The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. If anyone thinks a redirect from the disambiguated name would be useful for search, they can create it, but there was not a consensus to do that as the AfD result. RL0919 (talk) 19:02, 27 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Matthew White (historian) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Does not meet WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO, WP:NPROF, WP:NAUTHOR, or any other SNG, as far as I can see. This author has written one book, which was reviewed [1] [2], but a single reviewed book isn't enough by itself to establish notability of the author (perhaps of the book, but not the author, and the book already has an article, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things). Levivich 18:48, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Levivich 18:48, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. Levivich 18:48, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to the article on the book, since the book is notable and has an article. White is not indepdently notable so we should not have a seperate article on him.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:26, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. This page contains no information that cannot be found in the article about his book. What is more important, there is absolutely no reason to expect that some additional sources and facts about this person can be found: he is known only as an author of his book, and there is absolutely no reason to expect that some sources will be discovered that provide information about his biography, personal live, occupation etc.--Paul Siebert (talk) 01:21, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: not independently notable of the book, the article on which already exists and where the author info is already present, so there's nothing to merge. --K.e.coffman (talk) 02:42, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Snowball delete - per nom. --Nug (talk) 05:59, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Does not pass WP:GNG. This article has insignificant coverage; it can be merged with the article on the book itself.Juggyevil (talk) 19:41, 22 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• just redirect to The Great Big Book of Horrible Things. The article does not suggest the author has written anything else of note. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:56, 23 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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