Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marcus Blake (author)


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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 07:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Marcus Blake (author)

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Non notable author. Not a single one of his books are even in WorldCat; as far as I can tell they are self published. Nothing else there is even remotely notable  DGG ( talk ) 03:55, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not remotely notable. Also nominated one of his self-pub books here. . Almost a speedy candidate for blatant promotional content. Niteshift36 (talk) 04:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete What DGG said. Plus, the article makes claims about awards and censorship of one of his books. I could find no evidence of any of that.  Cullen 328  Let's discuss it  06:40, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment: It looks like there may be a COI issue. The editor responsible to adding the article is Mavericknes . The author website is marcusmaverickblake.com. Coincidence? Niteshift36 (talk) 19:51, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:27, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 22:30, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


 * delete, concur with above Only sourced to subjects page. Cannot gauge the notability of awards, but the absence of WorldCat listing is ominous. Amazon author ssearch did not show a rank lower than 400,000 (unsure of how much weight to grant that). Self pub does not always equate to non notable, but I get no indication of notability. GaleNet search had no listing. Alexa did not have a rating for subject's webpage. Dloh  cierekim  09:22, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
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