Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geoffrey James (writer)


 * 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. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 03:13, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Geoffrey James (writer)
AfDs for this article: 
 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Biography for a non-notable author of, at lest, just one notable book. At best, his name should redirect to his solely notable (self-published?) book. We don't have enough third part coverage to base a biography article about this man. damiens.rf 09:06, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. North America1000 13:50, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of News media-related deletion discussions. North America1000 13:50, 30 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America1000 13:51, 30 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete as I see no obvious better improvement. Pinging the only still active past users and .  SwisterTwister   talk  03:59, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak keep some sources, if The Tao of Programming is notable then probably enough for an article. I don't think the book was self-published - InfoBooks was publishing books by other authors two years before "The Tao of Programming". Peter James (talk) 23:17, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Note that there is a page for the Tao, but it is unsourced. It would be great to find the prizes mentioned here, or the ones mentioned on his Amazon page. However, I didn't find them. I looked on the web pages of the societies that supposedly gave him an award, and none is listed. With those, I would consider a keep. However, business books are kind of like self-help books -- there are many hundreds of them and they don't seem to endure well. That is a mark against notability, in my mind. LaMona (talk) 04:02, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete, not seeing enough coverage in secondary sources independent of the subject. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 04:47, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Redirect to The Tao of Programming - an unquestionably influential book, on par with Jargon File, just as unuqetionably it is a one-hit-wonder, and therefore WP:SINGLE guideline is applicable unless proven otherwise. Staszek Lem (talk) 21:59, 6 November 2015 (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.