Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christopher Patrick Lydon

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. - Mailer Diablo 12:58, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christopher Patrick Lydon

Non-notable author. Has published quite a few books, but all through vanity press Lulu.com. Only 29 unique Google hits for "Christopher Patrick Lydon," and considering ALL of his books have been published since 2003, you'd think there would be quite a large number of hits if they received any sort of coverage at all. -Elmer Clark 03:46, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete: As per nomination. I must add that the only ghit for the "Ottawa Municipal Grant" (which Lydon is supposed to have won "for his writing") is for this very article.Victoriagirl 03:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 10:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment What? I'm quite sure I listed it, how else could it have received another vote? Perhaps it was vandalously removed? Oh well, I suppose it's not important. -Elmer Clark 11:37, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I looked through your contribs at the time of your creating this nomination and you clearly did not place this one on the log. (Thanks to your good edit summaries this made my sleuthing simpler.) Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 05:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Hm, alright, my mistake. Thanks for checking that out. -Elmer Clark 09:57, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I think DumbBOT is malfunctioning - it's placed the same message on almost every nomination. wikipediatrix 13:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so - the bot has been picking out orphaned AfD nominations not on the daily logs and listing them, with deadly accuracy. This saves AfD space from being swamped with nomination pages that will never be closed or commented on because of nominators' mistakes. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 05:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

There are two ways to spot AFD nominations: through the article itself and through the AFD listing pages. It's possible you forgot one of the two? (I have no idea what dumbBOT is doing..) — brighterorange (talk) 20:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. wikipediatrix 13:56, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• delete anyone can publish on lulu. — brighterorange (talk) 20:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom: non-notable. Eusebeus 20:20, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nominator. Vanity page about a vanity press published author. RFerreira 08:32, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
• Don't delete! Okay, so some people think this author is not notable, but many others follow his works closely and are glad to have this source of information on his life, which I haven't been able to find elsewhere.

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.