Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erik de Haan (author)


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The result was Delete.

Erik de Haan (author)

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Lacks reliable independent secondary sources actually about the subject to establish notability as required by WP:GNG. Sources offered are unhelpful. Most of the sources are just links to the subject's various bio pages scattered around the web and which appear to have been submitted by the subject. Most of the rest simply quote the subject but are not actually about him. Googling turned up nothing useful. Msnicki (talk) 06:22, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JAaron95  &#40; Talk &#41;  16:03, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete The only extensive articles about "the book" (that is, the one that gets almost have of the cites in the article) were written by de Haan himself, so those do not count at RS. Other sources are bios that accompany speaking engagements, and (from experience) those are usually provided by the speaker, so those are not RS (nor are they substantial). There are a few mentions (e.g. the Sunday Times article), but there is also padding, such as Goodreads (not an RS), the publisher's site (not an RS) and at least one blog (not an RS). The New Business magazine is an actual review of the book. Unfortunately, this page was created by a now-blocked sock puppet that was creating pages for most or all Kogan authors. LaMona (talk) 03:49, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - promo advert, trying to sell his self-published books, fails WP:NACADEMIC Kraxler (talk) 17:58, 5 July 2015 (UTC)


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