Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Playing for Keeps (novel)

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The result was redirect to Mur Lafferty. DGG ( talk ) 04:21, 5 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Playing for Keeps (novel)[edit]

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Long under-referenced article about novel, within no indication of notability. Can't find reviews in the normal places, and doesn't seem to be broadly critiqued Sadads (talk) 03:20, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:54, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Science fiction-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 07:54, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment This book won a Parsec award for Best Speculative Fiction Story (Long Form) in 2008. ([1]) The author was one of the creators of those awards. I don't know how significant they are. Gab4gab (talk) 22:15, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That makes it kind of difficult because now even if the award can give notability, it's an award that was given to one of its founders. The frustrating thing here is that there is some mention of the book here and there, but I'm running into situations like this one where the coverage that could be used has been put out by people who know the author, making it a primary source since they know her and have an interest in making sure people know about and read/listen to the book. I'm leaning towards just redirecting this to the author's page. The only independent RS I'm finding only mention the work in passing. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 22:39, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Tokyogirl79: That was the problem I was running into: I have tried to find sources for this article twice, and haven't found anything substantial.Sadads (talk) 00:34, 31 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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