Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Asher
John Nagle's and Chan-Ho's recent posts are very helpful.  Wikipedia already does have guidelines for notability of performing artists, e.g. , and for authors ().  Being mentioned a few times in trade mags doesn't seem to be enough.  People who develop magic effects are maybe more like instrument makers; Roger Mayer (developer of guitar effects used by Jimi Hendrix), is very easy to find verifiable cites for, Stradivari is still famous after many centuries, etc.  As for David Roth, a ProQuest search found numerous national newspaper hits for him (with the keyword "magic"), e.g., an NYT article about David Copperfield (1996-12-26 p. C11) described Roth as "commonly called the best coin man in the world".  But it found zero hits for Lee Asher with "magic".  So I'd say David Roth is reasonably notable but Lee Asher's notability is marginal at best.  I agree with John Nagle that if the article is kept, the product list has to go.  I thought magicians wanted to keep that kind of stuff out of view of the public anyway, so it's odd that he's trying so hard to flog it on Wikipedia
— User:Phr, 08:25, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:MUSIC||WP:BIO (Wikipedia:Notability)