Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Aitken Smith


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The result was delete. Randykitty (talk) 12:06, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Robert Aitken Smith

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WP:BLP of a writer with no substantive claim of notability under WP:AUTHOR, and sourced exclusively to primary sources such as his own PR profiles on Smashwords and Goodreads. The only reliable source anywhere in this entire article isn't actually about him at all, but is actually about the person from whom he derived his pen name. This is not how a writer gets into Wikipedia — it takes reliable source coverage, not primary sourced verification of existence. Delete. Bearcat (talk) 07:26, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:26, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
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Delete It may simply bee WP:TOOSOON, but I can find no reliable, secondary sources for this writer.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:23, 1 September 2015 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — ☮ JAaron95  Talk   19:27, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Essentially self-published. There is a publishing company (HotPepper Publishing) that has only published his first book and a single short story by him. Not on Amazon, even. LaMona (talk) 02:36, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete for now unfortunately as my searches found nothing good. SwisterTwister   talk  06:50, 10 September 2015 (UTC)


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