Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dario Chioli

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 NO CONSENSUS. — JIP | Talk 08:22, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Dario Chioli

Seems to be vanity; probably non-notable Italian author, although this is difficult to verify from an English-speaker's perspective. I have asked lone contributor for evidence of notability as in WP:BIO.

• Keep. Notability asserted and shown. He's got several published books. - Sensor 00:09, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: Several books published does not necessarily qualify for WP:BIO unless they had a distribution of 5000. Anyone can publish a book: I don't know the distinction of the publishing house. Article is posed as a series of links to web sites. Article was written by User:Superzeko (Dario Chioli's web site name coincidentally; user has only uploaded this unsourced image and written this article) and three minutes later by 151.37.243.202, whose only contribs have been wrt this author. Seems to indicate vanity; notability is yet to be proven. jnothman ^talk 00:52, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: Point taken, esp. re the publishing, but I think we've still got enough here to keep the article. - Sensor 01:35, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and expand. Warning, image in article is unsourced. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 00:42, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Enough published to warrant expansion. Writing in Italian makes him less visible. Dlyons493 Talk 02:37, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: How sure are we that the website linked as source for these books is not a self-publishing house? Amazon has nothing by this author. Italian Wikipedians, can you verify? - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 10:46, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Delete, then, per ERcheck. I suspected this was a very minor publisher, and it looks as if it is. - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 22:51, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Unverifiable. Possible vanity page. Google search on Dario Chioli / on co-author does not bring up info. The "same" article was posted yesterday in the Italian Wikipedia - and flagged to watch for self-promotion/needing verification. ERcheck 15:08, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn. Not having heard of this "Magnanelli edizioni" publisher (the main publisher for this author) before, I checked their web site, and found out that it's the kind of publisher that only publishes about 1 book every 2 months. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 22:35, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete vanity, at least from stanpoint of English WP--no evidence that any thing he's written is or has been translated into English FRS 00:02, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

• Comment I pretty much disagree with your point of view. Sure, if an author is important one can be sure that something has been translated, but I would not base the existence of English translations as a measure of notability. I voted delete on this one and I would have voted delete on it.wikipedia as well. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 09:45, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Vanity page. Dottore So 09:50, 11 November 2005 (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.