Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patricia Volonakis Davis


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The result was   delete. WP:SNOW  MBisanz  talk 00:18, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Patricia Volonakis Davis

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Contested PROD without comment. This seems to be a writer with a single published book and a substantial online presence but very few reliable third-party sources that can help establish notability. Article claims author is a finalist (not a winner) in a book competition. I can find only local references, but nothing that would help pass WP:BIO or WP:CREATIVE. § FreeRangeFrog 17:36, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - See author comments in talk page. ttonyb1 (talk) 22:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Also posted on my talk page, where I explained the WP:BIO issue to the author. § FreeRangeFrog 22:52, 3 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - Nothing to support Notability in article or in Google. Only claim to notability is not an award, but only that the author was finalist. ttonyb1 (talk) 17:57, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete At present, her book is in on;ly one worldcat library. However, it has just been published. The publisher Harper Davis, is the publishing arm of a literary agency, but not a vanity publisher. We have so far considered USA Book News and its [awards http://www.usabooknews.com/2009bestbooksawards.html] unreliable sources for notability. There are 150 categories of awards, and from 2 to 10 finalists in each category--many, but not all, from self-publishers. For the 2007 awards, the actual winners in their 14 Adult fiction categories had library holdings of 1783, 1426, 1118, 1085, 834, 487, 112, 32, 7, 5, 4, ,4, 3, 0 respectively. Obviously an award from them is meaningless, either to prove or to disprove notability. DGG (talk) 19:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Agree with DGG's review of the situation. Currently, Davis does not have the level of achievement needed for an encyclopedia article FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 21:06, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete/Userfy without prejudice to recreation should N be reached, per DGG's impeccable analysis. THF (talk) 05:04, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete in agreement with the editors above. Drmies (talk) 21:33, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  15:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)


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