Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Erik Crosier

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. NawlinWiki 20:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Erik Crosier

Author of two books, both self-published/vanity press. --Calton | Talk 00:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: Google also shows that "In Times of Trouble" was once available at BN.com as this Stepen King reviewer recommended it jan, 2001 [1]. joebob4 20:01, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: What exactly is wrong with this article??? There is more references and info than any stub I see. Huh?? 19:26, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: Google searche showing existence of both books: [2]. The only thing I did differently than 'deville' is spell the author's name correctly joebob4 04:12, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: According to its web site Dead End Books screens works for publication and pays its own publishing costs. It doesn't seem to be a vanity press. Gazpacho 01:05, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, it is true that Dead End Books is a non-vanity publishing house. But as far as I can tell, they don't publish anything called "In Times of Trouble", or "Long Nights". Moreover, this Gsearch or this one leaves me with little confidence that such books exist. Finally, although this article does link to amazon.com and bn.com, searching on those sites for "long nights" doesn't return anything either. In short, I cannot verify the existence of the two books mentioned in the article at all. Deville (Talk) 02:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment what?! here they are: [3], [4], [5]. The name has to be spelled correctly for search results to come up. joebob4
• Delete. Long Nights does exist. However the article is a bit fluffy, with no sources for the claims made about Crosier or his writing. Gazpacho 08:02, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Also iUniverse, which publishes Long Nights, is a vanity press. Gazpacho 17:32, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• joebob4, don't alter people's comments in this discussion. Gazpacho 20:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Does not appear to qualify per WP:BIO. He only has 1 book listed in Amazon, and it ranks in amongst the 4.3millionth in sales. No evidence of multiple independent reviews of or awards. Ohconfucius 05:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - as per Ohconfucius. No evidence of meeting WP:BIO. BlueValour 20:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I bet he thinks that song was about him... Mallanox 19:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

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