Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mark E. Shaw

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The result was delete‎. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 11:24, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mark E. Shaw

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Not yet notable by WP:BIO or WP:GNG. I can't find significant coverage in reliable, independent, secondary sources, and most of the sources here are his own writing. There are passing mentions of him in the four World (magazine) articles cited, but all four articles are about addiction generally, not Shaw himself.

A similarly worded attempt in April 2023 by a sockpuppet of User:BrookeCook at Mark Edward Shaw was moved to draft, then speedy deleted G5, and the SPI for BrookeCook has been pretty busy lately. Wikishovel (talk) 10:13, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Christianity, Psychology, Alabama, and Kentucky. Wikishovel (talk) 10:13, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, the article reads to me like a clear cut case of paid editing. The fact that the author tried to hide a COI template by moving it to the talkpage doesn't help. Good day—RetroCosmos ^talk 13:27, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete looking thorugh the news results pretty much all of them were for other people called Mark Shaw instead of him, everything else I could find is a primary source or a small generic author bigography. (And to be clear, no I'm not him and have no relation to him) Shaws username . talk . 13:32, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: My limited time at AfC and the log history listed above all incline me towards seeing this as a likely PROMO work. Delete, with an eye to salting. ~ Pbritti (talk) 15:24, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: As per the nom, most of these citations are stuff written by himself. Yolandagonzales (talk) 08:13, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Half of the sourcing is WP:PRIMARY. A dash of promo as well, with ordained minister, nouthetic counselor, addiction counselor, author, public speaker... TLA^tlak 07:59, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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