Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Precious Williams

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 Naconkantari 12:29, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Precious Williams

Probable vanity about a questionably notable author (~600 Google results). -- Omicronpersei8 (talk) 22:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Does not appear to be a particularly notable journalist and the only published material outside of that is a short story in a collection that does not appear notable enough to sell on Amazon (.uk or .com), though I may just not be able to find it with the information presented. Being the daughter of a princess does not particularly strengthen her claim, particularly as she was not even informed of this until she was an adult. --Yamla 22:25, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep The article was only created on 25 September. There is possibly enough there - especially if her books are published next year. I think it better to try to improve rather than delete. Delete As noted below, this appears a vanity article, and only marginally notable. If the book(s) are published and reviewed, the article can be recreated later. (Also less inclined to be generous as the creator has made a couple of apparantalt bad faith nominations to AfD). -- Beardo 15:35, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. This is a vanity article, and most likely a self-bio. Please see Igbogirl (talk • contribs) for creator's contributions. If it isn't obvious enough, she also created an article for her non-notable great-grandfather King Igwegbe Odum, the Omenuko of History which I am also nominating under afd. Stubbleboy 13:10, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. — pd_THOR ^{| =/\=} | 16:46, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

comment details of two books about to be published written by Precious Williams http://www.amazon.com/Write-What-You-Know-Experiences/dp/1582974446/sr=1-1/qid=1159414763/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3202160-7576906?ie=UTF8&s=books http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_2_7/ai_n12937367 Igbogirl 03:42, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

• • Comment This is not sufficient to establish notability in and of itself. Neither book has been published yet, let alone won any awards of become bestsellers. One of the books isn't even named yet and may never be published (as is sometimes the case). That said, this may provide evidence that the article should not be deleted, though I do not believe this to be the case. --Yamla 14:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Kafziel ^Talk 17:25, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep her journalism is reasonably well known in UK. But the article needs improvement per comments above. Itsmejudith 14:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per Itsmejudith, pretty well known journalist within the UK, her opinions have been cited in at least two non-fiction books I've read lately. Can dig out the titles of the books if you need them. This is actually one of the few black journalist who is well known name in the print journalism industry, contributing to very high profile publications Spirituallaws 23:23, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

• Striking consensus of suspected sockpuppet account. New user's first edit was to this afd. Please see Spirituallaws (talk • contribs) for evidence. Stubbleboy 12:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Keep Williams is a contributing editor at Elle and a high profile journalist 71.247.219.209 03:21, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

• Striking consensus of first edit by anonymous ip. See 71.247.219.209 (talk • contribs) for details. Stubbleboy 12:07, 3 October 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.