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The result was merge to Great Expectations. T. Canens (talk) 23:35, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- Satis House (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD · Stats)
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A minor detail that doesn't satisfy the great expectations of notability. Clarityfiend (talk) 23:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Redirect or merge with Great Expectations. Article is basically a WP:DICDEF, except from within a work of fiction. The article mostly describes where the name came from and that's content better suited for the main article. I'm probably going to get slapped with WP:RUBBISH, but I think if this really warranted its own article, many of the problems with the article would've been addressed by now. This article is more than ten years old and there still aren't enough sources other than for where the name came from. Even the sources in the article are practically useless.—Mythdon (talk • contribs) 00:29, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- So you can't get no Satis-facts-ion, though you've tried, and you've tried, and you've tried, and you've tried? Clarityfiend (talk) 19:39, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect to Great Expectations. First, kudos to the verbiage of the nomination by Clarityfiend. Merging this def into the target would not be remiss either.Onel5969 TT me 14:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect as suggested; trivia and fancruft. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:08, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect as proposed. Not notable enough for a standalone article, but a redirect to Great Expectations would make sense as it is plausible that someone might search for the house (either the fictional one or the real one that inspired the name). Dunarc (talk) 22:44, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Merge or, alternatively, redirect - "Satis House" is written 16 times in the article on Great Expectations, so while I agree that the subject is not notable on its own it may make sense to have a section for it --DannyS712 (talk) 20:12, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Merge per DannyS712. The content in this article is worth keeping, even if the article itself isn't. —烏Γ (kaw) │ 06:03, 06 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect or merge with Great Expectations per above. Aoba47 (talk) 18:43, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep or merge - if there was more on the real Satis House, I'd be firmer for Keep. Actually plenty of adequate sources, both on the real house and Dickens' fictional confection. Whatever happens, this afd should record that an article on the real house can be created. Johnbod (talk) 16:26, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was keep. T. Canens (talk) 23:35, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Album which neither states nor sources any claim to passing WP:NALBUMS -- it literally just states that the album exists, references the fact to a discogs.com entry, and then that's it. As always, albums are not automatically deemed notable just because they exist: they need notability claims that go beyond simply existing, such as critical response in media and/or notable music awards. Bearcat (talk) 22:36, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep I found a few reviews: AllMusic Public Radio East Austin Chronicle Christian Century Indy Week, although I don't know how good the last two are. Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:07, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep Besides what Walter Görlitz stated, the article is written in a non-promotional, non-advertising manner.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 16:31, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Per Walter Gorlitz and existance of even more reviews eg [1]. I also see no attempt made to try an alternative to deletion which in this case would be redirecting to the group page. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:19, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was Keep. (non-admin closure) Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 12:29, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Another non-notable book in a growing walled garden of self-promotion. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:13, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per WP:NBOOK. This book has received reviews from publications including Library Journal, Resource Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Bristol Post, and The Times (all cited in the article). This meets WP:BOOKCRIT #1. MarkZusab (talk) 22:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment. This article is not self-promotion, as it was not created and has not been edited by the subject of the article or anyone with a personal connection to the author of the book. This article also does not fit Wikipedia's definition of a walled garden. (See Wikipedia:Walled garden and WP:SELFPROMOTE). MarkZusab (talk) 22:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep added book reviews from the Bristol Post and The Times. Passes WP:NBOOK.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep, another waste of time for afd editors of a notable book that is neither part of a walled garden nor of self-promotion, meets WP:NBOOK with numerous reviews in reliable sources that are listed in the article, a perfunctory WP:BEFORE would have found these. Coolabahapple (talk) 23:14, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - A review by The Times is good enough for me. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:55, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Coolabhapple is exactly correct that this is the sort of nomination that a BEFORE should avoid. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 20:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per NBOOK (The Times, among other sources) and above --DannyS712 (talk) 20:13, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Enough said. --Doncram (talk) 17:46, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was redirect to List of Criminal Minds characters#Recurring. T. Canens (talk) 23:34, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Biography of a minor character in a television drama series, written entirely in-universe with no real-world context for why she would be a notable character and no reliable sourcing -- the only "references" here are circular citations to the plot descriptions in the show's Wikipedia episode list, not actual media coverage. I'm not convinced that a character who appeared in just four episodes of a TV series that's had over 300 episodes to date (and is still on the air, so that number is going to get even larger) is even significant enough to warrant a redirect to the character list -- so I'm proposing deletion, but I'd be willing to accept it if consensus lands on redirection instead. Either way, however, there's no properly demonstrated or properly sourced reason for a standalone article here. Unfortunately, however, there's a bigger problem brewing: I just checked the fifteen other characters in this franchise who have standalone biography articles linked in {{Criminal Minds}}, and virtually none of them is showing any real-world context or citing very much significant non-circular sourcing either. Bearcat (talk) 21:34, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect to List_of_Criminal_Minds_characters#Recurring. Main characters have some precedence in keeping, but minor characters should just redirect to the master list. Would be willing to delete if there are no articles linking to this one. 400spartans (talk) 22:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Redirect to List_of_Criminal_Minds_characters#Recurring. Both the nom and the above editor make the case quite clearly. Not enough real world notability to show they pass WP:GNG.Onel5969 TT me 14:42, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect Nothing to add that Onel, Bearcat, and Coolabhapple haven't already said as to why this is the correct WP:ATD. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:20, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect to List_of_Criminal_Minds_characters#Recurring per above. Aoba47 (talk) 16:26, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect to List_of_Criminal_Minds_characters#Recurring per above. - GretLomborg (talk) 18:24, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:06, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
True Geordie
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Poorly written with a lot of unsourced info. Notability is not shown from the references; the only third party source that talks about the subject is a tabloid. CoolSkittle (talk) 20:11, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - reads like a promo piece WP:NOTPROMOTION - does not meet WP:BASIC - most of the cited references are to YouTube, not reliable sources - Epinoia (talk) 04:11, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete The very limited coverage I could find was about a single event - apparently he was to provide commentary for a boxing match, and got into a Twitter debate with one of the boxers beforehand - so even if we accept The Sun as a reliable source, WP:BLP1E would apply. GirthSummit (blether) 17:04, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was Keep. (non-admin closure) Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 12:35, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanga Tamil Selvan (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD · Stats)
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Article about a state level politician with a single reference, which is a broken link to a PDF titled "list of MLAs from Tamil Nadu 2011". No evidence of substantial coverage in independent sources, fails WP:GNG at this time. ST47 (talk) 20:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep. Passes Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes#Politicians as both an elected state-level politician and a former national-level elected politician. See this article, for example. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 20:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Obviously passes WP:POLITICIAN per sources that take less time to find than it takes to write a deletion nomination. And the nominator's tagging of an article that said that the subject was a current MLA and former member of parliament for speedy deletion per WP:A7 is very difficult to interpret as anything other than racism. Would you have dreamt of doing the same with an equivalent article about a former member of the US House of Representatives or the UK House of Commons? The fact that the nominator is an administrator makes it even less likely that this was an innocent mistake. Phil Bridger (talk) 20:31, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Yes, the article needs some sourcing improvement — but people who have verifiably held seats in national and state legislatures pass WP:NPOL #1 right on its face, and we ultimately evaluate notability based on the existence of suitable sources and not solely on how many of them are already present in the current version of the article. Legislators do get media coverage, and Google News is your friend — there are media hits out the wazoo here, more than enough for a keep regardless of the article's current state, and heaven knows I could easily find even more if I could read or write Tamil. Bearcat (talk) 23:20, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:03, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
GIBS Business School
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Completely unreferenced article about a business school, which just states that it exists without suggesting or sourcing a reason why its existence would be noteworthy. It is not listed in Bangalore University as an affiliated school, so the listing of "MBA - Bangalore University" under the programs header here is neither a notability guarantee nor a reason to redirect it to the university -- we would need reliable source verification that it's actually affiliated with the university, and not just falsely clamed as such for PR purposes, to make that statement mean anything. (The article also formerly listed more programs than just an MBA stream, but none of them have ever been referenced either.) Also, this was recently totally blanked by an editor who apparently thought they were helping Wikipedia combat unreferenced content -- but the proper way to deal with unreferenced content is to either find adequate references or list it for deletion, not just to erase the entire article in the hopes that it eventually gets speedied as a blank page. Bearcat (talk) 20:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - I do not believe this college meets WP:NCOLLEGE as I can find no substantial coverage in reliable independent sources. The article has been created by a single-purpose account with a likely conflict of interest and is just a free advertisement for the recently started up college. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:40, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - does not meet WP:NSCHOOL or WP:ORGSIG - "If the individual organization has received no or very little notice from independent sources, then it is not notable" - Epinoia (talk) 04:16, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was keep. Seems like a consensus to keep developed after the relist, grounded on substantial new sourcing Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:05, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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No evidence of notability. No doubt an excellent surgeon but the sources don't support notability of WP:BLP. The most likely looking source is actually a wedding announcement Velella Velella Talk 18:16, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep there are enough
sourcescitations to merit inclusion. Natureium (talk) 03:01, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment - unfortunately, sheer numbers of sources does not equate to RS. Can you point out what you believe are the independent reliable sources that demonstrate notability? They are not apparent to me Velella Velella Talk 12:24, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- I believe 650 citations is enough for NPOF C1. (Although that's my least favorite standard.) Natureium (talk) 13:36, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- But this has only 8, including one which is a wedding announcement...... am I missing something here? Velella Velella Talk 17:31, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Velella, what? See the GScholar and Scopus profiles. I am declining to !vote since I have strong doubts as to whether an h-index of 13 is remarkable enough. ∯WBGconverse 15:42, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- But this has only 8, including one which is a wedding announcement...... am I missing something here? Velella Velella Talk 17:31, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- I believe 650 citations is enough for NPOF C1. (Although that's my least favorite standard.) Natureium (talk) 13:36, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment - unfortunately, sheer numbers of sources does not equate to RS. Can you point out what you believe are the independent reliable sources that demonstrate notability? They are not apparent to me Velella Velella Talk 12:24, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep She has substantial news coverage, excellent credentials, and several awards. There's a nice summary in this that suggests material to be added and sourced to clearly establish notability. The lead could make the case for notability more clearly. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 00:14, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 19:30, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Having accomplishment and notability are not the same thing. Otherwise, every Ivy League graduate and every doctor would get an article. Heck, my aunts would get articles. Y’all managed to dig 23 years for a wedding announcement but can’t do the same for actual sigcov? Trillfendi (talk) 19:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
KeepI've rewritten the lead to indicate sources that establish notability. They were easy to find; most of them were mentioned in the summary source I noted previously. More could be written about her work. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:59, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Strong keep - note that I've stricken MMO's 2nd keep !vote, but having doubled the content of the article recently, perhaps she deserves 2 !votes :D . It's now an obvious keep. The two sources Crain's New York Business 40 under 40 and Essence (magazine) 25 Most Influential African Americans 2009 are enough by themselves to establish notability. The 20 or so other refs are quite reasonable sources, I'll even include the wedding announcement - since it's from the New York Times, it's quite enough to establish her early history (high school, university, medical school, etc.) Smallbones(smalltalk) 14:50, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per Natureium and Smallbones. Passes NACADEMIC based on citations, awards, and impact. – bradv🍁 16:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep for demonstrated awards and impact based upon the expanded article with additional citations. Dorevabelfiore (talk) 17:52, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep because it passes NACADEMIC, also it seems all the reasons for nomination have been fixed in the interim. Horse Eye Jack (talk) 08:24, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep I have added a couple more sources. She meets WP:BASIC and possibly WP:NACADEMIC too. RebeccaGreen (talk) 14:33, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Redirects may be added at editorial discretion Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 21:03, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Fluctuate (Catfish and the Bottlemen single)
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Two separate poorly referenced articles about the same song, with no evidence provided that it would clear WP:NSONGS. The notability test for songs is being the subject of reliable source coverage, not just being verifiable as existing -- but both articles literally just state that the song exists, the end, rather than suggesting a reason why its existence would be encyclopedically noteworthy. Peaking #84 on the charts is not a high enough chart position to grant it a presumption of notability in the absence of adequate sources either — note that NSONGS explicitly states that charting suggests that a song may be notable, and does not in and of itself guarantee that a song is notable: the test is still the depth of reliable source coverage that the song does or doesn't have about it, not just technical verification of a low chart position. But one short blurb about the song in one music magazine is not enough coverage to get a song over the bar all by itself — it takes quite a bit more than just one source to make a song notable enough to have its own article separately from its parent album, but the only other source shown by either article is its Spotify stream. Note as well that in addition to these two duplicate articles, there's also a redirect to the album in place from the form "Fluctuate (Catfish and the Bottlemen song)" — meaning editors really need to be more careful that they're not reduplicating and retriplicating existing content. Ordinarily I would just redirect a poorly sourced article about a song to its album and be done with it, but with two separate articles and an already existing redirect, I don't believe we need to hold onto three separate redirects for the same song — we should just pick one title to retain as a redirect, while deleting the other two as redundant. Bearcat (talk) 19:13, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete this article, and keep the other redirect in place to The Balance – as the nominator says one week on the UK charts at the lowly position of number 84 and no other information about it is not enough to warrant a separate article for the song. The standard Wikipedia naming system would be for "song" instead of "single", so that should be kept as the disambiguation title, and there is no need for this article to be kept as a redirect as well, since anyone starting type the name of the song to search for it will come up with "Fluctuate (Catfish and the Bottlemen song)" anyway. Richard3120 (talk) 22:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect. There is really no reason for this article to have not been redirected when it was found, as Fluctuate (song) already existed. That song and article also barely has any coverage, so redirect it to the parent album as well. Ss112 22:31, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- We don't need all three of the titles involved here to be maintained alongside each other as parallel redirects representing the same song. One redirect is enough, and the question is which one is worth retaining and which two should just be deleted as redundant. Bearcat (talk) 15:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - duplicate article of Fluctuate (song) - not enough unique content for a Merge and no need for a Redirect - Epinoia (talk) 04:23, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was no consensus. T. Canens (talk) 23:37, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- CandyRat Records (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD · Stats)
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Article about a record label, not reliably sourced as clearing WP:NCORP. Notability is not inherited, so record labels are not handed an automatic notability freebie just because they might have one or more notable artists on them -- a record label's notability remains contingent on whether or not it is the subject of enough reliable source coverage to clear WP:GNG and WP:CORPDEPTH. But pretty much right across the board, the sources here are all either primary sources that are completely irrelevant to establishing notability at all, or glancing namechecks of its existence in coverage of other people — the only one that's more than trivially about the label at all is from a digital news startup whose status as a reliable or notability-making source is uncertain at best (I cannot, for instance, find a clear editorial masthead on its website, but only a directory of its advertising sales staff), and reads suspiciously more like either a press release or a thinly veiled rewrite of one than it does like real journalism. This is not the kind of sourcing it takes to make a record label notable.Bearcat (talk) 15:39, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep. This nomination is directly inspired by the conversation at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ewan Dobson, which may also be of interest. As I have argued elsewhere, the application of WP:CORP to record labels is a Procrustean bed that makes little sense as a yardstick, and WP:NOTINHERITED arguments are ultimately red herrings. WP:MUSIC has language - the only language specifically addressing record labels in our guidelines - about what constitutes an important record label, and it suggests two indicators: length of operation and prominence of roster (clearly intended to be taken holistically - a longstanding label with no notable acts probably wouldn't qualify unless it somehow also met the GNG). CandyRat, I think, ranks - it's been around for about 15 years and has signed quite a few notable acts (acts not notable merely for having been signed to the label), the most well-known of which are probably Michael Manring, Don Ross, Preston Reed, and The Reign of Kindo (not to mention, of course, Ewan Dobson). The prior nomination, closed as keep about two years ago, is also instructive. Chubbles (talk) 20:31, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Record labels most certainly can and do get reliable source coverage about the label, so there's no legitimate reason to deem CORP somehow a poor gauge for the notability of a record label. Your argument in the past discussion, that "whether or not a record label is notable ought to be decided by experts in music, not experts in business", is the real red herring here, because nothing in NCORP indicates that the coverage necessarily has to be financial reportage in the business section, and somehow can't be news or arts coverage about the company's cultural or artistic significance. NCORP merely mandates that coverage about the company has to exist, and nothing about NCORP suggests or even implies that said coverage somehow has to come from business writers and can't come from music writers.
- Being the subject of notability-supporting coverage is not a test that record labels have a pattern of being consistently unable to meet, because record labels most certainly can and do get coverage about them. As I noted, the references here are all either glancing namechecks of the label's existence in coverage of other things or primary sources that do not constitute support for notability at all — if this type of sourcing were all it took to make a record label notable enough for inclusion, then there would be never be any such thing as a non-notable record label anymore, because no record label in the entire history of music has ever gone completely unverifiable in at least some of these kinds of sources.
