Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sidney Allinson


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The result was   delete. Really not sure why this was ever relisted Courcelles 00:47, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Sidney Allinson

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An unsourced BLP about an author whose books appear to be non-notable per WP guidelines and some self-published by Xlibris. I have found no significant secondary sources about him to justify and source an article. Does not meet either WP:AUTHOR or WP:GNG. Slp1 (talk) 13:18, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete, unable to establish notability.  PK  T (alk)  16:33, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete, unsourced BLP. -- Patchy1   05:03, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete. I think WP:AUTHOR is the right criterion for this one, but I don't think he passes it. This is sort of a book review (although it says very little about Allinson's book or its author) but that's all I could find with any nontrivial and reliable coverage of him or his works, and I don't think it's enough. —David Eppstein (talk) 01:49, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete -- appears to have just written two books, the rest of the bibliography being editions. Peterkingiron (talk) 13:53, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- Patchy1   11:44, 5 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Comment I have added two references from 3rd party books to the article, both basically using his "The Bantams" book. Probably not enough for WP:ANYBIO notability in themselves though. AllyD (talk) 22:58, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete Appears to fail WP:AUTHOR. While there are okay levels of holdings for his book (195 according to Worldcat), that really isn't enough given that it appears to be his one significant book, and it's not really significant enough to the extent that it's been properly reviewed, or much cited.  Ray  Talk 01:12, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
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