On 19 May 2012 22:59, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 19 May 2012 22:44, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> As I feared when we discussed this article early today, I'm not really >> sure she is notable... I think that's why you can't find suitable >> references to establish notability. > > I'd be very surprised if an author of at least nine novels, all > published by a single mainstream publisher (implying commercial > success) with some republished in large print editions, had manage to > garner no press coverage, interviews, or reviews. > > That they have been published over a period starting in 1976 means > that such coverage is likely to pre-date the web and may never have > been available electronically.
Perhaps. You would need to find multiple reviews (and probably fairly significant reviews) to satisfy WP:AUTHOR. >> I'm also a little concerned that a large portion (over a third) of the >> article > > I think you're miscounting. 22 words out of 61. I'm only counting prose. >> is copied word for word from the publisher's biography of her >> (the 2nd reference). It's only one and a half sentences and its the >> obvious way to convey that information, so it wouldn't usually be a >> problem, but the article is just so short that it is quite >> significant. > > SOFIXIT! I could re-word it, but with only one very short source (plus the book listing), you're always going to be essentially copying the source. I'm sorry to be such a killjoy, but I think the PROD was probably justified... I wish the article were a good one, but I wouldn't really be helping anyone if I were dishonest about my assessment. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
