Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dylan Martin

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The result was DELETE. postdlf (talk) 02:28, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dylan Martin

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Restored PROD. The undeletion request says that this is autobiography. The Amazon link is dead, ~~and I have searched in Amazon, Google Books, Worldcat, without finding any trace of this author's books, e.g. [1], [2]. Possible hoax, certainly~~ (see correction below) fails the notability standard of WP:AUTHOR. JohnCD (talk) 13:36, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete again. Autobiographies are discouraged, as they're generally neither verifiable nor neutral. This autobiography fails WP:V and WP:N. Pburka (talk) 14:01, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The amazon page as linked in the prod is [3] but that merely confirms that these books aren't notable.--Tikiwont (talk) 14:43, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete-- WP:AUTHOR. --E♴(talk) 16:15, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Correction: I withdraw the "hoax" suggestion: searching without the author's first name finds the other book too [4] - but they are self-published (Lulu) and do not show notability to the standard of WP:AUTHOR. JohnCD (talk) 16:22, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - the only claim to notability is his books, which are self-published. I have searched for reviews of the books but not found anything, so this article fails WP:AUTHOR. --bonadea contributions talk 18:03, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete again, nn.--Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 13:58, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as the autobiography of a self-published poet that fails to cross either the verifiability or notability thresholds. - Dravecky (talk) 14:02, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Strong delete - vanity autobio by vanity-published writer. --Orange Mike | Talk 14:19, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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