Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam North

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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) WJ94 (talk) 19:31, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sam North[edit]

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Not meeting criteria for Academic or creative notability as a writer. Appears largely as PROMO. Oaktree b (talk) 15:09, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. Oaktree b (talk) 15:09, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Hey man im josh (talk) 15:39, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There are multiple mentions of this page elsewhere on wikipedia. I can do some work adding citations tmcq (talk) 17:29, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The author was nominated for a Booker prize and won the Somerset Maugham award. Seems pretty notable to me. tmcq (talk) 17:29, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep
- In addition to being longlisted for the Booker Prize, his novel The Unnumbered was reviewed in the Guardian[1] and the Independent[2], and the subject of an article in The Bookseller[3].
- His novel, The Old Country is reviewed in the New Zealand Herald[4], The Independent[5], the The Observer[6] and the Financial Times[7].
- His novel Chapel Street was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times[8] and Kirkus[9].
- His novel The Gifting Program was reviewed in The Independent[10].

Jahaza (talk) 18:05, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! tmcq (talk) 19:25, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I'm not sure that longlisted for the Booker prize is enough, but I'm seeing lots of reviews of his work in the British press. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 19:01, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The reviews listed above by Jahaza are enough to convince me of WP:AUTHOR notability. —David Eppstein (talk) 23:15, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per tmcq. Twinkle1990 (talk) 08:29, 14 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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