Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Howard (author)
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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. Stifle (talk) 11:31, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Chris Howard (author)
Non-notable writer who's published a couple of non-notable short stories and one non-notable book. Faills WP:BIO, WP:RS, WP:BK, WP:V, etc. Notability not even asserted. Qworty (talk) 23:02, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- Weak keep. Winner of the Heinlein Centennial Writing Contest[1]. Pburka (talk) 23:11, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- Comment. He won in the "Amateur Division," hardly a notable distinction. You'll find that just about every little writers' conference or get-together out there likes to give out "certificates" and "awards" like candy. While some of these pieces of candy have impressive-sounding names, there really isn't any notability to them by WP standards. Qworty (talk) 23:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- Weak Keep Winner of the Heinlein Centennial Writing Contest, Amateur Division. Heinlein Centennial was not a "little writers' conference or get-together" there is some notability. AlbinoFerret (talk) 23:41, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- Comment. Are you seriously suggesting that somebody who wins a short-story contest in an amateur division is suddenly a notable author? That is not what WP notability for authors is all about. Please read WP:BK. Qworty (talk) 23:45, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- Delete. The only real claim to notability at this point is the contest, and I can find no evidence that this one-time event with a $175 prize and publication via PDF has any notability itself. That link is the single independent search result listing winners, and it's barely more than an announcement. Notability to come. --Dhartung | Talk 00:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
- Delete Award is minor; novel has not even been released yet; entry is sole contribution by user NoahWesler. --Thetrick (talk) 16:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
- Delete per Dhartung's link to details on the writing competition he won, there is clearly no notability there of the sort requested by WP:CREATIVE. --Stormie (talk) 23:52, 22 May 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.
