Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark Moran (writer)

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The result was Keep. Michig (talk) 07:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Moran (writer)

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A biography teased out of a single book review and a primary source reference to the subject's own publication. No evidence of importance. Guy (Help!) 08:03, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete. We require multiple sources. The NYT coverage is a good start, but what else is there? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:13, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Keep.

"We require multiple sources. The NYT coverage is a good start, but what else is there?"

Well, a bunch of stuff:

Peter Genovese "Midgetville, two cemeteries, one asylum and the Death Burger: Weird N.J. hits the road". NJ.com[1] 10/27/14 (the web site for The Star-Ledger and multiple other NJ newspapers).
Jim Beckerman "Garden State Gothic: What the Department of Tourism Doesn't Want to Show You, These Guys Will" The Record. Bergen County, NJ 01 Nov 1997 p y01. (1054 words)
Dan Day "New Jersey weirdness sells abnormally well" "The Sunday Patriot - News". Harrisburg, Pa. 15 Feb 2004: J01 (An AP Story of 800+ words that ran in multiple newspapers in both the US and Canada.)
Libby Copeland. "Weird N.J., Celebrating The Odd State of Mind; Twice a Year, the Magazine Uncovers Something Uncanny Around the Corner" Washington Post 30 June 2004. C01. Word count: 2057
Elaine D'Aurizio. "Wizards of weird ; Magazine's editors expand a Jersey original into a nationwide quest" The Record. Bergen County, N.J. 03 Oct 2004: F01. 1534 words.
Marshall McKnight. "A Bizarro Business Goes Nationwide". NJBIZ. 17.39 (Sep 27, 2004) p. 18.

Clearly meets WP:AUTHOR #3 3.The person...played a major role in co-creating, a significant...collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the subject of...multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." --Samuel J. Howard (talk) 18:15, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Samuel J. Howard is correct. And there are plenty more sources where those came from.--Arxiloxos (talk) 19:49, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep The sources in the article and those listed above all establish notability. Alansohn (talk) 02:33, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and merge with Weird N.J.. 99% of the refs focus on the magazine as their topic, not the founders. An organization may be notable, but its founders do not automatically "inherit" the same notability. - LuckyLouie (talk) 19:56, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:57, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:48, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - sources found prove notability. Jonpatterns (talk) 11:02, 24 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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