Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Todd Herman (writer)


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The result was speedy delete per G7 by Materialscientist. (non-admin closure) --MuZemike 21:10, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Todd Herman (writer)

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Mildly advertorialized WP:BLP of a writer, not properly referenced as passing WP:AUTHOR. The strongest notability claim here, that one of his books was named as a "bestseller", is referenced solely to the book's promotional profile on the self-published website of its own publishing company rather than any independent verification in a notability-building independent source -- and the article is otherwise referenced almost entirely to sources that still aren't helping to build notability, such as Q&A interviews in which he's talking about himself in the first person rather than being independently analyzed or discussed in the third, and a glancing namecheck of his existence in a source whose primary subject is somebody else. The strongest piece of sourcing here, the only one that actually passes all three of the "about him" and "from a real WP:GNG-worthy media outlet" and "written in the third person" tests, is a short blurb about him winning a minor business competition that isn't a notable WP:ANYBIO-passing award, and thus isn't enough coverage to singlehandedly clinch him as notable all by itself if it's the only useful source on offer. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt him from having to have much, much better referencing than this: people do not get into Wikipedia by talking themselves into Wikipedia as the creator or speaker of their own sourcing, they get into Wikipedia by having their notability independently established through third-party analysis of their significance by people other than themselves. Bearcat (talk) 17:42, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:42, 8 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 17:42, 8 August 2021 (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.