Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Terry Donaldson


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  11:58, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

Terry Donaldson

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Not a notable (deceased) person. User:力 (powera, π,  ν ) 16:28, 26 March 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   16:51, 2 April 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 16:44, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. User:力 (powera,  π,  ν ) 16:28, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Astrology.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 17:26, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - The subject wrote at least 8 books that were published by traditional publishing houses, including HarperCollins. I fleshed out the article some. Sources out of the country were difficult to find, but wayback searching should find more. The subject was a well-known tarot card reader and author with a TV show and televised appearances. Subject meets WP:GNG and passes WP:BASIC. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 20:23, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete (Note: The most complete list of books I can find is at the Open Library). I found only one review, on JSTOR, and it is for a Tarot deck with a short pamphlet. Unfortunately his main publisher, Thorsons, a subsidiary of Harper Collins, is defunct so that is out as a source of links to reviews. Looking at library holdings to try to get an idea of distribution of his works, his books tend to be in the mid-two-digits on Worldcat, which is low. Conclusion: This doesn't meet WP:AUTHOR. In terms of his TV career, the only evidence I find is a short article saying that he was suspended from TV "due to allegations of an assault on a woman". ("TV tarot expert suspended over sex assault claim." Sunday Mirror [London, England], 2 June 1996, p. 9. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A61161566/STND?u=sfpl_main&sid=ebsco&xid=90b1419b.) I don't find anything else about what he was doing on TV before that. There is only one independent source in the article, which is listed here (identically) twice (cites 2 & 3) - note that the Islington Tribune and the Camden New Journal are published together and obviously share some content. Searching on his name didn't turn anything up, although it is difficult because there are people better known who have the same name. I admit I gave up after 4 or 5 pages of results. Then again, if he were notable, he should have shown up by then. Lamona (talk) 04:26, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete - as per Lamona. Tony Fox (arf!) 16:56, 10 April 2022 (UTC)


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