Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Bowen (writer)

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 keep (non-admin). Gary King (talk) 20:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Bowen (writer)

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Disputed prod. Article currently holds next to no claim of notability; probably strongest claim is climbing Kilimanjaro, which isn't very notable. I considered speedying before prodding, in the hope it would be improved. It seems from the talk page that the article creator is confident others can improve it, but seems reluctant to do so themselves, so here we are. Dweller (talk) 20:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I can't imagine how you inferred such confidence from "The article certainly deserves more consideration than to disappear on a ProD," especially in light of my other remarks surrounding it.
--Jerzy•t 22:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

• Keep. Appears notable based on his two published books on one of the hottest topics around. I'll offer at least a G-test, and see if i can figure out how to do Amazon tests on the books. Climbing K'jaro is not notable, unless you are a PhD physicist who does it in order (i infer) to make his scientific and social assessment on global warming more concrete, charismatic, etc. by going to where a set of glaciers is particularly dramatically deteriorating. (IIRC, Kenya has at least investigated the prospect of plastic coverings, anticipating complete disappearance, soon, in the absence of intervention.) He also gets interviewed on public radio; i'll try to confirm my conjecture that it was 25-50 minutes with Terry Gross.
  --Jerzy•t 22:03, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  

• Here's a Fresh Air link. Zagalejo^^^ 01:32, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Thank you; i see it was a tad over 20 minutes. And i think if anyone suggests she does puff pieces, we'll be able to establish her journalistic chops.
    --Jerzy•t 05:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
    

• Keep Thin Ice seems to have received a good deal of attention. Zagalejo^^^ 01:30, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
  • IMO Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Creative professionals (3rd point, and c under 4th point) establishes notability, in light of that work having "popular[ity]" of "#50 in ... Mountain Climbing [and #51 in ... Meteorology"], two years after publication, and Censoring Science (on James Hansen, who came on Fresh Air with Bowen following the book's release) being #17 in both Meteorology & Public Policy, about 7 weeks after release. (I've omitted their still higher ranks in the category "... Rivers", out of fear that that presumably tangential category has something odd (like obscurity?) about it, that could make scores within it misleading.)
    --Jerzy•t 05:43, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
    

If the article could be improved with these RS notability assertions, it'd be wonderful. --Dweller (talk) 14:37, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

• WP:RS
  --Jerzy•t 22:08, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
  

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