Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Maguire


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The result was   delete. Mark Arsten (talk) 03:29, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

Colin Maguire
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Fails WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR. Only claims of notability are winning an online story contest and having some short stories in non-notable publications. Furthermore, the article has no reliable sources, with 8 out of the 11 references being pages on Amazon.com. Hirolovesswords (talk) 17:11, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete - He has no coverage in independent reliable sources that I could find. The body of work seems to be a bunch of short stories that have been included in some collections through small press, or in low circulation magazines, but there's no literary criticism about these works that I could find.  -- Whpq (talk) 17:44, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete as lacking in-depth coverage in reliable independent sources. Stuartyeates (talk) 01:44, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
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