- And anyway, even if we did have a consensus that record labels were exempted from having to pass CORP and just had to satisfy NMUSIC instead, even NMUSIC also explicitly states that the inclusion test is not just the thing being claimed, but still hinges on the quality of the referencing being used to support the claim. A record label is not automatically "culturally or artistically significant" just because you say it is — reliable sources have to establish its cultural or artistic significance by covering it as a subject. Bearcat (talk) 12:45, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
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- This seems part of a larger campaign to supplant SNG's with the GNG, which I have disagreed with in the past. We could just as well declare that a band needs to meet NCORP to be included, but we do not - we never do that, even though a band is most certainly an organization (usually a profit-seeking one, to boot) organized together for a purpose, as CORP states. WP:MUSIC suggests a few criteria that indicate whether a label is important enough to merit inclusion, and I think we should look to those rather than to some broad guideline that may result in impoverished conprehensiveness of coverage (just as we do for musicians, and for athletes, and for populated places, et cetera). Once we've determined that an entity meets an SNG, it is not a requirement that we find half-a-dozen longform articles about it to establish that importance, because that would mean the only way to have an article, de facto, is the GNG. We merely have to ensure that what is in the article is verifiable, as a matter of policy - and it is rarely difficult to verify artist rosters and discographies, especially for twenty-first-century labels. Chubbles (talk) 12:05, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- The problem is that we regularly see people or organizations make false claims about themselves designed to make them sound like they clear the SNG: musicians falsely claimed to have bigger chart hits than they've ever really had; writers falsely claimed to have nominations for awards they were never really shortlisted for; politicians claimed to have held offices they didn't really hold; and on and so forth. So getting a topic over an SNG is never just a matter of saying that the topic passes an SNG — the topic still has to have some evidence of GNG-worthy coverage which verifies that its claim to passing the SNG is true, and is never automatically exempted from having to have any reliable source coverage at all just because of what the article claims. SNGs don't exempt topics from having to have any reliable source coverage just because passage has been asserted, and GNG doesn't mean we exempt unsigned bands from having to pass NMUSIC just because they've gotten their name into their local newspaper three times and can thus claim to pass NMUSIC #1 in lieu of actually achieving anything noteworthy — every topic always has to have both a notability claim that passes an SNG and a GNG-worthy volume of reliable source coverage to support it, not just one thing or the other. SNGs exist to clarify what counts as a notability claim, and GNG exists to clarify how the notability claim has to be supported in order to translate into a keepable article — they work together, not as alternative paths that cancel or replace each other. Bearcat (talk) 16:32, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- I think that is a reading at variance with the actual text of WP:N, but ultimately I guess that's a topic for a different and much wider conversation somewhere else. Chubbles (talk) 00:55, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- The core definition of notability is the existence of reliable source coverage about the topic. There are exactly zero things in the entire universe that are so critically important for us to have an article about that they're exempted from having to meet the basic definition of notability just because of what they claim about themselves. Bearcat (talk) 19:14, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- I think that is a reading at variance with the actual text of WP:N, but ultimately I guess that's a topic for a different and much wider conversation somewhere else. Chubbles (talk) 00:55, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- The problem is that we regularly see people or organizations make false claims about themselves designed to make them sound like they clear the SNG: musicians falsely claimed to have bigger chart hits than they've ever really had; writers falsely claimed to have nominations for awards they were never really shortlisted for; politicians claimed to have held offices they didn't really hold; and on and so forth. So getting a topic over an SNG is never just a matter of saying that the topic passes an SNG — the topic still has to have some evidence of GNG-worthy coverage which verifies that its claim to passing the SNG is true, and is never automatically exempted from having to have any reliable source coverage at all just because of what the article claims. SNGs don't exempt topics from having to have any reliable source coverage just because passage has been asserted, and GNG doesn't mean we exempt unsigned bands from having to pass NMUSIC just because they've gotten their name into their local newspaper three times and can thus claim to pass NMUSIC #1 in lieu of actually achieving anything noteworthy — every topic always has to have both a notability claim that passes an SNG and a GNG-worthy volume of reliable source coverage to support it, not just one thing or the other. SNGs exist to clarify what counts as a notability claim, and GNG exists to clarify how the notability claim has to be supported in order to translate into a keepable article — they work together, not as alternative paths that cancel or replace each other. Bearcat (talk) 16:32, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- This seems part of a larger campaign to supplant SNG's with the GNG, which I have disagreed with in the past. We could just as well declare that a band needs to meet NCORP to be included, but we do not - we never do that, even though a band is most certainly an organization (usually a profit-seeking one, to boot) organized together for a purpose, as CORP states. WP:MUSIC suggests a few criteria that indicate whether a label is important enough to merit inclusion, and I think we should look to those rather than to some broad guideline that may result in impoverished conprehensiveness of coverage (just as we do for musicians, and for athletes, and for populated places, et cetera). Once we've determined that an entity meets an SNG, it is not a requirement that we find half-a-dozen longform articles about it to establish that importance, because that would mean the only way to have an article, de facto, is the GNG. We merely have to ensure that what is in the article is verifiable, as a matter of policy - and it is rarely difficult to verify artist rosters and discographies, especially for twenty-first-century labels. Chubbles (talk) 12:05, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- keep one of the "more important independent labels" because of numerous notable artists by NMUSIC#5. Also meets GNG, additional sources [2] [3] 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 13:24, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
- Those aren't reliable sources. Bearcat (talk) 19:10, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- You're right about Mint, it is an advertisement. Just plain missed it. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 20:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- I'm right about "Ever Widening Circles" too. Bearcat (talk) 20:33, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- You're right about Mint, it is an advertisement. Just plain missed it. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 20:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- Those aren't reliable sources. Bearcat (talk) 19:10, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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- comment I think the Article is good enough and also it is notable itself, and the only think that I think the Article need, it is more expanding... so I think keep the Article is my mind.Forest90 (talk) 21:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete As much as I sympathize with Chubbles viewpoint above, the criteria for establishing the notability of record labels is not tackled within WP:NMUSIC. The entire purpose of having policies and guidelines is to establish a "procrustean bed" so that we can consistently apply the same rules and guidelines across a wide variety of different articles on wildly different topics. There is not a single SNG that is not seen as a subject-related clarification of GNG and not one waters down the requirements of GNG. Therefore it starts with a requirement of (at least) two independent and significant sources. NCORP does a great job of explaining what types of sources are required for any type of organization. None of the references provided meets the requirement, therefore not only does this topic fail NCORP, it also fails GNG. It is unfortunate that some specialised topics (which are obviously notable to specialists in their field) means some article fall through the cracks, but the minimum standard of two independent and significant sources must be met regardless of the topic. As such, this topic fails GNG. HighKing++ 16:21, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep I have found and added some more sources. While one of the sources with the most significant coverage in the article is not considered independent because it is an interview, I don't see why the LiveMint source would not be considered RS. As for the other sources, while they may not be significant, I do not believe that the coverage in articles about its artists or tours is trivial - for example that the style of playing used by many of its artists has become known as the CandyRat style, or movement. And that coverage is from several countries, including the US, Canada, Italy, Australia and New Zealand. I think there is enough to meet WP:GNG. RebeccaGreen (talk) 16:18, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- @RebeccaGreen: thank you for adding sources. The LiveMint "article" is an advertisement. It says so (not exactly conspicuously) right on the page. It is content paid for by the record company. It can be used for basic factual information, but it doesn't help establish notability. I still think the encyclopedia is better off with this article than without it for reasons I may or may not have time to get to. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 17:19, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- @78.26 and Bearcat: Please explain how the LiveMint article is an advertisement. It has advertisements intermixed with the article but I not sure where
It says so (not exactly conspicuously) right on the page.
StrayBolt (talk) 20:27, 10 May 2019 (UTC)- @StrayBolt: The words "Advertisement" are placed within the article four times. However, it appears that all their articles are formatted like this, see [4], and if the space isn't sold, then the word "advertisement" appears and nothing else. However, this State Bank of India article is written by a reporter with many, many contributions, while the CandyRat article's author has only this singular contribution, which almost certainly means he is not a staff writer for the newspaper and which raises suspicions. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 20:49, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- The word "Advertisement" appears inside a box in which ads appears. It does not say the article is an ad. You can't say any page with an ad intermixed with ads makes an article an advertisement. Also, maybe the LiveMint contributors with many articles are really pseudonyms for ad generated content or the salesperson who made the sale and the ones with only a few contributions are the real "reporters". Maybe the article didn't generate enough ad revenue so LiveMint didn't accept any more. Maybe the contributor found something that paid better. We don't know. StrayBolt (talk) 21:34, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- @StrayBolt: The words "Advertisement" are placed within the article four times. However, it appears that all their articles are formatted like this, see [4], and if the space isn't sold, then the word "advertisement" appears and nothing else. However, this State Bank of India article is written by a reporter with many, many contributions, while the CandyRat article's author has only this singular contribution, which almost certainly means he is not a staff writer for the newspaper and which raises suspicions. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 20:49, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- @78.26 and Bearcat: Please explain how the LiveMint article is an advertisement. It has advertisements intermixed with the article but I not sure where
- @RebeccaGreen: thank you for adding sources. The LiveMint "article" is an advertisement. It says so (not exactly conspicuously) right on the page. It is content paid for by the record company. It can be used for basic factual information, but it doesn't help establish notability. I still think the encyclopedia is better off with this article than without it for reasons I may or may not have time to get to. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 17:19, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep I think it has enough to pass StrayBolt (talk) 21:38, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 23:39, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
WordWise
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Seems to fail WP:NSOFT. Passing coverage in best, plus the usual official documentation. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 08:50, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment WP:HOUND and WP:POINTY and WP:BAIT by nom. ? Is this going to be good for Wikipedia ???? Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:12, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- I suggest you try to present argument about the topic, not me. WP:NPA is not the best deletion argument by far... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:46, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment: I notice Talk:WordWise#Plausible merge ... I wonder if the volunteer might have given an option to see if he could find a bandwidth and a window to investigate and execute that merge rather than bringing to AfD.Djm-leighpark (talk) 08:52, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- I am ok with soft delete to LetterWise. Not that the target article is a great improvement, including on implied notability... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:09, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: I will support a merge but can only be the first person to propose a merge if I am prepared to execute that merge within a reasonable timescale. Certainly if I was writing from scratch I would I think write a merged article with redirects. It is possible WordWise would be the base article with LetterWise the merged in re-direct but I have not investigated that fully. I'd argue WordWise has sufficient references as sits, but I suspect some may disagree. Combined LetterWise and WordWise are different. But LetterWise is under thread of AfD .... so that's a gunpoint of a possible wsated effort for some plonker. .... considering. Anyway all this keypad predictive text stuff has no relevance in the smartphone age ... Djm-leighpark (talk) 21:06, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- I am ok with soft delete to LetterWise. Not that the target article is a great improvement, including on implied notability... --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:09, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. The 168 hours is nearly up and no-one else has contributed. If concensus is not to Keep will most very reluctantly and disgruntle volunteer to do a merge to Letterwise. A merge to Predictive text where this is mentioned would ultimately be trivial or disruptive and in practice stiffle further development. Of course predictive text on dogs might not be notable. We have good but primary stuff on these with lots passing references to it. Djm-leighpark (talk) 15:14, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- There's not much to merge, a single sentence is referenced. Not much work. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:29, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete per nom. It does fail WP:NSOFT, and its companion LetterWise probably fails it as well. —烏Γ (kaw) │ 08:07, 05 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect to LetterWise, as the article is insufficiently referenced (per WP:GNG due to lack of significant coverage), is short (per WP:MERGEREASON), and has considerable overlap with the proposed target. I note that WP:NSOFT is not a guideline, as it has not been ratified. — Newslinger talk 23:57, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - does not meet WP:NSOFTWARE - has not been "discussed in reliable sources as significant in its particular field," has not been "recognized as having historical or technical significance by reliable sources." - Epinoia (talk) 04:01, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: redirect as is would cause WP:SURPRISE. For redirect to make sense WordWise content has to be added to letterwise and I prefer official attributed copy rather than copyvio/plagarism risk and to keep the attributions rightful and respectful. WordWise stands alone on its own merits but to be frank if I was doing a new article I'd probably do one of the pair and redirect the other. However I am lazy and there is better things to be doing in Wikipedia and RL. The failing to meet [WP:NSOFT]] assertions seems pretentious as is pretty impossible to search all the 2,320,000 Google hits on the link above let alone behind paywalls and offline resources especially as Wordwise can have a handful of different context meanings.Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:23, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- A better soft delete/redirect/merge target would be Predictive_text#Companies_and_products. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:26, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- I respectfully disagree. This argument means content has to be developed continuously remaining without WP:UNDUE weight on the target article. This stiffles the development. It is merge into obscurity. Merges proposed by people who have had a negative view of the article are generally a bad thing. Merges are best performed by people who are merging with a positive approach on the content. Good merges are actually often quite difficult but sweet when they occur nicely. But a bad merge is a bad job. Maybe if an article matures and can get towards GA standard on a high importance article things may be a different matter ... 10:49, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- A better soft delete/redirect/merge target would be Predictive_text#Companies_and_products. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:26, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 23:31, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Panorama (GIS)
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Fails WP:NORG/WP:NSOFT. WP:BEFORE failed to locate any good sources - a few mentions in passing. Perhaps some sources exist in Russian? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:25, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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Comment: Article in current state fails way below what is required for Wikipedia from views of content and sources. Was dePRODd by myself as might have has potential if website to be believed (though non-English some indication of international note). Was added to appropriate WikiProjects but has not been improved and rightfully if not improved should be deleted. NB: I personally am not looking to rescue this one unless something magics out of somewhere.Djm-leighpark (talk) 09:33, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - does not meet WP:GNG, has not "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject" - Epinoia (talk) 03:54, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 18:57, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Mary Queen of Heaven (Erlanger, Kentucky)
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Non-notable Catholic church. Article contains no sources. Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 18:29, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete the Article because it's not notable itself.Forest90 (talk) 21:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment Even if this article is deleted, Mother of God Roman Catholic Church (Covington, Kentucky) ought to be kept, as the article is more substantial.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 16:34, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- That church has nothing to do with this deletion nomination.. -- Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 19:23, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete -- One cannot really tell with a one-line stub. There is nothing in the article to show this is more than a typically NN local Church. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:51, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Suburban parish with a very attractive brick campus and an active congregation. However, the best I can do for sourcing notability is that regional newspapers rate this parish's annual fish fry as amount the top fish frys in the regions annual fish fry season - and notices of routine holiday and fundraising events. E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:00, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 18:58, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Dinda Academy of Pace Bowling
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Poorly sourced article about a niche social media meme with no evidence of passing the ten year test for enduring significance. This describes its subject as a "hypothetical cricket academy created by a facebook page", but that's not really an accurate description -- it's just a phrase used to mock people, in exactly the same way as any person whose errors of behaviour or skill resemble somebody else's can be mocked as having attended "Other Person School": "the Donald Trump school of Twitter diplomacy", the "Justin Trudeau school of public relations crisis management", the "Theresa May school of leadership", the "Angela Merkel school of public speaking", etc. And there aren't nearly enough references to actually get the phrase over WP:GNG as a phrase; two mention the phrase in the process of being about the people who are being labelled rather than about the phrase per se, and the third just tangentially verifies a stray fact about the namesake's cricket stats without even mentioning the phrase at all. None of this adds up to a reason why a Wikipedia article about this phrase would be necessary. Bearcat (talk) 18:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete This is verging on WP:ONEDAY. Non-notable / unsourced meme. Spike 'em (talk) 19:12, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete the Article because it's not notable itself.Forest90 (talk) 21:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - what an utter disaster. Preferably deleted as rapidly as possible and whatever sanction necessary placed on the editor who created this piece of utter trash. Blue Square Thing (talk) 10:49, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Wow, one of the worst articles I've ever seen on here. They could at least troll this overrated guy who steals a living! StickyWicket (talk) 16:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. This page should not be delete. It is a real page on the name of a "trolling" academy in India. It describes all the incidents which happend on social media during IPL 2019. And Cricket fans trolled some bowlers after their poor performance in IPL 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mirza.shoaib.baig.321 (talk • contribs) 18:25, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- But why is this notable? Please see a list of what wikipedia is not, including not a social network, not a newspaper, not a fansite, and particularly here not for something made up one day. Spike 'em (talk) 10:09, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 18:38, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Fails WP: ANYBIO lacks any independent reliable secondary sources. Is the winner of a national beauty pageant, whilst unreferenced is still only WP:1EVENT. Insufficient notability with no significant achievements since the beauty pageant winner - didn’t even rank at international level. Dan arndt (talk) 12:15, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete a non-notable beauty pageant contestant.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:30, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - won the national title and competed at an international level at one of the "big 4" international beauty pageants. As in sports, participating in the premier international competition indicates notability. In addition, has gone on to win a national award in her industry. MurielMary (talk) 08:50, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment, I can’t believe that are you are comparing a pageant based purely on a persons appearance against a sporting contest, which requires physical and mental skills. Besides in most cases, apart from the Olympics, an individual needs to have at least placed in an international competition, to be considered notable. Dan arndt (talk) 11:19, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
- And I absolutely cannot believe that you have nominated these articles for deletion when you clearly have such limited knowledge of the subject matter! Beauty pageants are *not* judged purely on appearance; there are multiple sections for talent performance, presenting a charity the contestant has been involved with, completing an interview, completing a sports event and actual modelling tasks. It's an all-round competition and the winners are celebrities in their own countries. You seem to have also ignored that this subject has gone on to an award-winning career post-pageantry. MurielMary (talk) 08:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- This is not at all true. We had a long lasting RfC discussion on beauty pageants, and an attempts to create a list of competitions that entering made people default notable was rejected. MurialMary's proposal is against community consensus.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:13, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- And I absolutely cannot believe that you have nominated these articles for deletion when you clearly have such limited knowledge of the subject matter! Beauty pageants are *not* judged purely on appearance; there are multiple sections for talent performance, presenting a charity the contestant has been involved with, completing an interview, completing a sports event and actual modelling tasks. It's an all-round competition and the winners are celebrities in their own countries. You seem to have also ignored that this subject has gone on to an award-winning career post-pageantry. MurielMary (talk) 08:03, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment, I can’t believe that are you are comparing a pageant based purely on a persons appearance against a sporting contest, which requires physical and mental skills. Besides in most cases, apart from the Olympics, an individual needs to have at least placed in an international competition, to be considered notable. Dan arndt (talk) 11:19, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Redirect to the pageant's page (if any). --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 19:14, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete As far as I'm concerned when it comes to beauty pageants, if they didn't win or be a runner-up in one of the important ones like Miss Universe, Miss USA, Miss World etc. then it's no point of them being here. Too many articles on this website are only 3 sentences because of NO notability. Trillfendi (talk) 20:38, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. She passes the WP:GNG. gidonb (talk) 06:53, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment, how does this pass GNG? GNG requires significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources. This clearly doesn’t. Dan arndt (talk) 07:44, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Clearly??? Can you explain? And to your question: WP:NEXIST. gidonb (talk) 09:13, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment, how does this pass GNG? GNG requires significant coverage in multiple independent secondary sources. This clearly doesn’t. Dan arndt (talk) 07:44, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep as per MurielMary. Our personal feelings about these beauty pageants are irrelevant. Personally, I feel these beauty pageants and football are equally useless but my personal feelings are irrelevant. All I care about is adhering to our policies. She has won the national title and competed at an international level and for me that's good enough.Tamsier (talk) 10:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete Sources are not substantive enough to establish notability. Reywas92Talk 18:14, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - Per WP:ANYBIO. Won national pageant, and hassince hadan established career outside of the pageant world as well. Also WP:GNG. BabbaQ (talk) 05:34, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Weak keep, person is just acceptable for inclusion. Davidgoodheart (talk) 10:32, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:38, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Oxana Zubakova
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I still believe, besides the blatantly, flamingly unambiguous advertising going on here, and the BLP violations, that this woman is unnotable. One minor scandal doesn’t equal notability. And “supermodel” is laughable. Trillfendi (talk) 17:14, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - does not meet WP:BASIC (has not "received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject.") - Epinoia (talk) 03:48, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:33, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Arlene Stuart
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Non-notable presenter with hardly any reliable sources. - Funky Snack (Talk) 16:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - does not meet WP:ANYBIO - no significant achievement or contribution - having a job is no basis for notabiltiy - Epinoia (talk) 03:30, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:33, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
George Bowie
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Non-notable radio presenter. No RS. Page has potential, but not at the moment. - Funky Snack (Talk) 16:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete: For now there aren't really any in-depth sources about the subject, possible WP:TOOSOON Ceethekreator (talk) 21:45, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - does not meet WP:ANYBIO - no significant achievements to establish notability - essentially the article just says the guy has a job - Epinoia (talk) 03:21, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:33, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Steve Smart
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Non-notable radio presenter, although on a national station. The sources provided are not reliable. Article overall fails WP:BASIC. - Funky Snack (Talk) 16:11, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - does not meet WP:ANYBIO - having his Saturday night show extended to be finished at 12am is hardly a significant achievement - Epinoia (talk) 03:16, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:33, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Coilback
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Semi-advertorialized article about a band whose notability claims are not reliably sourced. With the exception of four separate citations to the same non-notable webzine, this is otherwise referenced entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability at all: the band's own PR materials, the social networking profiles of the band members, a Q&A interview in which they're speaking about themselves on a non-notable YouTube channel, and directly affiliated people's personal e-mail fan newsletters. As always, bands are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because their self-published web presence verifies that they exist: they need to be the subject of real media coverage which verifies passage of a notability criterion, and are not exempted from that just because they're active on Facebook or ReverbNation or YouTube. Bearcat (talk) 16:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - obvious promotion WP:NOTPROMOTION - does not meet WP:BAND, no notable recordings or coverage - Epinoia (talk) 03:10, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:33, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Cockburn (film)
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Stub article about a short film, with no actual notability claim besides existing and no actual evidence of reliable source coverage. As always, every film that exists is not automatically entitled to a Wikipedia article just because it has an IMDb page: the notability test for films requires evidence of critical or media attention and/or noteworthy awards, not just single-sourced verification of existence. Making a film notable enough for inclusion here requires saying more about it than just that it exists, and sourcing it to more than just IMDb. Bearcat (talk) 15:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete I looked for sources for the film, as well as the director, and was completely unsuccessful on both counts. There does not appear to be any sources on this movie, aside from IMDB, which of course is not valid for establishing notability. Rorshacma (talk) 17:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Unconcerned I created the stub rather than delete a dab entry, having established its authenticity. But I did find it available on a streaming video site with two genuine
reviews"likes". Doug butler (talk) 22:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC) - Delete - does not meet any of the criteria of WP:NFILM - Epinoia (talk) 03:03, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:33, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Daniel Pinder
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Props to Pinder's PR team for getting a handful of semi-reliable to reliable sources to republish the same press-release like puff pieces, repeatedly, about the same non-notable film. This article is nothing more than a puff piece/vanity spam and I seriously question the integrity of every single source that "reported" or mentioned his role in Chicago PD as being "significant" or "well known." I don't know if those are written by contributors or if they lack any fact checkers but I can find no real coverage of this role and even his own iMDb lists it as a completely insignificant, one time character, "Skateboard kid." All of the sources that have written about him are actually in this article, which doesn't leave me any hope that he is actually notable. More than half of the sources are about a film that isn't notable and are basically copied with a few words rearranged from the other.
