Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John S. Watts Jr


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:55, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

John S. Watts Jr

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WP:N not well-established and relies heavily on a PR, coatrackie, potential BLP vio Atsme Talk 📧 14:43, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Atsme  Talk 📧 14:43, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Atsme  Talk 📧 14:43, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:00, 29 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:NOTPROMO, fails WP:AUTHOR. I ran proquest newspaper searches on his name with and with "jr", with keywords "prison" and "drug dealer" and found nothing.  Launching a writing career while serving time for drug dealing is admirable, but we need sources, and those now on the page do not suffice.E.M.Gregory (talk) 00:13, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not finding much in my BEFORE (I also search for "John Boy Watts" which seems to be the form he's running with). I couldn't verify he authored 39 books as our article currently claims (e.g. Amazon - usually accurate for contemporary books - doesn't show anything close to that). The two books listed in the article seem to be self-published.Icewhiz (talk) 11:34, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete  Being friends with Ice T and writing a lot of books while in prison (while its good he apparently turned a new leaf) doesn't grant him auto notability (ecspecially since his publishing company isn't notable). Josalm64rc (talk) 21:09, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not met at this time.BabbaQ (talk) 15:37, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete After a fairly deep search of this subject and the subject's works, I could not find WP:RS. In addition the books look to be self published. This also is starting to look like WP:SNOW Lightburst (talk) 21:02, 4 August 2019 (UTC)


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