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The result was delete. czar 06:41, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Chris Saraceno
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Possibly one of the most embarrassing autobios ever. Has a Bad Case of Inexplicable Capitalization Disorder, with WP:INTOTHEWOULDS as a severe complication. Sample:
In ninth grade, Saraceno would forge lifelong business and physical fitness mentorship relationship under Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom partner Robert Plarr. Saraceno credits Plarr for demonstrating to him the power of mentorships; this would create the template for Saraceno’s personal philosophies, and would go on to serve as the basis for his book, The Theory of 5.Saraceno met his first wife, Julie, when he was 17 years old. They later married and had two daughters, Tia and Taylor. In 2000, at age 38, his first wife filed for divorce. Five months following his divorce, Saraceno would meet his soon-to-be second wife, Lisa, through a common friend. Saraceno and Lisa would later marry.Saraceno would endure various personal tragedies in the years that followed: Lisa would twice battle cancer; his family had to face the premature deaths of his 19-year-old nephew and godson, Michael, and 29-year-old stepson, Brandon; he would experience the sudden deaths of three close friends; his parents would separate after 56 years of marriage, and his father Angelo would be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease (for whom Chris would assume responsibility for as main caregiver). Saraceno cites these events as major factors where The Theory of 5’s philosophy of using life’s tragedies to strengthen and improve one’s outlook would prove essential.
Like it says at WP:AUTOBIO:
- Upon some of Cato's friends expressing their surprise, that while many persons without merit or reputation had statues, he had none, he answered, "I had much rather it should be asked why the people have not erected a statue to Cato, than why they have."
E Eng 02:36, 1 August 2020 (UTC) P.S. An undisclosed paid editor has been spamming the subject's book as well: Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_Theory_of_5 and [1]
- Delete. Sources too trivial for Wikipedia. Xxanthippe ( talk) 03:33, 1 August 2020 (UTC).
- Delete This fellow manages car dealerships established and owned by other people. He also wrote a self-help book. Despite the claim that it is an "Amazon No. 1 best-selling self-help book", it appears that no professional book reviewer has chosen to or been assigned to review the book in any reliable source. I have not been able to find any significant coverage of this person in independent, reliable sources. This is an overtly promotional BLP of a non-notable person, which is either an autobiography or the product of undisclosed paid editing. In either case, the conflict of interest is glaring, and the person is not notable. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 04:25, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete non notable -- Devokewater @ 10:18, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete, a delusional car dealer who fails WP:GNG. Devonian Wombat ( talk) 11:13, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete - simply not notable. Giant Snowman 13:44, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete We really, really, really need to start requiring all new articles to go through AfC. If we do not do that than we need to at least stop allowing first edits to be article creation and to make at least all first user submissions go through AfC and to not allow a non-AfC user submission until they have had an article created through AfC. The second plan would not stop all autobiographies, but make the path to one harder and hopefully mean the editors thingking of creating them would have come to understand self-promotion is not the purpose of Wikipedia. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 13:59, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
- Delete Not notable. Jaydoggmarco ( talk) 00:32, 7 August 2020 (UTC)
- The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.