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The result was delete. Star Mississippi 02:05, 26 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Albion (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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I've been unable to find much in the way of secondary source coverage of this individual. The following sources are mentioned in the article:

• Business Week
• Fast Company
• Forbes: Mark Albion on Net Impact and Its Accomplishments (I couldn't find this one online)

I also looked for any coverage of his apparent NYT bestselling book "Making a Life, Making a Living" but didn't turn up anything beyond some PR.

There's this review of another of Albion's co-written works, but I didn't find anything else significant in a search in JSTOR, Gale, or ProQuest. Sam Walton (talk) 08:21, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople and Massachusetts. Shellwood (talk) 08:38, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Fails BIO and the GNG, and at level worst this highly promotional article needs to be TNTed. Ravenswing 14:08, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per nom. Ari T. Benchaim (talk) 21:13, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment I am not inclined to keep this, but am wondering if all of the unreferenced info were removed if there would still be enough to keep the article as NAUTH. He has written a number of what I refer to unreverently as "business porn" books - basically business books that are to business what self-help books are to the self. I find no evidence that he ever had a best seller (a NYT search on his name turns up zero), but I did find one of his books reviewed in Publisher's Weekly and there might be more reviews to be found. The PW reviews really only prove that the item was published via a respectable publisher. I did find some books listed in WorldCat, one with over 400 libraries, others in the 2-digit numbers. If someone has access to the business press it may be possible to determine if his work has an impact beyond income for himself. Lamona (talk) 15:50, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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