Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amy Lane
In terms of Wikipedia notability, Amazon and BN.com don't mean anything, because any vanity-press author in the world, such as "Amy Lane," can arrange to have vanity books listed there.  Also, authors can manipulate Amazon rankings through bulk ordering.  Much the same holds true for libraries--any vanity-press "author" can donate copies to a few libraries.  In order to understand some of the relevant policies, please read , , and .  The fact of the matter is that this woman and her books do not meet the notability guidelines for inclusion in Wikipedia.  As for the issues of WP:single-purpose account, while it is true that other types of edits were made early on, lately the account in question has been going on an orgy of "Amy Lane" promotion, creating the non-notable "Amy Lane" article, creating four extensive articles (complete with spam links) for all four of the non-notable vanity-press books, and then, if that weren't enough, spamming wikilinks to "Amy Lane" onto many other WP articles.  All of this adds up to one thing: .  So when I say WP is being taken for a ride here, that is what I am referring to, and a permanent ban for spam is probably in order.  Finally, it should be noted that while the account in questions has, from time to time, made non-"Amy Lane" edits, many of those edits concern the exact geographic location where "Amy Lane" is purported to live.  Hmmm
— User:Qworty, 04:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:BIO||WP:RS||WP:BK||WP:SPAM (Wikipedia:Notability)