Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steven Callahan

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. (non-admin closure) Cerejota (talk) 01:32, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Steven Callahan

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Non-notable person, author of non-notable book. The Mark of the Beast (talk) 21:58, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep- 'Non-notable book' spent 36 weeks on NYT Best Seller list, written about the author's 76 day ordeal at sea. As author, has gone beyond WP:BLP1E. Dru of Id (talk) 22:10, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:33, 16 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:02, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Adrift: 76 Days Lost At Sea to form one article. Either one by itself might not be all that notable but together they should form a decent enough start. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 08:18, 23 August 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Keep: I would consider both the author and the book to be independently notable. The author has, at this point, done notable things outside of writing this book, sufficient to meet BLP1E (though the ordeal detailed in the book is certainly the most notable thing about him), while the book has also had enough coverage to merit its own article. I believe that, if anything, the article on the book could stand to be expanded. Buddy431 (talk) 20:05, 27 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Wifione _.......^{Leave a message} 07:48, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and Merge the book article into this article, leaving a redirect. I agree with Tokyogirl that the articles should be combined, and this Steven Callahan article is much more complete than the Adrift article, which is a mere stub. --MelanieN (talk) 02:08, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BTW suggestion to nominator: before dismissing him as "non-notable author of a non-notable book" you might have taken a look at Google News Archive, per WP:BEFORE. --MelanieN (talk) 02:13, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep There's a common dilemma when the notability of an author is due to only a single book, but he had notability before the book as a sailor & designer. Most of the material here, though, should be transferred to the article on the book. DGG ( talk ) 04:10, 5 September 2011 (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.