Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A.J. Smith (writer)


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The result was keep. ...absent any opposition to the policy based keep comments after two re-lists. (non-admin closure) Lourdes  05:05, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

A.J. Smith (writer)

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As for now, he doesn't meet WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR Marvellous Spider -Man 13:38, 13 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 00:37, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 00:37, 14 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete writer who passes none of our notability guidelines for writers.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:51, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. It took some searching since these titles brought up a surprisingly large amount of non-relevant hits, but I found enough reviews for his work to justify a weak keep at this point in time. If we can find the reviews from the UK sci-fi mag outlets then that'd push it to a more solid keep but I won't count those until we see them since we can't guarantee the depth of coverage and all that good stuff. Still, there's enough for a weak keep due to the reviews for his work. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:11, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Found the SFX review, had to go through the Wayback Machine for it though. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:16, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
 * I've contacted SciFiNow in the hopes they can give me the data for their review. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  05:26, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:33, 20 September 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 00:27, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. These are UK chldren's books. Worldcat shows each of them in several hundred libraries. Since worldcat strongly emphasizes US libraries, this is a quite strong record, and must represent good reviews, because that's why libraries buy books.  DGG ( talk ) 00:02, 29 September 2016 (UTC)


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