Talk:Sara King

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No reason given for deletion; subject appears to be minimally notable.

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Systematic violation of Wikipedia policies[edit]

It may be that someone is acting in a systematic way to remove good faith tags left by editors in related articles Sara King, Odyssey Writing Workshop, and perhaps Codex Writers Group.

Editors of these articles should be aware that an advertising tag is one step away from recommending an article be deleted. Generally, articles marked as advertising have many other problems, as well. In the cases of Sara King and Odyssey Writing Workshop and Codex Writers Group, there are many statements which need citation, or should be removed. Additionally, these articles frequently imply success by association, which is disallowed in Wikipedia. Associating with someone famous does not make one famous (or particularly, notable). People who are not notable are deleted from Wikipedia.

Editors, I also advise you to consider whether the organizations and people you mention would appreciate including them in some of this less-than-straightforward presentation. Some of what is going on here is called vandalism -- you may not remove reasonable tags without explanation. (Creating articles with an advertising slant to justify removing an "orphan" tag is not acceptable.)

24.130.16.124 (talk) 09:36, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Most of the efforts to make this page notable do not compute. Winning college writing awards and attending workshops does not make a notable writer, and there is not a history of significant publication given. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vermiculite (talk • contribs) 20:44, 23 September 2009 (UTC) [reply]

Well, I`m just reading the german version of the first Zero book, German title: " Zero - Kadett der Sterne" (translates as: Zero - Cadet of the Stars), and I think the translation into another language may be a hint for the notability of a writer. But that`s just my two cents.Maxvorstadt (talk) 15:54, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Responding that the previous comment came 10 years after the first: certainly an author may become notable in a decade, but that wouldn't make my comment in 2008 untrue. However, even since 2018, I cannot find much evidence for increased notability. In the landscape of self-publishing, a foreign translation is not a de facto maker of notability. Please note, I am not suggesting that independent authors cannot be notable. I have performed a cursory search for reliable, independent secondary sources for information on the Zero books, and have found mentions on a few personal review blogs at most. Vermiculite (talk) 02:38, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]