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Carrie Borzillo

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Non-notable biography. Being a competent journalist who actually manages to get published doesn't make one notable. Nor does marrying a celebrity. GHits are mostly a) her own Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc., pages; b) interviews in non-notable e-fanzines such as revver.com and popdose.com; c) passing mentions in connection with Chris Vrenna's divorce from her; and d) routine book reviews (which are about publications, not about her as a biographical subject). I don't see anything that suggests this person is notable enough for a bio article here. Furthermore, the "article" is just a somewhat wikified copy-paste of her résumé – it even had a résumé-style "references" list in it! (I.e., people to contact as character references, not references in the WP sense of cited sources.) As such, it is either a blatant copyright violation or an obvious conflict-of-interest piece created by the subject herself. Update: It's the latter, apparently. Either Borzillo[-Vrenna] or someone posing as her was a major, repeat contributor to the article, as CBV2007 (talk · contribs), possibly also the anon-IP creator of the article. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 03:07, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 11:44, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

• Correction: Um, no it wasn't incomplete. This bot is certainly well-named. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 19:12, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Yes, it was. I grant that the bot's notice may be somehow misleading in implying that the nominator missed a step, but the point is that, at the time it run, some part of the nomination wasn't in place (in this case, undone). Tizio 10:53, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Ah, a third party error, then. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 18:01, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom. No notable sources found. Simon-in-sagamihara (talk) 14:35, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:54, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
• Keep Seems notable enough to me. It seems a little strange that a person who was working on "cleaning up" and editing the article suddenly decides to nominate it for deletion... is that unusual or is it just me? Dogtownclown (talk) 21:03, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

• Comment: On what policy-related basis does the article "seem notable enough to [you]"? That's far too vague and subjective a comment to be useful at AfD. See also WP:AFD#Before nominating an article for deletion; improving and researching an article as best one can should be done prior to turning to AfD, which is a last resort. I don't understand how you are somehow confused about this. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ʕ(^Õل^ō)ˀ Contribs. 17:59, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 23:06, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

• Delete. Lacks in-depth coverage in reliable sources. Pcap ping 08:37, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
• Weak delete. With proper sourcing of some key points this would be a keep, though. GregorB (talk) 11:13, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

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