Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joseph Addison (Scottish writer)


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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 17:40, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Joseph Addison (Scottish writer)

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Not enough coverage in reliable sources to verify or sustain an article. Fails general notability and WP:AUTHOR. The subject wrote only one, evidently non-notable (Held in only 14 libraries according to WorldCat [//www.worldcat.org/title/tesseract/oclc/18178826&referer=brief_results]), book. The article makes no claim of notability beyond writing a single book. J bh Talk  11:28, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete I can find virtually no independent coverage about the life of this writer falls way short of GNG --nonsense ferret  13:29, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Google and HighBeam return nothing that shows the subject meets notability criteria. --Neil N  talk to me 13:46, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Not notable enough to be encyclopedic in the context of authors. Chris  lk02  Chris Kreider 15:39, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete I did in fact find a source for his sole novel, Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada - Page 1020 is about "Tesseracts anthologies and the subsequent emergence of Tesseract Books (not to be confused with Tesser- act, 1988, a weak SF novel by Joseph Addison)." Very persuasive of the appropriateness of deletion.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:29, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: One can find more evidence of the author's existence (the Ox. Companion that merely lists all books published in a year; National Union Catalog), but that's not sufficient, I'm afraid, and the poor guy will always be dwarfed by his namesake, Atticus (a Dunciad allusion). Hithladaeus (talk) 19:37, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. Makes no substantive claim of notability that would satisfy WP:CREATIVE, and doesn't cite nearly enough reliable source coverage to claim WP:GNG instead. I also note from the edit history that the article was previously tagged for prod as an unsourced BLP, but the creator removed the tag with the edit summary "No references? Why don't you try READING THE ARTICLE?!" — but while the article does list an external link, that link is to a source which fails to satisfy GNG or to demonstrate any reason why he would qualify for a Wikipedia article on any criterion more substantive than "he exists". Mere existence is not what gets a writer into Wikipedia, however — reliable source coverage, supporting a substantive claim of notability, is what it takes. But that's lacking. Bearcat (talk) 16:50, 31 May 2015 (UTC)


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