds of print, magazine, radio and television venues such as: ABC World News with Peter Jennings, Good Morning America, The Montel Williams Show, Life & Style, Tavis Smiley Late Night on PBS, Good Day LA, CNBC, BET, NBC, FOX, CBS, NPR, The Tom Joyner Show, ABC Radio, Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Radio One, XM Satellite Radio, Ebony Magazine, Essence, Readers Digest English 2 Go, Gospel Truth, NV Magazine, MBE, Folio, Las Vegas Review Journal, Wall Street Journal, Atlanta Voice, Dallas Morning News, Sacramento Bee and Montreal Gazette. Gray’s biography is recognized in the 2005 Marquis "Who's Who in America". LFerrell 15:51, 25 April 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.