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Dustin Warburton[edit]

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Apparent self-published author of questionable notability. "Published work" appears mainly to be list from his own website, little corroboration found. Largely unsourced, except for two local news mentions. No significant coverage in independent third party publications. TheRealFennShysa (talk) 14:58, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:02, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Striking out "co-written" because although there are additional names on each of the book covers, the second name is the illustrator. --MelanieN (talk) 20:04, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dustin was first published in 1999 when he was accepted to the New England Young Writer's conference in Middlebury, Vermont, he was still in highschool. He was published in the anthology. In 2002 Dustin won the Horror writing contest sponsored by The Evening Sun Newspaper in Norwich N.Y. In 2006 his first book was published titled, "Taste," written By Dustin Warburton. In 2007 his 2nd book was published, "Strange Things," written by Warburton. In 2008 his 3rd book was published, titled, "My Brother Eats Spiders," written by Warburton. In 2009 his fourth book was published titled, 'Mortician's food, with a short story in the book by Alex Knight. In 2011 Dustin received a story credit for the feature film, Spiders 3D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.85.215 (talk) 13:59, 7 April 2011 (UTC) — 75.67.85.215 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

I have provided several sources, and if need be, will provide the ISBN numbers to all books verifying the credits. All four books written by Warburton are now owned by PBP Management. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.85.215 (talk)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, postdlf (talk) 16:40, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
RE: "Authorship": The listings at Amazon all show a co-author - actually it's the illustrator while Warburton wrote the text, but they still show up on the cover of the book as a co-author or co-creator.
RE: "Hyperlocal", the quotes are from The Evening Sun, "Chenango County's Hometown Daily". Chenango County has a population of about 50,000 - that's smaller than my NEIGHBORHOOD. The Evening Sun itself has a writing staff of six. I'd call that hyper-local, wouldn't you?
RE: Self-publishing: My Brother Eats Spiders and Taste are published by BareBones Publishing, which is a self-publishing house actually owned by Warbuton and his illustrator-partner.[1] That's as self-published as you can get. Have you ever seen a self-published author get kept at AfD? --MelanieN (talk) 01:54, 9 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dustin does not own BareBones Publishing with his artist partner, your source is mistaken. Also, Dustin authored four books, he is a co-author on one book, "Mortician's Food." He also wrote the story for Spiders 3D, a Hollywood film. Mortician's Food is a collection of short stories, 8 from Dustin, and 1 from Alex Knight. Get your facts straight before you start degrading our local author. Dustin wrote TASTE, Strange Things, and My Brother Eats Spiders, and he is the only listed author on those three books. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.85.215 (talk) 03:05, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

BareBones was NOT a self publishing house, and is not owned by Warburton or Gorman. BareBones is no longer publishing books at this time. Also, Dustin only co-wrote one book out of the four books he published, and no one is claiming anything other than he did write the books himself, and hired artists to illustrate his stories. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.85.215 (talk) 03:11, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Even if everything you assert is true - and I at least cited a source (possibly not a Reliable Source) about BareBones while you are simply asserting - he still does not meet the requirements of WP:AUTHOR, of which the relevant one is "The person has created, or played a major role in co-creating, a significant or well-known work, or collective body of work, that has been the subject of an independent book or feature-length film, or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." --MelanieN (talk) 20:01, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We will submit the ISBN numbers and the copyright page from the books to verify he was the SOLE author on three of his four books. He hired the artists to illustrate his stories, therefore he was the creator, and we will get his original artist partner to verify as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.85.215 (talk) 22:32, 10 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Don't bother - it doesn't matter. I've already struck out my comment above about him being a co-author. The point is that his work has not been the subject of "multiple independent periodical articles or reviews", and that is how his notability (or lack of) will be judged. --MelanieN (talk) 03:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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