Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/James Jordan (publicist)

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The result was nomination withdrawn (non-admin closure). --AmaryllisGardener talk 01:19, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

James Jordan (publicist)[edit]

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Completely unsourced BLP. Google books[1] and Google News archives[2] only reveal brief mentions and others with the same name. CorporateM (Talk) 23:27, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep. Actually a Google search of "james jordan" and "advertising" [3] turns up quite a bit, including an unusually detailed New York Times obit and an obit in the LA Times. So I think he does pass the threshold for notability, based on those two obits and other references to him, including a Brittanica entry and a substantial reference to him in a book on advertising.[4] Coretheapple (talk) 23:45, 9 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, CorporateM, um, this isn't a BLP. He died over ten years ago. --AmaryllisGardener talk 01:06, 10 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Withdrawn This source from the New York Times contains a clear claim to notability: "widely considered one of the premier sloganeers of Madison Avenue". Thanks to user:Coretheapple. Looks like I should have also done a regular old Google search first. Since he is deceased, BLP does not call for deletion as unsourced. CorporateM (Talk) 01:13, 10 December 2014 (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.