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Some statistics related to the Nebulas, with respect to having author articles:

Works in Category Author Instances with Wikipedia articles Author Article Success Rate Category
57 57 100% Novel Wins
302 302 100% Novel Nominations (no wins)
59 59 100% Novella Wins
57 57 100% Novelette Wins
56 56 100% Short Story Wins
263 255 97% Novella Nominations (no wins)
317 297 93.7% Short Story Nominations (no wins)
304 283 93.1% Novelette Nominations (no wins)

Nebula Winners with no Wikipedia articles (Fiction Categories)

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Nebula Nominees with no Wikipedia articles (Novella Category)

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Author Notabilty SFE SFWA Awards Reviews Add Article Notes
Lee Goodloe Level 3 Yes Yes 16 3 Yes Pseudonym for Stephen L. Gillett. 15 nominations and one win for Analog's Best Fact Article. Good candidate.
Paul Witcover Level 3 Yes Yes 10 13 Yes Nominated for 5 Locus awards, 2 World Fantasy Awards, one Nebula, one Tiptree, one Shirley Jackson, and was on the shortlist for Best New Writer in 1998. Substantial number of reviews. Good candidate.
William K. Carlson Level 3 Yes No 1 1 Skip Two novels, eleven pieces of short fiction. Very light and awards and reviews.
John P. Murphy Level 3 Yes No 1 0 Skip Current link is for the footballer John P. Murphy. One novel and thirteen pieces of short fiction. One award nominations and no reviews.
Eugene Fischer Level 5 No No 6 1 Skip Has two qualifying SFWA stories, but NOT SFWA qualified.
William Hutson Level 5 No No 2 0 Skip Covered under the Hugos section for the same work. Don't recommend an article for this author yet.
Jonathan Snipes Level 5 No No 2 0 Skip Covered under the Hugos section for the same work. Don't recommend an article for this author yet.
Yaroslav Barsukov Level 5 No No 1 1 Skip Six short stories.

Nebula Nominees with no Wikipedia articles (Novelette Category)

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Author Notabilty SFE SFWA Awards Reviews Add Article Notes
S. N. Dyer Level 3 No Yes 16 0 Yes Pseudonym for Sharon N. Farber. Prolific short fiction writer (44 works). 6 Hugo nominations, 5 Asimov's Readers nominations, 2 SF Chronicle noms, 2 Nebula nominations. SFWA qualified. Good candidate.
G. V. Anderson Level X No Yes 8 0 Maybe Has won a World Fantasy award and a BFA award. That may be enough to be considered notable, but haven't worked up statistics on those awards yet.
Grant Carrington Level 4 Yes No 1 5 Maybe Wrote the 'Timedippers' series, consisting of seven stories, appearing in 'Amazing Science Fiction'. Published one novel, and 24 other pieces of short fiction. Nominated for a single Nebula. Has SFE entry. SFWA qualified. 5 genre reviews.
K. M. Szpara Level 4 Yes No 5 3 Maybe See Hugo section (nomination for the same novelette). Not pursuing an article at this time.
Mark J. McGarry Level 4 Yes Yes 3 3 Skip Published two novels. Published in a broad range of magazines, including Asimov's, Amazing Stories, Analog, Galileo, and Rigel, as well as appearing in three original antholgies. Has SFE entry. Two Locus and one Nebula nomination. SFWA qualified.
R. C. Fitzpatrick Level 4 Yes Yes 1 0 Skip Active 1962-1968 in Analog and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and co-wrote a story with Leigh Richmond. Only one award nomination. SFWA qualified. Technically has an SFE entry, but it is a single-line reference to Leigh Richmond's Crime and Punishment. Not a strong contender.
S. C. Sykes Level 4 Yes No 3 3 Skip Active 1981-1991. Published two novels, and two pieces of short fiction. Nominated for Locus, Analog, and Nebula awards.
Norman Kagan Level 4 Yes No 3 0 Skip Active 1964-1975 (plus some later essays). Has SFE entry. Published in 'Galaxy', and appeared in original anthologies edited by Disch and Rucker. Two stories appeared in annual Best SF anthologies. Nominated for three Nebulas, but not qualified for SFWA. No reviews recorded within genre magazines.
J. W. Schutz Level 4 Yes Yes 1 0 Skip Active 1964-1975. Published four works in Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others in Analog, Galaxy, Amazing, Worlds of If, and Venture. Has SFE entry. Just one Nebula nomination. SFWA qualified. Technically notable, but with a skimpy awards and review record, it would be difficult to keep an article on Wikipedia.
Robert M. Green, Jr. Level 4 No Yes 2 0 Skip No SFE, no genre reviews.
Gerald Jonas Level 4 Yes Yes 1 0 Skip Active 1966-1986. Published three works in Fantasy and Science Fiction, and one in Galaxy Science Fiction. Nominated for a single Nebula. Technically notable, but with a skimpy awards and review record, it would be difficult to keep an article on Wikipedia.
Christopher Kastensmidt Level 4 No Yes 2 0 Skip Currently lives in Brazil, and has a Portuguese Wikipedia entry. Produced three anthologies of fiction in the Portuguese language, but is nonetheless of interest for work in English. SFWA qualified.
Shweta Narayan Level 4 No Yes 2 0 Skip Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship for writers of color in 2007 (this page should also be fleshed out). SFWA qualified.
Meghan McCarron Level 4 No Yes 4 0 Skip Has one Tiptree, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Locus nomination. One novel with a non-qualified publisher. Bibliography contains one anthology.
E. Clayton McCarty Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Active 1965-1970. All fictions was published exclusively in 'If' magazine. Nominated for a single Nebula.
Jonathan Brand Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Current link is a different Jonathan Brand. Published three stories in the early 60s, two in If magazine, and the other in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions. The only author in Dangerous Visions without a Wikipedia article; there is a link to his story, but it circularly leads back to Dangerous Visions. Only one award nomination.
Jake Kerr Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Current links are to other Jake Kerrs. Has two qualifying works of short fiction, the rest is uncertain. Has an interesting bibliography with two collections and an anthology series. Possibly SFWA qualified. One Nebula nomination, and finalist for a Sturgeon Award in 2012.
Lee Mandelo Level 5 No No 9 3 Skip Pseudonym for Brit Mandelo. Three Locus nominations, 1 Nebula, 1 Lambda, 1 Asimov's Undergraduate, and 1 Goodreads award noms. One novel with a non-qualified publisher. Bibliography contains one anthology. NOT SFWA qualified. Not notable in SF field (due to lack of SFE and SFWA), but a strong award history. Skip for now.
Terry Bramlett Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Active 2000-2010. One novel with a non-qualified publisher, with numerous short fiction, but only one published in qualified venue. Probably NOT SFWA qualified. Not pursuing an article at this time.

