Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carl Barnowski

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The result was delete. – Juliancolton | ^Talk 03:59, 14 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Carl Barnowski[edit]

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Promotional article with no independent sources currently. News produced a single hit - a press release. Newspapers - 0. Books gives no mention of even the book he was supposedly the co-author of (although if you go to the Amazon link the self-published book has like 50 "authors", and he's not listed amongst them). Scholar returns zero hits. And Highbeam returned a couple of promo pieces, nothing in-depth. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 15:50, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 18:08, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as my searches simply found nothing better and this current version is simply not acceptable. Pinging subject interested users Tokyogirl79 and LaMona. SwisterTwister talk 18:20, 3 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No independent sources. These are all promotional sites or reprints of press releases or merely trivial (BBB listing). LaMona (talk) 00:52, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - no way to verify anything, much less prove notability with reliable sources. The only two Ghits on Google news are (1) a self-created website, and (2) a press release. On Google Newspapers, I only found two local news items, both only tangentially related to the subject. No books by this author appear on Google Books, nor at Barnes & Noble (FWIW, my employer). A quick search by Bing reveals 113 user-created web pages and nothing more. This page appears to be little more than spam. Wikipedia is not a web host. Bearian (talk) 16:32, 10 November 2015 (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.