Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charlotte Boyett-Compo (2nd nomination)


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. v/r - TP 01:10, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Charlotte Boyett-Compo
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Author of a number of books that do not meet WP:NB criteria. Article does not meet WP:BLP criteria, as the only source used fails WP:RS rules quite spectacularly. Quick search on Google News finds no recent articles about this author. Publisher of recent works seems to focus mostly on ebooks and may be a vanity press, though I am uncertain. While small, minor sites seem to mention this person occasionally, I am not seeing anything that would come close to demonstrating notability for inclusion in an encyclopedia, and article was created by editor with clear COI. Previous deletion discussion was many years back, before we had more stable criteria for determining inclusion, and was closed due to no consensus. DreamGuy (talk) 00:25, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm in the process of searching for sources, so I'm not going to say anything just yet, but I just wanted to state that Ellora's Cave is an actual publisher. It's a very small independent publisher that deals mostly in ebooks, but it isn't a vanity or self-publish type of setup and is relatively well known in the romance world. That being said, being published does not automatically give you notability and I'm having a hard time trying to find anything to justify keeping her article on here. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 05:46, 7 November 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
 * Delete. I searched pretty hard for anything that could justify keeping Boyett-Compo on here, but it seems that she's on the very cusp of what Wikipedia would consider to be notable. She has a lot of ghits, but not of anything that would be considered reliable sources. (Ghits aren't enough to justify notability, after all.) She's been nominated for awards but hasn't won anything big just yet and most of the awards are sort of "minor" as far as wikipedia guidelines go., , Nor has any of her books hit the NYT or any of the big bestseller listings. The only thing that would potentially give her enough to stay is if I knew what type of profile she got in the Writer's Digest Publishing Success entry, although it sounds sort of like it was more of a brief entry where she was mentioned along with other authors. I can't find the actual article- the only mentions of it refer back to sites the author has put this info on. At this moment she just isn't notable enough to warrant an article. She might be in the future but then she might not be and keeping the article on the idea that she might be is a WP:CRYSTAL no-no. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 06:01, 7 November 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
 * Additional: Just to mention, if this is deleted then there might be some extensive cleanup from User:Windlegends, whose sole editing purpose on here has been to insert mentions of this author into various pages. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 06:07, 7 November 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
 * Additional additional. If this is deleted then the powers that be might want to consider blocking Windlegends since they've already added an entry that was previously deleted for being promotional in nature and their whole purpose for being is to add mentions of CBC to various articles. Tokyogirl79 (talk) 06:33, 7 November 2011 (UTC)tokyogirl79
 * Delete per Tokyogirl79. I had a look through a couple of book-trade databases myself as well, and came up with nothing that would pass WP:AUTHOR. Yunshui 雲水 08:54, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:42, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 16:42, 7 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. Unable to find any significant independent coverage&mdash;one quote, a couple of references as a survivor in an obit&mdash;in news or books. Bongo  matic  00:13, 13 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete as non-notable self-published author. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:06, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
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