Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josef Bastian


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 13:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Josef Bastian
Non-notable author. His five books (only indications of notability) are all published by vanity presses Booksurge and PublishAmerica. Their amazon.com SalesRanks are 2,073,833; 2,604,926; 3,236,665; 2,191,489; and one is unranked. 406 Google hits (212 unique) for "Josef Bastian," many are not relevant. -Elmer Clark 03:23, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I am also nominating the redirect:
 * Josef bastian -Elmer Clark 03:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * You have do that next door at WP:RFD. I'll take care of it. Daniel Case 04:32, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete: Shamelessly sloppy self-promotion ... not even a birth date and location! --Dennette 04:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete NN author. Resolute 05:12, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:BIO. Th ε Halo Θ 11:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete non-traditional publishing!   Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  11:26, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom.Victoriagirl 18:01, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity. Leibniz 18:05, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. NN author, also challenged per WP:NPOV and WP:AUTO (author is Jbastian67). Ohconfucius 03:13, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


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