Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Mark Allen Baker

To the Editors:

First, thank you for all your assistance and comments regarding this User Page. As you can see by the NOW 33 references and significant edits (including the removal of quote boxes), we have spent substantial time reviewing this entire entry and tracking down every source (we have physical copies of a majority of the references). We will continue to monitor it very closely and edit or enhance any item in question. Even more references will likely be added. This User Page has been tremendously helpful to all of Mr. Baker's readers. As you can see, Mr. Baker is a very prolific writer. Now working on his twenty-fifth book, he continues to publish two titles a year. We will do everything possible to meet your requirements. PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THIS USER PAGE. PLEASE.


 * Instructing editors what to do is not particularly great form. I'm wondering, too, if you are confused about what a user page is. Go to this page to see what a user page it. It’s a "profile" on Wikipedia of editors—not of subjects. I'm sorry, but I'm still not convinced of the subject's notability. Wikipedia has strict rules on editors with a conflict of interest, and if you are associated with Baker, then this is such an issue. The General Notability Guidelines, and relevant here is the author-specific guidelines. I don't think Baker meets either. The sources are still: largely primary sources (interviews, not demonstrating notability), trivial mentions. By my count, of the article's 35 citations, 12 are primary sources, with 10 being written by the author. Sources do not dictate notability, but broadly, the subject is just not notable. Some of the references clearly don't back-up what the article says they do (like this). Other things are cited to things they simply cannot support. You cannot simply link to one of his books and use that to support the statement that Turning his focus toward biography in 2016, Baker released, Battling Nelson, The Durable Dane. It is the author's eighteenth book and his first biography for McFarland & Company. This is editorialising, from a close, insider's perspective, that tells me this article has been written with a very overt conflict of interest. I will not be changing my vote. — ImaginesTigers (talk) 21:53, 16 January 2021 (UTC)