Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Edwards (Technology Writer)

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The result was delete. —Kurykh 23:20, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

John Edwards (Technology Writer) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log)

Technology writer with no clear notability. Notability tagged on 15th July with no response. There are no non-trivial inward links. Article comprises the sole contributions of Ekeiser (talk · contribs), with no substantive contributions by other editors, which suggests possible vanity. Given the common nature of the subject's name, Google hits are of little use here. Although the subject has contributed to several high-profile publications, such contributions do not seem to me to constitute automatic notability, and there's no evidence that any of his articles generated any significant response. The strongest claim to notability appears to be the books published, but of the four books mentioned, one is listed at Amazon under a completely different author name [1], which suggests ghostwriting not authorship, one has an Amazon sales rank of 729,639 [2] and the others have sales ranks well over a million [3][4]. No reviews or other information are cited, and I couldn't find any other than on specialist publications/websites in Google search. Espresso Addict 20:24, 28 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak delete. Worldcat lists him as a co-author of the 1984 work (still held in 100 libraries!). Geeks of War was reviewed by the Boston Globe. I think he comes very close to meeting WP:BIO, but Google News Archive only goes so far. Possibly his citation index? --Dhartung | Talk 05:41, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for sorting out the 1984 book authorship. The citation index you link seems to cover more than one John Edwards eg John R Edwards at Western Digital Corp & John S Edwards at Warwick University (UK) authored some of the highest cited publications in the list. This John Edwards has one at 17 citations [5] & the rest seem to be much lower. It's a real problem that his name is so ubiquitous! Espresso Addict 10:47, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Note to closing admin: If this article is kept, it should be moved to John Edwards (technology writer) for proper capitalization of the disambiguation title. Do not bother moving it now—it might be deleted anyway. ●DanMS • Talk 23:54, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per Dhartung and nom. --Aarktica 21:58, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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