Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Urban Christian Fiction Authors

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The result was delete. Ron Ritzman (talk) 22:44, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of Urban Christian Fiction Authors

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Contested PROD. No indication of which, if any, of these people really are notable authors. Not clear if the genre is well defined enough for such a list to be meaningful. The genre has no article of its own, just a small section in Christian novel which is not clear enough to define it for me. Referenced to what seems to be the publisher's website "Urban Christian" promoting books by the authors listed. (For LOLz, check out their "About Us" page.) DanielRigal (talk) 19:30, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, none of the entries appears to be notable. Urban Christian fiction doesn't have a page. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 21:15, 12 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. None of the authors have articles, and don't seem notable. -- 202.124.74.2 (talk) 11:12, 13 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Seems to be entirely nonnotable because (1) The genre urban Christian fiction is not defined and (2) Not one of the authors is linked, 18:40, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
Delete A list that doesn't link to anything on Wikipedia seems rather pointless. Further, as all the authors are listed on the same website, the one that is used as a reference, and that website sells their books, this appears to be a violation of WP:NOTADVERTISING. Gtwfan52 (talk) 08:46, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Rename dropping "urban" form the title; then link all names and pune of NN authors -- "urban" Christian fiction is presumably a subset of "Christian fiction". One function of list articles is to identify where articles are needed. Such a list should only include notable authors, and they should be linked. If this is duplicating some other list, then merge. Peterkingiron (talk) 11:49, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

List of Christian fiction authors already exists. If any of the authors here are notable, and not yet included, then merging them there is worthwhile. I doubt it is more than a very few of them though. In theory, red links for authors who are notable but who have no article yet should be OK and help to flag up the need for an article but, in practice, once you allow some red links you open the door for lots of non-notable red links to be added, so it is something to be wary of. It would be better to make a stub for any that are notable. One or two sentences, one RS reference and a stub tag is enough. --DanielRigal (talk) 19:31, 15 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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