Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Bassingthwaite

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The result was delete - no reliable independent sources forthcoming. The author may recreate in draft if needed. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:48, 5 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Don Bassingthwaite

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WP:BLP of a writer, not properly referenced as notable per WP:AUTHOR. This doesn't make any strong notability claims such as winning notable literary awards, but simply states that he and his work exist, so his notability can be judged solely by whether or not he clears WP:GNG on the sourcing — but the only references here are his own self-published primary sources about himself and a Q&A interview on a non-notable blog, and I can't find anything better in any database I have the ability to search. As always, the notability test for writers is not just that his work metaverifies its own existence in WorldCat or an online bookstore: the notability test requires media outlets to pay independent attention to his work, such as publishing book reviews and/or doing journalism about him. Bearcat (talk) 17:06, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 17:20, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 17:20, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Games-related deletion discussions. Icewhiz (talk) 17:22, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep if sources can be found, otherwise move to draft space so that it can be worked on. BOZ (talk) 19:19, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete PROMO created in 2007 by SPA User:DragonReader. Bassingthwaite has written a great many books to accompany a complicates series of interlinked games. Note that the bluelinked subheads are to articles about the sundry games (with lots of PRIMARY and dubious sources,) but that the individual books are unsourced. If you click the links to the handful of individually linked books, you find no sources or PRIMARY sources. Bassingthwaite fails WP:AUTHOR and shold be deleted along with his bluelinked books.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:27, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete The fact that the only “sources” are from himself is the biggest red flag. Trillfendi (talk) 21:33, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Bearcat - I can't find any coverage on him and this reads functionally like a CV. SportingFlyer T·C 14:16, 28 February 2019 (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.