Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ernest MacIntyre

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The result was keep. -- Cirt (talk) 10:52, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ernest MacIntyre

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fails WP:CREATIVE. simply writing 3 plays doesn't get you an article. hardly any indepth coverage. [1]. LibStar (talk) 03:36, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Arts-related deletion discussions. —• Gene93k (talk) 20:09, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep This seems to suggest notability [2] Vrivers (talk) 23:40, 29 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

if he was " Sri Lanka's most prominent playwright " he would get a lot more coverage. LibStar (talk) 00:53, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep The reason he has limited coverage is because his career spanned the mid twentieth century and has not really been active for the last twenty years. He has written 12 plays and he and E. F. C. Ludowyk are known for the Sri Lankan English theatre.--Blackknight12 (talk) 02:05, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment one of the sources added and used 4 times does not even refer to subject article http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%23h LibStar (talk) 14:01, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The url that is currently there is not responding to the ; which is being left out, but this is the link which is the same as the one in the External links section.--Blackknight12 (talk) 15:54, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, I've added some references and done a bit of editing. Even if the current references are considered insufficient, I should point out that two the references I have added are reviews of scholarly works in which MacIntyre's works are featured or analyzed. I agree that the coverage of MacIntyre is not deep, but there are a good number of apparently reliable sources that credit him with being an important influence on Sri Lankan drama in the English language. The question is whether notability can be established, and I feel the answer is a clear yes at this point. --Nuujinn (talk) 23:00, 3 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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