Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Lawson (Author)


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 03:32, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Alan Lawson (Author)

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Completely non-notable author. Vanity page created by author for a book he wrote and self-published. Neither author nor novel seem to be notable in any reference that I can locate. There is another one or two Alan Lawson's out there that are authors, but none of them are this person. The author seems to have added his book to every online site he can find also, they don't seem to be independent. Canterbury Tail  talk  17:56, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete A quite comprehensive publicity campaign seems to have been done - around the usual places, Twitter, Bebo etc. I have also found other Alan Lawsons, so I searched for the book and only got two and a half pages - none of which I would consider showed anything more than existence. What I've seen of the text doesn't look bad and definitely is a cut above the stuff that we normally find in AfD. However it is self-published, albeit at the better end of the self-publishing world. For a first work, written while still at university, it shows potential. I feel we will see this Alan Lawson back here. As this is an encyclopaedia, not yet, though. Sell as many as you can, and use the figures to help in getting a 'real' publisher for the next book. Peridon (talk) 18:13, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - books seem to have been published by a vanity press/self-published and all tne references are also author initiated Porturology (talk) 08:57, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 12:59, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
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