Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chester Aaron

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 07:58, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Chester Aaron

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Fails WP:BASIC, lacks significant coverage other than the single Penn State biography DirtyHarry991 (talk) 23:28, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Pennsylvania. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 00:09, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. The problem here is this author's works were mainly published before the internet so there's less info available online. Add in that the article needs a lot of work and I understand why questions on this author's notability were raised. However, a search in the Wikipedia Library turned up a ton of reviews and coverage of his work in places like North American Review, School Library Journal, Horn Book Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Publishing Research Quarterly, and other places. The WP even has a Newsweek article about his work as a garlic farmer and I also found this NYT review of one of his books from 1972. Aaron doesn't seems like he was a great writer of children's books -- many of the reviews are negative -- but he was widely published and reviewed and meets our WP:Author notability guidelines.--SouthernNights (talk) 13:10, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:34, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:38, 25 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. He meets the WP:Author Notability. Micheal Kaluba (talk) 15:50, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Didn’t find much about him, yet he seems a notable WP:Author by seeing his work.I found some the third party sources, 1, 2, 3 that at least credits his career as a writer.Atighot (talk) 00:53, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.