Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cecil Foster
As always, the notability test for writers is not just the ability to technically verify that they and their work exist — it requires evidence of ''distinctions'', such as winning a notable literary award and/or receiving enough |reliable source coverage ''about him'' to clear . (And no, having been on the ''judging'' panel of a notable literary award is ''not'' a notability criterion.) But even on a ProQuest search for older media coverage that wouldn't Google, I wasn't able to find anything approaching what needs to be shown — I got a lot of hits where he was the bylined ''author'' of coverage about ''other'' things, which is not the kind of sourcing we're looking for, and virtually none where he was the ''subject'' of coverage written by other ''people'', which is the kind of sourcing that's actually required. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt an article about him from having to be referenced much better than this, but I simply can't find the kind of referencing he needs to have
— User:Bearcat, 20:25, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:RS||WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)