Talk:Barbara Samuel

Contested deletion
This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because while Barbara O'Neal and Barbara Samuel are the same person, she writes different books under these two names. Under Barbara O'Neal, she has written five contemporary women's fiction novels. Under the name Barbara Samuel, she has over 40 novels to her credit, some women's fiction (five that she has re-released under the name Barbara O'Neal), and has also written contemporary and historical romance that would not - and should not - appear as listed as titles on her Barbara O'Neal page. It may sound like a silly and minor distinction, but in the writing world, particularly the romance writing world, these distinctions are pretty big. Many writers create more than one author persona so that readers will associate and expect a certain kind of book with a certain author's name.

It has taken me HOURS to create this Barbara Samuel page. If you really must delete one of the entries, would you consider renaming the Barbara Samuel page as Barbara O'Neal then deleting the original O'Neal one? There is more content on the Samuel page that could be relevant to both her writing names and I can go in and edit the page so that it more aptly covers all of her writing personas.

Thank you. Romancelibrarian (talk) 01:28, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have deleted the page as a copyright violation of this page. I do not know what name is more suitable, but I suggest we have only one article for this person. When in doubt, start a discussion about which name to sue (see WP:RM). —Kusma (t·c) 16:52, 3 November 2015 (UTC)