Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John La Tourrette

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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 of the debate was delete.--Ezeu 18:35, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John La Tourrette

Inventor of Speedman, see above listing; no other claims to notability NawlinWiki 15:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete. Nonnotable. Helicoptor 15:23, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Speedman, reads like vanity and doesn't give any real notability outside his "invention". --Eivindt@c 09:13, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Let me refute that. John La Tourrette is famous for the hundreds of books, videos and other media. A small sample includes..

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000718VW6/sr=8-1/qid=1150884164/ref=sr_1_1/104-9786587-7481568?%5Fencoding=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0933764006/sr=1-4/qid=1150884257/ref=sr_1_4/104-9786587-7481568?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=books http://www.thespeedman.com/text/credentials.htm Please do some research before listing anymore articles in the future. --Masssiveego 10:06, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

    • Note (1) The above vote is by the author of the article in question; (2) The two Amazon listings show sales rankings of below 960,000. Still doesn't establish notability in my opinion. NawlinWiki 11:29, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Speedman. Delete, even Speedman should be deleted. Pascal.Tesson 05:38, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Note, apparently[1] amazon rankings around a million indicate that "total sales will most likely be under 40". Some notability. Pascal.Tesson 06:23, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

contact information.


Please email the http://www.thespeedman.com/ or

Telephone

   541-535-3188

FAX

   (541)-535-8038

Postal address

   6252 Dark Hollow Way
   Medford, OR  97501

Electronic mail

   General Information: info@thespeedman.com
   Sales: sales@thespeedman.com
   Customer Support: support@thespeedman.com
   Webmaster: webmaster@thespeedman.com

Doctor La Tourrette can be contacted at: docspeed@cdsnet.net

--Masssiveego 06:24, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

More research links. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_La_Tourrette http://www.masterworksinternational.com/BBarchive/messages/549.htm http://www.avlispub.com/john_la_tourrette.htm

With all due respect, how can you hope to garner support by quoting (a) the very Wikipedia article you created and is up for deletion, (b) a single post on a message board that claims to be a phone interview with the guy but is absolutely impossible to verify and (c) the promotional page of one of his publishers? Pascal.Tesson 06:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

1. It is a wikiquote not wikipedia.

2. If you wish to verify it, please contact the above email addresses.

3. It lists some reason why he is notable quote from the webpage.

"Grand Master Dr. John M. La Tourrette is recognized as the nation's leading expert on Mind Training and Speed Hitting for martial arts athletes. In addition to his hit book, Mental Training of a Warrior, he has written for Soldier of Fortune, Black Belt, Kick Illustrated, Warrior, and Inside Kung-fu magazines.

He has written 17 other books in the fields of martial arts and Sports Psychology. He has also produced 247 videos in his field.

His BA is in Secondary Education and he is a certified High School Spanish teacher. He has a Master's degree in Business Management and his Ph.D. was earned in Sports Psychology.

He attended his first Silva course in 1980 and became a certified instructor in 1985.

He has been writing world class advertising copy for his own company, Warrior Publications Inc., since 1978, when he wrote his first best selling book.

In addition to his other achievements Dr. La Tourrette is a certified Trainer of Neuro-Linguistics Programming and is a certified Huna Kumu trainer." --Masssiveego 19:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

I don't understand how your rewriting does anything to support the notability of the guy. Still fails WP:BIO. Pascal.Tesson 17:51, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
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