Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Rowe (poet)


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The result was   delete. The Bushranger One ping only 05:52, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

David Rowe (poet)

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Doesn't seem to meet the guidelines in WP:AUTHOR. Contributed to anthologies and has his own books, but using Google, I don't see much evidence that this poet is notable and there isn't any indication thereof in the article. Mr. Vernon (talk) 20:01, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 00:14, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete At the time this AfD was started the article had no references. Since then a large number of "references" have been rapidly added, which superficially look impressive. However, closer examination of those references reveals that most of them don't even mention David Rowe, of those that do mention him most make only passing reference, and many of them are not reliable sources, not independent of the subject, or both. A good deal of work has gone into trying to make this subject look notable, but unfortunately has not succeeded. JamesBWatson (talk) 15:14, 10 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete - Lacks significant coverage about him to establish notability. -- Whpq (talk) 13:34, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per JamesBWatson - the addition of misleading references is the killer. MikeWazowski (talk) 13:16, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
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