Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Louis A. Del Monte

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was delete. JohnCD (talk) 22:55, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Draft:Louis A. Del Monte


Submitted multiple times,still does not show notability. Of his 3 books, 1 is not even in Worldcat, the other two are in 120 and 4 libraries. This is not conceivably notability as an author.  DGG ( talk ) 04:19, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Not all books or authors are notable, and the number of times that the attempts to demonstrate notability have failed, based upon the number of submissions, is an indicator to me that this may be much more a "fan favorite" topic in the comparatively small field of popularization of science, and may well qualify as a form of fancruft. John Carter (talk) 16:51, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. I see various social media claims and primary sourcing, but little substantial coverage from independent reliable sources. --Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 01:51, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

I am Louis A. Del Monte. Here are the facts regarding my notability:
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I have authored three books and they are listed on Amazon. My reader ratings are 4.0 or greater for each book. My most current book, The Artificial Intelligence Revolution, became (on July 5, 2015) Amazon's #1 bestseller (Kindle edition) in all three categories (as Amazon categorizes it) and Amazon's #2 bestseller in Artificial intelligence (paperback edition). I took screen shots to document this and can send them via email if requested. The book remained in those positions for approximately four days and continues to sell well presently. My book, How to Time Travel, is typically in the top 50 books on "Time" (Kindle edition). It also made it into the top 60 books on Time during 2013 in the paperback version. In the past year, I have given numerous radio interviews on my latest book, The Artificial Intelligence Revolution. These are detailed in my online media kit at this url: http://www.louisdelmonte.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Louis-Del-Monte-Media-Kit-July-30-2014.pdf. In addition, Google news has as of today (3/1/15) 111 search returns. The more recent ones are articles in which I am quoted. Notable are Business Insider-Nov 20, 2014, Headlines & Global News-Jan 28, 2015 and Bustle-Jan 29, 2015. Altogether, Google lists 26 international articles in which I am quoted regarding my views on the threat artificial intelligence poses to humanity. You can view the Google news search at this url: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=%22Louis+Del+Monte%22&oq=%22Louis+Del+Monte%22&gs_l=news-cc.1.0.43j43i53.2873.8827.0.11386.17.11.0.6.0.0.234.1260.7j3j1.11.0...0.0...1ac.1.CVsguG56QNE. If you search Google for "Louis Del Monte" you will get approximately 18,000+ search returns and over 100 news returns.

I am a popular author with a significant fan base. On Twitter I have over 27,000 followers (Note: I only follow between 1000 - 1500 of my fans or competitor fans to stay close to what they are talking about. Thus my follower to follow ratio is high.) You can view my Twitter page at url: https://twitter.com/delmontelouis1. My Facebook page get approximately 7500 views weekly, but has had peek weeks of over 100,000 views. Here is the url to my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/DelMonte.Louis. My blog get about 40,000 visits per year. Here is the url to my blog: http://www.louisdelmonte.com. On Google+ I have over 11,000 followers and over 1.9 million post views. Klout.com, which measures online influence, has me currently ranked at 63-64 (varies day to day). Klout defines influence as the ability to drive action. From what I have read, a Klout score in the 60s suggests I am significantly influential.

Given my notability, I request you include my page into Wikipedia. Please respond.LAD1327 (talk) 03:56, 2 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I see from your website that the only links to actual reviews of your books are to reviews in Kirkus Indie. That publication publishes reviews if the author or publisher is willing to pay for them, and thus is thoroughly unreliable & no better than straight advertising. Are you aware of any substantial reviews from third-party independent reliable sources, such as nationally known magazines or newspapers with a reputation for selectivity?  That would be to the point. Notability is not popularity.  Google is  designed as an inclusive list of everything,  and  Twitter is specifically designed for minor comments of only temporary interest;   but WP is an encycopedia.    DGG ( talk ) 21:37, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I have to agree with DGG here. Notability as determined here is based on WP:NOTABILITY and related pages. Influence as determined by a website is not an accepted indicator of notability as per those pages. Nor do popularity as per Facebook, Twitter, or blogs really enter into notability. Notability is determined by the presence of significant coverage in independent reliable sources which meet WP:RS requirements. None of those three I previously mentioned meet those requirements. John Carter (talk) 19:23, 11 March 2015 (UTC)


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