Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rob Watts

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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 21:39, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Rob Watts (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Subject lacks sources that indicate significance or importance, at least in my efforts to find them. Also, this article might had been made under a COI, since the user page of the author includes a biography of him. TheGGoose (talk) 15:50, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Also nominating this book authored by Watts for notability issues.

The Sounds from Boston (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 15:56, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. Toffanin (talk) 15:58, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Don't assume it's a COI account just because of the content of the main user page. Back when the page was created, it wasn't uncommon for new editors to create drafts in their main user page. Since the main user page isn't supposed to be used for drafts, I've moved the page to User:Pumpkinsong/Rob Watts. By all rights I should request a WP:HISTMERGE but since nobody else edited it prior to it being copied into the main encyclopedia, it's not a legal necessity. I did put a "userspace draft" template on the now-moved draft. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 20:29, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I forgot to say that the other articles this user created are also clues to a COI. One of the articles is The Sounds from Boston (mentioned above), said to be written by Watts, and another article according to the talk page (now deleted) was Ocean View Press founded by Watts. TheGGoose (talk) 21:04, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • That sounds more like either a fan-boy or a person who is following his nose and writing an article about a 2nd topic that he stumbled upon while he was writing the earlier article than a COI editor. Heck, if you look back at certain periods of my edit history you'll see me creating articles on related topics because I "followed my nose." On the other hand, a COI editor who was neither so much of a "professional paid wikipedia editor" that his "wiki-savvy-ness" allowed him to escape detection nor so much of a "professional marketer" that his "market-droid editing patterns" gave him away would be indistinguishable from a fan-boy editor. WP:AGF, especially about a long-gone editor no longer here to defend himself. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:28, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete both per nomination and my own lack of being able to find anything that would conferdemonstrate that either the author or the book meets any of Wikipedia's various notability criteria at this time. If credible, convincing evidence arises between the AFD closure and a deletion review that shows that this book or now or in the future meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, consider my recommendation to be summarily changed to "soft-delete, without prejudice against deletion" so it won't have any "weight in favor of keeping the page deleted" in the deletion-review discussion. If such evidence arises prior to this AFD close, {{ping}} me. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 21:40, 29 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Self-published author (he publishes through his own press). No reviews found in the usual places. No evidence of books purchased by libraries. Nothing to satisfy notability as an author nor should any of his books be considered notable. LaMona (talk) 03:51, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per @LaMona (self-published author, COI-ridden article). Quis separabit? 21:41, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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