Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chelle Cordero


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 01:48, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Chelle Cordero

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Questioning the existence of this article on Wikipedia due to the Notability (people) guidelines.

This person is an author who is published with only one small press that is itself not noteworthy. The stub bio mentions things that are also not noteworthy, such such as the author being a Pushcart Prize nominee--while the Pushcart Prize is indeed noteworthy, a nomination for the prize isn't. Any publisher can nominated up to six authors per year, with no entry fees or application. Currently, her small-press publisher only HAS seven authors listed, so nominating six authors isn't hard to do. None of the other 'awards' are notable either, many of them simply being non-notable bloggers who do little 'contests' to help promote their blogs and their fellow author friends. I don't believe being published by one small press and never winning any major, notable literary award or having ever received a sizable publishing deal with an advance qualifies one for inclusion in Wikipedia.

Additionally, the only source/citation for this entry is a link to the publisher itself, and that makes this appear more like an attempt to promote the author and publisher than a legitimate page on Wikipedia for information, but even if that weren't important, this stub fails to meet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28people%29 basic guideline on notoriety that reads: "A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of multiple published secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject." Under the "Creative Professionals", this author fails to meet any of the four criteria for authors.

With the movement of 'indie authors' proliferating the internet, if Wikipedia doesn't maintain its usual high standards in vetting inclusion, every indie author who publishes is going to think just having a book warrants inclusion, and we'll start to see them spouting off notability citations to include being A #1 Top Amazon Best Selling author in the zoology peanut butter category. Thank you for consideration.

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 * Delete Per WP:AUTHOR #3, no book reviews in multiple reliable sources. Furthermore most of her honors are non-notable. The exception being Pushcart Prize but it was a nominee not winner. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 17:39, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - No significant coverage about this author or her books. - Whpq (talk) 16:10, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.