Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alex Kehr (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 delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 10:38, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Alex Kehr

(Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)

Non-notable. Only indication of notability I see is almost making the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, but he didn't make the list, and the only reference I can find for him almost making it is his own tweets (not a reliable source). His FindKatrina website got a little coverage, not enough to indicate notability. Having a "top-selling" book doesn't actually mean anything (Here's an article by a guy who got an Amazon "#1 Bestseller" by selling three copies of a photo of his foot.). And his company Wander doesn't have any coverage or indication of notability. IagoQnsi (talk) 02:00, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

We will update the article further to even better meet the Wikipedia guidelines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrFancyBro (talk • contribs) 02:04, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@MrFancyBro: The issue is not how the article is written; it's just that there's nothing that sufficiently indicates Alex Kehr meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. You're welcome to try to find more evidence of notability though. -IagoQnsi (talk) 02:09, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK- we will update accordingly. We do know that the sales of the book were significantly higher than "3" like the article that you share. We will also update the article with additional notoriety points. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MrFancyBro (talk • contribs) 02:16, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Who is "we"? Guy (Help!) 08:19, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete this advertorial. The subject comprehensively fails both the general notability criteria for biographies and the alternative criteria at WP:Author. The book is self-published. It has not been reviewed in any independent publications as far as I can see. Amazon sales rankings are notoriously unreliable, as are the "customer reviews". Required reading: "Amazon sues 1,000 'fake reviewers' ", The Guardian and "How to fake a bestseller", The Times. It would need to be on something like the New York Times Bestseller List and/or to have been the subject of multiple reviews in real publications to even have a remote chance of being considered notable. I can find no coverage of the subject himself, apart from brief mentions (10 years ago, when he was presumably 14) in a couple of articles on the use of websites to find people missing in Hurricane Katrina, of which his was one of many. His company is 4 months old and has zero coverage. Incidentally, I have removed the article's external link to the book's page on Amazon. Voceditenore (talk) 11:21, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as being an attempt to promote sometihng with no inherent notability- that it claims seems temporary. _Fortuna ^{Imperatrix Mundi} 11:34, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as simply none of this suggests better for the applicable notability. SwisterTwister talk 05:35, 24 March 2016 (UTC)[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.