Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stuart Holroyd


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The result was   keep. Nomination withdrawn with thanks to the participants. I was wrong about the self-published thing, and am grateful to User:AllyD for improving the article. Drmies (talk) 21:04, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Stuart Holroyd

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Author appears unnotable to me. Books are self-published (or vanity-published) tomes on parapsychology; the only thing from his life that generated any kind of coverage is a minor incident mentioned in the article and borne out by a Google Book search (for "The Tenth Chance" AND Holroyd)--but that is very one-evenlike. The rest is puffery without proper verification. Drmies (talk) 18:52, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
 * OPPOSE. His books were not self-published. It would be useful to include a list of publishers with the article, but in brief, his first two books were published by Victor_Gollancz_Ltd, his autobiography, Contraries, by The Bodley Head, The English Imagination by Longman.  You  can run through the rest on Amazon: I don't think you'll find any self-published.
 * In the book Declaration, published by MacGibbon & Kee, his work appears alongside essays by Doris Lessing, John Osborne, Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and many other notable writers.
 * He's not in Wikipedia for the one incident, but for his extensive published work. Another useful thing would be the for the article to list some of the many references to him in the literature: Kenneth Allsop's The Angry Decade, Humphrey  Carpenter's The Angry Young Men, Colin Wilson's Dreaming to Some Purpose, etc. Suggest search Google Books but limit it to "preview available," and you'll see discussions of his work.KD Tries Again (talk) 19:58, 4 May 2012 (UTC)KD Tries Again
 * Also, checking the article again, I see publishers are given in the notes. Please be cautious about proposing articles for deletion.  KD Tries Again (talk) 20:02, 4 May 2012 (UTC)KD Tries Again


 * Keep I've added a few references into the article, including to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature. Both relate to his youthful role in the so-called Angry Young Men but I think are sufficient evidence of notability. Some references and extended info on his later career would be beneficial though. AllyD (talk) 20:44, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
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