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The result was keep. Withdrawn by nom. A poor BEFORE effort on my part with thanks to Jahaza and Josh Milburn for their diligence. (non-admin closure) Triptothecottage (talk) 07:47, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
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No evidence that subject meets WP:GNG: sources in article or in a BEFORE search are almost exclusively self-published, promotional, or passing mentions. A brief academic career does not suggest the possibility of passing WP:NACADEMIC. A positive book review provided as a source is one of several, but which do not appear to rise to the level of WP:NAUTHOR. Triptothecottage (talk) 02:28, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
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- Keep or move/redirect and rewrite as article on "God and Mrs. Thatcher". There are enough reviews of that book that it's an easy notability pass. Jahaza (talk) 03:26, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
- Keep; pass of WP:AUTHOR and possibly WP:ACADEMIC criterion 7 ('Criterion 7 may be satisfied, for example, if the person is frequently quoted in conventional media as an academic expert in a particular area.'). Jahaza mentions the coverage of God and Mrs Thatcher, which was reviewed in The Independent, (I think) The Spectator, and many academic journals (e.g., Contemporary British History, Modern Believing, Political Theology, Twentieth Century British History, Journal of Markets & Morality, Theology, Journal of Contemporary Religion, and others). Inheritocracy has also received substantial press attention, with a review in Literary Review and in-depth interviews in the New Statesman
and The Guardian. I've not come across any reviews of Generation Shift, but there are plenty of cases of major newspapers featuring Filby as an expert on generational attitudes to work, including this interview in Der Spiegel. I am fairly confident that there are other reviews of her books in broadsheets behind paywalls; I'll try to access some later today. Josh Milburn (talk) 06:42, 22 August 2025 (UTC)- Dug a little further... I'm getting lots of hits of her being interviewed or quoted in the press about intergenerational wealth/generational differences; Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, etc. this piece from FT Adviser (a reliable source, even if a redlink) is solely about Filby's work. Inheritocracy appears on lots of Sunday Times bestseller lists. This is an in-depth interview with Filby about Inheritocracy (and other things). There's lots out there. Josh Milburn (talk) 07:21, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
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