Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roberto Carlos Martinez


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 13:46, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Roberto Carlos Martinez

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Contested prod. Prod reasn was: "Self-published (PublishAmerica) author who has received nominations (according to the article, this could not be verified) for some minor awards, but hasn't won any. Has not received significant attention in reliable independent sources, so fails WP:BIO" Prod removed with addition of a source for the nominations for one award, which make sit more verifiable but still insufficient for WP:BIO (author's collection is one of twenty poetry books nominated that year). Evidence that the books are published through PublishAmerica:. The many other people of the same name make a Google or Google News search harder, but e.g. for the Library of Virginia nomination, we have no Google News hits, and the same goes for the Indie Excellence nomination, which could not be verified at all. So fails WP:BIO, despite having one (or two) nominations for a literary award. Fram (talk) 07:03, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete subject does not have any notable references from non-trivial sources; none of the information on the page meets the requirement of verifiability Mrathel (talk) 15:15, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:BIO. NawlinWiki (talk) 15:17, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Update: an editor has added a link to the 2007 Indie Excellence Awards to the article. Martinez was supposedly nominated for one in 2007, but the list of 2007 winners and finalists does not list Martinez anywhere, even though the poetry section has a winner and 8 more finalists. He's not included in the 2008 list either. It looks as though everyone can nominate a book, making a nomination for these award essentially worthless, with only winners an finalists having some potential notability. Fram (talk) 07:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
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