Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John G. Hartness


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The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 01:19, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

John G. Hartness

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WP:BLP of a writer, with some advertorial overtones and a serious shortage of actual reliable source coverage to support it: fully 60 per cent of the "references" here are the Amazon sales pages or simply the basic publication details of his own books, being used as metasourcing for their own existence -- and of the remaining six sources, five of them are primary sources or blogs. Literally the only acceptable reliable source here is a local article in his own hometown newspaper, verifying that he won a purely local literary award that is not prominent enough to confer an automatic WP:NAUTHOR pass. As always, writers are not automatically entitled to Wikipedia articles just because they exist -- but neither the sourcing nor the substance present here are enough to meet the criteria for inclusion. Bearcat (talk) 04:26, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  Jupitus Smart  06:10, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions.  Jupitus Smart  06:10, 6 July 2017 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete- Has won an award, but really no RS here for this author - its all publisher promo stuff, except for one article. Deathlibrarian (talk) 11:34, 7 July 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  So Why  07:05, 14 July 2017 (UTC)


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