Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Leonard Sweet
It's a terrible article, reads like promotion which it may very well be.  Appropriate to tag it for improvement, tightening, sourcing, etc.  However, he passes .  The distinguished professorships he has held (which may have been term-limited) may be enough to carry him past   and  his books seem to get reviewed widely enough to carry him past  (see: http://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2015-08/delight-preaching; http://jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com/2015/01/22/lifes-busy-mealtimes-still-sacred/).   But the main thing is that there is secondary  source coverage of him that is both in-depth and broad.  See news search: https://www.google.com/#q=%22leonard+sweet%22&tbm=nws   and note articles like this: http://jonathanmerritt.religionnews.com/2014/03/24/leonard-sweet-make-faith-fun/ Plus over 500  hits in my quick proquest search, many on the first page appeared significant.  One headline cued me in to the fact that he was President of United Theological Seminary, which puts him over the notability bar.  In short, when confronted with terrible promotional article like this, we need to remember that politicians, creative artists, political activists and, yes, preachers and/or their fans have a regrettable tendency to create lousy self-promotional articles, but the tone of the article may mask real notability.  As it does here
— User:E, 16:50, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG||WP:PROFESSOR||WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)