Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/J.R. Rain


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The result was   delete. Mkativerata (talk) 19:00, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

J.R. Rain

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Self-published author, claimed to be a bestselling author on Kindle. amazon shows his books actually rank rather lower than tht : BodyDeparted, Dance, the best-selling of them on Kindle , is #3,106  vampire Moon, the next, is #10,791 in Kindle. essentially no copies of any in libraries. No visible published reviews.  DGG ( talk ) 11:16, 17 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. Agree with DGG Johnclean184 (talk) 13:15, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
 * DeleteAerobicFox (talk) 23:22, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete I can't find any sources suggesting notability of the author. However, I believe the "bestselling" descriptor probably has its origins here - ManicSpider (talk) 00:18, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence that basic notability criteria are satisfied here. --DAJF (talk) 01:41, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:26, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:AUTHOR, WP:BK, and WP:GNG. Qworty (talk) 18:17, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
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