Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will Leathem

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. --Coredesat 06:01, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Will Leathem

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Unsourced, non-notable and possibly autobiographical. The same author also created an article about a bookstore (Prosperos Bookstore) owned by the subject, which I have speedy-tagged as spam. If deleted, please also delete W.E. Leathem‎--this was created as an identical article but I changed it to a redirect. --Finngall ^talk 19:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

• The article does claim notability, and a Google search turns up a fair amount of chatter, but a lot of it focuses around a recent book burning at his bookshop; he gets four current Google News hits for that, and News Archives have 35 mentions, including some from when he was apparently an executive assistant in the government. I'm not convinced that cuts it, especially since the book burning thing seems to have been a flash in the pan kind of situation. I don't quite think he meets WP:BIO at this time, so weak delete. Tony Fox (arf!) review? 20:02, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep, lots of info.. needs to be re-written and sources put in it. Callelinea 22:15, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment-There are lots of big claims made in the article, "political consultant with notable figures like: Robert Dole, ... John Ashcroft and Margaret Thatcher." Stuff like this really needs to be sourced. Naufana : talk 01:15, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak delete, he seems to have some local political notability as a legislative aide and campaign worker/manager at both state and federal levels, but never held a key office himself. Poetry and bookstore careers also suggest some name recognition but not real notability. Basically fails WP:BIO. --Dhartung | Talk 07:14, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 12:57, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
• delete nn promo. `'Miikka 21:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.