Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul Shannon

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The result of the debate was delete. I moved Paul Shannon (Pittsburgh) to the vacant Paul Shannon title, if you're wondering why the link is blue. Flowerparty☀ 22:14, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Paul Shannon

this author is not very notable, google has few if any references and most of his books are out of print. Seems to be a vanity article Reid A. 16:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete, fails WP:BIO. -- Kim van der Linde ^{at venus} 19:19, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as aboveHomey 02:47, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, assuming (as seems reasonable from the article content) that he's the Paul Shannon who wrote or co-wrote Coal and Minerals (Rail Freight S.), Yorkshire: The West Riding (British Railways Past & Present S.), Class 37 (Rail Portfolios S.) and umpteen more books in-print and available from Amazon. Angus McLellan (Talk) 23:02, 5 June 2006 (UTC) Change to delete per [User:Squamate]]'s more thorough research. Angus McLellan (Talk) 08:14, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. There is a P.D. Shannon who teaches at the school, and there is an author Paul Shannon. I checked online and could not find a connection. Also, this article has been vandalized several times from anonymous IP addresses, many the same, and much of the vandalism consisted of potentially libelous or defamatory statements. Squamate 02:54, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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