Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bill Roorbach
Ouch! Article subject edits article and accidentally deletes all the references in the article while doing so. I've now restored them all (leaving the COI edits otherwise in place as, apart from the COI itself, they all seem unobjectionable) - unfortunately, three of the four are primary (and so only help to the extent of verifying that he has been published in some very reputable magazines) and the fourth is an online magazine which, while it looks reasonably reliable, I had never heard of before. So far as other sources go, GNews produces a http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/maine/articles/2006/06/25/one_writer_relishes_his_element_wet_singing_woods/ Boston Globe feature article (which looks reliable and substantial to me), a large number of open access newspaper articles which tend to be either from his local paper or event announcements (and therefore at least tend not to count towards notability) and almost as many paywalled reviews for quite a few of his works from a number of sources we generally regard as reliable. To be honest, this one really depends on some of the paywalled reviews showing he meets #3 (which I think probable), someone finding one or two more clearly reliable sources (which I think possible though far from certain) or his Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (the O.Henry Award looks like one of about 20 for the year, not one of those specially recommended by the jurors) - but on balance I think that one or more of these will be satisfied
— User:PWilkinson, 14:22, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:WRITER (Wikipedia:Notability)