Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wayne Wightman

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A decent author and professor that wrote some interesting short stories that by and large seems to have escaped notability to live a quiet life. Nothing in the article claims notability and other than his name being included in a couple lists of science fiction authors I can't find any independent information about him. (But give some of his short stories on TWL a read maybe) Moritoriko (talk) 02:20, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and United States of America. Moritoriko (talk) 02:20, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Science fiction and fantasy, and California. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 05:13, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Merge It would be great if here at Wikipedia we could keep up the level of coverage found in the secondary sources as described in the nomination and the sources in the article. I expect that there is not enough for stand-alone notability, so a merge as WP:Alternative to deletion would be best. The main question is where. List of science fiction writers unfortunately does not offer itself to merge in accordance with the suggestion of WP:ATD-M, so I guess Tachyon Publications, where Wightman is already mention, would be best. Open to other suggestions. Daranios (talk) 07:13, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
:What information from this article would you merge? The fact that he wrote for Thirteenth Moon and the name of his (only?) book are already on the Tachyon page. His name is on the Future on Fire page (but unlinked interestingly). That leaves his education and employment at a community college which I don't believe belong on a different page. Moritoriko (talk) 08:19, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
::Hmm, thinking about it, content-wise I would like it best to WP:PRESERVE everything except the sentence about his degrees, maybe shortening the occupation. That's the problem with the deletion request. That kind of information would be worthwhile for the encyclopedia, but without a separate article I don't know if it fits into any existing target. Additionally, Wightman contributing in Amazing Stories should be added based on [https://www.google.de/books/edition/The_History_of_the_Science_fiction_Magaz/2qkmF8HvP_gC?hl=de&gbpv=1&dq=%22Wayne+Wightman%22+-wikipedia&pg=PR19&printsec=frontcover The History of the Science-fiction Magazine Volume 3], p. xix, and his year of birth based on [https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1421 isfdb]. Daranios (talk) 11:13, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Delete. Has a decent portfolio of SF publications but without much evidence of attention to them, of a type that might lead to WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR notability, and obviously his community-college teaching position is not going to pass WP:PROF. I found [https://locusmag.com/2011/03/lois-tilton-reviews-short-fiction-early-march/ one short review of one short story], and [https://www.sfadb.com/Wayne_Wightman three long-list nominations for a minor award]. That's not enough. Wikipedia is not the Internet Speculative Fiction Database nor should we aim to include everything that can be found there. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:06, 31 May 2025 (UTC)