Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bruce Frantzis

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The result was keep. Tone 20:06, 13 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Bruce Frantzis

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This BLP has no independent sources and I believe it fails to show notability. The subject doesn't seem to meet the notability criteria for either martial artists (WP:MANOTE) or authors (WP:AUTHOR). I got an impressive number of ghits, but I had trouble finding any independent sources.

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Martial arts-related deletion discussions. Jakejr (talk) 04:08, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Meets the GNG per coverage in various books (I've just added a few more to the article), also meets the first criterion of WP:AUTHOR ("widely cited by peers and successors") - his books are in the bibliographies of just about any serious book on internal martial arts you'd care to name. Yunshui 雲‍水 08:38, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, meets criterion 5 of WP:MANOTE; many internal martial artists recommend his books to their students, eg.[1] (Recommended reading section), [2]. Yunshui 雲‍水 08:21, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:10, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 01:28, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Clearly meets all the stated requirements of notability. There are a wide variety of independent resources and numerous books cite his work. I saw numerous pages that had less detailed references for less known martial artists and healers that weren't flagged.Imagebreaker (talk) 08:06, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Topic appears to pass criterion #1 of WP:AUTHOR. Northamerica1000^(talk) 08:02, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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