Deletion of Randall Hicks

Comment: A skilled man who has clearly made his mark in his field. An expert in the field of adoption who has written a book on the subject. It seems he well meets the | notability standards
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N)

Comment: the ''best'' source on the page, indeed, the sole source on the page that supports notability is source # 4, a brief feature article in the local section of the The San Diego Union-Tribune, but an article in your local paper ≠ notability.  The rest of the plausible sources are stuff like IMDB and reviews in Publisher's Weekly - trade publications that establish the existence of a work, not its notability.  He's been quoted here and there.  Notability is just not there.  
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOTPROMO)

Comment: as |a popular writer, but ''for the record'' he badly fails every test as a notable lawyer, including both
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:CREATIVE)

Comment: meets  #3 ''(...must have been the primary subject of (...) multiple independent periodical articles or reviews)''http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20070107/news_lz1mi7fallbro.html, http://www.januarymagazine.com/crfiction/babycrimes.html, http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9631638-4-4, http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9631638-5-1, http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9794430-0-8
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:AUTHOR)

Comment: meets  and , ''The Baby Game'' has won the Gumshoe Awards|Gumshoe Award for best first novel and been nominated for others, has also been reviewed by lots of , ''Baby Crimes'' also has reviews, (btw these two books could arguably have their own articles), another of Hicks' books, ''Adopting in America'' also has plenty of reviews, and being https://www.worldcat.org/title/adopting-in-america-how-to-adopt-within-one-year/oclc/53461933&referer=brief_results held by around 500 libraries could also warrant a separate article. ps. article references to lots of these reviews so i'm not listing them here. pps. the article creator, {{u|Gelo962}}, left a message on my talkpage asking me to look at this afd, as it is listed here in the authors afd list, that i regularly check out, i don't believe there are any  issues
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NAUTHOR||WP:GNG||WP:RS||WP:CANVAS)

Comment: I don't see any notability, as a lawyer, author or actor. If his sole claim to notability is one book getting a specialty award, that's ; and is already noted in Gumshoe Awards, and there's really nothing else worth notice about that. It really looks like the article is an attempt to take that single fact and leverage it into a full-blown promotional article for Hicks's legal practice and legal writing
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ONEEVENT)