Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Keith Akers (2nd nomination)

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 no consensus. Not much discussion here, but I can't say there is consensus either way. per WP:BIODEL, no consensus on BLP's where the subject requested deletion end in deletion Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 07:36, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keith Akers[edit]

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Procedural nomination. This was deleted in 2010 per the consensus at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Keith Akers. It has been re-created, but the subject disputes the accuracy of the material and requests deletion. St Anselm (talk) 05:24, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per Akers' request. Since there's really not any sources out there about Akers and he's very politely requested that the page be deleted, I say that we fill his request. He does seem to have a following, but it's not at such a level that keeping it would be an absolute must.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 06:14, 18 February 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:14, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BusterD (talk) 21:27, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment He is an interesting figure in animal liberation and theological circles, and I think he could be the subject of a good article. However, a quick search doesn't throw up much material in mainstream sources, and most of the article content is unsourced. Do we normally delete pages just because the subject wants it? As a writer he has established himself as a public figure, and he's widely covered in fringe literature, so I think it's legitimate to describe him and his ideas. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:24, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

He seems notable per WP:CREATIVE: a search on Google Books shows many citations of his work. He is cited in both theological discussions and discussions of vegetarianism. Examples of books citing him: Gregory E. Pence The ethics of food: a reader for the twenty-first century; Deane W. Curtin, Lisa Maree Heldke, Cooking, eating, thinking: transformative philosophies of food; ; Donna Maurer, Jeffery Sobal Eating agendas: food and nutrition as social problems; Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet; Jeffrey J. Bütz, James Tabor The Secret Legacy of Jesus. Self-help book Carol J. Adams's Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat!: An A-Z Guide to Surviving a Conflict in Diets recommends one of Akers' books to parents struggling with a vegetarian or vegan child; and one of his books is jocularly mentioned in Free the animals: the amazing true story of the Animal Liberation Front by Ingrid Newkirk and Chrissie Hynde as a sure sign of vegetarian conversion. These works also indicate his importance in the development of vegetarianism and especially vegetarianism in Christian contexts. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:54, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Google Scholar also has a lot of citations, particularly for A vegetarian sourcebook. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:56, 1 March 2012 (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) 01:34, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Though others disagree, I have no problem with a BLP subject's wishes being considered in a deletion discussion but it would be helpful to know where or to whom this challenge has been made. Is there an OTRS ticket? --Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:37, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Individual seems notable as Colapeninsula points out(above). The fact that he doesn't want the article is not relevant. Tigerboy1966 01:49, 3 March 2012 (UTC)

It's visible at this edit here.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:25, 3 March 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79[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.