Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Lowry


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. joe deckertalk to me 15:57, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Don Lowry

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Proposed deletion removed with comment: notable individual in wargaming history and in the development of D&D; take to AfD But I'm still unable to find any significant coverage in independent reliable sources to verify his notability. Also is a long-term unreferenced BLP. The-Pope (talk) 00:03, 29 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Comment - Turns up nothing useable in search. Google for "Lowry's Enterprises" also gives only 5 insignificant hits. Probably not notable. MakeSense64 (talk) 13:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment&mdash;I'm not sure. Is this a different Don Lowry from the one who wrote a series of Civil War history books, 1991–1995? He seems to have made quite a few contributions over his career. RJH (talk) 21:28, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
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 * Weak keep Although I could not find significant coverage of the subject of this BLP, I was able to verify that he holds (or held) the copyrights to three of the games/manuals mentioned in the article here. The source was added to the article. The lack of more on-line sources is likely related to most of his work occuring in the early 1970s. J04n(talk page) 02:01, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Courcelles 00:43, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:49, 12 August 2011 (UTC)




 * Keep I have added a citation to a biographical source which verifies some of the basic facts. Worst case is that this would be merged into some article about the early history of D&D and wargaming and that would be a matter of ordinary editing, not deletion. Warden (talk) 08:57, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep Important contributor to the development of gaming. Leutha (talk) 22:58, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Citation added isn't yet sufficient but subject seems notable for his early role in the development of early D&D products. Being the wargaming publisher whose stonewalling caused EGG to create TSR seems like a minor point of notability by itself, but that's just my opinion. BusterD (talk) 03:32, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
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