Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. J. Healy

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The result was keep‎. Star Mississippi 01:18, 4 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A. J. Healy[edit]

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Doesn't pass WP:NAUTHOR. The only citations provided are reviews for the first book in a series, and most of the information on the author page is about his first book, Tommy Storm and the accompanying series. I have looked for other sources for reviews of the other books, as well as sources discussing Healy, but haven't found any. If sources can't be found, I recommend redirecting to his one notable book, Tommy Storm. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 02:18, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Ireland. Significa liberdade (she/her) (talk) 02:18, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources. The subject passes Wikipedia:Notability (people)#Basic criteria, which says:
People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.
- If the depth of coverage in any given source is not substantial, then multiple independent sources may be combined to demonstrate notability; trivial coverage of a subject by secondary sources is not usually sufficient to establish notability.
Sources
1. Hadden, Lauren (December 2006 – January 2007). "Child's Play. At 37, Alan Healy has tried hishand at many things –globetrotting, investment banking,even opening a brick factory in South Africa. His latest endeavour may prove the most successful yet. Lauren Hadden speaks to the self-published author" (PDF). Image. pp. 71–72. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  The article notes: "Against the advice of the careers department at UCD, he decided to travel the world for a while. After globetrotting fromAmerica to Australia and lots of places in between, he came back to Dublin with a loan to pay off. ... He went from a poverty-stricken life of travel to earning “almost immoral” amounts working for investment bank Goldman Sachs in London. ... He stayed on for two years though, saving money and gaining important experience. ... After his adventures in Africa, Healy returned to Dublin in 1998 to try his hand at venture capital and thedot.com boom, getting involved in “various vaguely entrepreneurial things”. After September 11, things changed and he lost interest. He remembered his promise to himself about writing a book. He’d started writing a murder mystery in South Africa and half-heartedly sent it to a few publishers, but it wasn’t the finished article. In March 2002, the writing bug struck again."
2. Smith, Andrea (2008-03-22). "'Brother, You're on the Write Lines'". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  The article notes: "The Healy family was a small and close-knit one, because when Alan was five and Ronan was two, their parents' marriage ended, and father Michael left the family home in Deansgrange and emigrated. He is currently based in Thailand, and maintains a good relationship with his sons. ... After school, Alan completed a B Comm, and took a job as an analyst in mergers and acquisitions with investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs, in London. Although it was a very well-paid and prestigious job, he knew it wasn't going to be a perfect fit for him long-term, and left after two years. He then entered what he describes as his "idealistic phase", where he went to help start a brick factory in one of South Africa's townships for two years. His adventures there included being held up at gunpoint during a robbery on wages day, a detail he only casually mentioned to his family when he was home for Christmas two months later."
3. McBride, Louise (2015-02-07). "A pioneering Irish firm will make the world a better, warmer place". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 2024-01-27. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  The article notes: "Tommy Storm, which was written in 2002 and self-published by Mr Healy in 2006, ties in with the Dubliner's ambition to make the world a better place. Another was his decision to set up Exergyn, along with Barry Cullen and Kevin O'Toole, about three years ago. ... Mr Healy has tried his hand at many things over his working life - from investment banking in Goldman Sachs, London to setting up a brick factory in a township in South Africa, to business consulting,to writing Tommy Storm."
4. Marsden, Shelley (2008-04-29). "Intergalactic Adventure". The Irish World. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
  The article notes: "I meet quietly-spoken, Dublin-based author Alan Healy on a torrentially wet day in a hotel off Bond Street. ... I realise the writer of teen sci-fi adventure Tommy Storm is younger than I imagined. The fair haired writer is 39 (and married, with a 13 month old girl) but for some reason I expected him to be older. Perhaps it’s hearing about all the jobs and experience he’s had in that time. He stays at jobs for such little time that he assures me no bank manager will ever give him a loan. After travelling for a year, then earning big bucks in Goldman Sachs, Healy went to Africa to set up a brick factory in one of the townships, helping locals build homes."
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow A. J. Healy to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 12:59, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Cunard's sources. Toughpigs (talk) 20:30, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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