Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kerry William Purcell

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The result was delete. KaisaL (talk) 02:39, 1 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kerry William Purcell[edit]

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Delete. WP:BLP of a writer, with some advertorial overtones and citing no reliable source coverage about his writing at all -- until I cleaned it up just now for WP:ELNO compliance, the "referencing" here consisted entirely of embedded offsite links to his own website, his own Tumblr and/or amazon.com. As always, a writer is not automatically entitled to have a Wikipedia article just because his own self-published web presence or an online bookstore verifies that he exists; he must be the subject of reliable source coverage in media, which verifies that he passes WP:AUTHOR for something, for an article to become earned. Bearcat (talk) 21:20, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kurykh (talk) 02:04, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete Far WP:Too soon. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:09, 17 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, J 947 21:32, 24 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

WEak delete -- I failed to verify that he was a senior lecturer at Hertfordshire University, though mentioned on their website. Currently this is a BLP whose only source is the subject personal webpage, making it potentially WP:OR. If he was a senior lecturer, he might possibly meet WP:ACADEMIC, but I am dubious. It might be userified, but I cannot see to whom. Unless improved, I think it must be deleted as an unverified BLP. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:39, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Fails WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR.CAPTAIN RAJU (✉) 18:35, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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