Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rip Gerber (2nd nomination)


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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. Daniel (talk) 21:24, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

Rip Gerber
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Promotional bio, created by user. Ill-sourced, grandiose claims of notability, but conspicuously lacking in RSes. A WP:BEFORE shows zero RS coverage of Rip Gerber as an author or in biographical depth needed to have a WP:BLP. Had a previous AFD that ended "delete". I'd be happy to be shown wrong, but it would need to be shown - David Gerard (talk) 19:33, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete Promotional, likely COI page whose text cannot be trusted and which gives no reason to think it needs to be fixed. For example, it claims that Gerber wrote his anthology First Thrills: High-Octane Stories from the Hottest Thriller Authors, when he only contributed a single story to it, and someone else did the editing. It calls iUniverse a publisher. "Hudson House" appears to be a self-publishing outlet, too . I don't see how a WP:AUTHOR case could be made, and even if a weak one could be pulled together, WP:TNT would apply. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 22:28, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Washington, D.C.-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:44, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
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