Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dean Anthony Gratton


 * 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. postdlf (talk) 07:03, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

Dean Anthony Gratton

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Article's author seems to be a single purpose account to promote Gratton and his wife Sarah-Jayne Gratton, who both claim to be experts in promotion using social media. True to form, this article is supported almost in its entirety by WP:PRIMARY sources, or sources written (or created) by Grattons. It even has a promotional quote from a book that won't be published till 2013. The one source with any reliability is the article in the local town paper. This in itself doesn't make Gratton notable. Author has been given plenty of opportunity to improve the article but has refused to do so. It remains as a promotional page and I think its time is up. Sionk (talk) 02:24, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete: Promotional to the point of being worth a speedy delete. I suggest you add Sarah-Jayne Gratton to this deletion discussion. Note that the "chief editor" and "protector" of both these pages, has now been blocked for his edits to these two pages. הסרפד  (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 02:36, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I nominated Sarah-Jayne Gratton for deletion earlier this week and decided there was sufficient difference to warrant a separate nomination. But the difference is slight, I admit! The author has been extremely aggressive, so I didn't want to fight a battle on two fronts, so to speak. Sionk (talk) 03:09, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Oops. I somehow didn't notice the AfD header on the other page. הסרפד (Hasirpad) [formerly Ratz...bo] 03:58, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Zujua (talk) 02:41, 17 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete - not really sure what the subject is supposed to be notable for. The promotional tone of the article doesn't help but there seems to be a suggestion that the subject has done lots of little bits here and there and has written a couple of fairly non-notable books in his spare time. Being the author of a "best-selling" book (37 on Amazon UK?) isn't a notability criteria for the author (WP:AUTHOR) or the book (WP:NBOOK). He doesn't seem to have won a literary award for any of his books - something that is a notability criteria and probably the closest one to that assertion. If you removed all the promo-spam, self-aggrandisement and material supported by unreliable references, there wouldn't be much there at all. Stalwart 111  02:55, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:GNG. WP:PROMOTION. Pburka (talk) 04:04, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - the only claim to notability is that he's a bestselling author, but with no evidence thereof. Bearian (talk) 22:21, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
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