The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was no consensus. After 24 days and several re-listings with no additional input, there is no consensus as to notability. SilkTork ( talk) 22:57, 26 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Boze Hadleigh

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Deletion requested by article subject via OTRS ( #2018050210000042). Proposing for deletion under WP:BBLP. Notability exists, but is borderline; current article focuses overwhelmingly on subject's LGBT work and ignores rest of output in arguable violation of WP:UNDUE. Yunshui  ^雲 _水 15:36, 2 May 2018 (UTC) reply

• This is a very strange request. Author writes books including Gays of Hollywood and Lesbians of Hollywood, books about Hollywood gossip regarding Gays and Lesbians and wants his own article deleted because it focuses "too much" on his Gay and Lesbian focus? Not to mention his book The Vinyl Closet:Gays and Lesbians in the Music World. Weird. As the nom says, clearly notable. His work has been reviewed and he's noted in a variety of reliable independent sources. FloridaArmy ( talk) 22:53, 2 May 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete The notability of his gossiply works is not high enough to make an article absolutely needed, so we should respect the request. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 01:00, 3 May 2018 (UTC) reply
• Delete - too true! Deb ( talk) 09:53, 3 May 2018 (UTC) reply
• Keep not as a favor but as a gift. The subject may whine and cry but notability is a disease without a cure or a vaccine. The text of the article, though, sucks big time. But you might argue that there's nothing wrong with that. - The Gnome ( talk) 17:23, 3 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 06:04, 4 May 2018 (UTC) reply

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple ( talk) 06:04, 4 May 2018 (UTC) reply

• Keep Mr. Hadley, People admire your books Boze Hadleigh's 1994 book Hollywood Lesbians (Barricade Books) slammed open the closet door on some of Hollywood's most famous stars, including Barbara Stanwyck, Ann B. Davis, Agnes Moorehead, Edith Head, and Dame Judith Anderson. Now Riverdale Avenue Books is publishing an updated ..., The Advocate 2017. I am sorry if being notable is uncomofrtable for you, but, as the reviewer Washington Blade wrote in it's review of your book Marilyn Forever, People will talk. And that can be a bad thing: gossip is often mean and its shelf-life is sometimes longer than we'd like. On the other hand, a bit of scandalous chatter can be great, as in the new book “Marilyn Forever” by Boze Hadleigh. Because if people are talking about you, they remember you.. Here's a search on his penname in the LATimes [1]. With many book reviews and SIGCOV, I do not see an argument to delete this writer. E.M.Gregory ( talk) 21:13, 4 May 2018 (UTC) reply

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.