Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carol Lake


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure)  NNADI GOOD LUCK  ( Talk &#124; Contribs ) 13:11, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Carol Lake

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I have no indication that this person is notable. The references confirm existence, but there is no significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. – UnnamedUser (talk; contribs) 01:51, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete fails WP:NAUTHOR Chetsford (talk) 02:23, 23 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Carol Lake won the Guardian Fiction Prize for 1989. The prize was awarded to entries from British and Commonwealth citizens over 2 billion people. There were hundreds of entries each year and a final list of 5 writers were selected. Carol Lake won that selection process and the award that went it. There are over 30 winner of the award from 1964, all of whom have entries on the fiction list on wikipedea and Carol Lake was the only person in red writing. I have linked her name to the entry so that now there is no gap in Wikipedea own information. If the article is deleted the gap will appear again.
 * The Guardian Fiction Prize was a very prestigious award and has now been replaced with the Guardian First Book award. It is a notable achievement to have won the award.
 * Carol Lake second book was used as the base for a BBC drama called The Hello Girls which had 2 series and was in the top 30 viewing figures for August that year. https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-30/ as you can see. Carol Lake is a non computer user and still types her stories with an old typewriter. She does not participate in social media and that is probably why it is difficult to find much information about her. She has written 5 books and the latest one 'Winter at the Bookshop' has just been released by Five Leaves Publications. I am sure it will have success.
 * I hope you reconsider the deletion of the entry and allow people to be able to know or amend her story.
 * Many thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Romologiannone (talk • contribs) 16:09, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep She clearly meets WP:NAUTHOR "The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series) or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." Her book Switchboard Operators was the basis of the TV series The Hello Girls. Her books have been reviewed in the London Review of Books, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph, among others. The article could certainly use improvement, but that is not a reason for deletion. RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:23, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  MBisanz  talk 12:56, 31 December 2019 (UTC) Carol Lake's new book has now been published under her real name Sylvia Riley. There is a book launch at Five Leaves publications in Nottingham on the 9th January. Keep this entry https://facebook.com/events/537317537125237/?ti=as
 * Keep She meets WP:NAUTHOR Wm335td (talk) 20:15, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per comment by RebeccaGreen.NotButtigieg (talk) 16:14, 4 January 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind comments. Yes you are right the entry does need improvement. It is my first attempt and I will add and improve it if it is not deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Romologiannone (talk • contribs) 17:12, 30 December 2019 (UTC) Carol Lake's new book has now been published. There is a book launch at Five Leaves publications on the 9th January. https://facebook.com/events/537317537125237/?ti=as — Preceding unsigned comment added by Romologiannone (talk • contribs) 21:01, 31 December 2019 (UTC)


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