Deletion of Gary Schwartz

Comment: Article is being used as a |soapbox for the subject's views and activities. Prune severely to biography and links to subject's web site
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:soapbox)

Comment: The subject may not directly meet the ''guidelines'' at , however, it seems that there is enough coverage to keep this one around per . The LA Times calls him "a famous tester of mediums"http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/919013811.html?dids=919013811:919013811&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+31%2C+2005&author=Mary+Roach&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Spook-locution&pqatl=google and an article in Metro.co.uk reports: "Schwartz is the only scientist from a recognised university to investigate whether mediumship exists."http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=12145&in_page_id=2 And for doing work that some may state is not notable, the skeptic community seems to invest a fair bit of energy debunking it:http://www.randi.org/jr/021304jeff.htmlhttp://www.skepdic.com/essays/gsandsv.htmlhttp://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:03wmza_ejkkJ:www.csicop.org/si/2008-02/hall.html+%22Gary+Schwartz%22+-wikipedia+csicop&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us. It has also been discussed on CNN:http://archives.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/10/john.edward.cnna/ andhttp://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0406/01/acd.00.html. He has been interviewed on Coast to Coast AM with George Nooryhttp://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/schwartz-gary/5765 and in USA Todayhttp://www.usatoday.com/life/2001-06-20-psychics.htm. His work was featured in an HBO documentary and his research subject for 4 years is the basis for NBC's Medium (TV series)http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/t-qanda/Content?oid=1083680.  (For what little it is worth, here is also a very brief mention of him in Time (magazine) from 1974:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911091,00.html
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF||WP:GNG)

Comment: He has some notability as a "paranormal researcher", media figure, and author, and one could say he's a slightly more successful version of Loyd Auerbach|Professor Paranormal. Such personalities often present themselves as notable scientific academics, so strip away all the puffery and excess detail to avoid having this BIO be a  pushing the supposed achievements of psychics
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Coatrack articles (WP:COATRACK)