Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arthur Williams, American counterfeiter

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The result was keep. Cool3 (talk) 18:42, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Williams, American counterfeiter[edit]

Non-notable per WP:BIO. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 09:36, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This clearly fits within the basic criteria of WP:BIO. I really don't know what you're talking about.69.134.48.10 Alexandergreenb (talk) 18:50, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 14:08, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Book or not, it is still WP:ONEEVENT Niteshift36 (talk) 14:36, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. A book-length biography is pretty much as strong an indication of notability as you can get. And the subject appears to have made a career of conterfeiting, rather than just done it once, so I don't see how WP:ONEEVENT can apply. Phil Bridger (talk) 17:19, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. As Phil Bridger states, the subject made a career of counterfeiting. He is most famous for counterfeiting a bill that was deemed uncounterfeitable, but that is not all he is known for. (User talk:Alexandergreenb talk) 16:09, 23 June 2009. (UTC)
The basic notability criteria according to WP:Notability are as follows:

"A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of published[3] secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent,[4] and independent of the subject.[5]

If the depth of coverage is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be needed to prove notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources may not be sufficient to establish notability.[6]

Primary sources may be used to support content in an article, but they do not contribute toward proving the notability of a subject."

Arthur Williams adequately fulfills this criterion: he is the subject a book-length biography written by a third party. The depth of coverage is substantial, as it occupies the entire book. The book was published by Gotham Books, a subsidiary of Penguin. The book has been reviewed and the author interviewed on a number of radio programs, television programs, and in newspapers and magazines. I don't see how he could possibly fail to meet the criteria in that sense. Alexandergreenb (talk) 19:05, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Evidently notable. Colonel Warden (talk) 07:04, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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