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states: "Raw hit count is a very crude measure of importance. Some unimportant subjects have many "hits", some notable ones have few or none... Hit count numbers alone can only rarely "prove" anything about notability" and " Google News used to be less susceptible to manipulation by self-promoters,
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a google search. being listed in the NLA still needed more for significant coverage. If you think I've made an error in judgement, that is not malice as you've accused me of. I suggest you concentrate on the arguments for deletion/keep not continual personal commentary on me.
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links to a further 4 entire pages listing catalogued works and audio interviews with the individual in question extending back as far as the 1950s. Sugesting that "notability" is an issue here is disingenuous at best.
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in terms of notability it fares no worse than a multitude of similar stub based biographies on Wiki, if you delete this, you will really have to consider deleting them all.
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but with the advent of pseudo-news sites designed to collect ad revenues or to promote specific agendas, this test is often no more reliable than the others"
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of Google as well, in order to avoid missing notable subjects like this one, and causing other editors to waste time correcting your errors and oversights. --
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I think he's somewhat notable and would have expected some solid sourcing or at least something to build an expandable stub upon.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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A notable chronicler of Australian cultural history. Lots of sources on this author. Here's one
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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You must be using a different version of Google from the rest of the world in that case.
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I did a google search but a google news search didn't reveal any significant coverage.
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I use google news search to find reliable reporting in the media as well. Like
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leads to the National Library of Australia listing for this author - and
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that in itself doesn't prove notability. needs significant coverage.
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The article needed work, but I think that notability is well-proven
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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you'll need to show more than one source if there are "lots".
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was about all I found, though, and it's not nearly enough.
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Knowledge:Articles for deletion
deletion review
WP:SNOW
Schuym1
talk
23:23, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
Bill Scott (author)
Bill Scott (author)
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
delete
View log
WP:CREATIVE
Google news search reveals nothing
Michellecrisp
talk
00:02, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
list of Australia-related deletion discussions
Mattinbgn
00:19, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
list of Authors-related deletion discussions
Fabrictramp
talk to me

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