Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Mills (writer)


 * 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. JohnCD (talk) 17:53, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Simon Mills (writer)

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autobiography, standard artist bio, no assertion of notability, no coverage found -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  19:12, 28 February 2014 (UTC) (see also: multiple issues tag on article) 71.20.250.51 (talk) 15:19, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable - no citations, no assertions of notability, no evidence of notability; fails any standard for writers or for programmers or for bios in general. -- Orange Mike &#x007C;  Talk  20:48, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: At the help desk this was asked to be nominated by an IP with the following text:
 * This article has multiple issues, including:
 * No references in a BLP article
 * No notability established
 * Is essentially a resume
 * I asked if the person had done any WP:BEFORE searches and they responded:
 * The only thing that I've found for that Simon Mills is his homepage: (it seems to be him).  There are at least two other  "Simon Mills" who are notable "writers" (authors) ,  ← (the one I was looking for)  ~:71.20.250.51 (talk) 20:13, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * —Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:17, 28 February 2014 (UTC)


 * comment the current article seems to be almost identical to http://pages.rediff.com/simon-mills--writer-artist-programmer-/1085640 but I can not tell if our article is a copyvio, or if rediff copied our article. DES (talk) 22:51, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * its likely that the rediff one is a copy of ours - the "read more" at the bottom links back to the Simon Mills (writer/artist/programmer) version of the article which matches word for word and the bullets at the bottom of the rediff match the number of external links that ours had at the time. --  TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  02:55, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * comment There seems to be a somewhat notable book entitled "Testing IT" by John Watkins and Simon Mills, but I am not at all confident that this is the same Simon Mills, there are a number of people with that name on the net in one way or another. If it were he same person, it might be worth looking into further. DES (talk) 23:03, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete The article as it stands does not in any way establish notability, if no additional sources are found it should go. DES (talk) 23:03, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete as per DES, does not establish notability, and is unsourced, which violates BLP. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:58, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.