Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leonard stegmann

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 delete. It's been open long enough and consensus is clear.--Kubigula (talk) 18:46, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Leonard stegmann

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This article should be discussed among editors and decided as to whether it meets WP:Notability standards. I have mixed feelings, but am leaning towards 'delete' because of the very small amount of Internet linking to the books written by this author. Also, the publisher of Heywood Jablomi is "Signature Imprint", which is an extremely obscure publisher as near as I can tell. Also, the author's website[1] claims a total of 43 books sold, which may be a joke, hard to tell. SaltyBoatr (talk) 16:45, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Seems to be a self-published author. Unverifiable by reliable sources. --Ryan Delaney ^talk 03:48, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

• Delete No sources, I also added dead-end tag, orphan tag, and a unreferenced tag. Ohmpandya (Talk) 23:47, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

HERE YE! HERE YE!

in regard to the notability, in fact NOBILITY, of American Humor Writer, Leonard Stegmann, it seems worth noting his contributions in the blogosphere as well. Leonard Stegmann, is one of America's first official, "blogumnists" (term coined by me, sandra kay, ttgp, fellow writer, poet, playwright on a television program, in a word, TV30.ORG, 09/19/06 #IAW0610), writing and posting entertaining columns at leonardstegmann.blogspot.com 5 DAYS A WEEK, beginning in June 2005. His comments, to comments, setting etiquette standards for current and in-coming bloggers.

and to refer to leonard stegmann LEONARD STEGMANN! as non-encyclopedic? -oh, you obviously need only spend a few moments reading his posts! he is exactly where i turn for all my knowledge of current events, popular culture, political hindsights, and new vocabulary words! he is my encyclopedia! how else would i know how much howard stern earns per show? or that larry king wears suspenders! LEONARD STEGMANN is america's LINK to the other side. CHARLIE ROSE AND LEONARD STEGMANN, what more do you need? KNOWLEDGE AND LAUGHTER.

i credit leonard stegmann, with, quite literally, saving my life. our God blessed friendship, well documented in the over 12,000 comments at leonardstegmann.blogspot.com. it would be foolish to delete a man contributing so much to the literary world, the blogosphere and humanity in general.

DO NOT DELETE! he is a living legacy in progress. a genius of a different kind.

i know

i own 43 of his books. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.120.158 (talk) 15:34, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kubigula (talk) 23:26, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

• delete After reading the plea about this "blogumnists", and now finding out he has a BLOG that he contributes to 5 days a week, I must say, it is suprising that the article only has 4 sentences. I found tons of blog entries and little else. Please feel free to point me toward the other references and change my mind. If he did all the things that the AC/IP pointed to above, where are the links? Pharmboy (talk) 00:22, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
• delete Article has zero value, zero sources, and zero notability. It was created by an account with 0 edits prior to its creation, and the long winded keep arguement was made by an IP with no edit history whatsoever. Furthermore, without sourcing, does anyone believe there is a book entitled "Heywood Jablomi" (come on 3rd grade joke) THe internet essays of 1840-1880 (or something like that). Seriously, without sourcing.LessThanClippers (talk) 00:25, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- -- pb30<talk> 02:16, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete This article is a crap. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 09:53, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Some random blog + a few microscopically-tiny-press'd books = not much notable. If they are as notable as the pleas and the blog post where this AfD was hyped upon indicate, then it would be not a problem to find the sources? Meatpuppets appear to have been summoned; now please tell them to find Reliable Sources. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 17:01, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Comment: I wouldn't expect many actual meatpuppets, as it appears only one[2] blogger actually reads the stegmann blog. And, judging from the style of writing, the four comments[3] to that Jan 1st stegmann blog entry seem like sockpuppets. SaltyBoatr (talk) 17:51, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

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