Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Antoine de La Fosse


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) — UY Scuti Talk  18:10, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Antoine de La Fosse

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Subject does not appear to be notable. Searching "Antoine de La Fosse" on Google Books appeared to largely come up with editions of his works; on News, Scholar, and Web Search, nothing useful that I could see. I also couldn't see anything searching "Antoine de La Fosse" on jstor. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 17:37, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Weak keep: While one would scarcely guess from the sub-stub article (unless one takes the hint to look at the French Wikipedia article), the subject does seem to be just about notable as a playwright and poet - even if his reputation seems to rest mostly on just one play and one or two translations. But the play seems to have been popular for a century or so, the subject still gets entries in specialist but selective reference works (this and this, for instance), and this monograph focusses on the play at some length. PWilkinson (talk) 00:46, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:31, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep as clearly notable. I have fleshed out the article and added ~20 sources. have another look. Sam Sailor Talk! 15:13, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * : excellent work. The sources you found seem to conclusively demonstrate that my inability to find useful sources was user error, not lack of notability. There's also much more to work with for future editors, which is an excellent outcome all around. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 15:24, 22 November 2015 (UTC)


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