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- Delete Fails NACTOR, no notable roles. Reywas92Talk 18:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - does not meet WP:ANYBIO (no "widely recognized contribution") - does not meet WP:NACTOR (no "significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions.") - Epinoia (talk) 03:00, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Fails WP:NACTOR and WP:ANYBIO. Nice work on the source evaluation table. - GretLomborg (talk) 18:29, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete I accepted this at AfC but didn't leave any notes as to why on this one. I have reviewed the sources both in the article and on the talk page and I can;t make a good case for notability. ~Kvng (talk) 01:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:32, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Joe Saturday
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A supposed ten minute long TV show, whose article has no sourcing. I could not find a single reliable source even mentioning this one at all, let alone establishing notability. The most I was able to find was an entry on IMDB, which of course is not a valid reliable source. I initially WP:PRODed this, but the PROD was contested with the explanation that the article had already been deleted once via PROD, and then re-created. Rorshacma (talk) 15:40, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- To clarify, your attempt at PRODing the article was not "contested". It was simply reverted because the article is ineligible for PRODing since it has already been the subject of a contested PROD in the past. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 07:13, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Speedy delete Not a real TV show, doesn't even mention a network it supposedly airs on. Reywas92Talk 18:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- You don't mention which CSD criteria you think this falls under? If you meant WP:G3 {{Db-hoax}}, then clearly not: http://www.joesaturday.com, you can watch the pilot yourself. "Doesn't mention what network it airs on" is not a rationale for deletion (especially since it's an unaired pilot); I'd encourage you to revise your !vote with an explanation of why you feel this article subject meets deletion criteria. I'm not defending the article, I'm just trying to improve the quality of the AfD result for the benefit of the closer and future reviewers. Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 07:13, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - The article subject fails meet the English Wikipedia's threshold for inclusion, whether it is evaluated against the narrow guideline WP:NTV or the broader WP:GNG. The article features zero evidence of significant coverage in reliable, independent sources (WP:42). Ben · Salvidrim! ✉ 07:13, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:50, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Ryan Zabinski
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See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cody Reinberg (2nd nomination), now making a separate nomination. Ymblanter (talk) 15:38, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete No substantive sources. Reywas92Talk 18:20, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete – Fails GNG, fails NFOOTY. Concerned the snowman is stuck in some kind of time loop. Leviv ich 03:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player in an English speaking country (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the rule of thumb imputed by NSPORTS-NFOOTY can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight, as sourcing for this period in Spain can get tricky). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 13:12, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:49, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Tucson Brown
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- Delete - A player of the third-tier semi professional, USL Second Division league, a non-WP:FPL. Fails WP:NFOOTY. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 17:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per Cassiopeia. Leviv ich 03:24, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player in an English speaking country (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the rule of thumb imputed by NSPORTS-NFOOTY can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight, as sourcing for this period in Spain can get tricky). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 13:11, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:47, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Bryan Zobre
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- Delete No substantive sources. Reywas92Talk 18:21, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete – per GS. Leviv ich 03:23, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the rule of thumb imputed by NSPORTS-NFOOTY can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight, as sourcing for this period in Spain can get tricky). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 13:11, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:47, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:46, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Matt Langton
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete – per GS. Leviv ich 03:22, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the rule of thumb imputed by NSPORTS-NFOOTY can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight, as sourcing for this period in Spain can get tricky). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 13:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - article about semi-pro footballer which fails WP:GNG. Jogurney (talk) 14:18, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete There's no significant coverage to meet WP:GNG and he also fails to meet WP:NFOOTY. Papaursa (talk) 23:06, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Not notable as either an accountant or a soccer player. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 00:28, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:46, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
David Feazell
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete – per GS. Leviv ich 03:22, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the rule of thumb imputed by NSPORTS-NFOOTY can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight, as sourcing for this period in Spain can get tricky). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 13:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete I said at the first AfD discussion that he didn't meet WP:NFOOTY or WP:GNG. A month later nothing has changed. Papaursa (talk) 23:02, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:47, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:45, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Ashleigh Townsend
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- Delete No notability is evidenced. (Aside: A man named Ashleigh? Jesus.) Trillfendi (talk) 17:54, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:39, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per GS. Trill, haven't you heard of A Boy Named Sue? Leviv ich 03:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player in an English speaking country (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the rule of thumb imputed by NSPORTS-NFOOTY can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight, as sourcing for this period in Spain can get tricky). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. @Levivich:, @Trillfendi: - as for Ashleigh and Sue - you ought to be careful not to mix up British and American practices - as you may see in Ashley (name) - in UK usage this is mainly male (and originally only male), harking back to at least Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury. Stateside, it seems that bored housewives watching The Young and the Restless (Ashley Abbott) - made this into a very popular female name. So - longstanding, upright, British tradition vs. American soaps. (however, contrast Rhoticity in English where American speakers preserve the original pronunciation or gotten (vs. British got) where Americans revived the past use (which survived on the fringes in the States before being revived) - [5] - however British purists may devolve into "backwater colonial mannerism" or some such discourse). Icewhiz (talk) 13:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- I understand the cultural differences, (also, apparently Brooklyn is much more popular for British boys than girls) but this spelling has a particularly feminine look so it gave me a double take. It’d be like, a guy named Jordyn or Kacie. Trillfendi (talk) 23:59, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete I said at the first AfD discussion that he didn't meet WP:NFOOTY or WP:GNG. A month later nothing has changed. Papaursa (talk) 23:03, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Ben Clark (footballer, born 1984)
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:39, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete – per GS. Leviv ich 03:21, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the rule of thumb imputed by NSPORTS-NFOOTY can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight, as sourcing for this period in Spain can get tricky). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 13:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:47, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:44, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
David Tyrie
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- Delete - A player of the third-tier semi professional, USL Second Division league, a non-WP:FPL. Fails WP:NFOOTY. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 16:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:38, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- I'm just realizing you posted this on all of them. LOL. That's not true! My sterling reputation is unfairly sullied :-P Leviv ich 03:07, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete – Fails NFOOTY, fails GNG. Leviv ich 03:07, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the rule of thumb imputed by NSPORTS-NFOOTY can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight, as sourcing for this period in Spain can get tricky). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 13:09, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:48, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:43, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Cody Reinberg
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- Delete - A player of the third-tier semi professional, USL Second Division league, a non-WP:FPL. Fails WP:NFOOTY. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 16:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Nothing approaching significant coverage. In the previous AfD, it was asserted that there was some coverage of this person, which is true—there are one or two news articles [6] [7] [8] [9]—but namechecks like that do not come anywhere close to counting towards sigcov. There is just no way to write an encyclopedia article from those sources without making our own content. The presumption of significant coverage in reliable sources would be discredited at this point even if he was a professional player that got such a presumption in the first place. Alpha3031 (t • c) 06:47, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - what a clusterfuck of an AFD journey. In the middle of the first discussion the nominator decided to try and change the notability parameters, and the second discussion was a wholly inapproproriate bundle which was procedurally kept. Rant over. Fails WP:NFOOTBALL and no evidence (despite all the time at AFD for sources to be found) that WP:GNG can or will be met. GiantSnowman 08:38, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- I did not decide to try and change the notability parameters. That was done by community consensus, and initiated by another editor. Ironically, both GS and I supported the change; one of the few things we've agreed on. Leviv ich 22:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete – Fails NFOOTY, fails GNG. Leviv ich 22:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Fails GNG. It always failed NFOOTY (as FPL is not part of NFOOTY, but merely a separate essay) - however NFOOTY is of little consequence for a very modern player (in an era with online sources in English available) for which the presumed notability can be simply checked vs. available sources (contrast this with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josep Raich - a Spanish player in the 30s and 40s for which NFOOTY carries weight). Regardless - it is rather evident that coverage for this individual does not rise up to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 13:04, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Low level, modern-era, minor league soccer player, who played professionally in a country where the sport is not popular. Fails WP:NFOOTY, WP:GNG, and WP:BASIC. Ejgreen77 (talk) 23:48, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:32, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
C. V. Narayanan Nair
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Heavily advertorialized biography of a person whose notability claims are not reliably sourced. Four of the five footnotes here are primary sources that do not count as support for notability at all, and the one that is a reliable source just glancingly mentions his name a couple of times in the process of being primarily about other people. (It's a dead link, but it was recoverable via Wayback.) And while there are two books being listed as "further reading" without being used as footnotes for anything, it's also unclear whether those books actually contain enough content about him to count toward getting him over GNG, or also just mention his name in passing. The article would have to be referenced better, and written more neutrally and objectively, than this to consider him notable enough for inclusion -- and the lack of an interlang link to the Malayalam Wikipedia, when his potential notability claim is specific to a Malayalam-speaking area, also implies a shortage of genuine notability. Bearcat (talk) 15:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete per nom. Nominator has already exhaustively given evidence for deletion. I do not think subject passes WP:GNG - this is an advertorialized stub. Skirts89 17:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Doesn't appear to meet any of the criteria at WP:MANOTE. More importantly, there's a lack of significant independent coverage of him. I did find a couple of mentions of him in books, but they were all one line mentions--often in a list of names. I found nothing to convince me that WP:GNG is met. Papaursa (talk) 00:34, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Fenix down (talk) 14:42, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Erik Németh
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Article about amateur footballer who has played 1 match in the fully-pro Hungarian first division 5 years ago. He's been playing in the amateur regional leagues ever since and the only non-routine online coverage from a source other than his former employer is a brief snippet in the Hungarian version of FourFourTwo that basically says he was viewed as a talented prospect for five years, but now his dream of professional football appears to have ended. There is long-standing consensus (e.g., Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phakamani Mngadi) that a minimal amount of play in a fully-pro league doesn't satisfy WP:NFOOTBALL when the article comprehensively fails WP:GNG as this article does. Jogurney (talk) 15:12, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete per nom, fails WP:GNG which is more impotant than scraping by on WP:NFOOTBALL. GiantSnowman 08:35, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Concur the soccer player (as opposed to other people with the same name and more coverage) fails GNG, and prospects of future soccer related coverage here are slim given he's no longer professional. Icewhiz (talk) 13:36, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete – per nom, fails GNG. Leviv ich 04:09, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:31, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Norrsken
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Poorly referenced article about a band with no strong claim to passing WP:NMUSIC. Their only listed releases were demo cassettes, tracks on non-notable compilation albums and one 7" single, with no evidence of any full albums -- and the only other apparent notability claim here is that some of its members went on to become associated with more notable bands later on, but the "notability by membership" test in NMUSIC requires members who are independently notable as individuals, not just members who also get mentioned in other band articles without having earned their own standalone BLPs. And the only reference cited here at all is a deadlinked database entry in an unreliable source, not notability-supporting media coverage. Bearcat (talk) 15:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - no significant recordings, coverage or impact - does not meet WP:BAND - Epinoia (talk) 02:52, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:31, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Kingston University (Los Angeles)
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Unaccredited commercial place of education that is failing WP:ORG. Apparently no independent secondary coverage beyond confirmation of existence in trivial sources. pseudonym Jake Brockman talk 14:51, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - does not meet WP:NSCHOOL or any other notability guideline - Epinoia (talk) 02:49, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:31, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Ethiopian-Eritrean Student Associations
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The sources used don't speak to the notability of this student union. The first two simply show it exists, the third is by an official of the organisation.[10] Searching I see only trivial mentions. Doug Weller talk 14:34, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. John M Wolfson (talk) 14:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - I've found sources in Google News and Books but they are only passing mentions, not significant/in-depth coverage of the subject. The organisation certainly exit, but that is not enough to satisfy our notability guidelines. This book is slightly better, but only just.Tamsier (talk) 16:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. This isn't even really an article about a specific student organization, it's a generic concept article about a type of student organization present at many universities or colleges. But the fact is that absolutely any ethnic group on earth can form an ethnocultural student organization if there are enough people of that ethnic background on campus to form one — and there's no reason why the Ethiopian-Eritrean version of the concept would be inherently more notable than the Kenyan, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Pakistani, Hispanic, Lithuanian, Indonesian, Japanese, Filipino, Indian, Burmese, Afghan, etc., versions of the concept. And the references aren't reliable source coverage about the concept — they're all either the primary source websites of EESAs, or glancing technical verification that other universities have EESAs, which is not how you demonstrate the notability of EESAs as a concept. Bearcat (talk) 20:22, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:26, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Issa family
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No claims to notability. First (Hourani) and third (Parwej) source don't even mention Issa, second source (forebears) has been repeatedly determined at WP:RSN to be unreliable in any case, and doesn't give notability as it is just a database of surnames, and final source (Sharja-e-Nasab) is a family tree for a different family. Searching for Issa Mesghara gives no reliable sources. No idea if this is a hoax or not, but it is unverifiable and lacks all notability. Fram (talk) 14:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete Unless better sources can be used. शिव साहिल/Shiv Sahil (talk) 07:01, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - notability not established - not mentioned in the linked articles Husayn ibn Ali, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Quraysh, Sayyid or Husseini - the Hashemites article lists a descendent of Fatimah & Ali named Issa, but provides no information beyond the name - Epinoia (talk) 02:44, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:26, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Ranveer Allahbadia
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I don't see how this person meets WP:NBIO standards, largely fan/promotional content. creffett (talk) 14:07, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete lacks coverage to pass either WP:GNG or WP:ENT. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 01:31, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - promotional article, "trained so many celebities" WP:NOTPROMOTION - does not meet WP:ANYBIO - not notable by any criteria - Epinoia (talk) 02:24, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:26, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Bartender DS
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Does not meet WP:GNG because of the lack of significant coverage from reliable sources. Besides the routine announcements to be found in searches, only thing that stands out is what was included in the article [11] and even that isn't WP:SIGCOV. The other reference is a GameSpot listing which doesn't contribute to GNG. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 14:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete While an interesting title, the sources are lacking, and the article's author certainly couldn't find much. Does not seem like it passes GNG.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 07:15, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - does not meet WP:NVIDEOGAMES - has not "been the subject of significant commentary or analysis in published sources that are independent of the game developer." - Epinoia (talk) 02:18, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was merge to South Sudanese Civil War. T. Canens (talk) 08:28, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Poorly written fork of South Sudanese Civil War, specifically sections 2.3 to 2.6. Confusingly, this article's scope appears to be about both the 2015 peace agreement and the 2018 peace agreement, but not the conflict that occurred between those dates. I definitely could see articles being written about those two peace accords individually, but lumping them together into one article as is the case here is not the way to go about doing that. While deletion is not cleanup, I think it would be less work to write brand new articles about these subjects (using content in South Sudanese Civil War as a starting point) rather than to try to adapt the material in this article into two new articles. signed, Rosguill talk 18:33, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep but reduced to a stub. Even I, an inclusionist, cannot defend this foolishness. I totally understand the nom's rationale. The subject itself is notable but as this article stands, it needs re-editing, not deletion. The scope of this article should be made clear in the lead and possibly a renaming of the article.Tamsier (talk) 21:00, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
- Merge selectively to South Sudanese Civil War. This article is a bad one but the Civil War article needs amending, so that there is a section on the 2018 peace agreement, distinct from that on the negotiations for it. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:21, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Merge South Sudanese Civil War to per Peterkingiron. - GretLomborg (talk) 18:33, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Sandstein 18:31, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Balmoral Girls' Primary School
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Primary schools are not notable per WP:OUTCOMES. The passing mentions don't meet GNG IMO. Gbawden (talk) 07:15, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Keep - Whilst I fully agree that normally Primary schools would not be notable per WP:OUTCOMES, the notability is based not on the nature of the school, but rather the early adoption of desegregation, which in the context of South Africa education is notable, being one of very few schools and even fewer primary schools to have desegregated voluntarily. I acknowledge that the sources and linking were poor and have include additional sources and information.Thank you for your help in improving the article. Alternatively per WP:INTROTODELETE it would seem more appropriate to tag this article as needing improvement? Andrewalt (talk) 14:53, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete per nom. It is irrelevant whether they desegregated in 1991. To the contrary, I think it would have been more notable had it been the only or one of few white schools in South Africa to refuse segregation during the apartheid era.Tamsier (talk) 16:10, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete as insufficiently notable. Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 14:53, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Counting only the comments that make some kind of sense... Sandstein 18:30, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Ananya Kamboj
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Reason Vikramkamboj (talk) 02:46, 26 April 2019 (UTC) Friends, she is not my daughter. Her father's name is same as me and it's by coincidence.
