Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stephen Atalebe

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The result was delete. —Tom Morris (talk) 14:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Stephen Atalebe

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Unsourced article since April 2010 of a non notable person who seems to have written one book which seems to be not notable either. TMCk (talk) 06:58, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Fails WP:Author as there is nothing to show that the individual is notable in the slightest. At least one, if not all, of the claimed books were self-published, and based on the username of the page creator, it was autobiographical to begin with. Its kind of embarassing that it actually lasted on Wikipedia this long. Rorshacma (talk) 08:23, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. There are no sources out there to show that this self-published author has any notability. All of his novels that are currently available are all being published through CreateSpace, Amazon's self-publishing arm. There's one that doesn't seem to be in print that was published by a non-self published source, but getting published by anyone is not enough to show notability.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 08:35, 22 February 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]
Delete. I personally don't want this article to be deleted, but there's not much else that can be done to save it. Parts of it are blatant violations of Wikipedia policy, unsourced, far from neutral, and with no evidence whatsoever that the man is notable. If the article's subject can be found notable, as evidenced by reliable, trustworthy sources, then it should be re-created by a user who will write it in an impartial way. dci | TALK 23:54, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as nominator.TMCk (talk) 00:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:46, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 17:47, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. According to Google Books, he has written 3 books. One was published by "the Author" and the other two were published by CreateSpace (Amazon self publishing). These works clearly do not satisfy WP:AUTHOR and I see no evidence of WP:GNG.-- Sailing to Byzantium _(msg), 19:57, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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.