Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roger Scarlett


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn; well sourced and expanded now. (non-admin closure) Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:32, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Roger Scarlett

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This is interesting, buuut ... absolutely not well or widely documented and/or discussed. Essentially this is material from the introduction of the re-issue of one of the novels; otherwise coverage of both author(s) and books seems lacking. If someone can come up with a couple reviews or some non-primary biographical coverage, please do. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:16, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:16, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - I did some research and it turns out Dorothy Blair and Evelyn Page (the people behind Roger Scarlett) are believed to be the "first same-sex couple to write mysteries." I also found recent reviews of their mysteries in Publishers Weekly and Booklist along with a ton of old reviews in famous magazines of 1930s (including The Publisher's Weekly, Saturday Review, The Bookman, Time Magazine, and many more). There's even an entry in Contemporary Authors volumes 5-8 from 1963 for Evelyn Page and Roger Scarlett. I haven't included all these reviews in the article but I did add a good number of new citations along with additional information. I also did a general cleanup of the article. All of this proves to me that that Dorothy Blair and Evelyn Page, writing as Roger Scarlett, meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for authors.--SouthernNights (talk) 20:40, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Stellar job. You took the article from undersourced to well-sourced and expanded the scope substantially. Thanks - withdrawing. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:31, 11 February 2023 (UTC)


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