It's true facts and now a days she is writing regularly for Times of India NIE newspaper and even published a book - https://notionpress.com/author/ananya_kamboj
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- Question How is "she is not my daughter" a valid reason for deleting an article??? What is the rationale for deletion? ie, why are editors spending time assessing this article and its subject? RebeccaGreen (talk) 04:58, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete fails WP:BLP1E. Won one competition of dubious notability, which garnered all relevant media coverage. Not notable as an author or journalist. @Vikramkamboj: stop lying. Your user page literally says you live in Chandigarh and you publish a blog called the Sports Mirror, exactly as detailed in the article. That has to be the least convincing denial of a WP:COI I've ever seen! (Note for @RebeccaGreen: this is an AFD opened as a response to my PROD. The nomination is meant to be a keep !vote). – Teratix ₵ 09:55, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Thank you for explaining that. It doesn't come across as a keep !vote any more than it does as a reason to delete! RebeccaGreen (talk) 10:10, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete Notability isn’t evidenced at this time. Given that she’s only a child, in due time it may happen. Trillfendi (talk) 18:02, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment But the real question is... why the nominator would create and significantly contribute to the page then want it deleted. Fishy. 🐳 Trillfendi (talk) 18:04, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was no consensus. Sandstein 18:29, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Brennan Bailey
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Non-notable actor. Has been tagged for BLP since 2010. Unclear if a Young Artist Award win or several noms pass the bar for notability. Natg 19 (talk) 18:05, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete another in a very long list of articles on non-notable actors.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:01, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete: Certainly fails the WP:GNG and WP:NACTOR. -- LACaliNYC✉ 20:27, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - the YA Award probably makes him notable. Bearian (talk) 20:28, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep passes WP:GNG and WP:NACTOR No reason to delete an actor WP:NOTPAPER. Was nominated for a notable award. Appeared in notable productions and not as an extra. Lubbad85 (☎) 22:09, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 13:03, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Quidco
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This COI/UPE puff piece (though dating from before paid-editor disclosure became obligatory) has already been nominated three times for deletion, but not since the changes to our notability requirements for companies. The sources in the article do not demonstrate notability: the Daily Mail is deprecated as a source, and the brief mentions in the Observer and Which? do not add up to much. Nor do I find any independent in-depth coverage elsewhere: it gets many hits of the "get £15 cash back through Quidco" type on GNews, as expected as a part of its routine business; and a handful of passing mentions on GBooks. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 13:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - Promotional, no RS. Smallbones(smalltalk) 03:28, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete- advertising brochure. Reyk YO! 13:29, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was keep. To prevent further waste of time and editorial resources. (non-admin closure) ∯WBGconverse 09:16, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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I see no claim of notability. She fails both WP:GNG and/or WP:NPROF and/or WP:NARTIST.
Being the first African-American Woman to earn a PhD in physics from UCBerkeley, does not entitle to auto-notability. Specific stream; specific university....the more are the parameters, the less important is being the first one.
She was (at a minimum) the 69-th African-Woman woman to receive a PhD in physics from USA universities and the number falls very steeply, once the stream is dropped.
Her exhibitions have not received prominent coverage, either and the Smithsonian fellowship is a minor one. The coverage of her art-works in The Mercury News is typical mention of a town-event, that is going to be held and not a review. The East Bay Express is more of a PR-spam which has regurgitated her own words.∯WBGconverse 12:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep there is Wikipedia:SIGCOV of her work as an artist from daily newspapers East Bay Express and The Mercury News. Battleofalma (talk) 14:07, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Local newspapers, more explicitly explained over WP:AUD. ∯WBGconverse 14:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Winged Blades of Godric: Perhaps you could explain why you refer to a guideline meant for companies and organisations when discussing a BLP?
I think I see what you're trying to get at, but it would be useful to show your working.Richard Nevell (talk) 18:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)- I think I see what you're trying to get at, but it would be useful to show your working -- this is a typical phrase that I say to students, when tutoring maths and find it a bit patronising to hear over here.
- Suppose, I launch a newspaper that covers my village. When the local village head-man has died, it is featured at the very front-page and across few many, in the middle. As, the village-doctor's daughter get married , there will be detailed reporting about ceremonies and all that. There will be detailed profiles of all the students, who passed out of the village school.
- I run a newspaper that covers my town which have numerous villages. The village headman's death gets relegated to about two pieces in the third page. There's no stuff about marriage; other than a mere mention in the events header. There's a 150 words article mentioning the performance of the school in a few lines and feautres some bytes from the headmaster and the school-topper(s).
- I run a newspaper that covers my district which have numerous towns. We don't care about headman deaths; unless it's of the largest villages. We publish a combined article about the performance of all schools and only the pass-percentage is mentioned in a tabular form. We don't even know that she is getting married.
- Somebody can bring the village-newspaper and claim that each of the village student is notable or that the marriage is notable. Pages of coverage, after all. But, is it?
- That's the spirit of WP:AUD.
- But, at any case, the papers have enough circulation and it's not in my nomination-statement either. It's all about intellectually independent coverage per what's sought at NARTIST. ∯WBGconverse 18:33, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- @Winged Blades of Godric: Perhaps you could explain why you refer to a guideline meant for companies and organisations when discussing a BLP?
- Also, WP:NARTIST is the relevant notability criterion. ∯WBGconverse 14:41, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Local newspapers, more explicitly explained over WP:AUD. ∯WBGconverse 14:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep A "local paper" with a circulation >300K? Victuallers (talk) 14:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Indeed, greater circulation than the Denver Post or New York Daily News at some points. Battleofalma (talk) 14:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Victuallers, are you aware of WP:NARTIST whose relevant criteria states:-
The person has created or played a major role in co-creating a significant or well-known work or collective body of work. In addition, such work must have been the primary subject of an independent and notable work (for example, a book, film, or television series, but usually not a single episode of a television series) or of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews.
? ∯WBGconverse 14:32, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Jesswade88 has a high profile as a young scientist writing about other women working in science, 5 of the articles she has created have been nominated for deletion in the past week, this is a really really unhealthy pattern. John Cummings (talk) 14:34, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, I did not nominate a single one out of them and rest assured, I certainly don't control other's actions. By the way, read WP:AADD (and, specifically WP:ADHOM) because your !vote is devoid of rationale. ∯WBGconverse 14:38, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Nono of what John Cummings said has anything to do with Wikiedia guidelines or policies. Its an appeal to authority of the article's creator and a conspiratorial appeal to motive in general. -- Netoholic @ 15:03, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- (edit conflict)I don't have an opinion yet on whether this should be deleted or not but "this person wrote it" does not mean that anything should be kept - editors are not journalists (even if by profession) while editing, so implying that any editor is somehow an expert in their role as an editor of Wikipedia is problematic. Judge the article based on the subject's merit, not the creator. Commenting on the content, not contributor applies both ways in this respect, negative and positive.) Praxidicae (talk) 15:09, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
weakDelete - The only WP:INDEPENDENT reliable sources are a local papers (Mercury News, East Bay Express), a podcast (65 Days of Astronomy), and Smithsonian mag. None of these go to supporting a criteria listed at WP:NACADEMIC ("first X to receive a PhD at Y" is not a criteria). The Smithsonian ref is the briefest of name drops, anddoesn't support the line it cites (I've tagged it)(fixed). The two articles in local papers are primarily about one event (an exhibition) and don't satisfy WP:NARTIST. The podcast appearance is a plus on both artist and academic ends, but altogether with the other independent sources I don't think passes the bar of WP:SIGCOV. If other independent sources are found, I could be convinced to swing toward keep and give the article more time. -- Netoholic @ 15:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC) (updated vote)- Keep. Enough coverage of her from enough independent sources for GNG. Netoholic's reasoning that "none of this go towards NACADEMIC" is ridiculous and wrongheaded: these sources are mostly unrelated to her academic accomplishments (which are probably WP:TOOSOON) but her accomplishments as an artist. Also, I think that this pattern of targeting Jesswade's creations of articles on women (this is now the fourth such AfD to be created within a span of days) is an extremely unhealthy pattern that displays the institutional misogyny inherent in Wikipedia. We can and should do better than that. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep As David Eppstein said above, it's probably too soon for WP:PROF, but there's enough for the GNG. XOR'easter (talk) 15:36, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- XOR'easter, by enough I assume the three sources (2 from Mercury News and one from East Bay). Right? So, now 3 local articles mentioning a woman's exhibition means that she gets an article. Nice. WP:NARTIST has gone for a toss. ∯WBGconverse 15:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I don't know about X's opinion, but I'm counting Smithsonian Magazine as well. It's a major magazine and I think it's well-enough separated from the specific branch of the Smithsonian that she works for to count as independent. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- The Smithsonian article is a brief name drop that only concerns how she was hired at Harvard. Good, independent, reliable, background info, but not "significant coverage" by a loooong shot. -- Netoholic @ 16:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It's not about
how she was hired at Harvard
, but a project she joined after she became a postdoc there. XOR'easter (talk) 17:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It's not about
- The Smithsonian article is a brief name drop that only concerns how she was hired at Harvard. Good, independent, reliable, background info, but not "significant coverage" by a loooong shot. -- Netoholic @ 16:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I don't know about X's opinion, but I'm counting Smithsonian Magazine as well. It's a major magazine and I think it's well-enough separated from the specific branch of the Smithsonian that she works for to count as independent. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- XOR'easter, by enough I assume the three sources (2 from Mercury News and one from East Bay). Right? So, now 3 local articles mentioning a woman's exhibition means that she gets an article. Nice. WP:NARTIST has gone for a toss. ∯WBGconverse 15:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep, sufficient coverage demonstrated in total, between being a minority physicist, an activist, and an artist. Quite possibly none of the three would suffice independently - she's not the most notable physicist, or the most notable activist, or the most notable artist - but together she crosses the bar in my opinion. --GRuban (talk) 17:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep in addition to the factors mentioned above, especially the summary by GRuban, the John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow award shows recognition and notability. ch (talk) 17:33, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- CWH, no, that's quite trivial from a NACADEMIC perspective. ∯WBGconverse 17:43, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete, unless notability as a scientist is clearly demonstrated, which doesn't seem to be happening. Absolutely & certainly not notable as an artist, or under GNG. Three areas of 1/3 notability do not add up to notability! But I'm not sure if she makes WP:PROF - comments on citations would be useful. Johnbod (talk) 17:42, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Johnbod,
Three areas of 1/3 notability do not add up to notability
-- this is the most succinct remark about the above !votes :-) ∯WBGconverse 17:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)- Of course they do. Otherwise we could break every way in which a person was notable into individual events, then disqualify them one at a time per WP:BLP1EVENT, and we could disqualify every source covering that person as "that's just one source", and so forth. Almost all notable people are notable due to the combination of things about them that make them notable. Writers are rarely notable for one book, scientists for one paper, usually for all the books and papers they have written over they course of their lives. This person is notable as an artist and a physicist. --GRuban (talk) 01:36, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Johnbod,
- Weak keep It wouldn’t matter if she was the 1,000th woman to earn a Ph. D. from the University of Saturn, from what I’ve been able to see there is academic notability and could be expanded further in the future. Trillfendi (talk) 17:59, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep. I agree the "first" isn't the issue. She's mentioned in enough external sources to establish notability. François Robere (talk) 18:45, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment. Given that it is the only thing mentioned in the introduction, I assume her status as "the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley" is asserted as her primary claim to notability. I was the first Czech-French woman to attend my school and probably the first of that background to do a lot of niche stuff in France & Belgium. Essentially this idea that you deserve an article just because you are the first person of your specific background to do a very specific thing at a very specific place is something that is apparently only applied to Americans here, and never accepted for people from other countries. I'm not quite sure about notability, though; it looks like a case of WP:TOOSOON to me, although there is some coverage and she seems to be well on track to become notable. --Tataral (talk) 18:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep There is enough coverage in RS for GNG for the subject of this article. The local sources issue is a red herring and not mentioned even once on WP:GNG. As Tataral pointed out the lead wasn't very good, so I improved it. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 19:03, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- GNG specifies "significant coverage", which is a subjective bar. Consider that 2 local articles about a single event is less coverage than your average high school football coach gets in a lifetime. This also relates to WP:BLP1E and its appropriate to look at this as minimal, non-persistent coverage in local media about a single event. -- Netoholic @ 19:42, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It's nice that how you choose to evade the entire nomination whilst holding to a part. comment. ∯WBGconverse 19:48, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Netoholic GNG is also cumulative. She is part of a Smithsonian article and her work is discussed in AAS Nova. There is no BLP1E here because there are multiple sources discussing different parts of her life. And comparing her contributions as an artist by to an "average high school football coach" is not relevant at all, so I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here. Winged Blades of Godric Why do you say "It's nice that you chose to evade the entire nomination...."? That feels a little pointed and I've not been rude here nor am I "evading". If an article passes GNG, that's enough. You don't need anything else. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Cumulative, perhaps, but only within one area. The independent sources seem to take interest that she is into both art and astronomy... but you can't combine
minimal coverage as an artist
+minimal coverage as an post-doc astronomer
+a sprinkle of a mention about how she was hired to Harvard
and build a satisfying cake of "significance". I'd really hoped that interested editors would have found more sources rather than debate the scraps that we have. She is ultimately both a WP:Run-of-the-mill artist and a WP:Run-of-the-mill astronomy post-doc, and this is all WP:TOOSOON for either category. -- Netoholic @ 20:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Why not, Netoholic? It's not about what she is being written up for: it's that she's being written up at all in multiple RS. That's all that matters. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:21, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- High school football coaches are written up in multiple RS, too. If you're relying on GNG, I think you have to pass the high school coach test. She's on a track that might get her there... but its just not true at the moment. -- Netoholic @ 20:29, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Cumulative, perhaps, but only within one area. The independent sources seem to take interest that she is into both art and astronomy... but you can't combine
- Keep Based on the sources on the article, this appears to pass WP:GNG. Transcendence (talk) 22:29, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Coverage was easy to find, and there is enough to satisfy the GNG.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:12, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Is neutrally written. Has a fair bit of coverage.[12] No significant concerns. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:22, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep the combination of accomplishments as artist, community activist, and science meets WP:GNG. --mikeu talk 00:09, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep, per WP:IAR, in anything. The encyclopedia would not be substantially improved by deleting this article. In any case, removing an article about a woman scientist / artist seems hardly a priority while there are 72 entries in Category:Japanese female adult models, 186 in Category:American female adult models, or 89 in Category:Penthouse Pets, with much worse sourcing than this. In another example, there are 17 entries in Category:Penthouse Pets navigational boxes. You get the idea. Checking these BLPs out and nominating some for deletion would be more productive than spending community time removing articles on academics, even jr ones. -- K.e.coffman (talk) 00:18, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Meets GNG. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:13, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment it's weird how NOVA quotes her three times in this documentary on Black Holes (time code 19:39), seeing as how she is "not notable" and all. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 01:21, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep partly per K.e.coffman. Also the 14 current sources in the article contain substantial details about her and enough to meet GNG. – Ammarpad (talk) 09:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was redirect to Busty and the Bass. T. Canens (talk) 13:03, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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WP:BLP of a musician notable primarily as a member of a band, and not adequately sourced as having his own standalone notability yet. As always, band members are not automatically entitled to have their own standalone articles as separate topics from the band just because their name shows up in coverage of the band -- to graduate from being mentioned in the band article to actually qualifying for his own standalone BLP separate from the band article, he would have to be fully retested against WP:NMUSIC criteria for independent solo activity outside of the band context. But of the eight footnotes here, five are about the band and thus aren't support for his own standalone notability; two of the three that are specifically about him rather than the band as a whole are from WordPress blogs rather than real reliable source media outlets; and the only source here that's both reliable and specifically about him, Complex, is just a short blurb in the context of releasing one single.
The existence of a couple of solo singles outside the band context is not an NMUSIC pass, however -- a musician who has only released singles can still occasionally get over NMUSIC if one of the songs cracks a national Top 40 chart, but absent an actual hit single he would have to release one or more solo albums for a standalone BLP to become justified. All of which means he does not yet have either the notability claim or the sourcing necessary to get his own article as a separate topic from the band. I also suspect a possible conflict of interest here, as the article was created by an editor who has never made a single edit to Wikipedia on any topic but Alistair Blu and his band. Bearcat (talk) 12:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Redirect to Busty and the Bass. I would have suggested a merge, but this would create undue weight of one member's biographical details vis-a-vis the other members. Mindmatrix 21:23, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect to Busty and the Bass - references cited are for the band, not Alistair Blu himself - no notable solo work to justify separate article - does not meet WP:MUSICBIO - Epinoia (talk) 01:54, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was no consensus. Opinions are divided: Deleters argue that she fails our academic notability standards, while keepers consider her notable because of the general media coverage, not necessarily because of her academic achievements. Both are valid arguments, and it's not up to me to decide which is better. Sandstein 18:27, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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I declined CSD A7 because I think this makes a credible claim of significance, but a few mentions in MSM don't reach GNG or ACADEMIC for a grad student in my book. GoldenRing (talk) 10:59, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Weak delete - probably WP:TOOSOON. I have found a few additional independent sources ([13], [14]) in addition to what's in the article now, but all seem to be light on biographical details, and most are just about Tsosie's views on the Elizabeth Warren DNA results. I've found nothing that contributes to WP:NACADEMIC or WP:SIGCOV. I'd say delete for now, but be somewhat generous with WP:REFUND if someone wants to clean it up and add new sources that contribute to NACADEMIC. -- Netoholic @ 15:36, 3 May 2019 (UTC) (note to closer, I'd also delete Krystal tsosie which has a copy of this in its page history, created by the same novice editor)
- Delete “woman is mad about cultural misappropriation” isn’t notability. Perhaps after the election there will be more to write about. Trillfendi (talk) 18:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete A grad student does not pass NPROF. Reywas92Talk 18:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. She certainly doesn't pass WP:PROF, insufficient evidence of passing GNG. --Tataral (talk) 19:02, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Does not pass NPROF or GNG. All of the sources are passing mentions save for the profile, which is a self-submitted website and not a reliable source or an indicator of notability. Anyone can register. Natureium (talk) 23:12, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep It is extraordinarily rare for a person at her career stage to pass WP:PROF#C7, but the sheer number of reliable sources that quote her as an expert about a high-profile genetics claim, from the New York Times and the Boston Globe on [15][16][17][18][19][20], make this one of those rare times. People care about the topic for which she is presented as an authority, and we serve the public better by helping readers find out about her. In addition to the RS already in the article [21][22], she's also gotten substantial write-ups in Nature [23] and in Science News [24], as well as The Atlantic back in 2015 [25] (see also [26]). XOR'easter (talk) 00:47, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. Oh yes, XOR is right. There is coverage sufficient for GNG and I'll happily go along with the presumption of notability. Thincat (talk) 09:05, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. I agree that she should be kept for C7 and given the current coverage of her and position of Elizabeth Warren, it would be expected that she receive more coverage. StudiesWorld (talk) 09:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per reasons given by XOR. Those are prominent and significant citations. --mikeu talk 14:07, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete we have never interpreted the GNG to include quotes in newspapers. Those are inherently non-independent. C7 has also not usually been read this way unless the statements were substantial, which these are not. These are novel interpretations of existing guidelines that appear an attempt to make the guidelines reach an outcome rather than have the outcome match the guidelines, and the closer should weight them as such, remembering that policy has usually ignored quotes in the media as grounds for notability going back years. There is nothing here at all that supports notability, and by these standards virtually anyone who has ever entered a graduate program would be considered notable. PROF is designed as a double edged sword: it includes those who should be included while keeping out those who are good at promoting themselves but who haven’t achieved much in academia itself. This article is the perfect example of a biography that PROF is supposed to keep out, and I find the twisting of C7 to be very disturbing here as it would effectively open the floodgates for virtually every North American academic to have an article, which also creates bias issues as academics in other regions could not as easily be included. This is a clear delete on the merits of policy as it stands and as a precedent issue. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:55, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- I take your comment seriously, but I ultimately cannot agree with your position.
