Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Randolph Lalonde


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The result was   delete. Courcelles 22:36, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Randolph Lalonde

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Non-notable writer who fails to meet WP:AUTHOR or WP:BK. All of his manuscripts are self-published, as the article itself admits, and therefore cannot be used to demonstrate notability, per WP:SPS. No WP:RS sources exist to establish WP:N. Everything on Google appears to be self-generated by the writer himself. Also, there have been extensive WP:AUTO and WP:COI problems with the article almost from the beginning, and its problems with notability have long been discussed on the talk page without resolution. Qworty (talk) 23:26, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 15:23, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
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 * Delete I spent some time filtering out the fancruft and puffery from the article. There's nothing left at all.  The article (whether in its previous or current form) contains no claim of notability.  He's just someone who writes stuff and self-publishes it.  I can't find anything anywhere referring to him other than his own blogs and so on.  The article's Talk has three or four fawning defenses of the subject's importance, all of them dated the same day, and all from SPAs which made only that one edit, period -- oops, except for an IP based in the subject's hometown. EEng (talk) 22:56, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete per EEng. No RS supports author's notability. --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:26, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete as per EEng. While a self-published author could in theory still be be notable, there's no indication this one is. Edward321 (talk) 13:47, 27 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Note to closing admin Don't forget to delete the photo as well -- it will be an orphan. EEng (talk) 17:25, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
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