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Hello all! This article was recently nominated for deletion on the grounds that René Colato Laínez is not notable enough to meet the WP:Author policy. Here are a few reasons why I don't believe that this is true, and why I chose to remove the deletion template; please feel free to discuss.
He has played a major role in creating a body of work, namely children's books about Central American immigration to the U.S. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Latino Literature describes "an emergent children's literature, as represented in the books of René Colato Laínez, who writes stories to facilitate the accommodation of Central American children to life in the United States." (Kanellos, N. (2008). Central American Literature. In N. Kanellos (Ed.), The Greenwood encyclopedia of Latino literature. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.)
His works are regularly covered in professional literature of teachers and librarians. His work clearly has "been the primary subject of [...] multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." In the proposal for deletion, it was written that the articles currently cited are "entirely trivial and unconvincing." I would be interested in more detail about this critique, because I don't see anything trivial or unconvincing about them.
One of the reasons this article was nominated for deletion is because Colato Laínez "isn't held in any libraries." As I argued on the deletion-proposer's talk page, "his books seem to be held in of libraries." It looks like Worldcat has recorded 6,000 holdings of his works in libraries. As a librarian myself, I fail to see how 6,000 holdings is considered "not being held in any libraries" or even "not a significant amount of libraries".