These are novel interpretations of existing guidelines that appear an attempt to make the guidelines reach an outcome rather than have the outcome match the guidelines
— on the contrary. My initial impression was much more in line with the delete !votes above, but then I did the ordinary level of research that I've applied to every passingly-interesting AfD I've participated in for the past two years, and as a result, I changed my opinion. I've recommended deletion in plenty of academic biography AfDs, and I would have done so here if I had found as little as I originally expected. I said that this case was extraordinarily rare, and I meant that. If "look at all this other stuff that exists" is an uncompelling argument and one to be avoided, then I have to admit that "look at all this other stuff that might conceivably exist in the future" moves me even less. Finding the "floodgate" argument an unconvincing scenario, I fail to see how keeping an article about a Navajo-American woman scientist would be a bad precedent for the cause of fighting systemic bias. XOR'easter (talk) 17:00, 4 May 2019 (UTC)- She's a grad student who is good at branding herself. That is not the same thing as having an actual impact. The fact that we are making huge exceptions for early career individuals also creates another form of bias: we have many academics who are significantly more accomplished in their fields than Tsosie who do not come close to meeting PROF. The impact of the new interpretation of C7 that has appeared this week is clear: young people who have accomplished relatively little will be privileged with articles over older academics who have achieved more, don't pass any of the other criteria, and don't like talking to the press and don't understand new media (not exactly uncommon in academia, especially among older academics.)As a matter of course, for a grad student to be considered notable there should be exceptional achievement, and that is not at all the case here. Perhaps I'm biased because I have more friends than I can count who have done more than Tsosie has in their fields, but carving out a huge exception to the merit-based notability criteria that is NPROF is nothing but a negative. Academic self-promotion is a big thing, and what we're now seeing is a reinterpretation of guidelines to reward those who engage in it. I simply refuse to believe that a grad student can meet NPROF without academic achievement that would be expected of a tenured faculty member. That hasn't been achieved here, and so deletion is unfortunately the correct outcome. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:22, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but to me, it's not a
new interpretation of C7 that has appeared this week
; it's the same standard I've been applying all along to academic biographies. Sometimes people pass that, by my reckoning, and sometimes they fail; sometimes other !voters agree with me and sometimes they don't. I tend to lean to "delete" when the only indicators of significance are counts of Twitter followers or YouTube subscribers. Those numbers indicate self-promotion, pure and simple, and they don't mean much. But here we have a person who is treated as a subject-matter expert by journalists like Carl Zimmer writing in places like The New York Times. That's different. For comparison, if a writer pounded the asphalt and wore out their shoe leather doing signings and talks and interviews, as a result of which they sold a lot of books and got high-profile reviews, we'd say they passed WP:AUTHOR, even though the process of getting there involved "self-promotion". I don't think I'm making an exception for an early-career individual, either. If Tsosie were a tenured faculty member without an exceptional citation profile, a named chair, a major award, etc., and she got the same press for the same reasons, I would !vote to keep with the same rationale (just without the comment that it's an unusual call for someone at her career stage). XOR'easter (talk) 18:55, 4 May 2019 (UTC)- That's fair, and I would have !voted delete for a tenured faculty member who didn't meet any of the other criteria. I know you're working in good faith, and my comment was more directed at the fact that because of the recent publicity both at ANI and in the press, we're getting people who are less familiar with PROF viewing these and making claims as to what is and isn't met. I'm sorry if my comment was seen as playing down your views, which isn't my intent.
I haven't been active at AfD recently, but I'm fairly familiar with PROF and I'd never seen it interpreted this way in regards to a grad student, and rarely for an assistant professor. I am concerned that we do appear as a community to be stretching guidelines to fit outcomes (not you, but a lot of the comments in the recent AfDs) and think that it would be better just to modify the guidelines if people think there is an issue rather than try to fit people who don't meet them into them, which I think is what as a whole is happening here. TonyBallioni (talk) 19:05, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment to expand on my brief "per XOR" !vote above... The thread of reasoning given by XOR was very much in line with my own thinking on this when I wrote that. Specifically, per WP:BIO, "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded". I wholeheartedly support a review of bio gng and prof, but I feel that the policy line I've cited clearly covers this as a keep and that we're not really covering new ground. It is "significant" and "unusual" for such a prominent journalist at a major newspaper of record to cite anyone so early in their career as a topic expert and we should give that appropriate weight. I understand your concern about canvassing and editors who are unfamiliar with policy. Some of us who have a long history of contributions are now getting caught in the cross-fire[27] for simply expressing interpretations of policy that we've long supported. --mikeu talk 14:29, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- That's fair, and I would have !voted delete for a tenured faculty member who didn't meet any of the other criteria. I know you're working in good faith, and my comment was more directed at the fact that because of the recent publicity both at ANI and in the press, we're getting people who are less familiar with PROF viewing these and making claims as to what is and isn't met. I'm sorry if my comment was seen as playing down your views, which isn't my intent.
- I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but to me, it's not a
- She's a grad student who is good at branding herself. That is not the same thing as having an actual impact. The fact that we are making huge exceptions for early career individuals also creates another form of bias: we have many academics who are significantly more accomplished in their fields than Tsosie who do not come close to meeting PROF. The impact of the new interpretation of C7 that has appeared this week is clear: young people who have accomplished relatively little will be privileged with articles over older academics who have achieved more, don't pass any of the other criteria, and don't like talking to the press and don't understand new media (not exactly uncommon in academia, especially among older academics.)As a matter of course, for a grad student to be considered notable there should be exceptional achievement, and that is not at all the case here. Perhaps I'm biased because I have more friends than I can count who have done more than Tsosie has in their fields, but carving out a huge exception to the merit-based notability criteria that is NPROF is nothing but a negative. Academic self-promotion is a big thing, and what we're now seeing is a reinterpretation of guidelines to reward those who engage in it. I simply refuse to believe that a grad student can meet NPROF without academic achievement that would be expected of a tenured faculty member. That hasn't been achieved here, and so deletion is unfortunately the correct outcome. TonyBallioni (talk) 18:22, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- I take your comment seriously, but I ultimately cannot agree with your position.
- Delete The argument forwarded by TonyBallioni is one of the best ones, I've ever read across any AfD and hits the nail on the head. ∯WBGconverse 21:32, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep as per XOR's arguments. Mlvandijk 19:44, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per TonyBallioni. - GretLomborg (talk) 18:35, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per Mu301's 14:29 comment. —烏Γ (kaw) │ 23:53, 09 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 13:02, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Edwina Brudenell
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No indication of notability. I cannot find anything about her supposed art career. This looks like a purely genealogical entry. Surtsicna (talk) 10:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete The only sources I see are from the Daily Mail, which consensus has determined is not a reliable source, and an entry in a peerage site noting her family relations, which I think does not meet the notability criteria (WP:INVALIDBIO WP:BLPRELATED), if I'm reading those correctly. I can't find anything else of note about this person :-P Shana (talk) 11:03, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete I agree. I tried searching for her under various combinations of her name in the databases I have access to and all I can find is mentions relating to her peerage. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:42, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 13:02, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Necrosis (band)
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The previous Articles for deletion discussion was in 2004. Things may have changed since then. WP:BEFORE done, and nothing appears to have changed. No WP:SIGCOV in English or Spanish language media. Pete AU aka Shirt58 (talk) 10:02, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete (and salt) - @Shirt58: - me and Salvidrim felt this was actually a different article, but I'll focus on it in current form in any case. Notability clearly not established - distinct failure to satisfy WP:NBAND. Nosebagbear (talk) 12:23, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete and salt. Google search is a bit complicated because the band's name is a common medical term, but the band doesn't seem to have any significant coverage. Walter Görlitz (talk) 14:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete WP:NBAND Notability clearly not established. --SalmanZ (talk) 23:13, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete: fails WP:GNG and WP:BAND. Salting may not be required as it appears the band have split for the third time in their history (in 2017) and are inactive, but there's no indication that over their 32 years of sporadic activity that they were ever noticed outside of the local thrash metal scene. Richard3120 (talk) 22:21, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 08:26, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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no indication this meets WP:NMUSIC all the sources I can find are for non-notable awards, hyper local and passing mentions. Praxidicae (talk) 23:50, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment Added a connected contributor template, in case anyone was wondering why the article suddenly starts talking about a specific band member's other band and Maya Angelou. Bakazaka (talk) 04:37, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment I'm not finding significant RS's, but it's possible the San Diego Music Awards might matter, but am having a hard time making that determination. FWIW, I initially thought coverage in the NY Times would matter, but it's not coverage -- it's just a name check in an article on a different subject. ShelbyMarion (talk) 09:33, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - mentions in Forbes and NYT are passing- does not meet WP:BAND - no notable recordings - perhaps a case of WP:TOOSOON - Epinoia (talk) 01:48, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. Disregarding the WP:SPA Ckarayannides. Sandstein 18:12, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Etail Conferences
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No depth-of-coverage about this conference, just mentioned in the sources. Both Forbes references are written by "contributors" which usually suggests they are more akin to a press release than an article by a feature writer. Prod was disputed by COI editor with an interest in creating an article about an affiliated company. OhNoitsJamie Talk 22:39, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
Hi! If Forbes sources aren't allowed, can replace with other non-Forbes sources covering eTail, will look now. All of the sources are actually covering the news that happened at eTail or takeaways from eTail, so they are all quite in-depth coverage. This also includes Cheddar's interviews from eTail. Some examples of sources: https://www.mytotalretail.com/video/single/4-key-takeaways-from-etail-west/ (4 Key Takeaways at eTail West) or https://www.claruscommerce.com/blog/etail-west-2019/ (eTail West 2019: A Very Human Experience).
The 7+ sources are used for references for the description: "eTail conferences feature lectures, panel discussions, workshops, meetings, interactive roundtable discussions, case study presentations, and Q&A sessions. eTail conferences are attended by retailers and lifestyle brands to discuss topics such as retail strategy, digital transformation, and customer experience." ckarayanndies Talk 15:25, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
Ok, I removed the Forbes sources (even though they are excellent sources, Barbara Thau is awesome: https://www.forbes.com/sites/barbarathau/#6660cf17796d) (ended up putting Barabara Thau back in. She's been writing a Forbes column called "Minding The Stores" for 6 years and is probably the most credible retail journalist writing for Forbes Ckarayannides (talk) 15:52, 2 May 2019 (UTC)) and added more from Chain Store Age, Multichannel Merchant, Dm News, Coindesk etc. All covering takeaways or news from eTail.
Thanks again for your help in improving the page. Let me know if you have any other suggestions! ckarayanndies Talk 16:02, 30 April 2019 (UTC) — Ckarayannides (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
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- Delete—I don't think the sources as provided, save perhaps TheStreet.com one, count as significant independent sources, and I have questions on how reliable they actually are—I'm not plugged into the retail world but a bunch of trade publications don't seem like they demonstrate notability via the GNG. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs talk 13:45, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep—Looks like most major retail or e-commerce publications covers these events extensively. I think the sourcing falls in line or exceeds that of the other conferences on Wikipedia. I do think that the page needs to be improved, which should probably be the first step attempted before deletion. Disclaimer: I am the one finding and adding the sources, but think the point is still valid.
Ckarayannides (talk) 13:55, 2 May 2019 (UTC)This user is new to Wikipedia. Please assume good faith, remain civil, and be calm, patient, helpful, and polite while they become accustomed to Wikipedia and its intricacies.
- Keep: Ckarayannides has won me over. Willing to wait and see. - Ret.Prof (talk) 15:58, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comments: When I consider reliably independent in-depth coverage (that seems to be lacking) I generally look for sourcing (from a notability aspect) that is not connected to the subject such as trade magazines or other industry specific magazines. The "depth" (please read) of coverage is crucial. These trade shows might be a good thing but I picture someone advising Walmart to regularly move all the isles around so people will have to look for what they need and thus impulse buy. Everyone I have ever talked to hates the practice (I don't shop there) but Walmart keeps growing. I picture a trade organization advising car dealers to use "pre-owned" instead of "used" as that is a better word (people absolutely will buy a pre-owned vehicle over a used one) and making the price $24,999 instead of $25,000. The ONE DOLLAR savings will make the price look cheaper and create more sales. I am not going to bust any bubbles in case I were to be the last to !vote. Anyway, I didn't dissect the sources so will refrain from !voting. Good luck, Otr500 (talk) 03:11, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: This needs a more thorough source analysis, seems like.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete as unambiguous WP:PROMO. Remember that the WP:NOT policy specifically says
Wikipedia articles about a company or organization are not an extension of their website or other social media marketing efforts.
. The brand new editor's first edits were to the fairly obscure MediaWiki_talk:Spam-blacklist page in an effort to get a known brand spammer removed from the blacklist [28]. This has happened before, when another SPA tried to get the spammer added to the whitelist while editing this specific article [29]. That's the context here: blocked spammers, and SPAs pushing this conference. The content of the page shows that the company does not meet WP:CORPDEPTH, as the cited sources are mostly not about the subject, or are from trade journals deriving their content from company-provided material. For example, the Forbes Thau source is about Wal-Mart, and only contains a quote from an eTail employee. Put another way, the coverage is either not significant or not independent. So, delete according to policy, or delete according to guidelines. Either way the result is the same. Bakazaka (talk) 18:32, 3 May 2019 (UTC)- Comments:Hi Bakazaka! That's a very fair argument with many good points. I do believe that very very few events/conferences on Wikipedia meet the level of WP:CORPDEPTH requirements you state. I disagree that the coverage isn't in depth, when the majority of sources are covering takeaways from the event. Nevertheless! I do hope that this level of requirement is consistent in practice (across other events/conferences). I this is really truly the case, I support the delete cause!On the subject of Worldwide Business Research and my request to have it removed from the blacklist last week: I don't know anything about what happened in 2007 when the organizer of this event was blacklisted (as I was 15 years old at the time and more worried about homework). It was probably done by some idiot 12 years ago. I do believe though, that any legitimate company should be given a whitelist opportunity 12 years after the fact, even if a page is not created with the company as the subject.{{pb{{TLDR: If these are the rules, I support you and agree with you :)(and thanks again for weighing in)
Ckarayannides (talk) 19:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)This user is new to Wikipedia. Please assume good faith, remain civil, and be calm, patient, helpful, and polite while they become accustomed to Wikipedia and its intricacies. - Undisclosed paid editing, for example editing on behalf of your employer without disclosing that connection, is a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use and grounds for blocking. Editing with an undisclosed COI also violates WP:COI. Given that information, you should disclose any connection you have with eTail on your user page, the article talk page, and this discussion immediately. Bakazaka (talk) 19:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comments: Sorry still getting the swing of the Wikipedia ins-and-outs. Thanks for the tip Bakazaka. Wasn't hired to edit Wikipedia, just thought it would be fun to update the info on their page (Also in my digging found out about the blacklist!). I Am affiliated with the subject, but not sure how much I want to post my personal WP:PRIVACY stuff. Do most editors state where they work or who they are? Happy to mark it with COI Editor though. I promise to do it Monday morning.The contents or deletion of this page has no effect on me, I just know about the subject and wanted to update the info. But like I said, I support you and your argument and I'm fine and support deleting the page if it doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements. Ckarayannides (talk) 19:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Your job title and name are not necessary (no one cares, actually), but disclosing that you have a financial relationship and therefore a conflict of interest regarding the company is a requirement if you're editing articles related to the company. Bakazaka (talk) 19:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comments: Gotcha, also thanks for adding it for me! Ckarayannides (talk) 20:09, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Your job title and name are not necessary (no one cares, actually), but disclosing that you have a financial relationship and therefore a conflict of interest regarding the company is a requirement if you're editing articles related to the company. Bakazaka (talk) 19:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comments: Sorry still getting the swing of the Wikipedia ins-and-outs. Thanks for the tip Bakazaka. Wasn't hired to edit Wikipedia, just thought it would be fun to update the info on their page (Also in my digging found out about the blacklist!). I Am affiliated with the subject, but not sure how much I want to post my personal WP:PRIVACY stuff. Do most editors state where they work or who they are? Happy to mark it with COI Editor though. I promise to do it Monday morning.The contents or deletion of this page has no effect on me, I just know about the subject and wanted to update the info. But like I said, I support you and your argument and I'm fine and support deleting the page if it doesn't meet Wikipedia requirements. Ckarayannides (talk) 19:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Undisclosed paid editing, for example editing on behalf of your employer without disclosing that connection, is a violation of the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use and grounds for blocking. Editing with an undisclosed COI also violates WP:COI. Given that information, you should disclose any connection you have with eTail on your user page, the article talk page, and this discussion immediately. Bakazaka (talk) 19:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comments:Hi Bakazaka! That's a very fair argument with many good points. I do believe that very very few events/conferences on Wikipedia meet the level of WP:CORPDEPTH requirements you state. I disagree that the coverage isn't in depth, when the majority of sources are covering takeaways from the event. Nevertheless! I do hope that this level of requirement is consistent in practice (across other events/conferences). I this is really truly the case, I support the delete cause!On the subject of Worldwide Business Research and my request to have it removed from the blacklist last week: I don't know anything about what happened in 2007 when the organizer of this event was blacklisted (as I was 15 years old at the time and more worried about homework). It was probably done by some idiot 12 years ago. I do believe though, that any legitimate company should be given a whitelist opportunity 12 years after the fact, even if a page is not created with the company as the subject.{{pb{{TLDR: If these are the rules, I support you and agree with you :)(and thanks again for weighing in)
- Comments: Hey all, thanks again for all your comments and debate. Not sure when this eventually gets decided on, but wanted to put out a final point, albeit a weak one (a "but look at them" argument, I know) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conferences --> The majority (90%? 95%?) of the pages on this category list (and subcategories) share a few things in common. They are heavily edited by a COI editor to add new facts, and they are sourced by industry-specific publications. The most notable will have some level of coverage from publications Bloomberg or the Street (like etail conferences), but it's rare. Are all these pages on the chopping block? Would hope that if the sourcing is extensive and the page is neutral, each of these pages has value.Whatever the decision, you've all been great! I've enjoyed getting a feel for the debate process, but also for editing and sourcing. Ckarayannides (talk) 21:48, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Feel free to nominate any/all of them for deletion via WP:PROD or WP:AFD. I would imagine that many of them should be deleted. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:57, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Will do! And again, no hard feelings over eTail/WBR Ckarayannides (talk) 14:05, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- But could never be me in good faith. Just the fact that I have a COI with a conference page that was proposed to be deleted, I then turn around and propose the deletion of other conference pages? Don't think that's what Wikipedia was built to do. In my opinion, all should stay if they have proper sourcing and are written with a neutral voice and sourced facts Ckarayannides (talk) 14:10, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Will do! And again, no hard feelings over eTail/WBR Ckarayannides (talk) 14:05, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Feel free to nominate any/all of them for deletion via WP:PROD or WP:AFD. I would imagine that many of them should be deleted. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:57, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - promotional article, reads like a promotional brochure WP:NOTPROMOTION - does not meet WP:ORGSIG or WP:ORGCRITE - most of the references seem to be about topics covered in the conferences, not reliable sources about the company itself - Epinoia (talk) 01:38, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comments:Hi Epinoia! Sincerely thanks for your input.
