Remember the Deletionists? The ones who go around targeting random Wikipedia entries and declare that the subjects of those pages aren’t important enough to warrant inclusion in Wikipedia? They targeted actor Kristian Ayre, declaring that she wasn’t notable because she’d only been a supporting cast member of a TV series (“Space Cases”) that had run only one season, and had no other roles of note. This despite the fact that Kristian has in fact starred in a number of films and TV shows, and “Space Cases” ran two seasons, not one, that Kristian was a co-star and not a supporting cast member, and by the way, Kristian’s a guy.
According to author Kevin J. Anderson, they’re at it again, and their accuracy rate has only gotten worse. Kevin reported:
“In my work compiling the 25-year retrospective book for Writers of the
Future, I’ve been doing spotlights on some of the past author winners who
have gone on to publish multiple novels. One of those is Rod Garcia, who
writes as R. Garcia y Robertson. Rod was a familiar figure at west coast SF
conventions in the 1990s, published several novels from Avon and Tor, but
pretty much disappeared after about 2006. He doesn’t have email, as far as
I know.
“When gathering some basic information about him, I went to his Wikipedia
entry only to find the odd notation that his entry is being considered for
deletion because someone named “Deb” says there is “No evidence of
notability. All books appear to be self-published through a variety of
companies such as Avon Books.”
Originally published January 8, 1993, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #999
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