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Fails WP:BIO and WP:1E. Subject came to media prominence last week after being shouted down by Donald Trump at the president's first press conference. This incident and follow-up interviews with Turx were widely covered by the top news media. Other than that, subject has no notability. The assertion that he is the first Hasidic Jew in the White House press corps is unsourced. Most of this page is cobbled together from the subject's own LinkedIn and Facebook pages, YouTube uploads, and the local Lakewood Scoop. Every other day a new policy issue is added to the "multiple issues" template. Recommend delete until subject actually acquires significant coverage in multiple, independent sources. Yoninah (talk) 21:53, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Judaism-related deletion discussions. Yoninah (talk) 21:53, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Favonian (talk) 21:57, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The subject has already acquired significant coverage in multiple, independent reliable and verifiable sources that are unarguably about him. Amid the dozens of sources in the article are a few that may be of lower quality, though the the nominator has failed to demonstrate that *ALL* of the sources fail to meet that standard. Issues with articles are great reasons to edit and discuss, but are rather poor arguments for deletion. The claim of notability as the first Hasidic Jew to become a member of the White House press corps is exceedingly strong and one that has received worldwide coverage. Tthe ample systemic bias faced by individuals in the Hasidic community needs to be considered and addressed. Alansohn (talk) 22:08, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Alansohn:, I added the information about him asking the question at Trump's first press conference to Ami (magazine)#Coverage, where he is listed as the magazine's political correspondent. That's where that WP:1E event belongs. If you take away from this page all the sources that cite that press conference, you are left with nothing. No sources say he is the first Hasidic Jew in the White House press corps. Yoninah (talk) 22:52, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. (tJosve05a (c) 23:28, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Turx's writings are known far and wide; and has met the criteria of "notability" long before the episode last week gained him national and international recognition.

He is more then just "worthy of notice"; he is a writer of "note" who many readers turn to as their first read in Ami. He and his writings are "remarkable", "significant", extremely "interesting", and quite "unusual a writer" to say the least; and surely deserves the attention to be recorded. I cannot imagine what else a writer needs to be, to have an entry in Wikipedia. This page will get thousands of hits this year, of people curious to read who their favorite writer is. What's the big deal, when you have hundreds of entries like his and many of them much less significant; so why not have his deserved page too? Is it that an uphill battle these days to get anyone entered? Wikipedia is "the" depository of knowledge to which everyone turns, and such a significant entry definitely belongs there. Mountain top habitat (talk) 23:28, 23 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]