Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Hartley (British writer)

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The result was delete‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:07, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

John Hartley (British writer)

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This article has zero independent sources that provide any nontrivial content about the article subject. Most of it is just blog posts he made or articles he wrote. The rest discusses that he was elected to local government as a district councilor. The BBC covered one of his opponents. Here's the only text the BBC wrote about the article subject: Mr Humphries is contending the Droitwich Central ward against John Hartley of the Conservative Party and Chas Murray of the Liberal Democrats.

I have looked, but cannot find better sourcing.

This article topic does not meet either WP:GNG, WP:NAUTHOR, or WP:NPOLITICIAN and should be deleted. MrOllie (talk) 16:45, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. MrOllie (talk) 16:45, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 16:46, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Noting here that the response of the article creator was to blank this AFD and most of the article. MrOllie (talk) 18:45, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I originally proposed deletion and none of the subsequent edits have addressed my concerns about WP:GNG. Orange sticker (talk) 20:05, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and England. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 21:14, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Turing test#Tolkien test per WP:ATD.4meter4 (talk) 17:26, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Doczilla _{Ohhhhhh, no!} 20:52, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. I don't think the redirect will work here, as the article on the Tolkien test for Artificial Intelligence was created by the same editor as this article, and has since been redirected to Turing test, which does not now seem to mention Tolkien. Espresso Addict (talk) 02:50, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The only sources about this 'Tolkien test' are a pair of blog posts published last month. - MrOllie (talk) 03:40, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete As User:Espresso Addict says, this is a less than a month old post with no independent RS. Amusing but not notable at this time. Lamona (talk) 04:39, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The removal of a large proportion of the text and references by the article creator shortly after this AfD commenced makes any notability even less evident, but the subject's term on Wychavon District Council for Droitwich Central falls far short of the WP:POLITICIAN criteria, and his essays on the Homiletic & Pastoral Review site, Mind Matters and Times of Israel blogs do not demonstrate attained WP:AUTHOR notability. AllyD (talk) 08:39, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Fails WP:AUTHOR. LibStar (talk) 02:33, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - As outlined above, there is nothing in the article, or anything obvious online, that would suggest the subject has achieved the level of notability that would justify them having a Wikipedia article. Dunarc (talk) 20:58, 19 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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.