Deletion of Gerard de Marigny

Comment: I'd endorse a speedy deletion as unambiguous promotion, except that I've got a strong feeling that AfD would become inevitable since a search shows that the author is extremely prolific in trying to promote himself and his work on the Internet. Wikipedia just happens to be the latest outlet for this promotion. None of his books are notable per Wikipedia guidelines and the only halfway decent source is http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-The-Watchman-of-Ephraim-by-Gerard-de-3303812.php this article, which is just a reprint of a blog review, which is considered a . He landed on the Amazon bestseller list, however that's a list that's specifically highlighted as a non-notability giving list on Wikipedia because it's relatively easy to manipulate - especially when you start branching off into the individual categories and sub categories and into country-specific branches. It's not even something worth mentioning on Wikipedia unless multiple independent and reliable sources mention it as something of note. The band does give some assertion of notability, however I'm extremely concerned about the notability for that article, given the sheer amount of promotional puffery and use of non-RS to assert notability in the author's article. I'm going to take a good hard look at the band's article. Unless there's a ton of coverage for it in good, strong RS, it'd likely stand to be deleted as well, even if only as a TNT because it's so darn promotional. I've asked for help at the rock WP, but offhand I'm leaning heavily towards nominating it just to get it TNT'd
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:SPS)

Comment: If there are sources about him being part of Americade (band)|Americade that aren't primary then that can help establish notability, assuming that the band is notable. Offhand it looks like it should be, however I note that the same COI that has been editing de Marigny's article was also editing the band's article, so the band's notability is somewhat questionable given the semi-promotional tones in the band article and the relatively weak sourcing currently in Americade's article. I'll see what I can find, but offhand the article seems to focus a lot on his novel. I'm going to remove the mentions of it selling well on Amazon, since that's not something that would give notability and we can only really add that to the article if there is a lot of coverage in independent RS that would justify adding it. So far this looks to be a great example of why COI editing should be done extremely carefully, since there's so much promotional puffery in the article (and in the band's article) that it would probably need to be |TNT'd in order to make it fit NPOV and GNG
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Blow it up and start over (WP:TNT)