Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wild Bill Williams (novel)

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 01:37, 22 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wild Bill Williams (novel)[edit]

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I came across this novel and saw that it lacked reliable sources. A search did not bring up anything to show that this book passes WP:NBOOK or that it will anytime in the near future. I debated redirecting this to the author's page, but I then noticed that the author (Jack Martin (entertainer)) also had a lack of notability going on, only having one source. A search didn't bring up any other sources that would show that he passes WP:AUTHOR or WP:NACTOR, or any aspect of WP:GNG. A look into the original editor's edits (which suggest that he is the author himself) shows a habit of adding his own articles to Wikipedia, most of which have been deleted for notability concerns. Definite COI going on here and while I know that you can still have notability even with COI, none of the articles pass notability guidelines. I'm also adding Edge the Loner for the same reasons of notability: no sources and nothing comes up to show it passes notability guidelines. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 07:15, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I am also nominating the following related pages for the reasons stated above:

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 07:23, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Actors and filmmakers-related deletion discussions. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 07:25, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Also, the author doesn't seem to be notable as an actor either.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 07:25, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all three of these abysmal articles for abjectly failing WP:BK and WP:AUTHOR. Qworty (talk) 07:36, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete trifecta. Unable to find multiple reliable sources for the author or his books per WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. There is one decent source (Pontypridd Observer) but other than that, some of the stuff in the article appears to be the work of imagination for example the award "Small Press Award for Excellence in Blogging" doesn't exist in a Google search, it's unlikely an award for blogging doesn't have presence online (maybe so but still no way to verify it without a source). IMDB shows someone named Gary Dobbs appeared in Moonmonkeys[1] but no IMDB evidence for the other claimed films (Dr. Who etc..) or that this is even the same Gary Dobbs (understood IMDB is not a reliable source). In any case, just being a "bit actor" or publishing books is not enough to meet notability on Wikipedia. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 22:09, 14 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.