Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Richard Hefter

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The result was keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 13:58, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Hefter[edit]

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I can find no significant coverage about this author. The mention in the Stickybear and Sweet Pickles articles appear to be sufficient - and if a redirect is deemed necessary, then the more substantial article is Sweet Pickles - although perhaps a link to Stickybear could be placed in that article, along the lines of a series of books by ... Richard Hefter (also the creator of Stickybear) and published... PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 12:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions. PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 12:09, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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~~Weak~~ Keep as an author of several notable series of books, as indicated by the fact we have Wikipedia articles about them, per WP:AUTHOR. After all, this was over 30 years ago and the small amount of coverage online today indicates there would be more available offline. ~~The article is poor, however, with little more than a bibliography.~~ But I'm wondering whether Hefter died, or went 'off the boil'! Sionk (talk) 14:31, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article in People magazine convinces me he was very widey known in his day! Sionk (talk) 15:09, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good find! I think it's more useful for the Sweet Pickles article, but it would certainly be a start, and if a couple of other decent sources like that could be found, I'd be quite happy to withdraw my nomination! PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 16:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

When looking for sources, I was expecting to find some decent mentions in Google Books references - but all the ones I could find were where he was an author. He appears to be have been prolific, but all the sources I could find were either his books, lists of his books, or commercial/download sites. There was no coverage of him as an individual PhantomSteve/talk|contribs\ 14:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Yuffo (talk) 20:34, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep per Sionk. An author of multiple notable works, and that People article is compelling evidence of notability. --Arxiloxos (talk) 02:42, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep An author of multiple notable works is notable. An author becomes notable in the first place for writing notable books?. What else would he be notable for? Not the details of his private life, which are by comparison trivial as compared to his professional work, and are just background. The only question is when a person is the author of only one notable work and not likely to write any more, in which case it's a toss-up whether to do the article on the author or the book, and this isn't the issue here. What might be a reasonable question is whether the articles on the books should be merged into the article on the author, but that can be decided elsewhere. DGG ( talk ) 02:57, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - Nominating this article for deletion, while saying that the articles on his creations give him sufficient coverage, appears to me to be putting the cart before the horse. He is notable because he, Richard Hefter, created the books/characters/series mentioned, and whatever else he has done only adds to his notability. If anything, the other articles could be merged into the article on him. We don't overlook or ignore Walt Disney because many of his creations may have become better known than him or Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond nor J.K.Rowling because of Harry Potter, to take a few examples. Hefter, too, is notable in his own right. Have a look at this Amazon entry for starters: http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Hefter/e/B001IXMDSU --Zananiri (talk) 13:51, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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