Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Kelleher

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The result was delete‎. Owen× ☎ 14:08, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Michael Kelleher

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No independent coverage of this individual that I could find (some interviews, but interviews are primary sources and fail WP:SECONDARY, and self-published coverage). Article has been tagged as unsourced since January 2024. Jaguarnik (talk) 12:27, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and Poetry. Jaguarnik (talk) 12:27, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:49, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: No sourcing found for a poet with this name, an obituary and stories about a drowning. I don't see critical reviews of any of the works listed either. Otherwise, article is all primary sourcing. Oaktree b (talk) 15:39, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I can prove to myself that his books exist (looking up in libraries), but that is about all. I can find issues of the Yale Review that list him as "michael kelleher is director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes". It turns out that is a position in the Beinecke library. But I find no biographical information about him. Lamona (talk) 02:43, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. It's possible he may pass WP:NAUTHOR. I did find one solid book review in google scholar. See: [1]. There is also some WP:SIGCOV in this journal article. This gets us partway there. He does teach English at Yale, and I have found a descent number of publications, but nothing that would make me think he could pass WP:NACADEMIC. He does oversee a pretty major poetry prize whose recipients are awarded a $175,000 grant (completely unrestricted which means the recipient can spend it however they want). That is the biggest prize money I know of attached to a poetry award. He's clearly a well known figure in the poetry world.4meter4 (talk) 05:41, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I can't find that he teaches english. His page on the Yale site lists him only as being in the Beinecke library, and the page for the English department doesn't list him. I found listings for some (all?) of his books of poetry in the Yale Library, but the few I found in WorldCat showed up in very few libraries - <50. In scholar, he has writings but almost no cites. I don't think he meets either NACADEMIC nor NAUTH. Lamona (talk) 07:22, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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