Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/LaVerne Y. Adekunle

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The result was delete. Michig (talk) 07:45, 28 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

LaVerne Y. Adekunle

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Does not come close to meeting the criteria of Wikipedia:Notability (people). Zero significant coverage in reliable books or news media. Zero hits at Questia, ProQuest, General OneFile, and HighBeam. This is a self-published e-book author and motivational speaker who has a website and various social media self-promotions. If you look hard enough, you can dig up a few press releases. The various claims to notability and fame in the article don't check out, nor do the claimed connections with various celebrities. Notability is not inherited anyway. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 03:07, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I did a search and as was said above, there is no actual coverage for Adekunle. I found one mention of her in an article, but it looks to be a brief mention as far as I can tell. [1] Even if it isn't, this one article wouldn't come close to showing notability for her. There are a few press releases for her floating around, but there's nothing to back up any of the claims in the article and even if there was, none of those claims give notability. None of the awards are notable enough to keep on that basis alone and they aren't the type that would actually extend notability towards Adekunle even slightly. Getting an award from the publisher that you are paying to publish your book isn't really the type of thing that gives notability. Nor would be any awards from USA Books. As far as the other accomplishments go, receiving local awards doesn't really mean much if they're not notable by Wikipedia's standards and I notice that the only place that mentions the "O.T. Williams Award" is this specific Wikipedia page. Commendations from governors don't automatically give notability either and I also notice a lack of sources covering this anywhere and I can't help but wonder if this was a group award. Even considering the pre-internet barrier, such things usually get some mention somewhere if someone gets an individual award/commendation. As far as the "Who's Who" thing, it's not exactly the type of Who's Who that would give weight per Wikipedia's standards since it's the type of thing that people pay to get signed up for. In other words, it's the type of thing that's utterly meaningless as far as notability goes because it isn't earned- it's paid for. Given that the original editor has a name that hints that they might be Adekunle herself and that the entire article is an overly promotional mess, I'm going to say that this is just the latest attempt by someone to promote themselves on Wikipedia.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 03:50, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Non-notable self-published writer who abjectly fails WP:AUTHOR and WP:BK. The article is pure WP:ADVERT and a probable instance of WP:AUTO. Qworty (talk) 06:20, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:53, 22 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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