Deletion of Seph Lawless

Comment: mdash;BLP with significant coverage in reliable sources.  To answer the question above, yes, we will provide space for articles for any number of urban explorers whose work has been featured in Slate, Fox News and the Guardian.  See  for details on our criteria
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Ambivalent about the notability of this person compared against subject-specific notability guidelines but, based on the sources quoted in several responses above, and also http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2014/04/interview-seph-lawless-black-friday and http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/05/23/interview-photographer-behind-series-americas-abandoned-shopping-malls/, and that he has attracted attention from UK publications: http://www.huhmagazine.co.uk/6642/photographs-of-abandoned-shopping-malls-by-seph-lawless and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2601695/Mall-rats-desert-sinking-ship-Deserted-shopping-centers-beacon-American-Dream-abandoned.html; I feel he meets the  comfortably
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Just a note about coverage: For an artist or photographer, articles or news stories devoted '''solely to their works''' are considered "significant coverage", no matter the amount of text in the article. Therefore this subject meets : "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject." This subject also meets its profession-specific notability guideline, : "3. The person has created ... a ... collective body of work, that has been the subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:ARTIST)

Comment: I agree his books are not notable, but he and his work have been prominently featured on CNN Money and The Guardian, among several other prominent news sources.  Not just in their blogs, either.  Meets 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Sticking to the |notability guidelines as I understand them, I think this page should stay. I'm focusing on the multiple references, some from very good sources. The references relate to his work (photography) and that's where the notability lies, not in his status as an explorer, a person with a pseudonym or anything else. On the subject of whether or not paid editing is involved or any other shenanigans, this appears to me to be a side alley that lies outside the remit of how we assess articles here. It's not the first debate I've seen take this tangent and the advice last time around from the closer was that issues over authorship/status of paid for articles be addressed at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)|village pump and not used to determine whether an article stays or goes (see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Lucibel_%282nd_nomination%29). I'd say the same recommendation applies here
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Considering the references in the article and those provided in the above discussion, there seems to be the appearance of notability, but not actual notability according to the general notability guideline. Some references lack depth of coverage: ''http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jun/19/-sp-death-of-the-american-shopping-mall The Guardian'' quotes the subject, exhibits photos, but is largely about the decline of shopping malls. ''http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11201309/American-Horror-Story-haunted-houses-photos.html The Telegraph'' exhibits photos in a slideshow, but only has 2 sentences at the first slide announcing his book.  ''http://abcnews.go.com/Business/photos/inside-mall-closes-23445290/image-23445329 ABC News'' just has a slideshow of photos. Some references are to primary source interviews like: ''http://video.foxnews.com/v/3531984184001/from-bustling-center-of-prosperity-to-ghost-town/?#sp=show-clips Fox News'' and ''http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2014/04/interview-seph-lawless-black-friday American photo mag''. Some references are just routine coverage of an exhibition or book release like: ''http://www.cleveland.com/beachwood/index.ssf/2014/12/photo_exhibit.html cleveland.com'', ''http://www.weather.com/travel/abandoned-malls-seph-lawless-photos-20140408 Weather.com'', ''http://thoughtcatalog.com/matthew-newton/2014/06/photographing-the-dead-shopping-malls-of-our-youth-images-from-suburban-america/ thought catalog'', ''http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/30/news/economy/dead-malls/index.html CNN Money'', ''http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/06/22/seph_lawless_photographs_abandoned_malls_in_his_book_black_friday.html Slate'' , and ''http://www.fastcoexist.com/3029341/eerie-photos-of-abandoned-shopping-malls-show-the-changing-face-of-suburbia Fast Company''. Some references are just local coverage from sources with no particular reputation for fact-checking or accuracy like: ''http://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/the-art-of-the-autopsy-photographer-seph-lawless-spends-his-days-documenting-decaying-ruins/Content?oid=3625444 cleveland scene'' and ''http://clevelandmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=E73ABD6180B44874871A91F6BA5C249C&nm=Article+Archives&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=1578600D80804596A222593669321019&tier=4&id=BAB24EC6C6914B729AC8850F7ECA296E cleveland magazine''. The only remaining references that may be suitable for notability purposes is from a source that employs the paid editor identified above: ''http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/creepy-photos-abandoned-shopping-malls-highlight-reveal-hard-times-article-1.1773948 The Daily News''. Examination of the references leads to the conclusion that the article does not meet , despite the appearance of reliable sources, and should be deleted
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: Regardless of this article's inception, as a photographer full articles on him in ''http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jun/19/-sp-death-of-the-american-shopping-mall The Guardian'', ''http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/11201309/American-Horror-Story-haunted-houses-photos.html The Telegraph'', ''http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/creepy-photos-abandoned-shopping-malls-highlight-reveal-hard-times-article-1.1773948 The Daily News'', ''http://www.fastcoexist.com/3029341/eerie-photos-of-abandoned-shopping-malls-show-the-changing-face-of-suburbia Fast Company'', ''http://abcnews.go.com/Business/photos/inside-mall-closes-23445290/image-23445329 ABC News'', ''http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/30/news/economy/dead-malls/index.html CNN Money'',  ''http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/06/22/seph_lawless_photographs_abandoned_malls_in_his_book_black_friday.html Slate'', and ''http://video.foxnews.com/v/3531984184001/from-bustling-center-of-prosperity-to-ghost-town/?#sp=show-clips Fox News'' (in addition to the other seven full local and national articles cited in the wiki article, and other national and international articles mentioned by other editors above on this page) more than meet , , and 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:BIO||WP:ARTIST)