Deletion of Stan Jones (mystery writer)

Comment: A quick review of the above sources give enough of an indication of the subject's notability. If, as it appears, there are issues with respect to the sourcing, then I reckon that may be |better sorted out on the article's talk page. Regards
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Comment: A fine example of what you get out of the community's "consensus" that only certain parts of the encyclopedia are fair game for active collaboration while the remainder of entries are merely the vanity project of some individual editor or another, otherwise described as a popularity contest.  Something which is not very popular around here is the fact that a typical Google search will not tell you a whole lot about what was notable in the 1980s.  Jones's website biography offers one very important clue: "After Kotzebue, I lived in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and then Anchorage again, working as a newspaper journalist.  I won several major national awards for investigative stories that led to impeachment proceedings against one of Alaska’s governors, and for coverage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill."  The Alaska governor in question was Bill Sheffield.  That story and the oil spill (as well as a host of other stories coming from Alaska in the 1980s which have received little or no acknowledgement on the encyclopedia) were both very significant.  If the Sheffield impeachment story is not as obvious to the average person compared with the oil spill, the most basic of Google searches turns up contemporary stories from the ''New York Times'', ''Los Angeles Times'' and UPI.  That this article does not acknowledge any of this and dwells too much on a series of mystery novels is evidence that collaboration is lacking on this website, enabling someone's POVish exercise in myopia instead.  If it's been tagged as NN for 12 years and my watchlist shows regular evidence of editor who have ample time for Wikipedia, I would think that someone could have arrived at this conclusion long ago.  At the very least, the nominator could have performed the necessary amount of  other editors are obviously performing.  Clearing a maintenance category backlog merely for the sake of clearing a backlog ≠ a net benefit to achieving "the sum of all human knowledge
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Comment: meets , Jones' books are held in 100s of libraries ie. https://www.worldcat.org/title/white-sky-black-ice/oclc/317215072?referer=br&ht=edition ''White Sky, Black Ice'', https://www.worldcat.org/title/shaman-pass-a-nathan-active-mystery/oclc/636459322?referer=br&ht=edition ''Shaman Pass'', https://www.worldcat.org/title/village-of-the-ghost-bears-a-novel/oclc/318534302?referer=br&ht=edition ''Village of the Ghost Bears'', https://www.worldcat.org/title/frozen-sun-a-nathan-active-mystery/oclc/637344830&referer=brief_results ''Frozen Sun'', https://www.worldcat.org/title/tundra-kill-a-novel/oclc/991234167?referer=br&ht=edition ''Tundra Kill'' (198), https://www.worldcat.org/title/big-empty/oclc/1029229162?referer=br&ht=edition ''The Big Empty'' (189), reflecting a "well-known collective of work"; there are also plenty of reviews of them with some titles having multiple (meeting  and entitled to own standalone wikiarticle) ie. ''The Big Empty'': ''Publishers Weekly'' (https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-64129-002-9 here), ''Booklist'' (https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1891451082 here); ''White Sky, Black Ice'': ''Publishers Weekly'' (https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56947-152-4 here), ''Kirkus Reviews'' (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/stan-jones-3/white-sky-black-ice-2/ here), ''The New York Times Book Review'' (http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/99/06/13/reviews/990613.13crimet.html here), ''Booklist'' and ''Library Journal'' (https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=13&cn=2561892 here); ''Shaman Pass'': ''Publishers Weekly'' (https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56947-332-0 here), ''Kirkus Reviews'' (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/stan-jones/shaman-pass/ here), ''The New York Times Book Review'' (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/books/crime-400963.html here), ''Booklist'' (https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/show/236807082 here); ''Frozen Sun'': ''Kirkus Reviews'' (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/stan-jones/frozen-sun/ star review here), ''Library Journal'', ''Booklist'', and ''The New York Times Book Review'' (https://kcls.bibliocommons.com/item/show/1609230082 here); ''Village of the Ghost Bears'': ''Publishers Weekly'' (https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56947-606-2 star review here), ''Kirkus Reviews'' (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/stan-jones/village-of-the-ghost-bears/ star revivew here), ''The Guardian'' (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/11/village-ghost-bears-stan-jones-review here), ''The New York Times'' (https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/books/17newly.html here), ''Booklist'', ''Library Journal'', and ''School Library Journal'' (https://catalog.wccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=4&cn=2536697 here), ''Midwest Book Review'' (http://www.midwestbookreview.com/mbw/jan_10.htm here (under "Klausner's Bookshelf"); ''Tundra Kill'': ''Publishers Weekly'' (https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-9799803-8-1 star review here), ''Kirkus Reviews'' (https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/stan-jones/tundra-kill/ here), ''Fairbanks Daily News-Miner'' (http://www.newsminer.com/features/sundays/book_reviews/nathan-active-mystery-hits-all-the-right-alaska-notes/article_88d00190-851a-11e7-bac9-b718e876b37d.html here (subscription required)). ps. these reviews werent difficult (although time consuming:)) to find, just gsearch booktitle author "reviews" and looked thru 1st 8 or so pages of results, and looked at a couple of library sites
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