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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 19:22, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Louis Prosperi[edit]

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BLP is sourced to a single, three-sentence mention in a book published by "Evil Hat Productions." A standard BEFORE (JSTOR, newspapers.com, Google Books, Google News) finds no WP:RS. There is a non-RS book review [1] but this seems to be on an entirely different Prosperi and is irrelevant to establish WP:N in any case. Our policy on BLPs states that "human dignity and personal privacy be taken into account, especially in articles of ephemeral or marginal interest." Currently 25% of this article talks about this unknown gentleman being laid-off from his job. To preserve the personal privacy of a non-notable individual who does not pass the GNG, this should be deleted. Chetsford (talk) 15:50, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Chetsford (talk) 15:53, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. Chetsford (talk) 15:53, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Men-related deletion discussions. Chetsford (talk) 15:53, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep if more sources can be found, otherwise move to draft so that it can be worked on. BOZ (talk) 15:58, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • In general I support Draftifying articles, however, our obligations to the personal privacy of BLPs, IMO, precludes draftify except under exceptional circumstances. Chetsford (talk) 16:04, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• If you look at the ″About the author″ section at the back of the book, you will find that it is the same person. There's no clue to be had there where we could go to find this person's life and works independently and reliably documented in depth. There's a clue in the coyness of that section, moreover, that they will not be. And they are not, as far as I can determine. Original research that does not pass muster for Wikipedia (I looked xem up on LinkedIn.) leads me to understand that the first sentence of this article, written in the present tense, is utterly wrong. What we have is wrong, and a biography cannot be written in accordance with our content policies. Uncle G (talk) 16:39, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Good point, I found the same LinkedIn page. If correct, this article seems to be a "creative" perspective of his actual vocation. This is definitely the problem in sourcing an entire BLP to a single fandom source. Frankly, Oracle Utilities Energy Information Platform Release Notes [2] from Oracle Corporation may have been more widely distributed than the works we list in this article, even if the subject isn't as scintillating as a monster manual. Chetsford (talk) 16:50, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment if you think something is over the line, as in Currently 25% of this article talks about this unknown gentleman being laid-off from his job, then delete it. (I deleted it).ThatMontrealIP (talk) 16:46, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. No SIGCOV, GNG fail.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 17:05, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, for all the reasons stated by Nom.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:12, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.