Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marty Appel

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The article is an auto-biography per WP:WWA. Lacks significant coverage. Moreover it's a case of WP:COI and fails to meet WP:BLP. Doublefrog (talk) 05:34, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

• Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2015 May 5. —^{cyberbot I}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 05:46, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

• Keep. I understand that the nom is a newbie, so I can understand him not knowing how AfD works. He may want to hold back on future nominations until he has further experience participating in and following AfDs. The subject clearly meets GNG. See, e.g., [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Marty+Appel%22&num=40&safe=off&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1960%2Ccd_max%3A&tbm=nws these articles], and [https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Marty+Appel%22+site:news.google.com/newspapers&source=newspapers these], and [https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Marty+Appel%22 coverage in books here] (let alone the fact that he has written reviewed books). AfD is not for cleanup. Plus -- there is something weird about this nomination. It is one of the first edits nom ever made, ever. Epeefleche (talk) 09:03, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

::That may explain Nom's otherwise inexplicable AFD for Grant Barrett.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:25, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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• Keep - Notable author of several books about the Yankees and MLB. Clearly satisfies both the general notability guidelines per WP:GNG with significant coverage in multiple, independent, reliable sources, and apparently satisfies the specific notability for authors (criteria no. 3) per WP:AUTHOR, with multiple published reviews of his books. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 10:44, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
• Snow Keep Clearly notable. Alex (talk) 13:44, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

:*No rush, Alex. Better to use this time to rewrite and properly source this BLP article, which reads like a COI/copyvio cut-and-paste. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:33, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

• Keep. The article does have some serious conflict of interest problems however. Spanneraol (talk) 14:12, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

:* You mean because it reads like an unsourced copyright violation of cut-and-paste text from the author, publisher or agent's website? I noticed that, too. Since this is obviously going to be kept, I hope someone will start rewriting it and sourcing/footnoting it now, without waiting for the AfD discussion to close. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 14:31, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

• Keep passes GNG, even if the article does need a spring cleaning. Mellowed Fillmore (talk) 14:32, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
• Keep. Also keep tags, it needs a major revision, but clearly passes GNG.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:22, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
• Keep Passes WP:GNG. Needs rewriting, but definitely not deleting. Joseph2302 (talk) 15:25, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

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