Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dan McGirt


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The result was keep. –&#8239;Joe (talk) 17:38, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

Dan McGirt

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NN author, fails the GNG and WP:AUTHOR. Searches turn up sellers like Amazon, Goodreads and various social media sites, but no evidence of significant coverage in reliable sources and none presented in the article. The front page of his website for his flagship "non-trilogy" (his words, and which article I'm likewise nominating) has a comment section where exactly three readers have chimed in, not a sterling sign of being noticed. Notability tagged for over ten years.


 *   Ravenswing     12:51, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.   Ravenswing      12:51, 18 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep and speedy close. ISFDB shows multiple reviews of the author's commercially published print novels, and genre book review indices show even more; reviews can be found in outlets like Asimov's Science Fiction, Publishers Weekly, Locus, and Science Fiction Chronicle. Worldcat search also shows some library holdings for the original print editions, which for three-decades-old paperbacks indicates much more extensive original holdings. Whether the two articles should be merged is a reasonable question, but calls for a standard merge discussion rather than AFD. The Big Bad Wolfowitz (aka Hullaballoo). Treated like dirt by many administrators since 2006.  Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong! (talk) 20:21, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Science fiction and fantasy-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 03:11, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:06, 19 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep, meets WP:NAUTHOR, works have received multiple reviews, ie. Jason Cosmo, in addition to the reviews mentioned by above (Locus, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine,, Publishers Weekly, Science Fiction Chronicle), there are reviews in Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature (here), Paperback Inferno (here), Yellow Submarine (here), Emergency Librarian (here), Lan's Lantern (here), Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide (here), Royal Chaos: reviews by Locus here, Paperback Inferno here, no probs with merging Jason Cosmo, although with 10 reviews, as listed above, there could easily be an article on the novel Jason Cosmo rather than the character. Coolabahapple (talk) 06:07, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Jason Cosmo, no opinion on the author himself at this point. Bundled nominations are rarely a good idea... PS. Jason Cosmo the novel may be notable, Jason Cosmo the fictional character is not. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 09:25, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep passes WP:NAUTHOR#3 Wm335td (talk) 02:03, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep as a notable author. Agree that bundled nominations are complicated and we can talk about the fiction separately. Archrogue (talk) 18:12, 23 August 2020 (UTC)


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