- My comments for your points would be: On the subject of WP:NOTPROMOTION, this is what is stated: "Information about companies and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery. All article topics must be verifiable with independent, third-party sources, so articles about very small garage bands or local companies are typically unacceptable. Wikipedia articles about a company or organization are not an extension of their website or other social media marketing efforts. External links to commercial organizations are acceptable if they identify notable organizations which are the topic of the article. Wikipedia neither endorses organizations nor runs affiliate programs."
- Does this page not meet the above criteria? If it does not, can you specify what in this page is subjective, biased, or full of puffery? What is the difference between this page and any other page in terms of WP:NOTPROMOTION.
- On the subject of WP:ORGSIG, the notability of any conference is based on the coverage and notability of what happens at that conference. Think about the coverage of any event that has ever happened. The coverage is based on what happens at the event, not the event itself. But, if you are only looking for examples of sourcing that covers the event and not as much the topics/announcements/happenings at the event, would suggest these three sources: https://www.mytotalretail.com/article/what-you-can-expect-at-the-2017-etail-west-conference/ https://www.campaignasia.com/article/omnichannel-is-old-hat-and-more-takeaways-from-etail-asia-2018/443334 https://www.retailtechnologyinsider.com/etail-west-2018-digital-shopper-ai-human-element/#.XNRXg45Kjcu
- Thank you again for contributing, I appreciate your viewpoint and welcome the discussion! Ckarayannides (talk) 16:24, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- On the subject of WP:ORGSIG, the notability of any conference is based on the coverage and notability of what happens at that conference. Think about the coverage of any event that has ever happened. The coverage is based on what happens at the event, not the event itself. But, if you are only looking for examples of sourcing that covers the event and not as much the topics/announcements/happenings at the event, would suggest these three sources: https://www.mytotalretail.com/article/what-you-can-expect-at-the-2017-etail-west-conference/ https://www.campaignasia.com/article/omnichannel-is-old-hat-and-more-takeaways-from-etail-asia-2018/443334 https://www.retailtechnologyinsider.com/etail-west-2018-digital-shopper-ai-human-element/#.XNRXg45Kjcu
- Does this page not meet the above criteria? If it does not, can you specify what in this page is subjective, biased, or full of puffery? What is the difference between this page and any other page in terms of WP:NOTPROMOTION.
- My comments for your points would be: On the subject of WP:NOTPROMOTION, this is what is stated: "Information about companies and products must be written in an objective and unbiased style, free of puffery. All article topics must be verifiable with independent, third-party sources, so articles about very small garage bands or local companies are typically unacceptable. Wikipedia articles about a company or organization are not an extension of their website or other social media marketing efforts. External links to commercial organizations are acceptable if they identify notable organizations which are the topic of the article. Wikipedia neither endorses organizations nor runs affiliate programs."
- Comments:Hi Epinoia! Sincerely thanks for your input.
- Delete per WP:NOTPROMOTION. - GretLomborg (talk) 18:40, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 08:25, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
List of Futility Closet Podcast episodes
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The futility closet podcast is not notable and so this list does not meet any of the standards of LISTN. Should be redirected to Futility Closet or perhaps even just deleted (Note: an attempt to redirect was reverted). Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 02:00, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Oppose Deletion Is User:Barkeep49 now asserting that the parent article Futility Closet itself is not notable? Its notability was challenged once before and the result of the discussion was to keep it. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Futility Closet Podcast.
- Futility Closet is notable, and this is a list of its episodes. The list contains links to the original podcasts and is a valuable resource for historians and recreational math students looking for the original material. Futility Closet has a lot of links within Wikipedia so it is of interest to many related topics.
- User:Barkeep49 notes that "an attempt to redirect was reverted" What he does not mention is that this attempt was to simply change the page to a redirect without going through the deletion process. This seems sneaky to me and is definitely not the right way to delete a page.--Toploftical (talk) 16:17, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Toploftical the podcast is a part of the company. The company is notable. I am asserting that this part of the company is not independently notable. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:51, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Apologies as I was on mobile before and didn't see the part about how we got here. Boldly redirecting something isn't sneaky, especially given my edit summary of
Podcast does not appear to be notable. Since it is not notable a list of its episodes doesn't really pass WP:LISTN. Restoring redirect
but is of course a form of soft deletion. In this instance as I found the article through New Page Patrol, I was simply following standard NPP procedure. When there was disagreement I brought the article here as a form of consensus building. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 03:31, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Oppose Deletion
- On 14 September 2017 User:Ronz deleted the entire contents of this page and replaced it with a redirect to Futility Closet.
- On 23 April 2019 I (User:Toploftical) restored the entire list by simply reverting Ronz's edit.
- On 24 April 2019 User:Barkeep49 reverted my edit taking it back to a redirect.
- To Barkeep49: You say that you "found the article through New Page Patrol" New Page Patrol?? What new page? The page has always been there. No new page has been created. I believe more than ever that this is an attempt to make an end-run around the standard deletion process.
- Then you reintroduce the confusion between the parent article and the list stating above that "Boldly redirecting something isn't sneaky, especially given my edit summary of Podcast does not appear to be notable. Since it is not notable a list of its episodes doesn't really pass WP:LISTN." But, as I pointed out before, the podcast is notable as was established here:
- You also seem to be trying to make a distinction between "the company" and the podcast when you say, "the podcast is a part of the company. The company is notable." What company? I thought that Futility Closet was the name of "the company". If the "company" is notable, where is the article about it? If the article Futility Closet is about the company, then your implication that the list inherits the non-notability of the parent article is nonsense.--Toploftical (talk) 15:54, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- When an article is created from a redirect is is considered a new article and enters the new page queue. So this is why when you recreated the article from a redirect it entered through the new page queue - see more at WP:NPPREDIRECT which also shows why what I did is not an end run around anything but rather part of a process which I was following. As noted at Futility Closet the company is not just a podcast it is
"a blog, podcast, and database"
. So in my reading the company as a whole can be notable but not the podcast itself. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:07, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- When an article is created from a redirect is is considered a new article and enters the new page queue. So this is why when you recreated the article from a redirect it entered through the new page queue - see more at WP:NPPREDIRECT which also shows why what I did is not an end run around anything but rather part of a process which I was following. As noted at Futility Closet the company is not just a podcast it is
- Strong delete: The article is simply a directory of episodes. Wikipedia is not a directory nor venue for advertising. --Ronz (talk) 16:07, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- *Strong Keep: I understand now why the page might have shown up on New Page Patrol for the technical reason you mentioned. Nevertheless, it is NOT a new page. The page existed long before Ronz replaced it by a redirect.
You say that in your reading "the company as a whole can be notable but not the podcast itself." In my reading the podcast and the company are synonymous. Which of us is the gets to be the official reader?
Apparently the data base exists to support the podcast and the blog. What are you saying: 1) the podcast is notable but the data base is not? 2) the data base is notable but the podcast is not? 3) the podcast and the database together are notable but neither is notable on its own? 4) The combination of podcast, data base, and blog together are notable but no subset of these three is. Seems like a nitpick to me. I expect you will say, "All three together are notable and that is why the previous attempt to delete the parent article was rejected; but the list of episodes is not notable because it is just about the podcast and the podcast is not notable."
You are worried about advertising. I just now picked a WP list at random: List of Game of Thrones characters. I suppose that list could be considered advertising. The show is still airing after all. I personally have no interest in this show and think that the list is silly. However, many people are interested in this topic and, because of that, I would strongly object to someone trying to delete it. (Are you going to try to delete that list, by the way?) Let us not even think about the thousands of WP pages devoted to Pokémon. Now that stuff is even sillier IMHO, but what harm does it do? (Sorry if I have offended any Pokemon fans).
I have no connection with Futility Closet. I do not much follow the "historical curiosities" part of the site (but many do). I come at it from the recreational mathematics side. Most recreational mathematicians follow Futility Closet and this list is a valuable resource for them. There are significant mathematical results that first saw the light of day in this podcast or blog.--Toploftical (talk) 22:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment - The list article has an unsatisfactory structure, but the choices are to merge it with the main article or keep it. I am neutral. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:32, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete, does not meet WP:LISTN, no significant sources found that discuss these episodes, also wikipedia is not a directory. Coolabahapple (talk) 08:20, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- Looking at WP:LISTN I see the statement, "One accepted reason why a list topic is considered notable is if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources." If by 'list topic' they mean the parent article (Futility Closet in this case) there are reliable sources such as Wired Magazine that have indeed recommended the podcast (this source is in fact cited in Futility Closet). I could cite others. I should also point out that many of the individual podcasts in the list are cited on various pages within WP. Finally, I note that the FC page gets about 200 hits a month. Does that make it notable?--Toploftical (talk) 20:28, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete as there is no significant coverage of the subject (ie. the episodes as a group) in reliable sources that are independent of the subject. Which leads to a fundamental WP:LISTN failure since notability is not being demonstrated. Evidently, this is not a discussion on whether the Futility Closet article should be deleted or not, so we should focus on the matter at hand, the list of episodes. This article is solely sourced to one WP:PRIMARY source, the podcast itself, which means that the article is not adequately sourced. I agree with the calls that wikipedia is not a directory or a means of promotion; previous consensus is also in favor of deletion. RetiredDuke (talk) 22:37, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete this improperly sourced LISTCRUFT. Trillfendi (talk) 13:03, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per RetiredDuke and Coolabahapple. Also note that Toploftical !voted three times. —烏Γ (kaw) │ 21:43, 04 May 2019 (UTC)
*Withdraw oppose Obviously the consensus is for delete. You have convinced me that this page violates official WP policy. I guess it is the underlying WP policy that I disagree with. Ah well, I tried. So sad to see it go.--Toploftical (talk) 22:15, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Merge with Futility Closet - not notable enough for stand alone article - does not meet WP:GNG - completely lacking in references to reliable independent sources - Epinoia (talk) 01:08, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was After talking to Fenix down, I am closing this Afd and will renominate the players separately. I am not going to copy comments, I hope closing administrator(s) will take the delete votes into account.--Ymblanter (talk) 15:28, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Cody Reinberg
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Since the deletion discussion was closed NPASR due to the removal of the USL Second Division from WP:FPL, I am renominating this article for deletion.
It is disputed that the player meets the criteria for footballers for playing in a fully-professional league, and it's further disputed that they meet the basic criteria for inclusion due to a lack of coverage in reliable sources despite being a contemporary player in English speaking nations.
I am also bundling the other 8 under the same rationale:
- David Tyrie (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Ben Clark (footballer, born 1984) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Ashleigh Townsend (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- David Feazell (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Matt Langton (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Bryan Zobre (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Tucson Brown (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
- Ryan Zabinski (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
Notifying the participants of the previous AfDs, Levivich, Shotgun pete, 21.colinthompson, Icewhiz, GiantSnowman, Jacona, Reywas92, StraussInTheHouse, Mosaicberry, Smartyllama, Jogurney, Sandals1, Lubbad85, and Papaursa, so that they can add their thoughts to the discussion. Alpha3031 (t • c) 05:28, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. They fail NFOOTY. More importantly, they fail GNG. NFOOTY merely creates a presumption there will be SIGCOV - however in all these cases (English speaking country, bio during internet age with sources expected to be online) - a simple search shows there is close to no coverage (and what coverage there is, is often of college play, coaching a high school, assistant coaching in college - and not much of that - the minor league stint is ignored). When GNG is challenged, citing a presumed coverage SNG - NFOOTY - is not sufficient.Icewhiz (talk) 05:57, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Procedural keep - the bundling is completely inappropriate given that the question here is going to be GNG. I suggest the nominator withdraws the bundled articles ASAP and we deal with them on a case-by-case basis. Also wish to note that we wouldn't even be here if the nominators of the AFDs the first time around had reached consensus to remove USL Two from FPL before mass-nominating a bunch of articles... GiantSnowman 06:19, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- There is no need to unbundle - we routinely assess GNG in bundles for similar subjects - in this case a bunch of USL D2 players who received nothing close to SIGCOV. Icewhiz (talk) 09:26, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Procedural Keep per GiantSnowman. This is going to be a mess if we do it this way. Do it right or don't do it at all. Smartyllama (talk) 12:28, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Procedural Keep per GiantSnowman. Lubbad85 (☎) 13:00, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- I bundled the discussions because my BEFORE searches convinced me the likelihood of any sources turning up to be somewhere between "unlikely" and "snowball in hell". If I am pleasantly surprised, I'll be more than happy to strike any for nomination where sources did turn up, but I think it's premature until that happens. Alpha3031 (t • c) 13:23, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Procedural keep I've found at least some coverage on Reinberg and no coverage on another player in the list (Brown, picked at random.) Whether Reinberg passes WP:GNG isn't clear to me, but it's clear enough to have separate discussions about all of these players. SportingFlyer T·C 21:03, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
- Delete all – Obviously as the previous nominator of these articles, I think they should be deleted because they don't meet GNG or NFOOTY. Here's the thing about this batch and GNG: before they were nom'd, Icewhiz and I did a WP:BEFORE search and found nothing. Then these noms were open for 18 days – relisted twice – and the total number of sources brought forward was zero. Not one source. Nobody even tried to argue that any of these articles meet GNG. I don't see the benefit in noming these individually. For the "procedural keep" voters above, I'd ask that either you post some sources that might be sigcov for at least one of these articles, or else let's not waste time with a re-nom, let's agree these articles don't meet GNG and move on. Leviv ich 06:30, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
- Comment I don't know about procedural keeps, but I do believe that any article based solely on a player playing in the USL Second Division does not meet WP:NFOOTY and that none of those articles that I voted on previously met the GNG. That is why I voted delete on a number of them.Sandals1 (talk) 15:24, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Matt Langton - per my comments at the previous AfD. I haven't had the change to evaluate these other articles yet. Jogurney (talk) 00:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Procedural keep No closing admin can justify mass deletion of articles of varying individual notability. Do it right, or not at all.BabbaQ (talk) 06:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Relisting comment: There seems to be an initial series of procedural keep votes based on a fear that this AfD would become very complicated with editors arguing that so-and-so meets GNG but so-and-so doesn't. That has demonstrably not happened. Furthermore, bar one nebulous comment from one editor that they "found some coverage" on one of the players and another late comment that these players are "of varying individual notability", there has been nothing provided by any editor to support GNG for any of these players to even the lowest level.
I initially closed a number of these as no consensus for the reason that changes in consensus on the level of full professionalism in the league in question part way through the AfD had meant a number of editors who had initial commented might have reason to change their opinions and that the chance should be given for them to do so.
To my mind, following AfDs lasting several weeks, there is consensus that NFOOTY is not satisfied and nothing has been presented that comes close to satisfying GNG for any players. The keep votes currently have no merit because the predicted chaos has not occurred, whilst the delete votes reiterate the same arguments from the previous discussions.
It's time editor's voting keep either put up or shut up and show GNG if they can for any other these articles. If that is not forthcoming and no other admin takes action, I am inclined to close this discussion as Delete all, as the delete votes are the only ones currently with any validity.
