Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeffrey Skinner

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The result of the debate was KEEP. -Splash 00:52, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jeffrey Skinner

Non-notable. Delete Andrew pmk 02:56, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete nn. I think the standard is to have more published than a single poem. --TheMidnighters 08:29, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Keep satisfies notability as an author, article previously did not state extensive publications. --TheMidnighters 12:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete nn. the wub "?/!" 08:40, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and stubbify. He seems per google to have had more than one published (amazon's review of ISBN 1931337241 says this is "his fifth volume"), to have written at least one play that was a finalist in the Eugene O'Neil National Theater Conference, etc. I've never heard of him either, but that makes me ignorant, not him non-notable! Tonywalton  | Talk 10:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

It's hardly ignorance to not know by heart the name of every single professor in existence, but good research and justification, I've changed my vote and added more information to the article so that he actually seems worthy of an article. --TheMidnighters 12:44, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Apologies - I didn't mean "ignorant" in any pejorative sense; merely in the sense of "not knowing" (as in "I'm ignorant of the bloke next door's shoe size") Tonywalton  | Talk

• Keep per Tonywalton. -- DS1953 15:45, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as above Trollderella 18:12, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Although the four collections of his poetry are not self-published, nor published by his own press, they have very high Amazon sales rank numbers: Amazon sales ranks: Late Stars, 3,390,886; Gender Studies, #613,738; The Company of Heaven, #3,731,512; A Guide to Forgetting, #1,495,844. A sales rank number higher than 750,000 can be estimated to mean sales of less than 50 copies. My personal rule of thumb which guides my VfD voting on individuals whose claim to notability is authorship, is that they must have authored a book with an Amazon sales rank number of less than 200,000 in order to qualify as a notable author. Dpbsmith (talk) 19:29, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep seems a well-credentialled poet. Capitalistroadster 00:49, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Published (non-vanity press) poet. Rx StrangeLove 23:42, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Surely Amazon sales rank numbers aren't the end-all and be-all of author notablity? --Prosfilaes 07:23, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Reinyday

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