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The result was keep. MBisanz ^talk 03:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Notability, page appears to have been written by a close associate who has written much of the material about said person that I could find via google, potential conflict of interest Reboot (talk) 18:22, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep and clean up junk: appears to have published enough things to be somewhat notable, if we can clean up the tone and undue weight created by the potentially COI editor. Might change this to a neutral if someone can show that there are no good independent refs to be had other than the ones written by this editor. Politizer ^talk/_contribs 18:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • • • Changed to Neutral per below. Politizer ^talk/_contribs 19:01, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

One question: how do you prove such a negative? I offer this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&fkt=571&fsdt=3041&q=allan+cox&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq= and that there are none on the first 50 (my setting with customize google) except by him, blogs that begin with "I know Allan Cox" and hits to other folks with a similar name. Reboot (talk) 18:57, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's enough proof for me. Politizer ^talk/_contribs 19:01, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep NYT cites are sufficient for notability. "Your Inner CEO" is in Amazon top 350K ... so he is a real person with, IMHO, sufficient notability. Collect (talk) 21:47, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:00, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep as per Collect, tag the the article {autobiography}, {cleanup} and the whole slew as per Reboot. Power.corrupts (talk) 21:00, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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