Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RM Secor

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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, consensus is that the article fails the relevant notability guideline. Davewild (talk) 19:02, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RM Secor

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This is a vanity/self-promotional article written by a vanity-press author who paid AuthorHouse to "publish" his two red-linked books, both of which abysmally fail WP:BK, and neither of which is even remotely notable. The spam link to his website contains the howler "RM Secor, author of spy thrillers, has done it again"--done what again, paid a vanity press for publication?! If all of this weren't bad enough, the guy has proceeded to delete every single tag that every helpful editor has ever placed on "his" article. Extremely aggressive ownership issues here. We'll have to watch this AfD, as well as the article, very closely for further vandalism and/or outrageous acts of WP:COI. Qworty (talk) 10:01, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

  • Delete, non-notable author. Promo. KleenupKrew (talk) 10:08, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete: And given that this fellow is an SPA whose sole Wikipedia activity is this article, WP:SPAM as well. One would wonder how good an author can be who can't differentiate between the proper usage of "its" versus "it's," but few others are wondering: a Google search turns up nothing but Wiki mirrors, forum posts, and the fact that he likes to submit book reviews to Amazon.  RGTraynor  14:20, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete vain vanity in vain. JuJube (talk) 23:02, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp (talk) 23:25, 26 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.