Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Simon Rose (author)
WP:HEYMANN upgrade begun.  Passes .  As Nom wrote, page was started by an SPA. However, Nom, other editors above show no indication of having run news archive searches, which are '''essential''' in evaluating a career that mostly took place in the 2000s.  I have added some - by no means all - of the coverage that exists.   His hometown paper, the  Edmonton Journal has covered him intensely over the years, lots of feature stores about him, or focused on him in a group with one or two other writers.  This is a major big-city and regional daily paper; if this was the Podunkville Daily Report it would't have much weight, but teh ''Edmonton Journal'' cannot be dismissed as mere local coverage.  More significantly, the Calgary Herald has reviewed his books, and The Province (Britsh Columbia) wrote him up.  I have not been exhaustive in my searches, merely picked some low-hanging fruit from a Proquest archive search.  Also removed the PROMO form page. I am not arguing that he is a  world famous writer.  Only that  his books and career have garnered sufficient  to pass 
— User:E, 14:38, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:AUTHOR||WP:SIGCOV||WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)