Deletion of Chip zdarsky

Comment: I can't speak for everyone here, but I can certainly say that the last thing I'd want to do is discourage someone from continuing work here, especially around under-represented areas. I can certainly understand your frustration, and we all started at some point. I've had editors question the notability of an artist simply because they'd never heard of them (again, that would be a bad argument to make in a discussion and a good administrator would ignore it). What you are looking for is substantial third-party coverage. Yes, he's published in a national newspaper, but so are many others who do not have articles. What we need is coverage in publications and other media that have no connection to the subject. Is there any magazine coverage, articles and so on? Other newspapers? Substantial TV coverage? The two main guidelines we go by are |notability and a subcategory on |creative professionals. If the closing administrator decides on delete, the article can be |userfied so you can keep it and work on improving it. Articles can always be recreated as long they are improved in some way. I'd also suggest working on a more general article on the Toronto comics scene if there's a great deal of coverage out there. This may be a more successful way of writing about this topic and from there you can branch out to individual artists
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTE||WP:CREATIVE||WP:userfy)

Comment: as the article does not appear to meet the minium requiremenst as spelled out in .  The references are all to works by this person, but there does not appear to be much independent material published ABOUT this person, so it does not appear that anyone writing for a |reliable source finds him particularly notable
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:N||WP:RS)

Comment: It's now been established that this isn't a hoax, so that matter can be dropped. A deletion discussion should mainly focus on |notability and whether references are |verifiable. His main claim to notability is writing for the ''National Post'', where he's credited by his real name, Steve Murray. If the result of this discussion is keep, the article should be renamed Steve Murray, with a redirect from Chip Zdarsky. It should be noted that Murray writes for the ''National Post's'' blog, as opposed to its print edition. This wouldn't necessarily make him less notable, but it may explain a lack of third-party sources. I'm remaining '''neutral''' for the moment: I'm not convinced that there is enough to establish notability at this time
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NOTE||WP:V)