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The result was keep. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:39, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Valéry Grancher

Valéry Grancher (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

Deletion proposed: non-notable, self-advertisement, possibly a hoax.--Galassi (talk) 22:14, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:51, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep - Definitely not a hoax. A quick Lexis Nexis search produced 24 French articles about him and 1 English article from the Washington Post (April 10, 2002 Wednesday, section: STYLE; Pg. C01) - I can send people the English article if need be. 20 articles are from the French newspaper Le Monde which seems to assert notability. Having said that, this article needs a very serious clean-up. Whole sections (especially Valéry Grancher#Some pieces analysis should probably be removed. Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 16:01, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Delete. Google yield nothing of the sort, and neither did NexisLexis.http://www.google.com/search?hl=ru&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aru%3Aofficial&q=%22Val%C3%A9ry+Grancher%22+%22washington+post%22+April+10%2C+2002&btnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA&lr= French articles refer back to French wiki. Insufficient notability even if not a hoax.Galassi (talk) 16:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

I have stricken the above, as nominator your views on deletion are already apparent. No hard feelings :-) Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 19:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

What exactly did you put into Nexis Lexis? When I searched for "Valéry Grancher" in Lexis it came up with 25 results including a Washington Post article. I have no COI in this article and I'm not a liar. Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 19:33, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Keep - Quite obviously notable - Google shows several dozen news hits at here. that said, one of you says that LexisNexis provides stories, and the other says it doesn't. Could we have some proof one way or the other? Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 20:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

• • My Lexis Nexis results on Lexis Nexis Academic, search parameter "Valéry Grancher" for all dates in Major US publications, major international publications and news and wires services comes up with these results: here Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 21:41, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

• Keep per the above comments. I didn't bother to comment before because it was so obvious, but if someone is needed to make up the numbers then I'll !vote. Phil Bridger (talk) 00:16, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

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.