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The result was delete. ✗plicit 00:00, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Richard_J._Christiansen[edit]

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Article is clearly written by WP:COI Dialmayo (talk) 23:39, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Businesspeople, and Utah. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 23:51, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Draftify: Christiansen is likely notable given the number of books he's published and his works that have been featured. That said, the article is in terrible shape with many NPOV, tone and formatting issues. I'd say it could be improved slowly in the background before being released again into the mainspace. Liamyangll (talk to me!) 09:10, 24 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete All of the cites I tried are dead links. Wizard Press is a weird self-publishing outfit of an organization that also sponsors weddings. (?). The books are held in very few libraries (single digits). The article is promotional, and appears to be a wp:SPA. Lamona (talk) 17:19, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Noting that one of his books, published by McGraw Hill, had over 200 libraries listed in WorldCat. Another had zero. So that's not much. Also, this Wizard Academy that published one book is not an accredited business school. Lamona (talk) 17:31, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete his most prominent work seems to be the Zig-Zag Principle, and the best I could find for it were two blog reviews. Rusalkii (talk) 19:50, 25 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Per Lamona. Comically promotional as well. Best, GPL93 (talk) 15:45, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - nonnotable promotion with COI and dead-linked sources. Article was created by a single-purpose account that has done nothing on Wikipedia except create this thing. 09:15, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

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.