Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Smith (author)
I researched and wrote the article after coming across a novel by Don Smith, googling the author and obtaining near zero relevant results. (Granted, the popularity of his name and surname do not help.) The article exists in the French and Swedish versions of Wikipedia since 2014 and 2016 respectively. I did not translate either version; I wrote the article from sources I could verify, using the short biography from a French book cited in the French article (which I could search, and corroborated to be accurate), and the scraps of supporting info in the form of work lists and amateur reviews in blogs--which, even if not reliable, might constitute an argument in favor of the notability of an author who published mostly in the 60s-70s, as does the existence of the French and Swedish articles (author wrote solely in English).  #3 requires the subject to have "created ... 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". I think that over two dozen books (that we know of) in well-known mass-market paperback presses, translated to at least three languages (again, that we know of) and generating discussion even among bloggers three decades later is a body of work worthy of consideration. And it's safe to assume such work has generated articles and reviews as well (if nothing else, the blurbs on the novels' covers prove so: two different ones from The New York Post and from Elleston Trevor|Adam Hall and Edward S. Aarons). I must disagree with the idea that the article doesn't have a strong AUTHOR pass; as mass-market paperback authors go, it is quite strong. I understand inclusion policies must be more strict for a  (assumed, for the subject was born in August 1909 according to all sources, 6 years short of ), and I see the flaws pointed out; there's miles of room for improvement and I hope to work more on it (I already am). However, I don't see the benefit of deleting the article altogether, hiding the subject deeper into the pool of Don Smiths in the internet and thus making it more difficult for someone with reliable information on the subject to provide it
— User:SonnyHEL, 04:41, 21 April 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:AUTHOR||WP:BLP||WP:BDP (Wikipedia:Notability)