Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Jacoby

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The result was keep. - Mailer Diablo 05:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Jeff Jacoby

No claim of notability beyond receiving one award; the award itself seeming oddly non-notable with only 109 Google hits [1]. Delete per WP:BIO. Haakon 15:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. Few enough people are columnists at major newspapers that I think that alone makes him notable.–♥ «Charles A. L.» 16:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Columnists at major newspapers are generally notable. As of March 2006, the Boston Globe had a daily circulation of 379,288, which probably ranks within the top 20 in the US. For what it's worth, there are 156,000 google hits for "Jeff Jacoby" + "Boston Globe". Zagalejo 19:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Rudimentary google searching reveals that this stub is expandable. Here is evidence of why he meets the "Widely recognized entertainment personalities and opinion makers" test of WP:BIO: an issue involving him and the globe that caused a good deal of controversy during the 2000 election cycle [2] , [3] (and plenty more of these in the top pages of my google search); has made public appearances internationally [4] (blog, so not a RS to quote, but helps us know the range of reach); domestically, his columns have been picked up in publications in Denver ([5]), Texas (http://www.initiativefortexas.org/jacoby.html]), and Seattle ([6]), all of which are a fair bit outside the Boston Globe's publishing area. GRBerry 01:54, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, very well-known columnist. --badlydrawnjeff talk 10:57, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, widely-read and discussed in New England. Needs cleanup, though.Hornplease 23:17, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per the above comments. Yamaguchi先生 23:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

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