The result was keep. The nominator notes that the article fails GNG. E.M. Gregory brings two sources. Based on those sources, two keep !votes arise and one person strikes their delete !vote. This indicates that 3 individuals agreed that the sources establish notability. There is no explenation why these sources would not count as RS, and as such, closing as keep. (non-admin closure) MrClog ( talk) 09:49, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
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Fails WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO. No sources in article, and I couldn't find any usable ones in a search. Marquardtika ( talk) 01:18, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
Delete - Created 12 years ago and this is the best it now is? MaskedSinger ( talk) 17:26, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
one of Alaska's most diligent oil industry watchdogs". This publication by Congress confirms that he has worked as a senior state and federal government advisor in various capacities. I can find half a dozen instances where he's been cited as an authority in Congress just from a cursory search—in fact the earliest citations go back to his PhD work in 1968 (p. 1442). That seems like a very long record of wide citation as an authority. @ MaskedSinger: "It's been here for 12 years and it's still bad" is explicitly not a valid argument for deletion; see WP:NOEFFORT. — Nizolan ( talk · c.) 14:02, 15 July 2019 (UTC) — Further research turns up an article about him in The Province from 2009, so that makes at least two independent bios (this article and the Congress one). — Nizolan ( talk · c.) 14:32, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
The result was keep. The nominator notes that the article fails GNG. E.M. Gregory brings two sources. Based on those sources, two keep !votes arise and one person strikes their delete !vote. This indicates that 3 individuals agreed that the sources establish notability. There is no explenation why these sources would not count as RS, and as such, closing as keep. (non-admin closure) MrClog ( talk) 09:49, 22 July 2019 (UTC)
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Fails WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO. No sources in article, and I couldn't find any usable ones in a search. Marquardtika ( talk) 01:18, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
Delete - Created 12 years ago and this is the best it now is? MaskedSinger ( talk) 17:26, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
one of Alaska's most diligent oil industry watchdogs". This publication by Congress confirms that he has worked as a senior state and federal government advisor in various capacities. I can find half a dozen instances where he's been cited as an authority in Congress just from a cursory search—in fact the earliest citations go back to his PhD work in 1968 (p. 1442). That seems like a very long record of wide citation as an authority. @ MaskedSinger: "It's been here for 12 years and it's still bad" is explicitly not a valid argument for deletion; see WP:NOEFFORT. — Nizolan ( talk · c.) 14:02, 15 July 2019 (UTC) — Further research turns up an article about him in The Province from 2009, so that makes at least two independent bios (this article and the Congress one). — Nizolan ( talk · c.) 14:32, 15 July 2019 (UTC)