Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Meltzer (author)

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The result was delete. Tone 20:14, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

David Meltzer (author)

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WP:BLP of a writer, whose notability claims are not reliably sourced. As always, neither being CEO of a company nor writing books constitute automatic inclusion freebies for every CEO or every writer -- for either endeavour, the notability test is the depth of reliable source coverage the person has or has not received in media. But the references here are not notability-supporting media coverage: five of the eight are primary sources (self-written contributor or staff profiles on the websites of his own employers, his books metaverifying their own existence in online bookstores, etc.), two of the remaining three are podcasts, and the only one that's actually a genuinely reliable source is just a short blurb in a listicle which quotes him speaking about himself rather than being written about in the third person. None of this is substantive reliable source coverage about him for the purposes of getting him over a notability criterion, but nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to show any substantive reliable source coverage about him. Bearcat (talk) 13:01, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 13:01, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 13:01, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete - G5, likely sock of Abhishek4889 per Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Siddiqsazzad001. Not deleting myself while the appeal is open. MER-C 16:23, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ohio-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 18:21, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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