Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John J. McGraw


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 01:48, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

John J. McGraw

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Delete. On available evidence the subject does not appear to meet reasonable notability or verifiability threshholds for inclusion. Suject is author of a single nonfiction book, published by a small 'independent' press that (going by material at publisher Aegis Press's website) has published only 4 other titles, 3 by this and one other author, plus one likely out-of-copyright reprint of a 1930s book. The publishing house may likely be connected with, or set up by, the author(s) themselves. Discounting the dustjacket blurbs, Amazon reader reviews and 1 or 2 blog mentions, a search in the usual places&mdash;GoogleScholar, GoogleBooks, JSTOR, WorldCat, etc&mdash;to see if the author or book have been cited, commented upon or otherwise mentioned by notable independent 3rd parties draws pretty much a blank, save for two general book reviews in not-very-prominent periodicals- one in the Journal of Religion and Health, another in Esoteric Quarterly. The 'book of the year' award comes from an otherwise quite low-key magazine ForeWord, a low circulation publ. apparently devoted to titles from small independent publishers. General ghits for the author/book are likewise at the low end of the spectrum. In addition there may well be a WP:COI aspect here, to judge from the article creator's other contribs consisting mainly of inserting links & mentions of the author & book. With no further demonstration of notability in the article, and no disrespect or opinion on author/book intended, ATM I can't see that this article meets N or V criteria for inclusion. cjllw ʘ  TALK 04:15, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete his book gets reviews... and so does he...some not trivial. But this seems to be a one-hit wonder.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 08:08, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Neither of those searches are specific to this John J. McGraw or his book. Note, among others there's a namesake John Joseph McGraw of some baseball fame, many of those ghits in your searches refer to him, or one of the others on John McGraw (disambiguation). I couldn't see any non-trivial reviews of this author/the book in those searches that I hadn't already pointed out, but maybe I'm missing 'em..? --cjllw ʘ  TALK 08:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I withdraw my delete because nom feels this search is not for this book. I was unaware that there were other books by this name written by other individuals with the same name. My bad.  Schmidt,  MICHAEL Q. 16:29, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, close to an A7 speedy. There is little or no assertion of notability in the article. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:28, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete almost no references, very minor book & not much else. DGG (talk) 18:22, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:00, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  19:30, 12 October 2008 (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.