Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark W. Smith
His book - Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy was a New York Times bestseller http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307339254/sr=8-1/qid=1150975691/ref=pd_bbs_1?_encoding=UTF8 and therefore meets .  As for the article on Mark W. Smith, he is notable under , bullets 3 and 4 as well as meeting the #Basic Criteria|basic criteria at  for notability.  For the third and fourth bullet points, his book was a New York Times bestseller.  For the basic criteria, he "has been the subject of published secondary source material which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject."  He has been interviewed on CNN http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/29/acd.01.html, Fox Newshttp://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,322910,00.html (both about subjects ''other'' than his books), by the Conservative Political Action Conference|CPAC director at Human Events http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15711, is described as a "prominent free-market conservative" by the National Journal http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/print_friendly.php?ID=co_20080903_4694
— User:Philosopher, 03:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:BK||WP:CREATIVE||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)