Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Romaniello

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The result was delete. Uncontested. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 12:23, 25 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

John Romaniello

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Highly promotional article on borderline notable author, with an absurdly unreliable list of references. As I suspected, checking the actual NYTimes bestseller list shows it was on the subsidiary list for Advice and How-To: (Sunday, May 05th 2013), which does not show notability . . Borderline notability combined with clear promotionalism is an equally good reason. Accepting articles that are part of a promotional campaign causes great damage. Once we become a vehicle for advertising, we're useless as an encycopedia DGG ( talk ) 01:10, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete at best as my searches simply found a few links which were expected and nothing of convincing improvements which can also be said for this article. The article is still questionable overall despite the number of sources. SwisterTwister talk 01:17, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 01:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. SwisterTwister talk 01:18, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, does not meet WP:ANYBIO, a gsearch brings up nothing reliable for notability. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:58, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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