Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Gunn (author)


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The result was soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 19:48, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Richard Gunn (author)

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR. Can find almost nothing about him, and no reviews of any of his books. 9 pageviews (30 days) for a BLP is rather low. Edwardx (talk) 16:34, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Journalism, Photography, Transportation,  and United Kingdom.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 16:37, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as the only source currently cited in this article is a PR Web press release, which fails the independence and reliability test, and the rest of the article lacks citations. One of the most in-depth articles about him which I found is this 2012 blog interview, which doesn't count toward notability per WP:RS. He is mentioned only briefly in this book called The Classic Car Adventure. There actually do appear to be brief blurbs about his books which could be considered "reviews" in publications such as Sydney Daily Telegraph and Teen Ink magazine, but the first example lacks depth and the second doesn't seem authoritative, and in any case neither really makes the case that the author's contributions make him notable in the industry. Cielquiparle (talk) 03:08, 4 September 2022 (UTC)


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