- Comment - Did Fenix just tell me and others to shut up? There is no merit in of to mass delete a number of individual articles. Period.BabbaQ (talk) 09:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Same league, same country, same period, similar profile (college, short D2 stint, other non-notable stuff), same lack of sources (in articles - and outside them). This is a good bundle... Now do you have sources establishing SIGCOV for any of these articles?Icewhiz (talk) 09:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Put up or shut up is a common turn of phrase. Fenix down (talk) 10:31, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- FD, your comments are wholly inappropriate, and consensus is clearly that the articles should be kept and individually relisted so that GNG can be explored in detail. GiantSnowman 14:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I don't believe they are, not just because it is only 5-3 in favour of a procedural keep - hardly "clearly", but more importantly that the procedural keep was on the basis that there would be chaos created by people voting to keep some and delete some. This has not happened, my assessment therefore of the keep votes is that they are weak. The stronger arguments are in favour of deletion and I have relisted to encourage editors to actually engage with discussion around GNG. It would be helpful if someone like yourself could indicate some sources that suggest GNG for a number of these players to show that it would be best to close and nominate individually. The simple fact that you don't like a bundled nomination is not a sufficient reason in itself, you need to show why it would be better to close and renom individually. Where are the sources that would show this to be a worthwhile exercise? This has been going on for weeks now so I am presuming that you and / or other editors have found some? I'm not sure why no one has actually presented any evidence to support their views. Fenix down (talk) 14:36, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- FD, your comments are wholly inappropriate, and consensus is clearly that the articles should be kept and individually relisted so that GNG can be explored in detail. GiantSnowman 14:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Put up or shut up is a common turn of phrase. Fenix down (talk) 10:31, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Procedural keep - What's wrong with being thorough? Why the rush to mass delete articles? Individual nominations, for me, are always the best case scenario as it leads to more care being taken with the articles involved. If they then all end up being voted for deletion, guess what, they'll be deleted. There is no need to rush, deletion will come if it's correct. R96Skinner (talk) 09:37, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- This is the reason why I relisted the AfD, we have had weeks of discussion around these player individually beforehand as well as now. Simply saying "keep" because there is more than one nomination is not a reasonable argument. Repeatedly over a number of weeks editors have stated that these players are not notable per GNG, I am giving those who are voting "procedural keep" one last chance to provide evidence of notability for any of these players. Fenix down (talk) 10:31, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was keep. T. Canens (talk) 13:02, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Lack of reliable source, likely fails WP:ANYBIO B dash (talk) 05:16, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep passes at least one of the WP:NMUSIC criteria with major contributions to a number one charting classical album on Billboards national classical chart and have also performed major events such as Carnegie Hall. Will look for extra sources tomorrow Atlantic306 (talk) 22:33, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Keep An excellent chorus, well-known in its region.PE65000 (talk) 11:30, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment here are some of the reliable sources coverage I found: Billboard LA Mag USA Today NBC news LA Times SMDP, there is also significant coverage in South African national newspapers so they have an international reach and deserve to be included, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 20:40, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 14:22, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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This framework does not seem to ever have been particularly notable, and it is no longer available. It is currently the top Wikipedia result for a web search of "phoenix framework", which is undesirable because "Phoenix framework" generally refers to Phoenix (web framework). HeroicDjinni (talk) 17:35, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment: I've done some edge periphery maintenance: run the IAbot do sort some dead links, added a dab hatnote The IAbot, added a shortdesc. Would deleting this article upset any major benefactors ? ... probably not. Phoenix, a name much beloved by computer project namers probably going back to he 1980s and propogated ever since, is actually a nightmare for search as there isn't exactly a desert of search results, more like looking for one tree in a big forest, but seems to be a good few articles on the Google scholar link. Reading between more from the edit summaries (not an RS) it seems possible the results of this project may have made it into compiler instrumentation sensor points ... which maybe of more than a little interest to some however that is not in the article.Djm-leighpark (talk) 23:22, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment Plain can't tell. As noted above, searching for sources is difficult because the term has been trendy since forever. Current sourcing is 3/4 in-house and 1/4 blog, which doesn't bode well. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:08, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep and move to Microsoft Phoenix (as natural disambiguation). I found 4 independent reliable book/academic sources through Google Books and Google Scholar, which I've added to the article. I obtained these sources with the query microsoft phoenix compiler. — Newslinger talk 23:39, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Safonov, Vladimir O. (2010). "Microsoft Phoenix, Phoenix-Targeted Tools, and Our Phoenix Projects". Trustworthy Compilers. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 239–276. ISBN 9780470593349. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- Tairas, Robert; Gray, Jeff (March 10, 2006). "Phoenix-Based Clone Detection Using Suffix Trees" (PDF). Proceedings of the 44th annual Southeast regional conference. Association for Computing Machinery: 679–684. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- Safonov, Vladimir; Gratchev, Mikhail; Grigoryev, Dmitry; Maslennikov, Alexander (May 29 – June 1, 2006). "Aspect.NET — aspect-oriented toolkit for Microsoft.NET based on Phoenix and Whidbey" (PDF). .NET Technologies 2006. University of West Bohemia: 19–30. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- Ueng, Sain-Zee; Lathara, Melvin; Baghsorkhi, Sara S.; Hwu, Wen-mei W. "CUDA-Lite: Reducing GPU Programming Complexity" (PDF). Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Springer: 1–15. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- Keep: Per found sources which also reference the Phoenix Acadamic Program particularly indicating relevance even outside Microsoft.Djm-leighpark (talk) 02:13, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per Newslinger's sources. No opinion on the move. MarginalCost (talk) 13:37, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was keep. -- Scott Burley (talk) 08:23, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Does not meet WP:NPROF and a WP:BEFORE search shows only local coverage, nothing to meet WP:GNG. Has been tagged for notability for 9 years with no improvement. Melcous (talk) 07:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete as non-notable. Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 10:11, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment. The article leaves much to be desired, but he does seem to hold a named chair. --Tataral (talk) 19:05, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep According to his faculty profile, he "was awarded the Mabel DeVries Tanner Endowed Professorship in 2003 and was reappointed to this position in 2006", which counts for WP:PROF#C5. (Also mentioned here and here.) XOR'easter (talk) 00:19, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep I'm not convinced about the named chair argument (only because I have not been able to find an independent source for that), but there seems to be generally broad coverage, and specifically coverage that might support a WP:ENT argument that as a teacher and artistic director, he's played a significant role in stage performances and an impact on the field, at least in the local areas he's worked in (California and then West Virginia). Keep in mind that, against the context of the whole U.S., "local area" can sometimes be equivalent to a small- to medium-sized country. I'm willing to presume notability. -- Netoholic @ 16:36, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep: meets Wikipedia:Notability (academics)#C5. --K.e.coffman (talk) 17:28, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - does not meet WP:NACTOR (no "significant roles in multiple notable films, television shows, stage performances, or other productions") - does not meet WP:NACADEMIC (no "research has had a significant impact," no "academic work has made a significant impact," or other criteria) - Epinoia (talk) 01:01, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 13:01, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Steve MacLaughlin
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Promotional article on non-notable author. He has actually written only one book, and the evidence that it's a best seller is its amazon rank, which is unreliable.
The article makes claims for him as an educator, but he's only been an adjunct in individual courses.
Essentially everything else here in the purported references is a article or posting he wrote himself, or just a citation of his work.
A single city's 40 under 40 for one year is a promotional device, not a true award. DGG ( talk ) 05:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete as PROMO for a self-promoting expert on managing non-profits. Nom pegs it.E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete as unambiguous WP:PROMO. "Saltire Press" seems to be the branding for this person's self-publishing efforts. Also note that
theone highly-focused account thatcreatededited this page is called "thesaltire". Bakazaka (talk) 19:40, 3 May 2019 (UTC)- Lost track of SPAs there. VeritasCaritate is right about which highly-focused account created this page, so I struck and updated my comment accordingly. Bakazaka (talk) 14:28, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Still learning the ropes on WP and have made a first attempt to clean up the article to a neutral point of view. There appears to be several verifiable and reliable third-party sources for this article. A review of this article's history shows it was created by user "Nordberg303" in 2013 and the extended confirmed user "Theonesean" moved it from review to creation. If notability is not temporary and this article previously went through a review process, then it is unclear what is different several years later. I am starting to clean up a lot of articles related to the nonprofit sector and this is less problematic than many others.VeritasCaritate (talk) 03:16, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- VeritasCaritate, do you have any undisclosed connection to Steve McLaughlin? Bakazaka (talk) 14:24, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Have seen him speak and familiar with his research. There are probably a dozen experts on fundraising that you are going to see at a conference or come across in articles about the nonprofit sector at some point. Some more clean up on the article is probably warranted, but I am finding that to be true across this whole domain area too.VeritasCaritate (talk) 15:12, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for your response. If you don't mind answering another question: how did you find your way to this AfD discussion shortly after creating a new account? Historically, when someone creates an account, makes ten minor edits to get autoconfirmed and starts a user page to seem like they're not here for the AfD, then jumps to the target of the AfD and the AfD itself, it raises suspicions, particularly for an article that has a history of editing by WP:SPA accounts. So I'm asking explicitly just in case anyone has that impression. Bakazaka (talk) 18:26, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- By going down the rabbit hole. Started with a list of the high level article topics and seeing where they went. Trying to make sense of how voluntary sector and charitable giving articles are organized. It is a bit overwhelming where to start trying to clean up or improve a deep set of articles. Added to that list people that were referenced or related to the topic. Again, clean up appears to be a common theme. This article was the first one that had the deletion banner, although my list has some others where there are promotional banners at the top. Not sure if there is a better way to do this, but I have just been keeping a list outside WP to try and keep track of articles that need attention. Many of these articles have little to no talk page activity. Worth noting the under representation of women as either references or articles. Would like to improve there where it is appropriate.VeritasCaritate (talk) 19:20, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for taking the time to explain. Bakazaka (talk) 19:25, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- By going down the rabbit hole. Started with a list of the high level article topics and seeing where they went. Trying to make sense of how voluntary sector and charitable giving articles are organized. It is a bit overwhelming where to start trying to clean up or improve a deep set of articles. Added to that list people that were referenced or related to the topic. Again, clean up appears to be a common theme. This article was the first one that had the deletion banner, although my list has some others where there are promotional banners at the top. Not sure if there is a better way to do this, but I have just been keeping a list outside WP to try and keep track of articles that need attention. Many of these articles have little to no talk page activity. Worth noting the under representation of women as either references or articles. Would like to improve there where it is appropriate.VeritasCaritate (talk) 19:20, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks for your response. If you don't mind answering another question: how did you find your way to this AfD discussion shortly after creating a new account? Historically, when someone creates an account, makes ten minor edits to get autoconfirmed and starts a user page to seem like they're not here for the AfD, then jumps to the target of the AfD and the AfD itself, it raises suspicions, particularly for an article that has a history of editing by WP:SPA accounts. So I'm asking explicitly just in case anyone has that impression. Bakazaka (talk) 18:26, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Veritas, I am not seeing the "verifiable and reliable third-party sources" that you mention, one of the difficulties with overstuffing pages with articles is that editors at AfD may have difficulty sorting out the valid sources. I might be persuaded is you would bring several sources that meet WP:SIGCOV. But I am not seeing anything like WP:SIGCOV.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:37, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- E.M.Gregory, ok let me try to note several sources. First, there is the third party source from Columbia University http://sps.columbia.edu/nonprofit-management/faculty/steve-maclaughlin and there is a further link to the specific course that is a required by all students in the graduate program. Recent article from The NonProfit Times from 2019 about giving in the U.S. is here: https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/financial/giving-squeezed-out-probable-1-5-gain-in-2018/. Another 2019 article from Exempt Magazine, which is another publication of The NonProfit Times on fundraising technology is here: https://www.exemptmagazine.com/technology/cloud-is-raining-data-flooding-fundraising-with-information/. Article in the print version of Advancing Philanthropy, which is the Association of Fundraising Professionals member publication is here: https://afpglobal.org/news/rethinking-capital-campaigns-data-driven-fundraising-steve-maclaughlin-blackbaud-and-ross. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has an interview from 2016 here: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Analytics-Expert-Offers-Advice/237638 and additional coverage of Giving Tuesday from 2019 is here: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/6-Things-Data-Tells-Us-About/244965. Third Sector is a publication in the UK and there was a book review here: https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/book-review-anecdotal-guide-better-use-data/digital/article/1410230. In the nonprofit sector it's The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The NonProfit Times, and Third Sector that are close as you get to Vogue or The New York Times (and the subject of this article has appeared in the NYT at least three times https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=%22Steve+MacLaughlin%22. The Association of Fundraising Professionals is the largest membership organization in the fundraising profession. If I had some more time today, then I could probably keep identifying additional coverage from print or reputable known sources -- excluding blogs and other things. I am trying to be neutral, but also have experience in this domain that helps to understand what is what. Is the kind of thing that is helpful? VeritasCaritate (talk) 17:29, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Interviews, quotes, and passing mentions are not significant coverage (WP:SIGCOV) and don't count toward notability. Do you have any sources that actually cover this subject? Bakazaka (talk) 18:00, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- thank you for bringing these sources. They reinforce my view that WP:GNG has NOT been met.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:03, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Interviews, quotes, and passing mentions are not significant coverage (WP:SIGCOV) and don't count toward notability. Do you have any sources that actually cover this subject? Bakazaka (talk) 18:00, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- E.M.Gregory, ok let me try to note several sources. First, there is the third party source from Columbia University http://sps.columbia.edu/nonprofit-management/faculty/steve-maclaughlin and there is a further link to the specific course that is a required by all students in the graduate program. Recent article from The NonProfit Times from 2019 about giving in the U.S. is here: https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/financial/giving-squeezed-out-probable-1-5-gain-in-2018/. Another 2019 article from Exempt Magazine, which is another publication of The NonProfit Times on fundraising technology is here: https://www.exemptmagazine.com/technology/cloud-is-raining-data-flooding-fundraising-with-information/. Article in the print version of Advancing Philanthropy, which is the Association of Fundraising Professionals member publication is here: https://afpglobal.org/news/rethinking-capital-campaigns-data-driven-fundraising-steve-maclaughlin-blackbaud-and-ross. The Chronicle of Philanthropy has an interview from 2016 here: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Analytics-Expert-Offers-Advice/237638 and additional coverage of Giving Tuesday from 2019 is here: https://www.philanthropy.com/article/6-Things-Data-Tells-Us-About/244965. Third Sector is a publication in the UK and there was a book review here: https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/book-review-anecdotal-guide-better-use-data/digital/article/1410230. In the nonprofit sector it's The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The NonProfit Times, and Third Sector that are close as you get to Vogue or The New York Times (and the subject of this article has appeared in the NYT at least three times https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=%22Steve+MacLaughlin%22. The Association of Fundraising Professionals is the largest membership organization in the fundraising profession. If I had some more time today, then I could probably keep identifying additional coverage from print or reputable known sources -- excluding blogs and other things. I am trying to be neutral, but also have experience in this domain that helps to understand what is what. Is the kind of thing that is helpful? VeritasCaritate (talk) 17:29, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Have seen him speak and familiar with his research. There are probably a dozen experts on fundraising that you are going to see at a conference or come across in articles about the nonprofit sector at some point. Some more clean up on the article is probably warranted, but I am finding that to be true across this whole domain area too.VeritasCaritate (talk) 15:12, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Ok. This is a learning process for sure. Would it be helpful to have Theonesean weigh in on this? As I understand it, there was a AfC back in 2013 for this article that was approved. His user page notes that he spent a lot of time on "reviewing and approving articles" prior to 2018. One would assume that questions about notability or sources are part of that initial approval process, right? Which would be different if an article is created out of thin air and did not go through an approval process.VeritasCaritate (talk) 16:55, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- VeritasCaritate, do you have any undisclosed connection to Steve McLaughlin? Bakazaka (talk) 14:24, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:NOTPROMOTION. - GretLomborg (talk) 18:42, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 05:19, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Clearly fails WP:NORG, but prod has been declined years ago. No viable merge target. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - A WP:BEFORE found 2 interview articles 1 and 2, (not independent sources) indicating the possibility of closing the company and a source 3, appear to be promotional. Fails WP:NCORP. CASSIOPEIA(talk) 06:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment The sources listed above are independent (Paste is a reliable source), but they're for a US record store, not a UK record label. The label being considered for deletion here appears to have no notable artists, but I've no prejudice against someone creating a new article at this title for the US store, if one were so inclined. Chubbles (talk) 15:38, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - no sources. Smallbones(smalltalk) 03:15, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - when the only source is the offical website them it does not meet WP:GNG or WP:ORG - not notable by any guideline - also, potential disambiguation with Criminal Record - Epinoia (talk) 21:37, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. T. Canens (talk) 13:00, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Deleted 4 years ago. Recreated two years ago by a WP:SPA (clearly the usual fly-by-night undisclosed PAID editor; whose draft on that topic was declined and deleted, but then he presumably just created this in the mainspace; ping draft reviewers(?) User:Robert McClenon, User:Randykitty, User:1989). I've asked for comments on talk two years ago, nobody replied, the article hasn't improved and IMHO still fails WP:NCORP. Coverage is limited to reprinted press-releases (about funding/etc.); a few mentions in passing (the BBC piece is the best, but it is still effectively just a few sentences, mostly WP:INTERVIEW). WP:BEFORE check for new sources reveals nothing but a few newer press releases, like about their recent expansion into Dutch territories. WP:NOTYELLOWPAGES, WP:CORPSPAM, and NCORP fail. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:48, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - Confirm the nom's assessment of the sources: press releases, softball interviews, listicles, and other trivial coverage. One primary source confirming they are registered with the Financial Conduct Authority, lol. -- Scott Burley (talk) 05:32, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - trivial coverage, promotional. Smallbones(smalltalk) 03:23, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 04:34, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Nuclear energy in Yemen
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Not notable Wikipedia:Notability SharabSalam (talk) 04:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment: There apparently was an effort to build a nuclear power plant in Yemen circa 2007. Can't imagine why it never went anywhere. Additional sources, unknown reliability: [30][31][32][33][34] -- Scott Burley (talk) 05:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Well that was just a lie by a Yemeni president (Ali Abdullah Salah) during 2006 elections. He said he is going to generate electricity from nuclear power but nothing happened after his promise it was just to get more supporters. He is from political party called Mutamar which owns one of the sources you gave and I think Saba also belongs to that party.--SharabSalam (talk) 07:54, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - SABA is the state news agency and Almotamar is run by the controlling political party. The only independent source here is Arabian Business, which is of unknown reliability and marginal depth. This specific project fails WP:GNG, let alone the broader topic. -- Scott Burley (talk) 05:23, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Merge to Energy in Yemen. Hyperbolick (talk) 15:45, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete I se no content to merge. Reywas92Talk 18:23, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect then at least. Hyperbolick (talk) 02:40, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - does not meet WP:GNG - insufficient reliable independent sources - empty article - delete - Epinoia (talk) 21:30, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was merge to Michael Head. -- Scott Burley (talk) 08:19, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Tagged as unreferenced since June 2018, the article never had any sources at all and WP:BEFORE suggests that no independent, reliable sources exist. The article does not meet the notability criteria for companies, WP:NCORP. Vexations (talk) 03:32, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete. No indication this company passes WP:NORG. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Merge to Michael Head. This is Head's label, and is how he distributes his music. At the very least, there's no reason why we'd want this to be a redlink - a courtesy redirect after the content has been merged seems clearly preferable. Chubbles (talk) 13:54, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- If sources exist, then of course the sourced content can be merged to Head's article. I have no objections to a redirect. That sound like a reasonable alternative to deletion to me. Vexations (talk) 18:19, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Redirect to Michael Head (musician) - a vanity/self-publishing project of Michael Head - not notable enough for a stand-alone article - Epinoia (talk) 21:25, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Merge and redirect per Chubbles. —烏Γ (kaw) │ 00:33, 09 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 03:03, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Dada Ji Ki Diary
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TV show that has been upcoming for nearly 3 years. Even more confusing it was originally listed as a short film on here but the creator changed it to a TV show. I can't find any info on this at all outside of mirror sites. Wgolf (talk) 02:40, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete. At best, WP:TOOSOON. Fails WP:GNG and Wikipedia:Notability (media). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete as WP:TNT given the confusion of verification let alone notability Atlantic306 (talk) 22:29, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:59, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Battaglia's
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Does not meet WP:NCORP. Lack of independent in-depth coverage in RS. Sources are primary or routine minor coverage. A WP:MILL local business. MB 02:24, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete as non notable. Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 10:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Mccapra (talk) 18:53, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom Smallbones(smalltalk) 03:10, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. Independent locally-owned grocery stores could clear the wikinotability bar if they were reliably sourced well enough to clear WP:CORPDEPTH, but they are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because they exist — but the sourcing here consists of two community hyperlocals and three primary sources that do not constitute support for notability at all, not CORPDEPTH-passing coverage in major media. Bearcat (talk) 17:29, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Fails WP:NCORP and GNG. HighKing++ 16:47, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:58, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Aline Nakashima
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The usual suspects, yet another article only referencing two directories. It’s all well and good that she appeared in SI Swimsuit two times, but no reliable sources are even out there to give notability. Seriously. Trillfendi (talk) 01:41, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Comment. What is wrong with Models.com and FashionModelDirectory.com as reliable sources? If the profiles are staff-written and the site has reasonable editorial controls, then the two sites are reliable sources. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 02:59, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Models.com can be reliable for things like their Top 50 lists that they update somewhat frequently. The problem is, with articles like this (with most articles actually), models.com is just thrown in the infobox as a reference for what modeling agencies they are signed to because the agencies themselves would be primary sources. That doesn’t really offer anything of value. But really, both websites only offer aggregations of content not always taken from a reliable source. Models.com rarely if ever properly attributes where they got images from or sometimes take directly from social media. Fashion Model Directory is called “the IMDb of fashion” for a reason. They also don’t update their website enough (a lot of models are missing years of work). So no, two directories by themselves are not reliable sources. Trillfendi (talk) 03:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - does not meet WP:NMODEL - no significant coverage or contribution, she just has a job as a model - Epinoia (talk) 20:59, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was delete. — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:57, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Missionaries to the Unborn
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Essentially a one-note defunct advocacy group that was mildly newsworthy for losing a lawsuit in state court. I searched the usual Google suspects as well as Newspapers.com and found a smattering of mostly contemporary reporting about the lawsuit, with nothing about it since the suit ended in 2001 - so it's clear the suit had no WP:LASTING effects. There was one book source published in 2008 that mentioned the group sporadically in conjunction with other similar groups ([35]), but I wouldn't call it in-depth coverage.
