Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David A. Cherry

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 per sourcing improvements. It's a bit early dating from when the listing was completed, but I can't see any way the overwhelming consensus could change in the next day or so. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:34, 28 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

David A. Cherry[edit]

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Delete. Fails WP:BLP and WP:N, with a distinct lack of non-trivial coverage from reliable third party publications. JBsupreme (talk) ✄ ✄ ✄ 15:30, 18 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per lack of reliable, independent coverage. Most of the hits I found for "David Cherry" were for a history professor who writes books about Roman law, and this guy has more of a claim to notability than the comic book artist. Similarly, "David A. Cherry" mostly returns material on a prominent neurosurgeon. You'd think that, with the web's fixation on pop culture, a comic book artist would get as many or more hits than a history professor or a neurosurgeon if he was at all notable. Reyk _YO! 00:23, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 10:21, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Being artist guest of honor at a Worldcon seems adequate notability, limited to at most one person per year since there have been Worldcons, making the count approximately 70. Being nominated for the Hugo Award 8 11 times seems also to be adequate evidence of notability, per WP:ANYBIO#1. (Sources for facts in the article would be helpful, however.) — Arthur Rubin (talk) 22:51, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, per Arthur Rubin, who I see is doing good work adding sources. Artw (talk) 23:35, 22 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Has won notable awards, proving he is notable. Dream Focus 02:08, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per arthur rubin. book is from donning, a small but significant specialty publisher of sf/fantasy work.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. A major name in SF/fantasy book cover illustration, with adequate markers of notability in our article. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:57, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
WP:ANYBIO #1 is tailored to this, as Arthur Rubin pointed out. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 10:09, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per above Keepers. BOZ (talk) 13:44, 23 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep as a winner of 8 Chesley Awards, the highest artist award for speculative fiction artists (even higher than the Hugo, IMHO). ···日本穣^? · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WikiProject Japan! 04:45, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:00, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep Seems to be a WP:HEY since no one has !voted to delete since the Hugo Award bit was sourced. Jclemens (talk) 19:24, 24 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep - per all the above; I'd close it myself as an obvious WP:SNOW, if Twinkle had that tool. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:45, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep - Looking at the article as it existed when it was originally nominated for deletion makes me wonder if the nominator actually read the article as his claim of non-notability seems spurious at best. At that point, at most it should have had inline references requested. At the time, article noted that he was a Worldcon Guest of Honor, a multiple Hugo nominee, and a former president of ASFA.Shsilver (talk) 11:52, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep Perhaps the nominator confused a different person of the same name? htom (talk) 21:49, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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.