Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anson Montgomery

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 01:47, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anson Montgomery

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Fails WP:BIO. No references forthcoming. ScienceApologist (talk) 17:51, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:BIO and WP:N --DasallmächtigeJ (talk) 18:20, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:53, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP:AUTHOR, which sets out the notability criteria for creative professionals, including authors, suggests that one of the following must be true for an author to be considered notable:

The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors.
The person is known for originating a significant new concept, theory or technique.
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.
The person's work either (a) has become a significant monument, (b) has been a substantial part of a significant exhibition, (c) has won significant critical attention, or (d) is represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums.

In the case of Anson Montgomery, there is no evidence, supported by reliable secondary sources, that any of the above are met. Given that he is, according to the article, an original author of the Choose Your Own Adventure series, it could be argued that he has contributed to the development of a "significant new concept", but it seems that it was actually his father R. A. Montgomery who was the originator, as this article confirms. There is certainly a case for including multiple Choose Your Own Adventure authors in the main article on the series, but Anson Montgomery, in his own right, does not meet WP's notability requirements for authors. Wikipeterproject (talk) 21:34, 30 July 2010 (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.