Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gladys Lucy Adshead

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The result was withdrawn by nominator. Sources have been found that show that she fits WP:AUTHOR now. Note to the other voters: when I first found the article and did a search I didn't find many sources but there were more from when a search was done omitting her middle name or with her middle initial. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 14:47, 19 December 2022 (UTC) (non-admin closure) ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 14:47, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gladys Lucy Adshead[edit]

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Non-notable author who fails WP:GNG and WP:AUTHOR. A search via the WP refs search engine only returns a result on WorldCat and a google search returns a bunch of either unrelated results or name drops. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 16:42, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Women, and United Kingdom. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 16:42, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - searching by "Gladys Adshead" or "Gladys L. Adshead" finds reviews from various papers over the years. I have added these to the page. I suspect Annis Duff, a co-author on the poetry collection, may also be notable if anyone is looking for ideas. If this is kept, I think the article should be moved to Gladys Adshead as that seems to be what she was known as, until then I just put an infobox on the page with that name. DaffodilOcean (talk) 19:27, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@DaffodilOcean: Do you think she meets GNG and AUTHOR now? If so then I'm willing to withdraw this nomination since you've managed to find sources. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 19:32, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I think she meets WP:AUTHOR with all the reviews I found, and the additional ones from Beccaynr. DaffodilOcean (talk) 01:32, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I added six reviews from Kirkus Reviews, and I think the additions by DaffodilOcean provide strong support for WP:AUTHOR#3 because there are multiple reviews for a collective body of work as well as the co-edited poetry collection (according to Worldcat, there are "11 editions published between 1948 and 1976 in English and [it is] held by 1,018 WorldCat member libraries worldwide"). Beccaynr (talk) 23:13, 16 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep just Kirkus reviews maybe wouldn't be enough, but with several in the Times it looks notable to me. Jahaza (talk) 01:02, 17 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Meets WP:AUTHOR per Beccaynr, An Inheritance of Poetry, Brownies-Hush!, and Brownies - It's Christmas! have three reviews and passes WP:GNG or WP:NBOOK. Casco and Smallest Brownie's fearful adventure are also borderline notable (though it's indeed the case that many reviews lean on the shorter side and are borderline WP:SIGCOV, but overall for the first three books notability is likely established IMO). Therefore, the author meets criteria 3: The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews. VickKiang (talk) 20:46, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.