Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rich La Bonté


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The result was   delete. Wizardman 00:45, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Rich La Bonté

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I've just declined a speedy on this one, as he looks reasonably notable at first glance, which is what A7 boils down to – however, on a brief skim there seems possibly to be less here than meets the eye. Procedural nom, so I abstain. – iride  scent  00:28, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. All of his novels were self-published, and while some of his works were part of a compendium, I see no reliable, nontrivial third-party coverage.  The articles were created by a SPA (User:Flatrich) whose name makes me believe this is an article about a living person written by said person.  --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 00:33, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - I see no good reason to delete this article. LFOD (talk) 01:12, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Ouch. I was all ready to agree with LFOD, but upon second inspection I think Falcon has the right idea. Article was created almost three years ago, and has seen no improvement. I'll need to see third-party reliable sourcing to change my !vote. -FrankTobia (talk) 02:36, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. I initially PRODed this as a non-notable self-promo bio. If you check the article's history, it was created by one (i.e. the subject of the article). There's not a single article or reference to Rich La Bonte to be found via search engine, outside of those he's created himself-- so there's no way to reliably verify any information. (I can only pull up 86 ghits to his name altogether.) So far as I can tell, Rich is not the same person as the slightly-more notable (but not much) Canadian Richard Labonte, who writes/edits gay erotica. --HidariMigi (talk) 02:44, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep per independent source. Cosmic Latte (talk) 03:19, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * This is not the same person, as I mentioned above.--HidariMigi (talk) 03:35, 10 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete. HidariMigi is correct: the Canadian Richard Labonte appears to be a different person. The subject of this article is not notable per WP:BIO: all the books are self-published, no reviews of his work that I could find and no coverage by independent reliable sources either. Nsk92 (talk) 04:43, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per HidariMigi and Nsk92. Cosmic Latte (talk) 09:42, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - This article appears to assert notability but doesn't. Also, I notice this guy's name is Rich, and he created a software company called fLAtDiSk. Article creator's username? Flatrich. Hmmmmmm! Reyk  YO!  10:25, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per above reasoning. LuciferMorgan (talk) 13:22, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete It's all been said in the above.  Lady   Galaxy  22:57, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.   --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  00:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - Count not locate any reliable sources to establish notability. --Captain-tucker (talk) 01:19, 14 August 2008 (UTC)


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