Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dave Zirin
Sufficient career accomplishment to merit encyclopedic biography. Sourcing out journalists is notoriously hard, since competitors don't write about them and if their own publications write about them it does not count to GNG. in he absence of a Special Notability Guideline for journalists and columnists, a little |common sense is called for. Zirin is a nationally recognized figure, probably the best-known American "political" sportswriter. Keep under the pillar and policy of IAR
— User:Carrite, 23:06, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IAR (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)