Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jack Trelawny

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The result was delete. No evidence of notability under WP:GNG, WP:AUTHOR. Unreferenced BLP. joe decker ^{talk to me} 16:20, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Jack Trelawny[edit]

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Non-notable author. I could find zero coverage about him or his books. Unreferenced since February 2009. MelanieN (talk) 01:34, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. MelanieN (talk) 01:38, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. MelanieN (talk) 01:39, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete (and delete Kernowland redirect). His publisher seems to almost exclusively promote his work which makes he suspect it's a self-published series of books. That doesn't automatically make him non-notable (indeed some quite high-profile authors are emerging through this route), but at the moment the only independent coverage I can find is the odd story from the local paper where he visits a school. At the moment, that's a long way from WP:GNG. (Note: the article creator has since been blocked indefinitely, but that is down to an unrelated matter. It's not the usual single-purpose account aiming to promote the author, so I don't count that against this article.) Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 11:35, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:03, 7 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per above reasoning. I found only one incredibly brief mention that was worth adding to the article and even then, it serves as more of a trivial reference than anything else. He does seem to be popular in the area where he lives, but that popularity has not translated into notability that we need for a Wikipedia article.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 12:28, 14 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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