Worth a trip to the British Library for one of our London based members? Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK On May 19, 2012 11:00 PM, "Andy Mabbett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 19 May 2012 22:44, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > > As I feared when we discussed this article early today, I'm not really > > sure she is notable... I think that's why you can't find suitable > > references to establish notability. > > I'd be very surprised if an author of at least nine novels, all > published by a single mainstream publisher (implying commercial > success) with some republished in large print editions, had manage to > garner no press coverage, interviews, or reviews. > > That they have been published over a period starting in 1976 means > that such coverage is likely to pre-date the web and may never have > been available electronically. > > > I'm also a little concerned that a large portion (over a third) of the > > article > > I think you're miscounting. > > > is copied word for word from the publisher's biography of her > > (the 2nd reference). It's only one and a half sentences and its the > > obvious way to convey that information, so it wouldn't usually be a > > problem, but the article is just so short that it is quite > > significant. > > SOFIXIT! > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org >
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