Deletion of Daryl D. Green

Comment: as paid editing spam created through http://www.elance.com/c/rfp/main/rfpBid.pl?jobid=18997414 this request on elance dot com.  Our |spam guideline and |conflict of interest guideline come into play here, as well as our policy that |Wikipedia is not intended as a vehicle for promotion
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Spam (WP:SPAM||WP:COI||WP:PROMOTION)

Comment: I don't believe Green wrote the http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_10_55/ai_63735685/pg_2/?tag=content;col1 Ebony article (at least there is no attribution). He has a brief mention in the article on page 2. I disagree with the statement, "at this moment it has no self-published references". "My Cup Runneth Over" is published by "Performance Management & Logistics Associates" http://www.amazon.com/My-Cup-Runneth-Over-Setting/dp/1889745030/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267474409&sr=8-1 which isn't a bona fide publisher.http://www.pmassoc.com/ The article includes "Breaking Organizational Ties" but doesn't note that it is self-published. The article's grandest statement is, "The FamilyVision column, written together with his wife Estraletta Green, has reached over 200 newspapers and more than 15 million readers (syndicated through Newspaper Publishers Association)." The only references to verify that are 5 off-line references from 2000/2001 from publications of which none have Wikipedia articles. When searching for this column, I found several online entries written by his wife -- one in particular which advocates self-publishing and laments that "the major purpose for traditional publishers is to turn a profit."http://fabulously40.com/article/id/how-a-lady-gets-her-book-published-in-120-days-familyvision-column-495 Well, Wikipedia requires mainstream publishers. To make the extraordinary claim 200 newspapers and a 15 million readers, the article's author must provide extraordinarily high quality sources to verify that statement. The entire last paragraph is without citations. The statement "He was noted and quoted by USA Today, Ebony Magazine, Associated Press, NBC’s Alive at Five, Answerline, American Urban Radio, and BET’s Buy the Book" is uncited. I'm sorry, but this doesn't rise to the level of notability that Wikipedia requires. It strikes me as a self-promotion page relying on self-published books and unverifiable claims. This would be more fit on LinkedIn or on his personal web site where he does a fine job of promotion.http://www.darylgreen.org/ Finally, I'd like to hear from Yedogawa whether he is employed or under contract with Green. And, yes, it is |relevant
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Cited policy: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest (WP:COI)

Comment: fails  with only 3 of his books being listed in WorldCat, and only being held by 15, 8, and 7 libraries.  GScholar show that his works have been cited exactly two times. GNews shows only an article that he wrote, and no independent cites by reliable sources, failing . Fails  under all 9 of the criteria.  Of the third party sources, those that I could look at were either in relation to book signings, to articles written by the subject of the article, and general references to notability by being a writer (see fails Author, above). Don't know if this is a  - hard to tell based on the limited time as an editor, but the overwhelming majority of the editing is on Green.  |Assuming good faith, I would recommend that the article be |userfied, and that the article then reworked (if it is possible to show notability under Author or Prof standards
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:AUTHOR||WP:GNG||WP:PROF||WP:SPA||WP:AGF||WP:UFY)