Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/P. J. Louis

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. j⚛e decker ^talk 01:28, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

P. J. Louis

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Notability comes from independent sourcing, which this article is sorely lacking. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:55, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy Keep - Just follow the links on the {{find sources}} template. - Cwobeel (talk) 14:23, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

And which of those establish his notability? I see links to his website and social media and to books he wrote, but where is the independent coverage? --Colapeninsula (talk) 15:44, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Aside from his own books, and the LinkedIn type pages that are not any sort of objective commentary, just what did you find? Andy Dingley (talk) 16:06, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An author with the number of books published, passes WP:NOTABILITY. Do we need secondary sources besides what we have there on the LOC record? I don't think so.- Cwobeel (talk) 19:06, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, they don't. It's really not that hard to write or publish a book. What matters is having independent attention paid to such a book afterwards, whether this be for literary merit, technical significance or simple sales volume. Have you found any relevant reviews of them? Andy Dingley (talk) 19:28, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:AUTHOR is usually the standard. Point #4 is usually taken to mean the author has had in-depth reviews of their work. What "in-depth" entails varies wildly. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 19:35, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I can't see a reason not to delete Gregkaye (talk) 17:09, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, slakr^\ talk / 01:58, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as not notable per my above comment - Colapeninsula (talk) 15:05, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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P. J. Louis

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