Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Bowman (poet)


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 04:05, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Thomas Bowman (poet)

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I do not believe that this poet passes our threshold for notability. I'm willing to change my mind if somebody finds non-trivial coverage by reliable sources but I haven't and Google searches are complicated given the familiarity of the name (see our disambiguation page Thomas Bowman). Pichpich (talk) 21:16, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * delete Like Pichpich I am wiling to change my mind if somebody finds non-trivial coverage by reliable sources, but my attempts at googling his name with the names of any of his 3 books of poetry turned up nothing, nor did googling his name in various ways with "Love is", which the article describes as his most famous poem, nor did googling his name and"bush poet". Newly created article by new user.  I did post on the creator's talk page, explaining the kinds of validating articles that an article on Bowman would need.ShulMaven (talk) 23:09, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete: Austlit lists 3 volumes of poetry but no other mentions of the poet or his work anywhere. It appears, and I may be wrong in this, that the volumes were either self-published or published by a group as a means of fund-raising. I agree that it doesn't pass the relevant notability criteria. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 05:31, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame (talk) 01:04, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 03:06, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
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