Deletion of Steven Pruitt

Comment: Permission not needed. Coverage in ''El Diario'' http://www.eldiario.es/hojaderouter/internet/Wikipedia-Espana-editores_0_450055193.html and ''Time'' http://time.com/4815217/most-influential-people-internet/ is enough for , and widely-enough separated in time to prevent this from being a case for BIO1E
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: The subject is a superb Wikipedian and it is appropriate that our most prolific editor has been recognized in human-interest stories in the media. However, notability cannot rest on one assertion (prolific editor) repeated by a number of outlets, particularly given  and the fact that the subject has above requested deletion. The confusion regarding James Heilman is regrettable—this is not the place to expand on that, but even quickly scanning Heilman's article shows it has 59 references covering half a dozen different aspects of his work
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE)

Comment: it's all news reports, which are almost always primary sources, and these cases are human interest story|human interest stories, which to quote , are "generally not as reliable as news reporting, and may not be subject to the same rigorous standards of fact-checking and accuracy".  In fact, one can question the idea that these are human interest stories — they all tend toward being opinion pieces of who's-who, and opinion pieces definitely aren't reliable for anything other than "Editor Alice thinks X
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:NEWSORG)