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Deletion

Within a couple of hours of putting this together I get a threat of deletion! The subject is clearly notable. She has won 3 awards which I have now referenced so hopefully that will be enough to prevent deletion for now.S.tollyfield (talk) 22:25, 2 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, thanks. The problem here is not notability, but our rule WP:BLP which requires that all biographical articles must contain reiable sources when they are created. There is still much that needs sourcing, such as her biography, so I'm re-adding an appropriate tag. Sandstein 06:51, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously a notable author. Nina Allan is one of my favorite writers and I'll see if I can add more info and reference in near future. But this is still a great start to this article. Excellent work.--SouthernNights (talk) 14:38, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately there is also another problem here: the text of this version of the article was copy-pasted directly from here. That is a serious and blatant copyright violation, and quite unacceptable here. The Duplicate Detector shows that there is still unacceptable similarity to the source page. However, since (a) there have been a large number of edits since then, (b) some of the copied material has since been removed and (c) there seems to be consensus that she is notable, I've blanked this for listing at WP:CP rather than tagging it for speedy deletion as G12. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:44, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've been in contact with the copyright holder - Nina Allan...who else? - and she says, "If you have further problems with the bots, do get back to me and I’ll give a simple copyright permission, no problem."S.tollyfield (talk) 21:32, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]