Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Karl Bjorn Erickson


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The result was Delete. The discussion was called short of seven days due to OTRS Ticket#: 2009112310016421 Someguy1221 (talk) 03:33, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Karl Bjorn Erickson

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Utterly non-notable writer. Has had about a half-dozen writings published in magazines of limited readership, and several letters to the editor, as well as two as-yet-unpublished books. Note also that the article is an autobiography. Katr67 (talk) 02:22, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment More info: Here is an interview with the author--in question 10 he explains how to get your biography published in Wikipedia. Strangely, this mea culpa used to be linked in the article. Katr67 (talk) 03:00, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - none of the sources provided give any sort of in-depth treatment to the subject, and most (possibly all as some are hard to find the actual source vs. the main URL) are written by the subject or say his wife, thus not independent. Letters to the editor confer as much notability as blog posts on my blog, which is none. Other searches come up with nothing of substance to support notability. Thus fails the main part of WP:BIO, and nothing of his work gets a free pass from WP:AUTHOR. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:12, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong delete one hit in gnews and nothing in gbooks. LibStar (talk) 11:29, 23 November 2009 (UTC)


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