Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Davidson (speaker)

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The result was delete. j⚛e decker ^talk 15:24, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Jeff Davidson (speaker)

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I see no notability. No third-party references support the statements in the article, and without such discussion of the subject in independent publications there can be no notability. A Google search unearthed nothing but commercial hits and various blogs. Drmies (talk) 17:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Weak Delete: he's certainly published a lot of books and I've seen authors listed with a lot less.. however in those cases they have also been notable in some other way. Outside of the list of books, I can establish no notability. However, there are couple of points worth mentioning about this article. It appears to have been created by someone closely related to the subject (a COI), and there was extensive use of sockpuppets (all now banned). I believe the article was created as a promotional piece, but of course that does not necessarily mean the the subject is non-notable. Shritwod (talk) 18:41, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The author has published a lot of books, but the top 4 in terms of reported end-user holdings (i.e. popularity) are:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time
The Joy of Simple Living: Over 1,500 Simple Ways to Make Your Life Easy and Content-- At Home and At Work
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Stress
Simpler Living: A Back to Basics Guide to Cleaning, Furnishing, Storing, Decluttering, Streamlining, Organizing, and More

I focused on finding reviews for these but not much luck. -- GreenC 02:44, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, j⚛e decker ^talk 14:35, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Regarding the hubris of calling his one man consultancy an "institute"[1] and saying he is honored to be "the only person on Earth with this distinction" of registering "The Work-life Balance Expert®" as its trademark[2], I can only say that the conspicuous vanity of the article's subject does not necessarily mean the article is a pure vanity piece.
Regarding his plethora of publications,[3] the chronology shows an evolution from writing advice about marketing to taking his own advice by marketing motivational materials. I would only remark that the chief skill and accomplishment of some motivationalists lies in motivating clients to purchase course materials; but this does not necessarily mean the article is purely promotional.
That said, the article certainly looks like a purely promotional vanity piece, and I am unable to locate any reliably independent substative sources on Google that indicate he, his business, or his books and materials are notable. ~ Ningauble (talk) 18:27, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Aside from not being able to find anybody taking notice of him, the fact that he offers his ghostwriting skills on his own site tells me he isn't making it as an author. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:21, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete (Wikipedia is not a webhost and this page is not even an article). Much of the information is outright puffery; for example, the subject wrote a single article for The Practical Lawyer - to call him a columnist is akin to naming somebody as an op-ed journalist because they had one letter to the editor published once in the Daily News. The one really significant thing he's written is The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time, which I shall grant you, is pretty good. However, any monkey could print out 65 books and 3000 articles, but that would not prove notability. I'd go along with userfication. Bearian (talk) 17:39, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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