Nebula Nominees with no Wikipedia articles (Short Story Category)

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Author Notabilty SFE SFWA Awards Reviews Add Article Notes
Constance Ash Level 3 Yes No 3 5 Yes Three novels in the Horsegirl series. Edited one anthology. Five short stories. SFE entry. Has Locus, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick nominations. SFWA qualified. Good candidate.
Ken Wharton Level 3 Yes Yes 5 3 Yes Link points to a different Ken Wharton. One novel, and seven works of short fiction. Nominated for Best New Writer twice (2002 and 2003), 2 Locus awards, and one Nebula. SFWA qualified. Good candidate.
Bridget McKenna Level 5 No Yes 5 1 Maybe See also Hugo analysis
Eugene Mirabelli Level 4 No Yes 2 0 Skip Literary novelist who wanders into the SF genre. In SF genre has nine works of short fiction, with a Nebula and an Asimov's nomination. Has ten literary novels, with an IPPY First Prize for Literary Fiction, and has received a Rockefeller Foundation Award. Very likely notable outside of the SF field. SFWA qualified.
David W. Goldman Level 3 No Yes 4 0 Skip Ten works of short fiction, most in SFWA qualified venues. Nominated for three Analog awards and a Nebula.
Richard Olin Level 3 No Yes 1 0 Skip Pseudonym of Hugh Leddy. Six works of short fiction, three in Analog, and three in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. SFWA qualified. Possible candidate.
Pat York Level 3 No Yes 1 0 Skip Eleven works of short fiction of fiction.
Dennis R. Bailey Level 5 No No 1 9 Skip Just one short story, and one novel which is an expansion of that short story. Both works co-written with David Bischoff. More well known in the TV/Film world; has an IMDB entry. Probably not SFWA qualified. Not an interesting candidate for an article.
Jamie Wahls Level 5 No Yes 1 0 Skip Ten works of short fiction. Not SFWA qualified. Not an interesting candidate for an article at this time. Current link is a redirect to one of his stories.
Mary C. Aldridge Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Active 1983-1997. Three works of short fiction. Probably not SFWA qualified. Can find little other information. Not an interesting candidate for an article.
Robert Rohrer Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Active 1962-1965. Sixteen works of short fiction of fiction, eight in Amazing Stories, six in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, and two The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Probably not SFWA qualified. Can find little other information. Not an interesting candidate for an article.
James A. Durham Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Also wrote as James Durham. Only has two pieces of short fiction, one in If and one in Analog. The Nebula nomination went to his first story, and he didn't publish his second until 7 years later. Since the author hasn't published again in 50 years, and no other biographical material can be found, this is not an interesting candidate for an article.
Alex Kirs Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Only has two pieces of short fiction, one in Science Fiction Adventures and one in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The later story was included in Merril's Year's Best SF, 11th Annual Edition and the one nominated for a Nebula. Not an interesting candidate for an article.
Larry McCombs Level 5 No No 1 0 Skip Only published one piece of fiction. Not an interesting candidate for an article.