Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kristen Darling


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete.  MBisanz  talk 16:18, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

Kristen Darling

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Self-published author with minimal coverage. Fails general notability. Blackguard 07:49, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

All edits are made by a single account, which refuses to respond to requests regarding connection to the subject person of the page.

I apologize and I did not refuse requests about connection - I am new and just learning this system - when I joined Wikipedia as an assignment for one of my college writing classes, Wikipedia suggested for me to view a list of pages marked "to be added". I went down the list and searched until I found one with sources and information. I have no prior knowledge of this author, but when I read her bio and history and found several links to person, I decided to use for my first page creation as it struck me as interesting and unusual, per Wiki guidelines: '''"worthy of notice"[1] or "note"[2] – that is, "remarkable"[2] or "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded"[1] within Wikipedia as a written account of that person's life. "Notable" in the sense of being "famous" or "popular" – although not irrelevant – is secondary. ''' I sent an email to author requesting permission to create a page with her bio. I was given permission to use photos. Also email included the fact that she was not an "Established author" but up and coming author who would be signed and published by the end of 2015. Also informed that several interviews would be published with the author, both locally and one national coverage when her second novel was published. She was extremely grateful and very responsive to my inquiries.

I thought the point of Wiki was to create pages of up-and-coming pages of interest, in which people might search based on recent events.

Not personally caring whether the page stays or goes, but not clear based on Wiki guidelines why a page would be deleted if it is listed on the page suggestions for new users like me to actually pick one from the list, research it and create a page? --SusanJenkins (talk) 18:50, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Mgs2804 (talk) 08:43, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. —  San ska ri  Hangout 13:53, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. —  San ska ri  Hangout 13:53, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. —  San ska ri  Hangout 13:53, 12 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete . Searches produced noting. this is classic self-promotion for first-time author of new work of genre fiction with no evidence of notability found of either author or book.  The most generous thing that can be said here is WP:TOOSOON.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:31, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
 * It looks like this was done as a student assignment rather than self-promotion. Offhand I'm inclined to believe them, since the page does give off student vibes. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:20, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I see. I do wish students would use their access to university library archives to write up the many people of significant accomplishment figures who don't have articles because they lived in the pre-internet world.E.M.Gregory (talk) 18:47, 14 October 2015 (UTC)


 * delete-I did put a prod up for this earlier, I can't find much notability for her at the moment. Wgolf (talk) 05:28, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Slightly off-topic comment: I didn't know there was something like a list of pages marked "to be added"; anyone care to share directions? - HyperGaruda (talk) 07:40, 21 October 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.