The result was no consensus. Sandstein 20:02, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
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WP:BLP of a writer, whose only apparent claim of notability per
WP:AUTHOR is that he and his work exist. Of the 12 footnotes here, six of them are to his books' own promotional profiles on the website of their own publisher, while another is his own faculty profile on the website of his own employer -- so none of these are independent sources for the purpose of establishing notability. And while the other five are media, there's one (City Pages) that just briefly namechecks his existence in the context of having been a member of a non-notable local bar band in the 1990s, and two dead links (Bristol Evening Post and Bloomberg) that are unretrievable even via the Wayback Machine to determine how much they ever actually did or didn't say about him, so none of those are helping to establish notability either.
I was able to recover the other two dead links (The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star) via
ProQuest, but The Globe and Mail also just gives him a glancing namecheck of his existence in an article about something other than him. So literally the only reference here that's actually doing anything at all in terms of establishing his notability is the Toronto Star — but if he can't claim something on the order of winning a noteworthy literary award, then it takes quite a bit more than just one notability-assisting source to get him over
WP:GNG on "notable because media coverage exists" grounds.
Bearcat (
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19:51, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
The result was no consensus. Sandstein 20:02, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
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WP:BLP of a writer, whose only apparent claim of notability per
WP:AUTHOR is that he and his work exist. Of the 12 footnotes here, six of them are to his books' own promotional profiles on the website of their own publisher, while another is his own faculty profile on the website of his own employer -- so none of these are independent sources for the purpose of establishing notability. And while the other five are media, there's one (City Pages) that just briefly namechecks his existence in the context of having been a member of a non-notable local bar band in the 1990s, and two dead links (Bristol Evening Post and Bloomberg) that are unretrievable even via the Wayback Machine to determine how much they ever actually did or didn't say about him, so none of those are helping to establish notability either.
I was able to recover the other two dead links (The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star) via
ProQuest, but The Globe and Mail also just gives him a glancing namecheck of his existence in an article about something other than him. So literally the only reference here that's actually doing anything at all in terms of establishing his notability is the Toronto Star — but if he can't claim something on the order of winning a noteworthy literary award, then it takes quite a bit more than just one notability-assisting source to get him over
WP:GNG on "notable because media coverage exists" grounds.
Bearcat (
talk)
19:51, 8 November 2018 (UTC)