Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Ridge


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure)  Dr vulpes  (💬 • 📝) 05:26, 25 September 2022 (UTC)

Mary Ridge

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Fails WP:DIRECTOR, was unable to find sources for her other than an obituary and a fan blog. IMDB doesn't list any awards and only credits her for some episodes of a few british TV shows. Checked Google, Google News, and the newspaper archive and wasn't able to find anything about her that wasn't just passing comments or about her death. This article was PROD but it was contested so it is now being sent here.  Dr vulpes  (💬 • 📝) 20:07, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Actors and filmmakers and Television.  Dr vulpes  (💬 • 📝) 20:07, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women and United Kingdom.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:13, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment. Ridge is a household name for me, as a female BBC television director from an era when that was rare. There was a lot of coverage of Blake's 7, a very popular and influential show in its time, and now with cult status, where she directed several episodes including two finales ("Terminal" & "Blake") that were hugely controversial, but most of it pre-dates the internet. Some coverage is archived in Google Books but most of it isn't readable; eg 12 hits here some of which look significant: . One of the books cites an article J. Nazzaro (1993). Mary Ridge: The final days of Blake's 7. TV Zone 45: 30–32 which looks like it might be significant coverage. She also worked on Doctor Who, which of course has tonnes of media & academic coverage, but with which I'm less familiar. eg There's a brief (2 paragraph) entry in Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors by Jerry Roberts that focuses on her non-sf work. . ETA There were two books: Blake's 7: The Inside Story, Joe Nazzaro, ‎Sheelagh Wells 1997 and Liberation: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's 7 Alan Stevens, ‎Fiona Moore 2013 which might have content, but they don't seem to be available online. I'll see what else I can dig out. Espresso Addict (talk) 03:50, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Going offline now, but I'll add, I'm willing to work on this if kept, but I no longer work on articles at AfD. Espresso Addict (talk) 03:55, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * @Espresso Addict clearly knows more about this then me so I'm going to withdraw my nomination so they can get all the referances sorted out. Mary Ridge sounds a lot more important after reading Espresso Addicts comment.  Dr vulpes  (💬 • 📝) 05:24, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep As per Espresso Addicts comment as they have access to resources that are not easily found online and know this area much more than myself.  Dr vulpes  (💬 • 📝) 05:26, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


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