Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nick Rosen (2nd nomination)

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The result was keep. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:55, 21 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nick Rosen

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Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Cliff Smith 17:41, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Cliff Smith 17:42, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This had a PROD tag on it that was contested in 2007. Rationale then was "non-notable, borderline advert", and I don't see how that's changed. Since the first AfD, no sources have been added and nothing else significant has come to light. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 13:57, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Off The Grid is notable with reviews in Seattle Times[1], LA Times[2], Christian Science Monitor[3], Newsweek[4], and Kirkus[5], and New Scientist reviewed his earlier How to Live Off-Grid[6]. Rosen is therefore notable per WP:AUTHOR. Since these are not obscure publications and were not hard to find, I have to question how much WP:BEFORE was done by the proposer. --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:22, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't think one-off newspaper reviews did much in the way of notability, that's all. Perhaps I'm just not up on things in this area; my usual areas of editing are rather far removed from this. The Blade of the Northern Lights (話して下さい) 15:25, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:AUTHOR#4: "The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." Rosen's multiple works have been the recipent of commentary and analysis in multiple sources. Even without their (yet) having articles on Wikipedia, they have established their notability, and thus his as their creator... even though he himself is "off the grid". The article needs work, yes... but not deletion. Schmidt, ^{MICHAEL Q.} 00:44, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Colapeninsula and Schmidt - subject meets WP:AUTHOR given the above sources. Gongshow ^Talk 01:04, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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