Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Oldham


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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. ✗ plicit  12:35, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Robert Oldham

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No evidence of any significant coverage in reliable sources found during my search. Books appear to be self-published (publisher is Raven who describe their business model as having included self publishing). I don't have the kind of thing against self-published authors that some on here seem to (it actually seems like a cool thing to do to me) but there's no notability for this guy that I can see, especially not enough to reach WP:NAUTHOR. FOARP (talk) 09:19, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:31, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 09:31, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete. Simply existing as a writer is not an automatic notability freebie in and of itself — the notability test is not "his books exist", but "his books have been the subject of external coverage and analysis, such as book reviews or news articles about him winning a noteworthy literary award". It is certainly possible for self-published writers to get enough reliable source coverage to establish their notability — Terry Fallis did it with The Best Laid Plans — but that hasn't been shown here. Bearcat (talk) 16:04, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  12:02, 30 July 2021 (UTC)


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