Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colonel Charles Michael Russell
With an article for the author of the book series, and several of the books, a redirect and merge to William Haggard#Colonel Charles Russell series is surely the minimum here. But searching in ProQuest, one comes across several articles in the media over the years, suggesting a general knowledge of the hero of this book series. Examples are William Haggard's obituary in https://search-proquest-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/docview/318039214 The Times, https://search-proquest-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/docview/317286364 The Telegraph, a 1995 piece in https://search-proquest-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/docview/294880068 The Observer, a 2009 piece in https://search-proquest-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/docview/337073779The Independent, and there and elsewhere I find no end of book reviews, including from the New York Times and The Guardian; many written with the assumption that you already know who this character is. There's also three good Sources listed in the article, from the 1970s, and I also quickly find a good reference in "Spies and Holy Wars: The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction By Reeva Spector Simon https://books.google.ca/books?id=XmvSQXVOW_sC link. ecentism is a huge problem with this project, and I don't think it helps to eliminate articles whose subject would have been familiar to many a half-century ago. We wouldn't be having this discussion in 1975
— User:Nfitz, 03:17, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:R (Wikipedia:Redirect)