Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sherwood Smith


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The result was keep. MelanieN (talk) 00:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Sherwood Smith

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I don’t see any significant coverage of her anywhere, mostly other writers’ blogs and publisher info, one convention notice, and two books she teamed up with Andre Norton on. It has been mentioned that some of her books were nominated for various awards, but no wins came about. I’m unfamiliar with her work so I don’t know how significant it is as far as qualifying for WP:AUTHOR goes. Posting to AfD in case anyone familiar with her or the genres can vouch for her and her works. LovelyLillith (talk) 22:15, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
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 * Weak Keep on NPOINTS/NAUTHOR#3 grounds: I can't see sigcov of her either, but she's at ISFDB (which lists her award noms) and SFE and there's sufficient reviews of her work in aggregate including, plus Kirkus and PW. Quantity of reviews would make a couple of her books at least weakly pass NBOOK (though my preference in such cases is generally for such works to be redirected as Template:R from book and covered at subsections of the author article). No objection to redirection/merge of articles on her works lacking reasonable sourcing, nor trimming the catalogue or nuking the navbox. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 09:31, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep it’s a sizeable article and it seems like she’s quite prolific in her writing and publication. There is a decent fantasy subculture that doesn’t always get coverage in the MSM, but that doesn’t mean this author isn’t popular and well-known to a great number of people. Locochoko (talk) 11:59, 7 June 2019 (UTC)


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