Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amanda Hughes


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The result was   delete. JohnCD (talk) 17:14, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Amanda Hughes

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WP:AUTHOR and WP:SPS While the first book was originally published by an outside house (which seems to be now gone), it and the subsequent books appear to be published through Amazon's self publishing arm. And the accompanying references don't indicate notability. WP:COI - the article is written by one person who has only this one article up and seems to have access to documentation only the author would have (copy of original contract) suggest it is the author creating the article. There is no real supporting evidence of notability of a writer here.  Antiqueight  confer 17:11, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. One of the two refs currently in the article does not, when followed, even mention Hughes. The other is fairly substantial, but seems to be in a local weekly paper about a local author, whcih does not establish notability. Does not pass any part of WP:Author. A Google search found only self-published sources, personal blogs, appearance listings, book listings at amazon and other vendor sites, and pages about other people of the same name. The already cited ABC article was by far the deepest coverage I found. DES (talk) 17:47, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's just not enough coverage out there to show that Hughes is ultimately notable enough for her own article. I vaguely remember looking for sources for her before, probably because someone requested her at the book or author request pile. I couldn't find sources then and I can't find them now. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   03:54, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Minnesota-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:21, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 12:21, 9 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete 4 members out of 1.7 million at LibraryThing have books which is a bad first sign of a notable author, the most popular book just 3 copies. Although LibraryThing is not how we directly measure notability, the low numbers indicate not many people own the books and thus they have not received much in the way of book reviews in reliable sources (which is how we measure notability per WP:AUTHOR #3). This is confirmed by the author's website which includes reviews, but they are all unreliable sources, customer reviews or blogs. Except for Midwest which is a sort of review mill. The ABC news article is a good start but not enough for WP:GNG. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 17:55, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
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