Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paul B. Thompson

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 of the debate was keep. Flowerparty■ 19:13, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Paul B. Thompson

NN author --Ragib 08:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete: nn author. --Ragib 08:01, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom Crzrussian 08:38, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete keep There are over 100 Dragonlance books with many authors. The series probably is notable but not, I feel, the individual books, nor necessarily their authors. About 300 Ghits for him and Dragonlance. Dlyons493 Talk 11:11, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as nn-bio. --Terence Ong 16:21, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Obvious Keep, meets notability standards for published authors by a wide margin, with about a dozen books currently listed at Amazon; has a recent genre best-seller [1]. "I think it's crap" isn't grounds for deleting a subject that meets the applicable notability criteria. Monicasdude 16:26, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
  • • The crap might be notable. A worker on the crap assembly line: not so much. Think of him as being the equivalent of a Playboy Cybergirl. --Calton | Talk 05:56, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Today's Amazon rank is 29,832 for that title. I suspect, for better or worse, we're kept lower ranking books. Dlyons493 Talk 17:28, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - reasonably notable author. Laur 19:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - meets inclusion criteria and WP:V. Needs some cleanup, I'll take a quick stab at it. --W.marsh 21:47, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Being one of the factory workers who helps grinds out a line of genre fiction isn't per se notable. --Calton | Talk 05:56, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as notable. It's a vanity page as it stands, and if he wrote it himself, I wouldn't buy any of his books. ProhibitOnions 12:26, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Would appear to meet both notability and verifiability standards. These make no exceptions for genre fiction series. Smerdis of Tlön 16:08, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
• yyyyeah, keep. Meets the minimum standard. DS 23:33, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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.