Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lassy Bouity


 * 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. Michig (talk) 17:23, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Lassy Bouity

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Non-notable author. Had been rightly tagged for an A7 speedy, but tag was removed by an "independent" editor who curiously contested the deletion on the article talk page using approximately the same text as the original author did. -- Finngall  talk  02:37, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable autobiography by a sock of User:Pointe-Noire Information, indef blocked for copyvios. Note Lassy Bouity is the CEO of Pointe-Noire Information. Strongly suspected it is a one-man band and Mr. Bouity is doing an autobio for self advertisement. Original Lassy Bouity article was deleted. -- Alexf(talk) 09:35, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * speedy delete, A7/G11, or barring that just delete, not notable. Hairhorn (talk) 13:09, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete Subject is not notable. A Google search of the subject doesn't show significant coverage in reliable sources.  V e r s a c e 1 6 0 8   (Talk) 22:40, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete With Prejudice. See my Additional Information section below for a detailed explanation of why. Tynkyr (talk) 09:22, 21 August 2014 (UTC)

Additional Information on Lassy Bouity
I know nothing about this subject but I went digging out of sheer curiosity to see if there was anything WP:Notable on this guy. What I found makes the integrity of this author seriously questionable. Specifically, I found an easily provable and blatant case of intentional self-plagiarism. Combined with the information provided by Alexf above it seems that any article on this person is not likely to ever have WP:reliable sources if his only significant endeavor is his books (see my "Bottom Line" comment below for why). Here is what I found...

First, I discovered that this person has two other searchable names. I thought that maybe we might be looking in the wrong place for his notability?

One name is an alternate spelling of his name -- see here, here The M'Bouity name is also connected (see here) to the name "Grace Herval" (maybe a possible co-author?) which I could find nothing on at all.

The other name is an American nom de plume -- see here

After digging through ALL of these search links I found something quite disturbing...


 * From an excerpt of his French language book "François Hollande Revives African Youth" ("François Hollande Réveille la Jeunesse Africaine") I found this quote:

" 'I became aware of the problem of youth in Africa on the occasion of the speech of the President of the French Republic, François Hollande, before the Senegalese National Assembly on 12 October 2012' " This same quote is also found on his own website www.lassybouity.com/bibliographie (Google translated).

"'I became aware about the problem of young Africans on the occasion of the United States President’s speech, Barack Obama in South Africa, June 2013.' "
 * From an excerpt of his American book "Barack Obama Revives African Youth" I found this quote:

Both books use nearly identical titles, both the same cover art, and both are published by Point-Noire Information (which is run by Mr. Bouity). These two statements are obviously in conflict as the same "awareness" could not have occurred in two different places on two different dates. Each book title and quote seems to attempt to exploit a connection to the president of the country where the book is published. I could be wrong but I suspect that a comparison of the Obama vs Hollande books would show additional self-plagiarism.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Commercial book companies and respectable academic journals will not publish an author who re-uses his writings for multiple works as this undermines their business. Universities will discipline any student who is found guilty of self-plagiarism with the same severity as they would for ordinary plagiarism. With the above evidence of self-plagiarism it is unlikely this author will ever have WP:reliable sources unless he does something notable unrelated to his writing. Tynkyr (talk) 09:17, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
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