Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Douglas E. Winter

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The result was withdrawn by nominator. ~ Wikihermit 15:41, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Douglas E. Winter

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non notable writer and lawyer. ~ Wikihermit 04:19, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete: Although he has written a few books, none of them are notable. Same is true for WP:BIO: doesn't pass and has no sources. - Kneel17 04:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep At least perform some due diligence before nominating. A simple Google search found lots more he wrote, and lots more on him. He has 36,000 Ghits. Two good references are all thats needed. He also has a dozen incoming links. He has 142 Google News archive hits for reviews he wrote for the Washington Post. He has 187 hits in Google Books. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 05:52, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep He's written one novel, four non fiction books including biographies of Stephen King and Clive Barker, contributed short stories to numerous horror anthologies and contributed lots of reviews. The novel, "Run" was reviewed in the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday among others [1]. Short of actually turning into a werewolf himself what else does he have to do to be notable here? Nick mallory 06:53, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per above. Author of multiple notable works, therefore best to have an article on him. JulesH 11:01, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Keep I'd like to know more about the guy. Benefit of the doubt it should be worked on further - guys life, motivations, and - achievements. Anthony Chidiac --Achidiac 11:26, 21 July 2007 (UTC) Achidiac (talk · contribs), Rdpaperclip (talk · contribs), T3Smile (talk · contribs), and 60.241.91.14 (talk · contribs) have been blocked as sock puppets. See Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Achidiac. -- Jreferee t/c 17:05, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

• Extremely strong keep Are you kidding? I've been reading his stuff for nigh on twenty years! He's VERY notable in horror and science fiction circles. What a strange nomination. Rhinoracer 11:59, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. His books have been nominated for fairly notable awards: that's more than enough for me. Charlie-talk to me-what I've done 15:29, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

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