Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John B. Lee

John B. Lee

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WP:BLP of a writer, not properly sourced as passing WP:AUTHOR. As always, writers are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist, and have to show certain specific markers of achievement supported by WP:GNG-worthy third-party coverage about them in media and books -- but this article is completely unreferenced, and is not making any strong notability claims.
The main attempts at notability claims are that he's been municipal poet laureate of a small city, which isn't an automatic notability freebie without sourcing for it, and that he's been a recipient of various minor and/or unspecified literary awards that aren't highly prominent enough to confer instant inclusion freebies without sourcing for them. An award has to be notable in its own right before it can make its winners notable for winning it, so notability doesn't derive from the presence of the word "award" (or sticking the word "prestigious" in front of it) in the article text, it derives from the quality of the sourcing you can show to demonstrate that the award is a sufficiently notable and/or prestigious one in the first place.
Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to pass GNG on his sourcing. Bearcat (talk) 14:15, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 14:15, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:27, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. He has a substantial entry in Canadian Poetry Online, published by the University of Toronto Libraries, along with some of his poems. There are numerous reviews in the Canadian Book Review Annual, a Globe and Mail review, a review in the journal Essays on Canadian Writing, and he is in the book Five Canadian Poets: Analytical Essays on, James Deahl, John B. Lee, Don Gutteridge, Glen Sorestad, A. F. Moritz. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:20, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Easily meets WP:NAUTHOR per Clarityfiend. More sources: [1], [2], [3]. Jfire (talk) 01:24, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]