Now, if only we had a Wikipedian in Residence there. Oh, wait... we do!
Perhaps Andrew could help.
:D
On 19/05/2012 23:03, Richard Symonds wrote:
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" <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk
<mailto:andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>> wrote:
On 19 May 2012 22:44, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com
<mailto:thomas.dalton@gmail.com>> 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!
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