Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will le Fleming


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The result was delete. --BDD (talk)

Will le Fleming

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Author of a single book, which, according to WorldCat, is found in only 34 libraries.

The claimed praise in this obviously promotional article cannot be verified. Sullivan is not on the faculty of Stanford, though she was associated with them once, and the material is not on her blog. The other items cannot be found either--I assume they were book jacket blurbs or the equivalent--I can find them nowhere except the publishers web site. Tho not mentioned in the article, it was reviewed in the   TLS]  which is the only thing of any significance. I don't think this is enough for notability of the author or the book. querystring=will+le+fleming&sectionId=1797&p=tls] The book is not exactly self-published, but the publisher has never published anything else.

His other novels remain unpublished  DGG ( talk ) 23:26, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete. There is brief mention of him in passing, mostly to say that he read something of his somewhere, but nothing that would give notability. The only other thing I found was that at one point he was nominated for an award that the Guardian was giving out, but apparently didn't win it. Other than that there has been little to no coverage for him. It's a delete on my end. I'm honestly baffled as to how this made it through AfC in the first place, honestly. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)   03:31, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete -- Before I was willing to accept the retention of this article, I would want to see that it had a notable publihser or that it had sold a substantial number of copies. I expect we have notability criteria for novelists, but I do not know them.  Peterkingiron (talk) 18:02, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete - No evidence of meeting the criteria from WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR. In particular, he has only published one novel which does not appear to have garnered any significant critical attention.  the publisher is new and Fleming appears to be the only author that they have published. -- Whpq (talk) 13:27, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
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