Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Randy Richards
I'm going to be blunt here.   There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Malakai Joe '''''is''''' Randy Richards, based on the level of detail in the article on unsourced biographical data.  Text like ''"He originally hails from Chalmette, Louisiana, the location of what is often called the Battle of New Orleans. His family is from Cades Cove, before the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created"'' is not something that would be written by a disinterested third party about a person with this level of notoriety.    Given that, this brings up  issues right off the bat.  COI is not enough for an AFD by itself, so let's take a look at the claims to fame:   1)  published an article in a specialty magazine.  2) the authoring of a book which is admittedly self-published.  See the note at bottom of page http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showbook&bookid=4871 here  3) running a non-notable (by WP's standards) website.  4) some minor commercial work for a local company. The "Cox Media" commercial had a 504 area code contact number and was targeted for people only in that area. 4)  Taking some photographs of Katrina damage, which was covered by the local news of people in Katrina-damaged areas.  Absolutely none of these rise to the level of notability required by Wikipedia
— User:Shinmawa, 16:06, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:COI (Wikipedia:Conflict of interest)