Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noel Alumit

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Questionably notable and improvable as the best I instantly found was [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=Noel+Alumit this], [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=Noel+Alumit#q=Noel+Alumit&tbm=nws this], [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=Noel+Alumit#q=Noel+Alumit this] and [http://www.highbeam.com/Search?searchTerm=Noel+Alumit this] and this would need meaningful and convincing improvement if kept. Pinging {{U|Bearcat}}. SwisterTwister talk 17:45, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

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• Delete: as non-notable. Unsourced claims, meagre Google hit results. Quis separabit? 22:09, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
• This article definitely needs major referencing improvement over where it stands right now, but some good references are available if you dig more deeply into the search results that SwisterTwister gave above. There's a full-page entry in Emmanuel S. Nelson's Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States, for example — and it's long been a principle of Wikipedia that one good entry in an external encyclopedia can effectively count for as much toward GNG as ten lesser sources combined. But that isn't even all there is: there's also a full-page article in The Advocate about the publication of his novel Letters to Montgomery Clift. Plus he's been the winner of several notable literary awards (Stonewall Book Award, Violet Quill, Jim Duggins Award) — which helps the sourceability, because the names of those awards can be added to the search string to help distill the signal-to-noise ratio further. So the references, and the credible and WP:AUTHOR-passing claims of notability are there, and the article just needs to be revised to reflect that better. Keep; I'll personally look after sprucing it up. Bearcat (talk) 22:08, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

::Update: I've substantially updated the sourcing, so that now instead of just one source it's sitting on eleven. There are one or two other details I still need to find a source for, but eleven distinct sources is absolutely more than sufficient to satisfy WP:GNG. Bearcat (talk) 18:48, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

• Keep thanks to User:Bearcat's edits. LaMona (talk) 03:33, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep - looks to be enough to pass WP:BIO, considering the points raised by {{u|Bearcat}} and my own search. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 17:30, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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