Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Akbar Golrang

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Unsourced biography of a writer of a lot of ebooks and self-published books through PublishAmerica. I couldn't find evidence he meets our notability criteria. Dougweller (talk) 17:08, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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• Delete Prolific author who has not been noticed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
• Delete with caveat. No sources (a major no no for BLPs). No real evidence of notability from a Google search. However I note the author's background is one that would suggest sources might be available in languages other than English. If some are found I am open to reconsideration. -Ad Orientem (talk) 00:50, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

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• Comment An article on one of his ebooks has just been created, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zarathustra : the Golden Star. Dougweller (talk) 17:10, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
• Comment -- If true, he may be prolific enough to warrant the article being kept. If the books or films can be shown to exist, that will be source enough for them. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:48, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
• Comment Why? How does being prolific make someone notable? A prolific Yale professor, I was told, still didn't meet WP:ACADEMIC, so how can someone whose literary output seems basically self-published be notable without even meeting WP:GNG? Dougweller (talk) 21:51, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

::*I'd say that he's not prolific enough to qualify under that criteria. That's the sort of thing that would qualify if he had written an extremely, extremely large amount of books. The expectation for prolific as notability is that the writer would have written closer to 100+ books, but even then that's not really enough to qualify because there would still need to be some sort of coverage to mark this as notable. The thing about this qualification is that self-publishing is making it incredibly easy (or at least easier) for people to publish everything they've written, whereas in the past only people who could afford the cost or had a publishing contract could get that many made. In other words, the only way that someone would get notability for writing a lot of books is if they were to have written an extremely large amount in a certain time period and/or received coverage about that doing so. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:32, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

::*Although that said, I do see one of his works listed as a cite in [http://books.google.com/books?id=DvCR-sIH56UC&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=%22Akbar+Golrang%22&source=bl&ots=iB0W5VEkr4&sig=kFU5-ZYmW3WE-uEoJ0AJPFlKE5I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MB4pU6iYPOio0gHii4HADQ&ved=0CCQQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22Akbar%20Golrang%22&f=false this book] through University Press of America. It's not enough to keep or even really show notability, but it does help assert that there might be sources in another language. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 04:35, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

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