Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Byfield

=[[Sam Byfield]]=

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This article appears to have a conflict of interest and seems to have been set up for personal promotion. The tone of the article is biased and lists the author's personal achievements. The author in question has published one chapbook of poetry and hasn't yet published a full length collection. For these reasons the page should be deleted. Jamjamthankumam (talk) 20:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

:This is a strange one. On the one hand, I'm not sure that the subject does meet the notability criteria. On the other, I'm very suspicious of an AFD nomination by a user who has never made any contributions to anything else. Don't know. Chris (talk) 23:56, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

:*This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 12:51, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

  • Delete - Suspicious as the nomination may be, there are no reliable sources writing about this person or his poetry. -- Whpq (talk) 17:11, 1 March 2010 (UTC)


:Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:53, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

  • Delete His works do not come up in either the US, UK, or Australian national libraries. He returns no verifiable hits, I can't find any other reliable references to the author. Does not meet WP:AUTH. avs5221 (talk) 02:04, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

: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.