Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Anthony Minnuto

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[edit] Notability

  1. goarticles.com and ezinearticles.com (cited as sources):
    These are online vanity presses and the 2 articles cited were written by Minnuto himself.
  2. Assertion: Minnuto has been featured in the Wall Street Journal:
    A search of the Wall Street Journal's archives dating back to 1996 for the word "Minnuto" pulls up zero hits. That search also includes other Dow Jones publications such as the Dow Jones Newswire and Barrons.[1]
  3. Assertion: Minnuto has been featured in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:
    I searched the archives of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel for "Minnuto".[2]
    I turned up zero hits. although it's unclear how far back their archives are searchable.
  4. Assertion: Minnuto has been featured in The Bergen Record
    An archive search back to 1996 turned up only 2 articles with the name "Minnuto", neither of which appear relevant to this person.[3]
  5. Assertion: Minnuto has appeared on Real Estate Radio:
    A Google search on "Real Estate Radio" turns up 547 unique hits (1 to 100,501 to 547). There are many different sites with this name and none appear notable. These 547 hits also include a lot of unrelated phrases such as "are often treated as individual private property, e.g. real estate, radio frequencies..." A search on "Real Estate Radio" + "Minnuto" on turns up copies of this article only.[4]
  6. Google search on "Anthony Minnuto":
    Search yields just 243 unique hits (1 to 100, 201 to 243). Many are to article marketing sites such as ezinearticles, etc.; such vanity press sites do not meet the requirements of the Reliable Sources Guideline.
  7. Google search on "Meta Investments LLC" (described in previous article versions as his "massive holding company"):
    13 hits
  8. Google search on "Anthony Minnuto" and "Larry King Live"[5]
    Results: 2 hits -- a copy of an earlier version of this article and Minnuto's own site

--A. B. (talk) 20:28, 1 April 2007 (UTC)