Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frederick Martin-Del-Campo


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 19:49, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Frederick Martin-Del-Campo

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Article about an entirely non-notable writer. The author has published a number of exciting books with a vanity press of sorts (see this, for instance), and that's all there is. Actually, I'm holding out: one reliable mention is here, where our subject is thanked as one among many for submitting a story for an anthology--but the story was not accepted. Drmies (talk) 03:15, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Note: one of the article's editors (and the subject, I assume, from one of their earlier comments) created the same (or a very similar article), Martin-In-The-Fields, Frederick. I have lifted all the "references" from that article and pasted it into the one under discussion here, and redirected that article. Perhaps we shall go through the external links one by one: Then there's the "references"--well, they aren't references to anything relevant, and they aren't reliable sources. I could explain, but I've already spent half an hour of my life which I'll never get back on this article. Drmies (talk) 05:09, 5 February 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 03:11, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 is a copy from Wikipedia;
 * 2 does not mention our subject;
 * 3 is, I suspect, user-submitted on a commercial website;
 * 4 is another copy from Wikipedia;
 * 5 is a user-submitted blank;
 * 6 is a list of his books--which, BTW, are self-published;
 * 7 is a quickly updated copy from Wikipedia: it's the article as I just updated it, funny;
 * 8 is the author's contact information on LinkedIn;
 * 9 is your opportunity to contact the author, also on LinkedIn;
 * 10 is yet another copy from Wikipedia;
 * 11 is the article currently under discussion--an external link to a Wikipedia article;
 * 12 is an unacknowledged copy from Wikipedia.
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 13:30, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * comment Note thaty Martin-In-The-Fields, Frederick was created as a duplicate of this article. It has now been, quite properly, converted to a redirect. Should this AfD close as delete, it should be deleted also. DES (talk) 15:54, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable. Since the nominator searched for the author, I searched for his novel, Chronicles of War and a Wanderer. Amusingly, I found this, wherein the author complains bitterly that Airleaf, the vanity publisher which published the novel, "made a fool of him" by charging $10,000 for their services but failing to "turn his book into a best seller"! --MelanieN (talk) 17:07, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete Non-notable. Don't see the need for a relist here, though I must admit that I have nothing to add to Drmies' and MelanieN's investigation. --Pgallert (talk) 11:51, 12 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.