Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig Taylor (writer)

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) 🌀Locomotive207-talk🌀 01:07, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

Craig Taylor (writer)

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WP:BLP of a journalist and playwright, not reliably sourced as passing our inclusion criteria for journalists or playwrights. The only notability claim on offer here is that he exists, and the only "references" are an Amazon listing for one of his books and a directory of his own writing on the self-published website of a magazine he's written for -- but the notability test for a writer is not passed by citing his work to itself as technical verification that it exists, it's passed by citing his work to external sources verifying that it got independent attention (notable literary awards, critical analysis, etc.) to establish its significance. Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have much, much better sources than this. Bearcat (talk) 15:07, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:07, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:07, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 15:07, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

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• Keep I see reviews of his work in The Guardian and The Times, and one was BBC book of the week. Mccapra (talk) 06:23, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:46, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

• Keep I've expanded the article with the sources shared by Mccapra and some more I found in a Google search, I feel the sourcing is good enough now to meet WP:GNG. NemesisAT (talk) 10:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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