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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was KEEP. Golbez 00:13, May 17, 2005 (UTC)

Robert Muchamore*

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Delete for obvious reasons Sensation002 17:40, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I will edit it it was not supposed to say thtat.

Comment: This VfD was incorrectly formatted and never made it to the main page. No vote. —Xezbeth 20:18, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete as absolute nonsense and for having a stray asterisk in the title. RickK 21:14, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep rename to remove asterisk from name and edit - a real author of popular children's books [1]. Might not be in league of Harry Potter but certainly read and enjoyed by 11 year olds (mine in the last month for example). Sufficiently notable for Wikipedia. --AYArktos 22:01, 7 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
additional comment: the semi-policy Wikipedia:Criteria for inclusion of biographies states that a published author who has written a book with an audience of 5,000 falls within the criteria for inclusion. Robert Muchamore's audience > 5,000. The fact that the audience is children, and therefore not the same audience as the voters on this page, is not a criteria for deletion.--AYArktos 01:30, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Comment on the above vote - the last vote was 2 for rewrite and 2 3 for delete, the result delete. One vote for delete stated "No Amazon sales rankings are listed", while another voter stated "Amazon suggests he actually sells quite a few books". Amazon sales rankings are listed for the Cherub series, however, Amazon sales rankings are at best not easy to interpret (an FAQ on Amazon sales rankings). The books are stocked and read in Canberra, read in England, and read in the US - read by children not (in general) wikipedians - the author fits the criteria for inclusion as a biography on the basis that the audience is > 5,000 --AYArktos 07:42, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
You need to look again. There are three delete votes (all in bold) and no keep votes. (You can consider the source of this vote to be the rewrite.) Challenging Amazon rankings doesn't affect my vote. I doubt if it will do so for anyone else. - Tεxτurε 14:45, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
the Amazon UK ranking for the recruit is 4,156 [2]. Not sure what this tells anyone, more meaningful is the listing (one of three in category) for the Red House Children's book of the year award. The award has been running for 25 years (not flash in the pan) and Muchamore's first novel was one of three selected out of 262 candidates of books for older readers. How will Wikipedia be improved by deleting an article about a shortlisted children's author? The criteria for inclusion of buiographies would seem, as noted above, to include this article within its scope--AYArktos 23:47, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, nn. Iam 06:15, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep He has books for sale in most major bookshops, and has sold a great number. I vote to keep it. --Jamie 12:03, May 13, 2005 (UTC)
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