Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elizabeth (novel)


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:14, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Elizabeth (novel)

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A PROD tag was removed without apparently addressing the unresolved issues of notability and reliable sources, which brought me here. An unpublished novel that has no notability, either inherently or as a result of the (unreferenced and unreferenceable) claim of it having been rejected 6,000 times. No reliable sources are provided for the novel itself; the author's biography, apparently self-contributed, was deleted today for lack of notability/reliable sources, and thereby cannot contribute to any speculative notability for the novel. In short, 6001. Accounting4Taste: talk 22:13, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete the "references" are both to minor blogs, and both say, essentially, "Hey, this jerk keeps spamming me!" while this does serve as a cautionary tale of sorts about how NOT to get a book published, and I do applaud the guy for not going the vanity-press route, this is far too minor and lacks the appropriate references in reliable sources for an encyclopedia article. Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  22:55, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:28, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and Andrew Lenahan. The article verges on having WP:BLP problems by identifying the author and claiming that his novel has been rejected 6,000 times. And, of course, as an unpublished novel, the subject would need to meet the general notability guideline to be the subject of a Wikipedia article, which would require coverage in independent reliable sources. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 23:37, 29 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - This is an unpublished novel by a person who, as far as I can tell has not had any previous novels published. Not surprisingly, there is absolutely no coverage about his novel in any reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 14:38, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Aside from the issues already mentioned there seems to be a conflict of interest between the main contributor and the author of the "book".--Savonneux (talk) 18:48, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete unpublished insignifcant author.... ? Sadads (talk) 18:14, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
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