Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dudley Lynch

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. The one "keep" opinion is not compatible with consensus, as represented in the cited guideline, that merely being a published author is not sufficient for inclusion. Sandstein 07:02, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dudley Lynch[edit]

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Vanity article about obscure, non-notable writer. Only Google hits seem to be to this page, his blog, company page, LinkedIn, etc. Nothing in Google News. —Chowbok ☠ 01:20, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:53, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:05, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:06, 1 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Strong Keep - Has had work published. good enough for strong keep as per author.--BabbaQ (talk) 10:12, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Per WP:AUTHOR, simply having a book published isn't enough to establish notability. Especially nowadays, when anybody can get a book custom-published for less than $50 at places like Lulu.com.—Chowbok ☠ 17:04, 3 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - WP:AUTHOR is fairly clear that this page is far from notability. Kansan (talk) 00:56, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

An author is someone that has released a book or similar... this person has done that.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:16, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Have you read WP:AUTHOR? It makes it clear that having written a book is not enough to merit a Wikipedia article. Kansan (talk) 15:31, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – BabbaQ, please show me where merely being an author or publishing a book is part of the criteria for inclusion into Wikipedia. Item #3 of WP:AUTHOR requires, the book be "a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." ttonyb (talk) 15:34, 4 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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