Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Armand (author)


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The result was   delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 23:46, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

David Armand (author)

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This author lacks significance and therefore is non-notable according to WP:AUTHOR. He has a single published book to his name (which I have also nominated for deletion). asnac (talk) 07:41, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. I tried seeing if merging the author and book articles together would warrant a keep, but I just can't find enough to show that Armand passes any notability guidelines.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 10:52, 7 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Question Evidently the winner of the 2010 George Garrett Fiction Prize. Could the nominator please comment as to why they either disbelieve this, consider the award itself beneath significance, or consider that an award-winning novel is still not considered notable? Andy Dingley (talk) 20:54, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I found no significant coverage about the award. I only found that such and such piece of fiction received this award. Not every award shows automatic notability. SL93 (talk)
 * Pretty much the same reasons that SL93 stated above. The award was given to the book by the publisher, with part of the prize being that Texas Review will publish the book. There's nothing to show that the award itself is notable, which is what we ultimately need as far as awards go. Rule of thumb is that 99.9% of awards (regardless of what they're awarded for, books, movies, etc) are not notable and do not count towards notability.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 04:45, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * As this local news article on the difficulties of finding a publisher shows, the author not only published the novel with the group offering the prize, he had to promote and distribute the book himself. There are only a few literary prizes that automatically confer notability, and the George Garrett Fiction Prize is not one of them. asnac (talk) 06:28, 10 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete: Per my comment above. SL93 (talk) 21:45, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:14, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
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