Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jeff Benjamin

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. Rjd0060 (talk) 20:02, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jeff Benjamin

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Non-notable individual who has tried to fake a writing career by paying notorious vanity press AuthorHouse to print his books. He has written on some notable topics, but his self-published books fail WP:BK, and he is himself non-notable. His first title, e.g., throws up only 30 Ghits [1], and these are all blogs or forums or the vanity perss itself, or Amazon and Barnes & Noble, which list vanity press books without conferring notability upon them. Before the discussion begins, let's be clear on this one more time: He has written on some notable topics, but he has not done so in a way that makes himself or his books notable, and that is the criterion that must be satisfied here. Qworty (talk) 02:28, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Keep Qworty just sounds mad at him. Several TV appearances, and many published books. Who cares if he published them himself? So did Wordsworth. Llamabr (talk) 03:41, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

• Userfy to User:BENJAMINBOOKS, who created this article. The majority of the external links in this article don't even mention the subject. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:30, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. No indication his works would pass WP:BK or that he passes WP:BIO. (Wordsworth, by the way, manages both.) --Dhartung | Talk 04:48, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:BIO, only sources mentioning him are a student newspaper at the university where he's employed, and Google Video. Huon (talk) 14:03, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. Qworty does sound unnecessarily, personally irritated, but there's no real assertion of notability. And only trivial secondary sources. Ford MF (talk) 16:12, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete per above.--Berig (talk) 17:51, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. I think any legitimate writer has cause to feel irritation for those who resort to vanity presses, much the same way most rational human beings would feel irritated at someone who gets suckered into buying penis pills over the internet. Anyway, a NN author, ergo delete. --Badger Drink (talk) 03:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 21:21, 30 April 2008 (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.