Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anne Tourney


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The result was   delete. Black Kite (t) (c) 23:49, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Anne Tourney

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Fails WP:BIO. No reliable secondary references and a cursory search of Google News Archive turns up zero hits for an author named Anne Tourney. Kindzmarauli (talk) 04:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db quite a prolific author apparently. Is mentioned in How to write a dirty story: reading, writing, and publishing erotica By Susie Bright, Product Details Fireside, January 2002 Trade Paperback, 304 pages ISBN-10: 0743226232 ISBN-13: 9780743226233
 * Delete absolutely nothing I could find on Google. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 07:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - Many books listed on  Google includiing Taming Jeremy by Anne Tourney, published by Virgin Digital, an imprint of Random House - the biggest selling book publisher in the UK.

http://books.google.com/books?id=pfpQg2U2VD8C&dq=%22Anne+Tourney%22+-inpublisher:icon&lr=&as_brr=0&cd=6 has stories in  The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, Volume 2 by Maxim Jakubowski (30,000 copies). Stories in The Best American Erotica 2002 by Susie bright Story Greek Fever in Best women's erotica, Volume 2002 by http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1,bkv:a&tbo=p&q=+inauthor:%22Marcy+Sheiner%22 Marcie Scheiner

One of the three stories in Possession by http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1,bkv:a&tbo=p&q=+inauthor:%22Anne+Tourney%22 Mathilde Madden, Madelynne Ellis, and  Anne Tourney Pub. Date: April 2008 Publisher: Random House UK Format: Paperback, 272pp Series: Black Lace Series, # ISBN-13: 9780352341648 ISBN: 0352341645

and that's just for starters. Found in 3 minutes on  Google.--Kudpung (talk) 09:52, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - while the fact that she has written books is verifiable, I could not find any reliable sources to establish that this author passes the notability guidelines, particularly the ones for authors.--137.122.49.102 (talk) 14:55, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Although she has written books, the books themselves cannot be used to establish notability as primary sources. She has to have herself been the subject of independent, third-party coverage in reliable sources. Has she been interviewed or had any bios written about her in news articles, or journals? Has she been the direct subject of independent coverage? If she has I will be happy to withdraw my AfD, but I was not able to find any such coverage myself. Kindzmarauli (talk) 17:38, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Actually, the books can establish notability for the author per WP:CREATIVE #4. For example, if the book was a New York Times bestseller, I believe that would make the author notable. However, these books do not appear to meet criteria #4. Akerans (talk) 20:14, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, yes that does make sense. Thank you for explaining to me. Kindzmarauli (talk) 06:34, 18 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete for lack of secondary coverage. Inclusion in one or two (not so notable) anthologies is really not enough. Drmies (talk) 19:58, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
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