Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Ryski

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The result was delete. - Philippe 02:29, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Ryski

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Works for a company that's so non-notable that it's been deleted twice: [1]. Non-notable businessman fails WP:BIO. He was a finalist for an award once, and he shelled out some money to pay notorious vanity press AuthorHouse to print up some copies of his book, a tome which roundly fails WP:BK. Qworty (talk) 03:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

• Delete. Fails WP:BIO - no significant coverage....--brewcrewer (yada, yada) 03:41, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable business man. Blahblah5555 (talk) 07:18, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete as non notable.--Berig (talk) 18:30, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Also, GoogleNews (all dates) gives only 4 hits[2]. Fails WP:BIO. Nsk92 (talk) 00:51, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
• Keep. 330 references to his book on Google [3]. either on-line websites, such as Amazon and Target selling his book, to news articles about the book. The book is the only book on the topic of retail traffic and customer conversion [4]. The Ernst & Young award he was a finalist for is the world's most prestigious business award [5]. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Darazon (talk • contribs) 00:24, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

300 Ghits is no indication of notability since they were gotten by a general google search and most are simply commercial links concerning where the book is being sold. In fact, these days even a sneeze gets a few hundred hits on Google. GoogleBooks is a mich better measure here and a GoogleBooks search returns just a single hit[6], to the book itself. Thus no indication that the book has been cited in other books as of now. You would have to find some independent reviews by reliable sources, per WP:RS, to show that the book is notable per WP:BK. Even if the book does manage to pass WP:BK, it does not make the author notable per WP:BIO unless sufficient in-depth independent coverage of the author himself is available from reliable sources. The only serious indicator of notability that I see so far is being a finalist for the Ernst&Young Award (although this[7] link is better here than the one you use). That is pretty good but not quite enough by itself, in the absence of other coverage. WP:BIO is fairly specific here: "The person has received a notable award or honor, or has been often nominated for them". I think if he had actually won the Ernst&Young award, that would be enough to pass WP:BIO. As things stand, unless more reliable sources talking about him specifically are produced, not quite. Nsk92 (talk) 00:49, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

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