Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Prince (novelist)
Writers are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist — they require |reliable source coverage ''about'' them in ''media''. When it comes to the award nomination, the publishing industry ''often'' tries to ''whitewash'' the distinction between "nominated in the sense of being submitted to the award committee for consideration" and "nominated in the sense of actually being named to the short or long lists by the award committee" so that the writer's self-published PR can use the phrase "award-nominated" — but for the purposes of an AUTHOR pass on "award-nominated" grounds, a writer has to be ''listed'' by the award committee as a ''finalist'', not just submitted to them as an entrant. The reason I mention this is that our article about the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (which is where the phrase "Arabic Booker Prize" redirects to) does not name him as either a shortlisted or longlisted nominee in any year — so I ran the source for it through Google Translate in order to figure out what was going on, and it indeed merely states that he was ''submitted''. Which means he has no "inherent" notability claims that would guarantee him a Wikipedia article, so his includability depends entirely on the quality of his sourcing — and none of the sourcing here is of the necessary type to count as getting him over : again, we require ''media'' coverage about him, not his own |self-published website about himself or his "staff" profiles on the self-published websites of directly affiliated companies or organizations
— User:Bearcat, 15:48, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:GNG||WP:SELFPUB (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)