Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yasmin Abbas Abdallah Aldamen
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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. --Coredesat 00:52, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Yasmin Abbas Abdallah Aldamen
An unencyclopedic article on a self-published writer who fails WP:BIO. The product of a single purpose account, it is largely lifted from the author biography provided at Xlibris. Victoriagirl 21:44, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
I am also nominating the following related page because it fails WP:BK and is little more than a copy of text provided at the novel's Xlibris page :
- Delete Both: Notability issues (the lack of). - Rjd0060 22:11, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
- Delete both. Self-publication doesn't confer notability; I confirmed this book is from Xlibris, a well-known self-publishing company. There's no other assertion in the article that would come close to meeting WP:BIO. Accounting4Taste 23:58, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
- Delete Not notable Captain panda 03:07, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
- Delete Vanity-published authors with no other claims of notability are not notable. -Elmer Clark 01:27, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
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