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Some statistics related to the World Fantasy Awards, with respect to having author articles:

Works in Category Author Instances with Wikipedia articles Author Article Success Rate Category
53 53 100% Novel Wins
216 212 98.1% Novel Nominations (no wins)
45 44 97.8% Novella Wins
53 49 92.5% Short Fiction Wins
172 158 91.9% Novella Nominations (no wins)
193 173 89.6% Short Story Nominations (no wins)

World Fantasy Award Nominees with no Wikipedia articles (Novel Category)

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Author Notabilty SFE SFWA Awards Reviews Add Article Notes
Paul Hazel (author) Level 3 Yes Yes 2 14 Yes Five novels. Good candidate.
Mark Sumner Level 3 No Yes 1 13 Yes Contributor to DailyKOS Good candidate.
Kit Whitfield Level 3 No Yes 2 7 Maybe Two novels, with a third to be published in 2022. Two award nominations. Pass for now.
John Marks (author) Level 3 No Yes 1 1 Skip Only one novel. Only 1 award nomination. Weak bibliography, but notability bolstered by the fact that Marks was an associate producer of 60 Minutes, and the novel was reviewed by the New York Times, and optioned for a film adaptation. The book seems more famous than the author at present, so this is a pass for now.

World Fantasy Award Winners with no Wikipedia articles (Novella Category)

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Author Notabilty SFE SFWA Awards Reviews Add Article Notes
Terry Lamsley Level 3 No Yes 8 10 Yes Works are all of short form fiction. 34 stories, 3 collections, 6 award nominations, plus 2 award wins, with numerous in-print reviews. Good Candidate.
Emily Tesh Level 3 No No 4 0 Maybe A World Fantasy win for Best Novella, won the 2021 Campbell/Astounding Best New Writer, plus two other nominations. Although a novel-length work is forthcoming, and only two stories have been published to date. Her short fiction is novella length, and each was published by Tor in book form. Her SFE/SFWA status would preclude an article at this time, but that is countered by her Best New Writer win.

World Fantasy Award Nominations with no Wikipedia articles (Novella Category)

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Author Notabilty SFE SFWA Awards Reviews Add Article Notes
Mary Rickert Level 3 No Yes 33 15 Redirect Added a redirect to the page M. Rickert, which already existed.
Paul Witcover Level 3 Yes Yes 10 13 Yes Qualified across all categories. Good candidate.
Robert Devereaux Level 3 No Maybe 4 11 Maybe The author has 9 novels, 27 short stories, 2 collections, with 4 award nominations. He has attracted 11 in-print reviews. My tool only shows 2 short fiction to be in SFWA markets, and none of the novels, but the author is roughly within guidelines for an article.
Steve Duffy Level 3 No Yes 5 4 Maybe Author has only written at short fiction length, but has 5 collections, and 2 award wins.
Paul F. Olson Level 3 No No 7 12 Maybe No SFE entry and no qualifications for SFWA, but has an exceptional number of award and review citations.
Gerald Pearce Level 3 No No 2 0 Skip Author is only operating at the short fiction level, and has only published in 2 SFWA markets.
Michael Meddor Level 3 No No 1 0 Skip Author only has 2 stories, and was active between 1999-2009.
Michael Byers (author) Level 3 No No 2 0 Skip Author only has 2 stories in bibliography.
Michael Libling Level 3 No Yes 1 1 Skip Sufficient short fiction work, but very few awards and reviews.
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Level 3 No No 2 5 Skip Works in the Finnish language, and has a Finnish Wikipedia article at https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasi_Ilmari_J%C3%A4%C3%A4skel%C3%A4inen. Only 1 short story appears in an SFWA-qualified publication. An English-language article is not recommended at this time, but would be a good choice once the English bibliography expands.
Simon Avery Level 3 No No 2 1 Skip Article not recommended at this time.
William Hutson Level 5 No No 2 0 skip I believe the situation is: Daveed Diggs (who has a Wikipedia article), William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes created a rap song called "The Deep", which was adapted into a novella by Rivers Solomon (who already has a Wikipedia article). The ISFDB tracks "The Deep" as written by Rivers Solomon, with a note about the contributions by Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. The ISFDB also only cites Solomon on the award entries, whereas the WFA site states: "Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes". The Hugo Awards cites the work the same as the WFA site. It's unclear whether Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes were nominated or not, but if they were, their bibliographies are too light to be considered for an article based on their genre writings.
Jonathan Snipes Level 5 No No 2 0 skip See William Hutson above.

World Fantasy Award Winners with no Wikipedia articles (Short Fiction Category)

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Author Notabilty SFE SFWA Awards Reviews Add Article Notes
G. V. Anderson Level 4 No Yes 8 0 Maybe Author specializes in short fiction, with one published chapter book. Awards include two wins, one WFA and one BFA.
Emma Törzs Level 4 No No 1 0 Skip Has 7 works of short fiction in their bibliography, with one WFA win.
Mel Kassel Level 4 No No 1 0 Skip Has 10 works of short fiction in their bibliography, with one WFA win.
Celeste Rita Baker Level 4 No No 1 1 Skip Has 17 works of short fiction in their bibliography, with one WFA win. Has a published collection.