Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Desmond Devlin

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 keep. John254 16:16, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Desmond Devlin

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No reliable published secondary sources indicating notability (WP:CSD#a7), the only notability claim is a Harvey Award nomination but the Harvey page doesn't help the cause. Previously deleted on 2007-07-14t00:53:24z by VirtualSteve because "unsourced, nn" (WP:CSD#g4). -- Jeandré, 2007-08-08t21:47z

• Weak keep Keep. He has written literally thousands of articles for Mad Magazine, but he seems to come up a little short in the WP:RS department. and thanks to whoever added more sources. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?)} 21:50, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. He's one of the top contributors to MAD, all the rest of whom have their own articles. This should be kept, expanded and better sourced. MAD itself is certainly notable, and he has written a huge number of articles for the magazine. He clearly fulfills the criteria under WP:BIO (emphasis mine):"Has made unique, prolific or innovative contributions to a field of entertainment." & "The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, which has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews."

I think his authorship credits in MAD constitute reliable sources, and the list cited in the article was compiled from issues with the aid of some of the MAD writers. Not to make a spurious comparison, but how would one go about citing that Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities if not by the fact that his name is on the cover?Falard 23:30, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

There are reliable published secondary sources (as required by one of Wikipedia's most important policies: WP:V) indicating Dickens' continued notability almost 200 years after his birth [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].. . -- Jeandré, 2007-08-11t13:36z

• Keep. He is a very prolific humor writer. --Ellissound 03:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per developing consensus. His work is notable mostly for being so prolific. And funny, but that is not a really good reason. Bearian 02:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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