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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. Consensus is clearly to delete, with only the page creator (who also appears to have acknowledged COI issue) opposing. Given the promotional nature, retention of the article's history does not seem useful. Separate creation of a redirect might be permitted, although no compelling argument was made that it is likely to be needed. Doczilla Ohhhhhh, no! 17:27, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Proofreaders' Page and Other Uncollected Items

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Unsourced. No evidence of notability. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:29, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I gather from a reply elsewhere that this "is just one of 461,644 pages that have been marked as "needing additional references"" so it seems a rather pointless exercise to delete this one and leave the other 461,643 pages alone.
As the author of the article, I have no strong feelings about its deletion or not - the only effect of removing it is to make Wikipedia ever-so-slightly less useful as a reference tool, and if your objective in life is to weaken Wikipedia's usefulness then by all means go ahead. Philsp (talk) 20:57, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Philsp, inappropriate articles are being deleted continuously. Roughly 600,000 articles have been deleted through the Articles for deletion process, and we have two other deletion processes as well. Our objective is to ensure that articles comply with our policies and guidelines. This one clearly doesn't. Cullen328 (talk) 21:10, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I fear I am no fan of eugenics and can only mourn those 600,000 articles you have deleted, many of which would, I am sure, have been very useful contributions to Wikipedia - certainly more so than myriads of articles that DO meet "your" policies and guidelines. Philsp (talk) 06:55, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You have written elsewhere that "This is a book that I created and published". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:51, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Fredric Brown bibliography#Mysteries, where it is listed. I searched all the places I could, newspapers.com, gale, proquest, archive.org/google books, got nothing. It is listed there though and it provides context as to what exactly this was collecting, so why not. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:25, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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