Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Konrad

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. j⚛e decker ^talk 15:57, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

John Konrad

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I've never proposed a page for deletion before, so I hope I'm doing this right, and apologise for any oversights.

I don't think the subject of this page, John Konrad is very notable.

Konrad is described as an author, but his only book does not appear to have been commercially (or critically) successful. It's listed on Amazon as bargain-bin / remaindered. It's also one of the citations for this article.

He's also a blogger who stuffs his sites full of Amazon referrer links, and I think this page was created to improve his SEO rank.

This page mentions his gCaptain blog, which is now on Wikipedia's spam domain blacklist.

http:// gcaptain dot com/author/john/ - the "Visit Authors Website" link goes to this wikipedia page

http:// theteakrail dot com/lab/ - is another of Konrad's Amazon affiliate sites. He's bungled it, but that page too also tries to link to this wikipedia page, the link where it says "the website's cofounder John Konrad"

This page cites Konrad's own Facebook page. Another cite, Failure Magazine, doesn't look very authoritative to me, either. Stroller (talk) 15:51, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:06, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:06, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

leaning delete It's pretty clear that what notability he has comes from his authorship of a single book, of marginal notability. Mangoe (talk) 16:41, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - not a notable writer. --Why should I have a User Name? (talk) 20:47, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - fails WP:NAUTHOR. This is the only thing I found that could be used for WP:V. SW3 5DL (talk) 02:51, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails the notability guideline for authors. I want to thank the nominator for bringing this article here for discussion.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:11, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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