The result was no consensus. WP:NPASR. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:27, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
This article's notability has been previously questioned by an unlogged user, and the deletion tag removed by KHill-LTown ( talk). Among the reasons given for the lack of notability in that instance were a lack of reliable sources independent of the author (e.g. the pre-eminence of comments from his publisher), as well as the presence of a large section that read like a narrative-form CV. I have tried to clean up the article, by removing unsubstantiated statements, and all I am left with is a publication contract with Quercus and the shortlisting of a story. As it is, I am therefore in doubt whether this article meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and is not a personal promotion page (an impression I got from the rather hyperbolic language used before I toned it down). After all, there are many writers who publish books and whose stories get shortlisted for prizes, but not all of them have a Wikipedia page. Has this author won any prizes or earned other recognitions that could justify a claim to notability? As it stands, and after trying to rescue it, I suggest it should be deleted. Shurjoroi ( talk) 14:07, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
The result was no consensus. WP:NPASR. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:27, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
This article's notability has been previously questioned by an unlogged user, and the deletion tag removed by KHill-LTown ( talk). Among the reasons given for the lack of notability in that instance were a lack of reliable sources independent of the author (e.g. the pre-eminence of comments from his publisher), as well as the presence of a large section that read like a narrative-form CV. I have tried to clean up the article, by removing unsubstantiated statements, and all I am left with is a publication contract with Quercus and the shortlisting of a story. As it is, I am therefore in doubt whether this article meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, and is not a personal promotion page (an impression I got from the rather hyperbolic language used before I toned it down). After all, there are many writers who publish books and whose stories get shortlisted for prizes, but not all of them have a Wikipedia page. Has this author won any prizes or earned other recognitions that could justify a claim to notability? As it stands, and after trying to rescue it, I suggest it should be deleted. Shurjoroi ( talk) 14:07, 31 March 2014 (UTC)