Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shaytonian Chronicles

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 of the debate was delete all articles. - Mailer Diablo 00:32, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shaytonian Chronicles, Tamal's Journeys, Destiny Sets, Shayton, Talkar Mara

Fantasy series, apparently self-published (see author's website [1]), fails WP:FICT. 25 Google hits [2], most hits are from the author's website or link pages on other sites. Delete as vanity, self-promotion. Saikiri~ 06:55, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - although I had a look at the author's page and it says that she won the Nanowrimo writing project twice - in 2004 and 2005. I have heard of this project, and I believe it is along the lines of writing a novel really quickly. However, as far as I can tell the winner is just someone who manages to write an entire 500 page novel in a month. If its more than that, and she actually managed to win something, then it might be a claim to notoriety. But from Nanowrimo it doesn't seem like it is enough. Zordrac (talk) Wishy Washy Darwikinian Eventualist 10:25, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
  • NaNoWriMo is where people get together once every November and try to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. In my opinion it doesn't qualify as a claim to notoriety - the contest is not monitored (it is technically possible to "win" by just pasting your name in a Word doc 50,000 times and submitting it, and some people actually do game the system like this), and you do not "win" anything except the satisfaction and pride of having written a novel in a month. It is a great project and a ton of fun, but in my opinion a NaNo win is not enough to establish notability on its own. -- Saikiri~ 12:05, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, I can't find any reference to their publisher. Google hits I tracked were all self-promotional, on free sites and not on reliable sources. NaNoWrimo is won by at least 2000 people a year now it's taken off, so that's no claim of notability. - Mgm|^(talk) 20:11, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete; doesn't seem to be sufficiently notable. *Dan T.* 04:05, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete the lot per nominator. Stifle 19:25, 6 December 2005 (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.