Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carolyn Howard-Johnson

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The result was delete. east.718 at 00:28, December 27, 2007

Carolyn Howard-Johnson[edit]

Non-notability per WP:BIO

The credentials look considerably overstated. Her books that are listed as central to the notability, This is the place and Harkening, are both from Star Publish LLC - i.e. self-published. Red Sky Press Award appears to be extremely obscure, with the majority of hits relating to this book. WordThunder is a personal website. "Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature" looks highly obscure and only appears in Google hits for this author [1]. "Pasadena Weekly named her to their list of women of the San Gabrial Valley who make life work" looks a trivial credit in a regional newspaper. The Military Writers Society of America looks a fairly obscure organisation. USA Book News seems to be a small company, and The Compulsive Reader is a personal website. The Irwin Award is not for the quality of the book, but awarded by a promotional organisation, the BPSC, for members who conduct the best sales/promotional campaign [2].

There also appears to be a potential WP:COI: Googling the subject and article creator together [3] finds a number of mutually promotional review and link exchanges. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 20:25, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. STORMTRACKER 94 17:17, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. From my Google search, all of the content in the article appears to be factual, but I doubt that truly reliable sources can be found to verify much of it. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 20:35, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's not that is isn't factual: it's just that awards and credits from such small outfits don't come up to WP:BIO's test of "significant recognized awards or honors" or "significant critical attention". Gordonofcartoon (talk) 12:43, 22 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy delete as verifiability is not the same as notability, and she's just not notable - no evidence of "significant awards", major press reviews, etc. Bearian'sBooties (talk) 18:30, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletions. —User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 04:15, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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