Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Will Ingwersen

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The result was keep. ✗plicit 23:46, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Will Ingwersen

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We have no sources about him, just the fact that a book he wrote got published. My searches turned up no sources about him, other than brief mentions that basically amounted to adds for his books and primary sources. So I found some transcripts of statements he made, but transcripts of statements are primary sources and cannot be used to establish notablity. John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:29, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists and United Kingdom. Shellwood (talk) 16:30, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The article is in awful shape however I'm getting very different results than the nominator in a BEFORE search. Google Books has multiple hits including these descriptions of him: “Will Ingwersen, who was one of England’s foremost authorities on alpine plants….” Page 99-100 in the book Hidcote:The Making of a Garden, Ethne Clarke 2009, Norton & Co. Publ.[1] and...“Will Ingwersen, the great plants man and horticultural journalist…." In The Surprising Life of Constance Spry, by Sue Shepard 2010, Pan Macmillian pub. and...“Will Ingwersen is the author of The Manual of Alpine Plants, Classic Garden Plants, Rock Garden and Alpine Plants and The Dianthus and has written many articles for Horticultural Magazines and Bulletins of specialist Societies….” Page 146 of Guide to the Specialist Nurseries and Garden Suppliers of Britain and Ireland. Books he wrote that are cited by others:[2]. He was a member of the Royal Horticultural Society, NYT mention: [3] He later became Vice President of the RHS. The Chicago Tribune calls him: “one of Britain’s most honored gardeners”[4] He had an obituary in the London Times [5] and one in The Guardian [6] (not sure whether these links are clickable w/o logging into Library, sorry). A review of his book The Dianthus here: [7]; a review of his book Alpines here:[8]. It seems quite likely that he might meet both WP:GNG and WP:NAUTHOR, but I'll hold off on !voting for a bit to further investigate to see if I can find the full text of the two obituaries and to see what other editors may find. Netherzone (talk) 17:37, 19 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I pulled the Times, Guardian, and Telegraph obituaries. Each was full length and went into some detail about his life and career. It looks pretty slam dunk to me. Atchom (talk) 01:21, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists also lists an Independent obituary and another in a horticultural journal. Atchom (talk) 01:23, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Meets WP:GNG and WP:NAUTHOR per the sources in my comment above and the additional sources found by Atchom, the entry on Ingwersen in the Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists means he also meets WP:ANYBIO. Netherzone (talk) 01:45, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as while the article needs work, Ingwersen passes NAUTHOR and probably GNG. His work on Alpine plants is all over google books. Pikavoom ^Talk 06:11, 20 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Obituaries in three major newspapers. WP:CONSENSUS is clearly that we keep based on this. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:19, 21 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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