Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shawna McCarthy


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) The editor  whose username is Z0  08:49, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Shawna McCarthy

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Delete An editor and literary agent, just doing her job, no indications of notability. Fails WP:BASIC.  HighKing++ 17:36, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. North America1000 21:22, 17 June 2018 (UTC)
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Keep and improve Minimal research shows this person has a long interesting history in science fiction book publishing. She worked closely with Isaac Asimov on his sci fi magazine and her role there seemed important to its historian: "While remaining a welcoming home for new writers, Shawna's Asimov's acquired an edgier and more literary and experimental tone. Shawna published much of Connie Willis's award-winning work as well as stories by Octavia E. Butler, Robert Silverberg, George R. R. Martin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Karen Joy Fowler, John Varley, Nancy Kress, Bruce Sterling, Esther M. Friesner, James Patrick Kelly, Kit Reed, John Kessel, Michael Swanwick, Roger Zelazny, Pat Murphy, Gardner Dozois, and many others. Shawna won a Hugo for Best Professional Editor in 1984." There is also a very interesting in-depth 2012 interview with her, which I had to pay 15 bucks to read, which describes her as follows: "Shawna McCarthy is a former assistant editor and later full editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. She also edited books for Bantam-Spectra, and edited the magazine Realms of Fantasy from its beginning in 1994 to its recent demise. She has been nominated for the Hugo for Best Professional Editor three times and won it once. She is active as a literary agent." . Much of her notability likely dates from before the internet, however. HouseOfChange (talk) 21:03, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Notable. Satisfies GNG. Satisfies criteria 1 of ANYBIO for winning a Hugo award. (The Hugo is considered to be one of the five major SF awards). Satisfies WP:CREATIVE. James500 (talk) 00:23, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep, meets WP:ANYBIO, for winning and multinoms of hugo, also these from locus (may also be worth adding to her article) - "Short Fiction Awards Winners and their Editors", and table listing the hugo/nebula winners that she edited/coedited. Coolabahapple (talk) 15:52, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * oops, in addition she was the coeditor of Full Spectrum 2 a 1990 locus anthology award nominee, and Full Spectrum a 1989 locus anthology award winner (both listed here). Coolabahapple (talk) 16:01, 21 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep Notable. Vermont (talk) 13:22, 22 June 2018 (UTC)


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