Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexander Matthews (playwright)

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The result was delete‎. Owen× ☎ 17:52, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Matthews (playwright) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Appears to be non-notable. Created by one of an army of socks. All sources are affiliated, bare mentions, interviews, blogs, or appear to be created from press releases. Google news search only pulled up similar. Valereee (talk) 16:37, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Valereee (talk) 16:37, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Philosophy, and New York. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:21, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 19:54, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Neither of the two books mentioned seem to be noteworthy enough to help a WP:AUTHOR case (JSTOR searches for reviews came up with zip). The sources about the plays are too superficial and/or unreliably published to make a case for notability as a playwright. The Physics Essays journal where he published "The Universe Has No Beginning? Doubts About The Big Bang Theory" is a haven for crackpots; publishing there isn't anything to be proud of. Merely writing things isn't enough for notability, and being reduced to writing for Physics Essays is a sign that you are not influential. XOR'easter (talk) 21:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete - as discussed above and WP:TNT. Being edited by Sockpuppets, messy format, clumsy writing, etc. Bearian (talk) 07:14, 26 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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