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The result was keep. Ad Orientem ( talk) 02:33, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
Henry Liebman
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Notability seems questionable... several PR/bizjournal sources, and no obvious claim to notability. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 14:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
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- Keep for GNG - article contains a 2007 profile story in the Seattle Times [1] in which the Seattle Times, speaking in its own voice, describes Liebman as someone who makes [notable] "... people nervous. City officials, labor leaders, Port commissioners."; Knute Berger writes in 2007 in Crosscut.com that Liebman is a "900 pound gorilla" in commercial real estate [2] (so he passes the Gorilla Notability Guidelines); article includes a 650-word story from 2016 in the Seattle Times [3] dedicated to Liebman's legal disputes; Liebman received dedicated coverage by NBC News [4], the Christian Science Monitor [5], Eugene Register-Guard [6], and USA Today [7] in the context of a fish he caught in 2016; Liebman also has a couple incidental mentions in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Northwest Asian Weekly spanning two different years (a Google News search produces a few more short mentions on NPR and the New York Times); he also has mentions in the Seattle Weekly and Seattle Times about a restaurant naming a menu item after him. While there are PR and WP:PRIMARY sources (e.g. a Bloomberg profile and a SEC filing), they're just used to fill-out vital statistics and not to establish GNG. I agree with Coffee that this is on the line, however, IMO it just crosses the GNG for consistent and in-depth coverage spanning multiple events in WP:RS. Chetsford ( talk) 16:29, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
- Keep per Chetsford's arguments above, and the considerable non-routine coverage of his activities by The Seattle Times. I can return 43 results since 2000 alone, including front-page (A1) articles like this one. Sounder Bruce 21:02, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
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