The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep‎. –  Joe ( talk) 10:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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This article about a novelist is poorly sourced; I have carried out WP:BEFORE and have not been able to find any coverage to add. It has been to AfD before, in 2006 (keep) and 2010 (no consensus). It has been tagged as needing more citations since 2010. Tacyarg ( talk) 02:27, 17 May 2023 (UTC) reply

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Authors, Science fiction and fantasy, and United States of America. Tacyarg ( talk) 02:27, 17 May 2023 (UTC) reply

• Keep mainly per the comment by DGG in the previous AFD in 2010. Someone with access to a good library should follow up with reviews of this published author and improve the article if possible, but would appear to satisfy the requirement of multiple independent reviews. Andre 🚐 02:34, 17 May 2023 (UTC) reply

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New York-related deletion discussions. Spiderone ^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:12, 17 May 2023 (UTC) reply
• Keep Graham Diamond's publishing career began in the late 1970s, meaning many of the reviews and coverage that prove his notability are not easily available online. However, I discovered that he was a best-selling author in the early 1980s, with more than a million copies of his books in print. As for citations to prove this, the Wikipedia Library has reviews of novels Samarkand and The Beasts of Hades from, respectively, 1980 and 1981 issues of Library Journal. He's in Contemporary Authors along with having a detailed entry in St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers by David Pringle, released by St. James Press (a division of Gale) in 1996 and an entry in A Reader's Guide to Fantasy by Baird Searles and Beth Meacham, released in 1982 by Avon. In addition, I also found a good bit of coverage of him over the years in various issues of Science Fiction Chronicle and other magazines, including a two-page profile from a 1984 issue of Editor and Publisher. I've now cleaned up the article some and also added many of these sources. Based on all this, I believe he meets Wikipedia's notability standards for creative professionals. -- SouthernNights ( talk) 16:19, 17 May 2023 (UTC) reply

My books have been constantly in print. In more recent years, Venture and Endeavour Press UK. Now Lume Books, UK and CANELO, UK, have new editions of MAYBE YOU WILL SURVIVE out. The Holocaust true seller has over 1,700 4 and 5 star reviews on Amazon, available at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. and Israel. It was contracted by a publisher in the Czech Republic and is now in print in Czech.

BLACK MIDNIGHT, a terrorist thriller published by Kensington/Zebra in the US, and is now available from Lume, UK. A softcover is available from Lion in New York.

Jerelle Kraus, author of the Truth of the NY TIMES, hailed my work on LinkedIn. Editor/writer Susan Shwartz also hailed my work and invited me into an anthology.

I have more proven work than most authors today.

A brand new novel DINER OF LOST SOULS book 2 is coming out in a few weeks. With well over a million softcover books in print I think I deserve to remain listed.

thank you,

Graham Diamond, New York 69.126.139.196 ( talk) 15:47, 22 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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