Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Barbara Devlin

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The result was delete. See also Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/ErnestCarrot. MER-C 14:05, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Barbara Devlin

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Author of self-published books that fails WP:NAUTHOR. The claim to being a "best-selling" author is not backed up by a source. (A Duke's Desire seems to be a series of 9 self-published romances by 9 different authors). I could find no independent report of the accident and the story of her wanting to write differs in sources, books delivered to her in hospital books found in parent's beach house. Dom from Paris (talk) 13:32, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Dom from Paris (talk) 13:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. Dom from Paris (talk) 13:33, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:59, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 08:31, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete with regret: Subject seems to be an admirable person, yet does not pass WP:NAUTHOR. Sources invoked are reports about the genre of romantic novels, in which subject's name is mentioned among many others'. Plus, reviews from specialty publication Romantic Times. -The Gnome (talk) 17:20, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete the claim of being a best-selling author appears to be sourced to being #117 on the USAToday best seller's list, for 1 week. That's indistinguishable from a promotional campaign. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:22, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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.