Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sebastian Cole (author)

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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 21:20, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

•keep I found plenty of news articles for Cole. Still looking for more. Mercutio1400 (talk) 21:07, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sebastian Cole (author)[edit]

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Non-notable author lacking Ghits and GNews of substance. His book has won a couple of minor awards, but not sure the book passes WP:NOTBOOK. reddogsix (talk) 21:01, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I've found a number of secondary sources: Interviews [1], [2], [3], [4] his most well know book Sand Dollar has a good few reviews [5], [6], [7]--Salix (talk): 22:08, 30 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The only problem is that the sources you've given are all by places that are considered to be non-notable blog sites. The ForeWord review would be somewhat usable, except that it's reviewed through Clarion Review, which is their "fee-for-review" arm. That means that essentially that review was paid for by the publisher or author, which makes the review completely unusable for notability purposes. I'll see what I can find, but we can't use any of those sources for notability purposes. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:31, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The award from Foreword is also dodgy and I'm actually going to say that after reading this I'd probably recommend not using anything from ForeWord Reviews. The award would be considered minor in any case, but that they pretty much tell people to "spend some money to advertise your award" indicates that it's pretty much a vanity award for the most part.Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:36, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete both. I did search for sources, but there just isn't any coverage in anything that would be seen as a reliable source. The awards are minor and the ForeWord award is somewhat dodgy since they pretty much hit the publisher/author up for money on the same page where they announce the winners. That gives off a distinct vanity award scent, as the more reputable awards don't do that sort of thing. The sources listed above are all otherwise through sites that are blogs and otherwise unusable as reliable sources, such as in the case of the ForeWord/Clarion review being a "fee for review" puppy. The only source that I found that was somewhat usable was this story about a signing event from a local paper, which means that it's greatly depreciated as far as notability going is concerned. There just isn't enough out there to show that he or his book passes notability guidelines for authors or books. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 09:44, 31 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete book and author Awards are vanity awards and reviews are vanity reviews ie. self-published unreliable. One legitimate review in Cranston Herald, the author's hometown, not enough. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 16:12, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete—both. Piling on after the excellent research performed by Tokyogirl79... her analysis is 100% accurate. Livit⇑^Eh?/_What? 14:19, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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