Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Gallaher


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The result was delete. Killiondude (talk) 05:54, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Bill Gallaher

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Fails WP:NAUTHOR Cannot find any sources that back up claims of notability for subject. All the references are dead links. Rogermx (talk) 02:38, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete. An author's notability cannot be supported by his books' own catalogue profiles on the website of the company that published them, which is the only kind of sourcing present here at all — his notability has to be supported by reliable source coverage about him and the books in media, such as book reviews in the Vancouver Sun or The Globe and Mail or Quill & Quire. But I can't find any reliable source coverage, nor can I find any evidence that he has the kind of notability claim (e.g. getting a Giller or Governor-General's Award nomination) that would be significant enough to entitle him to a presumption of notability pending better sources. And the article itself has some advertorial undertones, reading very much like the kind of thing one might expect to see at the top of his GoodReads profile. Neither the content nor the sourcing present here passes our notability standards for authors or musicians or air traffic controllers or social studies teachers. Bearcat (talk) 17:12, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete Per Bearcat.--SamHolt6 (talk) 07:38, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 02:54, 13 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment, Gallaher is also the author of High Rider that just about meets WP:NBOOK (from what can be found online), being held by around 240 libraries, received an IPPY award (a 2016 bronze award for best regional fiction), and has been reviewed by Historical Novel Society (High Rider), and Booklist (starred review), but i would be comfortable with a bit more. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:32, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete a lack of coverage of him in reliable sources.John Pack Lambert (talk) 04:05, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete I agree with Bearcat. Notability has not been demonstrated. Lacypaperclip (talk) 04:08, 16 January 2018 (UTC)


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