Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Craig ritchie

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. Article asserts notability but provides no reliable secondary sources in support of assertions. Editors commenting here have not been able during the AFD discussion period to verify the claims by on-line searches. --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 02:01, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Craig ritchie

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This article appears to be about a non-notable person; I can find nothing on google to back it up anyway: [1]. The Evil Spartan 18:31, 1 August 2007 (UTC) The Evil Spartan 18:31, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Comment. Apparently a former editor of "Canadian Sportfishing", said to be Canada's top-selling angling publication, but I can't seem to verify that. A couple of books are on Amazon.[2] A google search with different criteria turns up more ghits but most seem to be about his books.[3] --Malcolmxl5 18:47, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

• Delete until an editor chooses to initiate who can meet Wikipedia's policies. The article seems to assert sufficient notability in that "eight writing awards" alone and he may well have created a substantial body of work, but none of that seems to be verifiable. I've spent some fruitless time trying to find more info about those awards or locate third party sources talking about Ritchie and haven't found enough to satisfy verifiability. "If an article topic has no reliable, third-party sources, Wikipedia should not have an article on it." --Moonriddengirl 16:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unsourceable unidentified awards do not = notability. An editor is not necessarily an editor in chief, regardless of how big Canadian Sportfishing is. His one book that is identified by title cannot be found at Amazon which gives a good indication that it probably isn't notable. Carlossuarez46 18:46, 3 August 2007 (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.