Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wayne Keon


 * 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. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 21:48, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Wayne Keon

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Semi-advertorialized WP:AUTOBIO (creator= Keonw) of a writer, not reliably sourced as clearing our notability standards for writers. As always, Wikipedia is not a free publicity platform on which writers are automatically entitled to have articles just because their own work technically metaverifies its own existence -- the notability test for a writer requires some evidence of his significance as a writer, such as winning notable literary awards or at least having enough reliable source coverage (journalism, critical analysis, etc.) about him to clear WP:GNG. But the only notability claim in evidence here is that his work exists, and the referencing is not getting him over GNG: two are just his own writing being cited as circular verification of its own existence, two are mere directory entries on the self-published websites of organizations or companies he's directly affiliated with, and one is a completely unrecoverable deadlink whose content and reliability are impossible to verify (even on the Wayback Machine, it was already a dead link the first time it was ever scraped at all.) As always, the notability test for a writer is not just that he exists, but requires journalism to be done about him in media -- and even a writer who can be shown to properly clear our notability standards still isn't entitled to create his own article himself, per WP:COI. Bearcat (talk) 18:03, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:03, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 18:03, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   21:35, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment: I have notified the article's creator about this dicussion. Mind  matrix  22:50, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. I originally tagged this for COI (based on the username of the creator), and performed a cursory web and Google Books search for this person. Indications are that there has been some coverage of him, but I cannot access any of it. Whether this coverage is by reliable sources is the concern, and I currently do not see such sources. Perhaps there are offline sources (eg - Canadian literature or indigenous culture magazines), or coverage accessible only via ProQuest or similar archives. The current article reads a bit like a CV and a bit as a collection of trivia. Mind  matrix  22:50, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Sourcing does not support WP:GNG and does not appear to pass WP:NAUTHOR or WP:NPOET. Best, GPL93 (talk) 01:29, 24 February 2020 (UTC)


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