Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anthony Hyde


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The result was   nomination withdrawn due to sourcing improvements. Bearcat (talk) 13:56, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Anthony Hyde

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WP:BLP of a writer, which makes no real claim to passing WP:AUTHOR, and which is sourced exclusively to a single commercial sales profile for one of his books on an online bookstore. A writer does not get an automatic inclusion freebie on Wikipedia just because he exists, nor does an online bookstore count as reliable source referencing — but a Google News search didn't turn up any serious indication of improved sourceability, resulting in just a small handful of glancing namechecks of his existence in articles about other things. Delete unless somebody knows where to find much better sourcing than I've been able to. Bearcat (talk) 18:23, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - this Anthony Hyde has never done anything of note, although there seems to be a criminal with the same name. Bearian (talk) 16:29, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:43, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep as I easily found links at Books and Newspapers Archive suggesting he at least got WP:GNG attention. Notifying and .  SwisterTwister   talk  06:11, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * comment, have added book reviews to the article, also according to WorldCat his works are held by quite a number of libraries ie. - The Red Fox around 1000 libraries,  - China Lake about 700 libraries.Coolabahapple (talk) 15:29, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ☮ JAaron95  Talk   18:28, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak delete I have to say,  this author is as much of a mystery as the plots of his books. His first book was expected to be a big success (I can't tell if it really was), but his others seem to have gotten almost no attention. I added the review of that first book from the NYTimes, and for a short while after that he wrote a couple of book reviews for that newspaper (e.g. ), but that seems to be it. He has a web site, but the bio there is limited. I don't find bios anywhere else. His brother, Christopher Hyde, also wrote thrillers, but I don't find much about him either. He's got two solid reliable sources, the NYT review and the article about him in the Montreal Gazette. But shortly thereafter, the trail goes cold. LaMona (talk) 20:04, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep Here are some more reviews and articles written about the author Christian Science Monitor, Montreal Gazette, Joseph Finder's site, Atlas Society and both he and his brother are included in the Encyclopedia of Literature by W.H. New. There is certainly enough for WP:GNG. User:Fraserlaidlaw 01:35, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Okay, the referencing's been improved enough that I'm withdrawing this. Thanks, guys. Bearcat (talk) 13:56, 9 October 2015 (UTC)


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