Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leonard R. Brand
I first saw this AFD links at the Notability noticeboard and have been watching with interest since. I don't have a dog in the fight from a theological/political/philosophical perspective, I'm just looking at it based on the merits of the article, and I'm afraid that I don't think this subject is notable. Most of the existing sources are problematic for various reasons. 5 of the 21 sources are Brand works, whereas the article should be based primarily on secondary sources. And of the secondary sources used, it some seem to only mention Brand briefly and in passing (like the Ronald Numbers source), or are brief mentions of arguably trivial information (like http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/PUR/PUR19640330-V63-36__G.pdf#view=fit this and http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/PUR/PUR19700416-V69-42__B.pdf#view=fit this, which only mention him in brief sentences, and in my view fails  because even if the sources are reliable, they don't constitute "significant coverage in reliable sources"). Many sources are used not about Brand but about how people feel about views that he holds (like the Ecklund source). Some are clearly ''not'' reliable sources, like http://universitypress.andrews.edu/catalog.php?key=198 this blurb for his book or http://www.creationsabbath.net/resources/articles/a-historical-review-of-the-creation-debate.html this source, which doesn't discuss him in depth anyway. Perhaps more importantly, I found practically nothing about Brand on my searches in Lexis Nexis, Newsbank or Google News and, if he were notable, it wouldn't be so difficult to find those sources
— User:Hunter, 00:12, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)