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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep‎. Liz Read! Talk! 21:55, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Terri Blackstock[edit]

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Fails WP:NBIO; no sources found in searches other than book selling and promotional sites. ---Avatar317(talk) 21:21, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Women, Christianity, and Illinois. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 22:45, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - author has won multiple awards, including the Christy Award. LadyofShalott 02:52, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Neither of the two "awards" she has won are well-known or significant. (from WP:NBIO: "The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor,") The Christy Award is another article which should also be deleted because it has no Reliable Sources; with the only search results for that being promotional publishing houses. Same for her other "award". ---Avatar317(talk) 05:24, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - Has no WP:RS and fails WP:NBIO. I agree that the awards are not significant enough. Knowledgegatherer23 (Say Hello) 15:13, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment - Based on my initial search, she has 17 reviews from Publishers Weekly. Beccaynr (talk) 00:59, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    At the Wikipedia Library, there are also multiple reviews from Library Journal and Booklist, and I have expanded the article with a biographical source that includes information about her early life, education, career, and more awards/industry recognition. Beccaynr (talk) 02:29, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per WP:BASIC and WP:AUTHOR - while this source is titled Author Q&A: Terri Blackstock (Clarion Ledger, 2017), it also includes a biographical and career profile, starting with, "With 80 titles to her credit and 7 million books sold over more than three decades, Clinton resident and New York Times bestselling author..." and lists awards. Publishers Weekly also has a 2014 profile of her career based on an interview; she is also mentioned in a Publishers Weekly article, Christian Fiction Keeps Its Allure, "HarperCollins, which publishes Christian fiction under its Thomas Nelson and Zondervan imprints, is coming out in 2018 with [...], and If I Live (Zondervan, Mar. 2018), a romantic suspense novel by Terri Blackstock, who has sold more than seven million books and hit a number of bestseller lists", which seems to be more than a trivial mention. Her winning of a Carol Award in 2011 is also covered by The Christian Post; Publishers Weekly reports generally on the Christy Awards [1], so this is further independent recognition as an industry/genre award. Beccaynr (talk) 01:27, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    As I continue to update the article (including to add multiple reviews to multiple works), I found a Library Journal review (Vol. 136, Iss. 15, Sep 15, 2011, ProQuest 888171376) that refers to Blackstock as, "Christy Award winner Blackstock", which seems to further support the noteworthiness of the award. Beccaynr (talk) 00:11, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for finding those sources; while you're at it and familiar with Christy Award sources, could you add those to that article if it can establish notability for that article? I was next going to put that one up for deletion, because I couldn't find any sources, but that would save us all time if sources you already found can establish notability for that article. Thanks! ---Avatar317(talk) 23:14, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I also added sources to the award's parent organization, without yet checking the Wikipedia Library for either; both articles are on my watchlist and I have some thoughts about potential expansion and organization, and we could talk more at the Talk pages (after some further research). Cheers, Beccaynr (talk) 01:24, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep The sources listed by Beccaynr support that WP:NAUTHOR is met. MrsSnoozyTurtle 03:25, 19 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep in view of the multiple reliable sources coverage identified in this discussion and now used in the article so that WP:GNG is passed and deletion is unnecessary in my view, Atlantic306 (talk) 19:19, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep per edits since nomination, that show the notability. Suitskvarts (talk) 15:29, 22 August 2023 (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.
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