Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dennis E. Taylor

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WP:BLP of a writer, which offers no evidence of a WP:NAUTHOR pass and no reliable sourcing to get him over WP:GNG. The notability claim here boils down to "he exists", which is not enough in and of itself to get a writer into Wikipedia -- and two of the three sources here are a Q&A interview on a podcast, and a user-generated book review on an unreliable "anybody can write about anything they want to" content-generation community platform. And while the third source, a review in Locus, does count for something toward demonstrating notability, it doesn't carry a GNG pass all by itself as the article's only non-worthless source. I'm also bundling his two books, as neither of them is properly sourced as passing WP:NBOOK either -- both are written as mere plot summaries rather than offering any real-world context for notability, and one relies solely on primary sources like the author's own self-published website and the book's sales page on Amazon, while the other adds only the same sources that aren't adequate in the BLP. Bearcat (talk) 16:38, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 19:32, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. MassiveYR ♠ 19:32, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

• Delete all, agree with nominator, neither Taylor nor his books are notable enough for wp articles. Taylor does not meet WP:AUTHOR or WP:GNG, a gsearch brings up nothing useable (just the usual amazon, goodreads, author's own site etc.), if one of his books was notable i might suggest a redirect, but apart from the one Locus review [http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2017/06/table-of-contents-june-2017/ here] of We Are Legion theres nothing else for WP:NBOOK, the other references at that article is either authors own, publisher, retailer ie. amazon and audible, "anyone can contribute" sites, ditto for For We Are Many (that said, did find [http://geekspeakmagazine.com/we-are-legion-we-are-bob-and-xkcd-in-print/ this review] of We Are Bob by GeekSpeakMagazine, if deemed ok, then that book may just squeak over the line but would be happier with more). Coolabahapple (talk) 05:05, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
• Comment, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Novels_by_Dennis_E._Taylor&action=history this cat] will also need to be removed. Coolabahapple (talk) 05:08, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 05:13, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

:Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 18:50, 8 October 2017 (UTC)

• Leaning Keep I'm seeing coverage like [https://patch.com/us/across-america/20-audiobooks-download-labor-day-weekend], [http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article175444801.html], [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yudhanjaya-wijeratne-on-books-and-writing_us_5963a52de4b08f5c97d06b99], which seems to be reasonable, if on the light side. I think a bit more exploration is appropriate. Jclemens (talk) 03:34, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

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• Delete not nearly enough sources to show notability.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:56, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

• Delete - Per Nomination. reddogsix (talk) 23:00, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

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