Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark David Gerson


 * 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. Liz Read! Talk! 00:26, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Mark David Gerson

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Advertorialized article about a writer, not properly referenced as passing our notability criteria for writers. The main notability claim here is that a couple of his books won minor regional literary awards that aren't instant notability clinchers in the absence of WP:GNG-worthy sourcing -- but the article is referenced entirely to his own self-published website, with not one shred of third-party sourcing shown at all. I'm also bundling an article about one of his books, which is not adequately sourced either: it's also based mainly on primary sources that aren't support for notability, except for one deadlinked book review that I haven't been able to Wayback, and one piece of "local guy does stuff" in the community hyperlocal of his own hometown, which still doesn't add up to enough coverage to secure passage of GNG all by itself. And for the cherry on top, these two articles are essentially a walled garden, since the novel is the only inbound link anywhere in Wikipedia mainspace to Gerson, and Gerson is the only inbound link anywhere in Wikipedia mainspace to the novel. Bearcat (talk) 14:14, 24 November 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 17:18, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Canada,  and United States of America. Bearcat (talk) 14:14, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete One hit in Gnews in 9to5Mac, hits in Gnewspapers as by-lines for columns he wrote, and 4 hits in GScholar, thanking him for being a writing coach and one as an author for some non-notable book. Any awards he's won don't even have articles about them and would appear to be minor wins as I don't see anything about them. Not at AUTHOR nor GNG, barely notable at all from the scant information I can find about him online. Oaktree b (talk) 16:24, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete: Per nom and above comment. There just doesn't appear to be enough coverage to pass GNG. Hey man im josh (talk) 21:34, 1 December 2022 (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.