Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Pruyne

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The result was delete. Dakota 04:23, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Terry Pruyne

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Was originally speedy-tagged, but since he's an author, I want to let the community decide. P.B. Pilhet / Talk 03:18, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - A quick Google search reveals no evidence that the book is notable [1], nor the author himself [2], so no evidence that this article meets any notability standards. Fails WP:V, at least. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 03:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - Your Google search spells the book title wrong. The actual title gets 27 hits; the shortened title ("Sports Nicknames") combined with the author's surname gets 196. It also doesn't fail WP:V, because it has an Amazon page with lots of info. --Masamage 03:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Ahh, hmm, that's what I get for quickly copy-pasting from the article. My mistake. Still seems to fail notability guidelines though. --AbsolutDan ^(talk) 04:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• My father was given this book as a gift, and we have it in the library of the school where I teach. Someone may want to look him up if they come across the book, so I'd leave it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.24.207.141 (talk • contribs) 03:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete 21 hits for the name? 196 with the book? Clearly non-notable. Opabinia regalis 04:25, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The book is not even close to meeting WP:BK. Also, this is a blatant copyvio of the Amazon review, actually so blatant that the copyright was copied along with the rest! Pascal.Tesson 04:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable. Also, everything but the first paragraph is a copyvio - copied directly from the amazon.com website. The Booklist review is clearly copyrighted (c) the American Library Association.[3] --Charlene 04:31, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I removed the copyvio text and added some references. What tipped the scale for me was the Booklist review's summary: "This is a specialized but comprehensive reference source for all libraries that can afford it." --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 07:51, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete The only assertion of notability I see is "authority on sports nicknames" - cool thing to be, but not so much an encyclopaedic one. GassyGuy 13:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non notable; only book scores Amazon sales rank 1,750,000; not very notable either Arnoutf 14:12, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Terry Pruyne also contributed research for the Hyperion book, The Gospel According to ESPN: Saints, Saviors & Sinners, edited by Jay Lovinger. Check this link to Mansfield Universtiy where he taught English.

http://www.mansfield.edu/news/updater/archive/02-03/up11-22.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.24.207.141 (talk • contribs) 22:06, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep His work is specialized but noteworthy. The article needs some expansion to feature its worth. Stormbay 00:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

• Keep: If you want a nickname expert, it's a good listing; if not, it's pretty random. But this site is made up of a ton of random listings. What makes this one any less worthy? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.204.204.234 (talk • contribs) 15:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
  • The argument, as stated several times above, is that WP:N makes it less worthy. 'Randomness' definitely isn't the issue. --Masamage 16:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It is always good to have a guy who knows something about nicknames. And who knows, this column he writes may someday become syndicated and then everyone will want to know about it. This is definitely a keeper.And the book may not seem notable now, but I have a feeling it could become so. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lrhowel (talk • contribs) 00:24, 25 October 2006 (UTC) — Possible single purpose account: Lrhowel (talk • contribs) has made few or no other contributions outside this topic.
• Delete nn author, below inclusion threshold. Eusebeus 13:51, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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