Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joan Sargent


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The result was delete. S warm  ♠  19:30, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Joan Sargent

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Not all romance novelists are notable. I can't find much about her or her books, so I believe she fails WP:AUTHOR. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:10, 1 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete - I created this early in my Wikipedia editing career, and I don't think I would do so now. I can find some of her books reviewed in newspapers, but I can find no critical discussion of her books or biographical material on her.  I also can't find any mentions of her work in scholarly discussions of romance writing.  Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 22:31, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
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 * User:Mike Christie Can you say where you found the reviews?E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:52, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I searched newspapers.com and found a couple of very short announcement-style reviews. For example, Kitsy Babcock, Library Assistant is reviewed in the Gaffney Ledger (a South Carolina paper); the review is two sentences long and is really a description of the plot rather than a review. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 11:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah. I see what you mean.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:33, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete I ran a couple of Proquest newspapers searches - because these are older books - and found even less than Mike Christie did.  i.e., I found nothing at all.  genre novels and their authors don't necessarily attract any coverage at all, even when their books sell, as these must have done because they kept being published.  There is nothing here to justify keeping an article.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:33, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete My sweeps turned up nada, even an unfiltered one; agree with nominator and delete comments above.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 21:24, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - While I found stories about several other Joan Sargents, nothing about this one. Does not appear to pass WP:GNG or WP:AUTHOR.  Onel 5969  TT me 21:14, 7 August 2015 (UTC)


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