Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christine Monson


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The result was delete.  Kurykh  00:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Christine Monson

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No convincing secondary sources have been found for this author's biography. The one relevant source claimed (I couldn't verify) is a Denver Post article reporting her suicide. This would, in any case, not suffice by WP:BLP1E. An expert review request to WikiProject Biography did not turn up any additional sources either. -- Sent here as part of the Notability wikiproject. --B. Wolterding 08:36, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete for lack of coverage in reliable sources. No satisfaction of WP:BIO. Valrith 21:32, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per above Corpx 04:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I de-prodded this article once, even though I don't particularly care if it gets deleted or not. Before the deletion, however, I'll explain my reasoning for the record. The Denver Post article is a full obit, with the suicide only briefly mentioned (probably copyvio postings of the article can be found by searching in conjunction with the reporter, Claire Martin). WorldCat shows that Rangoon is still in 54 library systems and Stormfire in 31, and many more have surely discarded their copies over the past two decades. It also shows that four of her six novels were translated into German. There also seems to have been a modest Internet revival for Stormfire in particular, among fans of old-school bodice-rippers who find today's fare too tame. Unfortunately, I didn't find additional usable sources. Her romance career was relatively short and unprolific, and she wrote just before the online era, in a genre rarely covered by "serious" media. If there are more sources, they are likely in contemporary dead-tree magazines servicing the romance genre, and I don't know what those are. -- Groggy Dice T | C 13:25, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


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