Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kate Axelrod


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 18:19, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Kate Axelrod

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Appears to fail WP:AUTHOR. I have tried to locate reliable sources regarding the books and have found no substantial coverage. The name appears to be shared by other people, so it makes it a bit difficult to be sure that none of the sources are regarding this Kate Axelrod. I also tried a search for the Mother Jones award, which is mentioned in the article, but can not locate a citation for that. Regarding the Donegal Fellow, there is also nothing I can turn up. If proper reliable sources are turned up by others with better Google Kungfu, then I'll be happy to withdraw the nomination. ConcernedVancouverite (talk) 16:46, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete Nearly unsourced BLP is pretty much a slam dunk deletion. Even if the claims are verified, I'm not sure she's notable, unless there's some substantial coverage of her.  --Rob (talk) 17:02, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. We've had a lot of trouble with Featherproof Books and their authors on WP in the past.  A lot of self-promotional articles have appeared here--and have been deleted at AfD--for writers who just do not meet WP:AUTHOR or WP:BK.  Todd Dills was a notorious case--scroll down and view the deletion log at that red link--the article was deleted in 2008, 2009, and 2010.  The same thing happened with the self-promo article for the guy who runs Featherproof, Zach Dodson--look at the long deletion log on that particular red link.  Those articles and this one on Kate Axelrod are part of a systemic abuse pattern by Featherproof and its associates on WP, in violation of WP:SPAM, WP:AUTO, WP:COI, and WP:SPA.  As the nominator here has correctly pointed out, Kate Axelrod fails WP:N per WP:AUTHOR and WP:BK.  I would also add that she fails WP:ACTOR.  For those of us who have been trying to get Featherproof Books to stop abusing WP policies, to see these articles keep popping up is quite dispiriting.  Since these folks just erase the speedy tags over and over again, it looks like all we can do is take each individual violation to AfD. Qworty (talk) 19:12, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
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