Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Andy Lee Graham

Andy Lee Graham

Many more references added about extreme "Adventure Travel" and "Travel Writer", I can add another 100-200 if you want. I have not allowed people to interview me, therefore they normally just write about me as the source, the known expert, sage, etc, more or less the travelers consider me the old time expert, not something new to write about. I do not self-promote by doing interviews, but I have been traveling for 14 year, this means that google.com has put a lot of the first stuff in supplemental and not easy to find. Andy Lee Graham (talk) 10:43, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Subject appears to fail WP:GNG. A Google search brings up nothing of note on the subject. Article is an autobiography. PROD was declined by an IP that is likely the author. Safiel (talk) 01:06, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete There are 16 references on the page. 7 to the subjects website. 9 do not mention the subject. Notability not established. Given that someone has spent some time putting this together I'm guessing that the reliable sources aren't out there. Happy to be proved wrong, as always. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 01:25, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Commment by article creator I went and fixed, and your group deleted, if you allow me to add, as it say, I will complete as needed. Andy Lee Graham (talk) 01:36, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Fails GNG. Self-sourced and pretty clearly promotional in intent. None of the best 4 links in the footnotes (National Geographic, NY Times, Forbes, Guardian) seem to have hits for the word "Graham." Not seeing anything in a cursory Google search. Carrite (talk) 01:58, 16 January 2012 (UTC) Last edit: Carrite (talk) 02:01, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by article creator I put up more references, and fixed, and they delete them.

Read the sites I am listed on, and try to understand what it means to nomadically travel for 13 year. I put: | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Andy the HoboTraveler.com

IYou are searching for Andy Graham, and if you look at the page, it as for a second name. I have always called myself Andy the HoboTraveler.com in my last 6000 post. I have refused interviews, and only in the last year have my photo on the net. While the promoters "Travel Blogger" who have not went to Iraq, Haiti, or 90 countries, but twitter are consider notable.

I am the longesst running travelogue blogger on the planet 2003 until now, 6000 plus post, and 2000 photo. I am the longest running perpetual traveler on the planet, starting in 2003, and to put on the links coming to the pages seem silly until there is a page.

NatGeo TV will interview me shortly, and if you look at the list my Blog is listed on, they all have editors. NatGeo, Forbes.com, About.com Frommers Budget Travel.

It appears that writing about travel is important, but real extreme travel is not. I have done both, I have done the extreme travel and also written about it, my mistake is not wanting "Travel Writers" writing about me, because they fudge the fact and want to romantisize the truth. I am in the Dominican Republic right now, before I go to Nigeria and travel by land to South Africa. The travel blogger, such as Gary Arnt are in the USA, while I am a real traveler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Arndt

Note, the list of pages where I am listed as "Top Travel Blogger," alone should make you aware who I am in the world of travel blogger, I am the top, number one. Using a google.com search is not a the way to research, when I give you the references.

I was at the Wikipedia.org convention in Frankfurt, when invited by the Harvard group of Bloggers.

I see you have a problem with me submitting, whether real or not real does not appear to be the fact finding mission, please allow me to expand.

And, if nothing else, then please delete "Twitter" experts from your list of Travel Bloggers, or include real traveler like me who are not self promoters, we only want to be associate with factual sites like Wikepedia.org. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Arndt

By the way, you guys need to include Gregory Hubbs from Transitions abroad, you deleted him, you did the same, he is by far even more prominent than me. Thanks for leaving Johnny Jet, another friend of mine who is an old timer like me. Andy Lee Graham (talk) 01:46, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]