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 both.--Fuhghettaboutit 04:59, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

N.F. Houck[edit]

Absolutely not notable... only published book is through LuLu.com, which means it's self-published. Links to the "author" and book have also been relentlessly spammed to a large number of articles (which I removed, but earlier the author was putting them back), so existence is also self-promotional vanity cruft. See also Herald (novel), which should be included for consideration in this vote. DreamGuy 19:34, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete both N.F. Houck and Herald (novel). No independent sources cited by either article. WorldCat finds only six libraries in the United States with the book, which don't include the Library of Congress. Per WP:BK, a book not in the national library of its country of origin "most likely is not" notable. Google News Archive produces no relevant hits for houck herald hermes. The only hit for the equivalent search on LexisNexis is an 84-word piece from M2 that seems to be reporting a press release from Lulu. EALacey 19:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Herald (novel) because it's spam and N.F. Houck for non-notability. Earlier today I removed a reference from the book's article to the novel being a "finalist" in a "book of the year contest" in a "literary" magazine which was PAID to review this novel and if, as the article N.F. Houck claims, this author is "best known" for a self-published novel which has to pay for reviews then N.F. Houk is non-notable. Random Passer-by (talk) 20:54, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete both per EALacey, non-notable and promotional. Inbound links need scrubbing, too. --Dhartung | Talk 20:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Thanks to EALacey and Random Passer-by for their research which I have confirmed, as far as I can. The book does not meet WP:BK and sadly as a result Mr/Ms Houck does not meet notability requirements either. Slp1 13:26, 12 May 2007 (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.