Any other appearances I've found have been mentions of them in quotes, on the lines of "John Smith of Missionaries to the Unborn said XYV."
I don't think it's enough to maintain an article, and it's not suitable for a merge to Anti-abortion violence (no direct violence) or United States anti-abortion movement (would be WP:UNDUE in a broad-coverage article like that). ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete per nom. John M Wolfson (talk) 04:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete as has unsufficient coverage in reliable sources. Rubbish computer (Talk: Contribs) 10:14, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete insufficient amount of content for merging. शिव साहिल/Shiv Sahil (talk) 07:05, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
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The result was no consensus. There simply isn't an agreement as to whether the article's subject meets notability threshold/s. I do, however, note that several preferences to keep were weak keeps, which leads me to believe the article is, indeed, borderline-notable. Which is why the likelihood for consensus seems so remote. I, as well, note with regret all the bad blood that the entire Jesswade88 saga has brought to the fore. Hopefully, strong adherence to assumptions of good faith and civil discourse could see the community through this relatively unscathed. I still have hope. El_C 03:53, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
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Does not pass NPROF or GNG. She's an assistant professor, her h-index is 13, and she hasn't won any major awards. From what I can tell,Tuttle was appointed as the lead for the Hobby–Eberly Telescope's VIRUS detector.
is incorrect. One source linked to that lists her as a "former co-PI" under a PI and alongside two other co-PIs. The other is her describing what she's going to talk about when she gave a seminar (as is very common in academia), but doesn't say anything about her being a lead of this project or what her role was at all. The next claim,She is leading a spectrography project for the Apache Point Observatory.
is very vague, ("a" spectrography project?) and is sourced to an interview. Her being a guest on a podcast while a graduate student is not at all notable. And the final claimTuttle contributed to American Astronomical Society workshops and supported new guidelines to build a more diverse and inclusive environment
is cited to two things that she herself wrote. Natureium (talk) 00:55, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
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- Delete - core policy Wikipedia:Verifiability#Notability states:
If no reliable independent sources can be found on a topic, Wikipedia should not have an article on it.
The article does not contain (and I could not find) any independent sources... let alone enough to satisfy PROF or any other more general notability guideline. -- Netoholic @ 01:23, 3 May 2019 (UTC)- That is not a core policy, or a policy at all. That's a section pointing to "other principles", and it refers to a guideline. Leviv ich 20:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- WP:V is in fact a policy. Are you referring to something else? Natureium (talk) 20:07, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- WP:Verifiability or WP:V is a policy, but WP:V#Verifiability and other principles is, as the name suggests, a section about the Verifiability policy and other principles. In the "Notability" section of "Verifiability and other principles" (aka, WP:V#Notability), we see a one-sentence summary of the Notability guideline, or WP:N. Thus, WP:V#Notability is a pointer to a guideline, not a policy. Leviv ich 20:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- WP:V is in fact a policy. Are you referring to something else? Natureium (talk) 20:07, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- That is not a core policy, or a policy at all. That's a section pointing to "other principles", and it refers to a guideline. Leviv ich 20:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. I can find multiple independent sources on GS, but they are not enough to satisfy WP:Prof#C1 in this highly cited field WP:Too soon. Xxanthippe (talk) 02:36, 3 May 2019 (UTC).
- By GS I assume you mean Google Scholar, and, while there are independent sources citing specific points within her co-authored work - there wouldn't be independent sources for biographical information on the person - an important distinction. -- Netoholic @ 03:02, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nomination (which is a very thorough piece of work - well done, Natureium). As much as I support having more articles about scientists here, I can't see how she comes close to satisfying any relevant notability criteria.--Gronk Oz (talk) 03:42, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. WP:TOOSOON. Doesn't pass PROF nor GNG.Icewhiz (talk) 04:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment. Did you know that women academics are twice as likely to be nominated for deletion as you would expect from the proportion of women among Wikipedia biographies? My strong impression is that, regardless of the fairness of the resulting discussions, this extra scrutiny that biographies of women face leads to a disproportionate outcome. Although this article itself looks hard to defend, and the nominator has also been active in creating biographies of women, its nomination here is a direct result of a discussion at ANI related to the creation of articles about women, and therefore its nomination here is a direct result of its subject being female. Such targeted deletion of articles on female academics produces very bad optics for Wikipedia, already known for being hostile to women. Now that we have a nomination we should address the notability of the subject honestly and without bias, but there are a lot of other less-fraught topics that the people involved could more constructively spend their efforts on in future nominations. —David Eppstein (talk) 04:02, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Not that I think that we should be working toward any particular "ideal" proportion of deletion discussions because there are a lot of factors, but maybe we could also equalize your findings by looking more closely at male academic entries and start nominating them if found to have few or no independent sources. That seems better than implying we should reduce our standards for female academics and/or just simply nominate them to AfD less often. Also, being "nominated for deletion" is not the same as "deleted", so you aren't even addressing the outcomes in that small sample size. -- Netoholic @ 04:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- So, we shall reduce our scrutiny on female biographies and/or not nominate female bios, because there are worse topics to delete? ∯WBGconverse 07:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- The thing you fail to acknowledge here is that they face higher scrutiny to begin with. That's the whole point. It's not that you should give them special lenience, it's that editor unconsciously give them less. That's the whole point of hidden biases and structural discrimination, which is just one aspect in which Wikipedia handles itself just like any other institution, Policy or not. François Robere (talk) 18:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe that is because more of them are created that would fail notability?Slatersteven (talk) 12:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- But more of them aren't created. We have 18% women bios and 82% men bios. Do you think of all the notable people in the world, 82% are men? Or 50% are men? That's how we know either our policies, or our execution, or both, is way off. Leviv ich 20:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Do you really think that 50% of all notable people are women? I suppose if you're a man you may have never noticed that notable men have outnumbered notable women for all of history. Natureium (talk) 20:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, or close to it. "Notable" does not mean "well-known". It's not about fame, it's about whether the person is worth noting, not whether they are noted. (It's notable not noted.) Show me a notable man, I'll show you a notable woman or two. We could play that game all night. For the rest of our lives, even. The difference is that history mostly recorded the notable men; that doesn't mean notable women didn't exist. And it's a whole 'nother ballgame when we're talking about BLPs, like the one at issue, where we don't have to correct history's biases, we just need to avoid perpetuating biases of our own. Leviv ich 20:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Show me a notable man, I'll show you a notable woman or two.
This seems to be only a theory on your part, what makes you think it is factual? Let's say we had an encyclopedia of inventors of "notable" inventions. Would you expect there to be as many women as men? You may feel there should be, or if everything else were equal there would be, but that does not make it a fact. This is like saying that because more African Americans are incarcerated proportional to their population that they must be being discriminated against - I believe they are being so but not because of the difference in representation alone - they may simply commit more crimes. Men may simply make more inventions, or write more impactful books, or whatever. What you have is a theory that things are actually otherwise but no evidence. —DIYeditor (talk) 06:48, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Yes, or close to it. "Notable" does not mean "well-known". It's not about fame, it's about whether the person is worth noting, not whether they are noted. (It's notable not noted.) Show me a notable man, I'll show you a notable woman or two. We could play that game all night. For the rest of our lives, even. The difference is that history mostly recorded the notable men; that doesn't mean notable women didn't exist. And it's a whole 'nother ballgame when we're talking about BLPs, like the one at issue, where we don't have to correct history's biases, we just need to avoid perpetuating biases of our own. Leviv ich 20:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Do you really think that 50% of all notable people are women? I suppose if you're a man you may have never noticed that notable men have outnumbered notable women for all of history. Natureium (talk) 20:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- But more of them aren't created. We have 18% women bios and 82% men bios. Do you think of all the notable people in the world, 82% are men? Or 50% are men? That's how we know either our policies, or our execution, or both, is way off. Leviv ich 20:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe that is because more of them are created that would fail notability?Slatersteven (talk) 12:19, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- David Eppstein, I'm not sure how that's relevant to the lack of notability for this individual article. If you'd like to help create biographies of woman that do pass notability, there's a link to a list on my userpage. Natureium (talk) 13:46, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- David Eppstein, what you say is largely true, but we all know that User:Jesswade88 would not have created this article if the subject was not female, and that for some time the majority of new bios of scientists created have been of females. Some of these are done without enough consideration of notability. So it is not too surprising if they are the most common in AFD debates. Johnbod (talk) 17:23, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Johnbod The majority of new creations on scientists are women?? Let's look at some example from User:AlexNewArtBot/MathSearchResult (as an example, as it often includes scientists in other disciplines and since there doesn't appear to be a comprehensive listing of new articles on all of the sciences in one place).
- May 2: After eliminating 2 non-scientists, we have 2 women and 2 men.
- May 1: 1 woman and 3 men.
- April 30: 1 man.
- April 29: 1 man.
- April 28: 1 woman and 5 men.
- April 27: 1 non-scientist.
- April 26: 3 non-scientists.
- April 25: 2 non-scientists.
- April 24: 1 non-scientist, 1 man.
- April 23: 3 non-scientists.
- April 22: 1 man.
- April 21: 2 non-scientists, 1 man.
- April 20: 1 woman, 1 man.
- So at least recently we have a total of 5 women and 15 men, around 25%. This is better than the 18% ratio among current Wikipedia biographies, worse than the 35% ratio of women to men among recent academic deletion discussions (hence my assertion that women are far more likely than men to be taken to deletion discussion) and far far from a majority. I suspect you have fallen prey to the standard "see any noticable representation of women at all and think that it is a majority" fallacy. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:51, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- No, but it could be that I look more at AFD lists and WIR talk than the rather unreliable/imprecise bot lists (for example Nia Imara probably appears as an artist). I'm also certainly influenced by my annual survey of whether new FRS's already have WP articles when the news is announced. For the 2nd year running, women are much more likely to already have articles than men. I'll be writing this up soon. Johnbod (talk) 18:00, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- That seems to be only mathematicians, and according to a quick google search, 15% of tenure-track mathematicians are female, so even 25% seems high. I think if you picked a different category, there would be more biographies of women being created. Natureium (talk) 17:57, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It's not "only mathematicians"; for example, Kate Hevner Mueller was a psychologist and Clara Brink Shoemaker was a crystallographer who worked on molecular biology. XOR'easter (talk) 18:03, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Can you explain how this bot works? I clicked the link and got this, so I assumed it was looking for something related to that in new articles. Natureium (talk) 18:04, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It's not "only mathematicians"; for example, Kate Hevner Mueller was a psychologist and Clara Brink Shoemaker was a crystallographer who worked on molecular biology. XOR'easter (talk) 18:03, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Johnbod Bad woman! Bad! Writing bad articles about other bad women? I never... who would've guessed? She should only write about MEN! How rude of her! And she clearly doesn't know how to write, this "Imperial College London" research associate! Who let her in anyway?! François Robere (talk) 18:22, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Now you're being very silly - especially to someone who has organized and led workshops on writing female science bios - but you have to explain the notabily requirements carefully. None of these were brought to AFD by the way. Johnbod (talk) 18:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Johnbod The majority of new creations on scientists are women?? Let's look at some example from User:AlexNewArtBot/MathSearchResult (as an example, as it often includes scientists in other disciplines and since there doesn't appear to be a comprehensive listing of new articles on all of the sciences in one place).
- Please stop marching around your little survey as a broad fact or evidence of gender bias. The portion of new scientist articles that are on women would be a better comparison than to all articles since many of those nominated were recently created. And how many of those recent AFDs were also articles created by the same user? Reywas92Talk 22:45, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment. If anything the Donna Strickland case argues that there is a different standard for achievement within the professorate based on gender. The argument, "She's an assistant professor," is not particularly compelling in light of recent experience. I don't have strong opinions on this article in particular, but the comments found here are indicative of a conflation of impartiality with "bias blindness." Applying a universal standard of achievement within the academy is not reflective of inherent gender inequalities. --ElectricBuddha (talk) 04:48, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I don't know how much we can infer from a single case, but there is actual data that Wikipedia is imposing a double standard of achievement on women. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:54, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nomination argument. FWIW, cannot overemphasize upon the need of religiously abiding by WP:INTEGRITY whilst writing about BLPs. ∯WBGconverse 07:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per the nom's thorough WP:BEFORE. ——SerialNumber54129 10:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete How much of this is sourced to her work? Not notable at this time.Slatersteven (talk) 12:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Note [[36]], a call to aRMS.Slatersteven (talk) 12:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Administrator note Off-topic and personalized discussion redacted. Everyone reminded to focus on the topic at hand, and uphold the expected standards of civility. Abecedare (talk) 15:42, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete WP:TOOSOON. Sgerbic (talk) 13:42, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete fails our notability guidelines, as established repeatedly above. It's unfortunate that the subject of this article has fallen back on claims of "misogyny and racism." I can almost understand the misogyny claim, although it's still an insensitive misuse of the term by an individual who never should have had an article and only had one created because she is a woman. But racism... really? This person is an academic? It is a good thing that we have so many editors fighting against systemic bias by creating more articles about women, and I hope that this effort will eliminate the gender gap. But our notability guidelines still apply and thus it really isn't helpful to see special pleading from David Eppstein when he knows that this article is
hard to defend
. And I'm glad to see Fae getting shouted down above for their gross, offensive comment. It creates a chilling effect when users have to fear that participation in these discussions may cause them to be accused of sexism (or even complicity in the sexism of others). Seriously, it would be great to have more articles on women. Just make sure that they are notable before you create the article. Lepricavark (talk) 15:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Comment I think it's disingenuous of Wikipedia to pretend that every page here meets the standards that would have been required by a print encyclopedia. There are pages and pages of special interests on music, sports, etc. etc. that I think are totally fine, but clearly would never pass a criterion of real "notability". But when it comes to science and scientists, the fact that a piece of science has not yet come to the attention of journalists is used to argue against notability, resulting in ridiculous situations like (female) Nobel Prize-winners not having a Wikipedia page. Journalists should not be the arbiter of whether science is notable. I would like to see a Science Wikipedia discussion about a criterion that would work better. BTW please can this not be the h-index? We all know this to be a flawed measure. I am not logging in to post this comment because I fear that logging in would expose my own created pages to undue scrutiny by people who don't like this argument. I feel bad about this but that's the way it is. 134.174.140.104 (talk) 15:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It seems like you don't understand notability then. Journalists don't have anything to do with this. The standards that apply here are:
- The person's research has had a significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources.
- The person has received a highly prestigious academic award or honor at a national or international level.
- The person is or has been an elected member of a highly selective and prestigious scholarly society or association (e.g., a National Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society) or a fellow of a major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor (e.g., Fellow of the IEEE).
- The person's academic work has made a significant impact in the area of higher education, affecting a substantial number of academic institutions.
- The person holds or has held a named chair appointment or distinguished professor appointment at a major institution of higher education and research, or an equivalent position in countries where named chairs are uncommon.
- The person has held a highest-level elected or appointed administrative post at a major academic institution or major academic society.
- The person has had a substantial impact outside academia in their academic capacity.
- The person is or has been the head or chief editor of a major, well-established academic journal in their subject area.
- Natureium (talk) 16:02, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- What journalists do most definitely affects how we evaluate those criteria, particularly C7 but also C1 and C4. XOR'easter (talk) 16:11, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Of course, it is often the easiest way to establish notability, but it is not the only way.Slatersteven (talk) 16:13, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I suppose that's true. Essentially, a journalist could make someone more notable, but not less notable. If they fulfill those criteria, they're notable even if journalists ignore them entirely. It would make for a pretty short article though. Natureium (talk) 16:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Which is a problem, but not one for here.Slatersteven (talk) 16:28, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Disingenuous again. By far the most common factoid used to establish notability is an article in some kind of publication. But science articles are not considered "reliable". For example, this paper "reviews the main progress in the last decade" and cites one of Tuttle's papers. Why is that not "significant impact in their scholarly discipline'? 134.174.140.104 (talk) 17:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- We can use books, as to the paper, I do not have access to it so cannot say, but only citing one paper, no that would not be a significant impact. Hell there are plenty of notable scientists, its not as if we have no articles on any.Slatersteven (talk) 18:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Disingenuous again. By far the most common factoid used to establish notability is an article in some kind of publication. But science articles are not considered "reliable". For example, this paper "reviews the main progress in the last decade" and cites one of Tuttle's papers. Why is that not "significant impact in their scholarly discipline'? 134.174.140.104 (talk) 17:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Which is a problem, but not one for here.Slatersteven (talk) 16:28, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- What journalists do most definitely affects how we evaluate those criteria, particularly C7 but also C1 and C4. XOR'easter (talk) 16:11, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
This is not the place to discuss my actions, hence why I have not explained my cunning and holmesian way of finding this, nor will I participate other then this curtsy message. However nor will it stop me from posting here, or voting in any other AFD's.Slatersteven (talk) 15:37, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep I was originally inclining to saying this article was too soon, but finding her recognition by the NAS began to tip the balance for me. The sum total of her outreach work and the press recognition for her involvement in science activism persuaded me that she passes WP:PROF#C7. At worst, thanks to the improvements since the AfD began, this is a "draftify" situation — even if it is "too soon", the current content is good enough to save somewhere out of the way and build upon. XOR'easter (talk) 16:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Oh, and I found a heap of sources about her and the Lilith Fund, of which I picked three. XOR'easter (talk) 17:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom and the other delete !votes above. aboideautalk 17:56, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep It's marginal, but not ridiculous. She has notable achievements, has won national awards, has been quoted in the national press. The article is very well-written and well-documented. When one takes a look at the
hundredsthousands of pages here for people who have done less, and have less to show for it, this page and her achievements shine by comparison. ubiquity (talk) 18:05, 3 May 2019 (UTC) - Keep. She's been mentioned as an expert in half a dozen outlets, does significant scientific and outreach work, and is the author or co-author of 70 papers and letters.[37] If any of you still feel a strong urge to delete something, there are tens of thousands of stubs that await your attention. François Robere (talk) 18:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom and deleters, plus the last two keepers, who try and fail to make a case for notability. Johnbod (talk) 18:23, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete - Fails WP:PROF. For the users arguing that the article is "very well-written" see WP:MASK. -- Millionsandbillions (talk) 19:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete. An assistant professor who isn't anywhere near passing WP:PROF, insufficient evidence of passing GNG too. Her campaign on Twitter against this AfD certainly doesn't help. --Tataral (talk) 19:11, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Editorial Comment I think such articles are generally fine. It's a well-written article based on reliable sources. But our inclusion guidelines don't allow for such articles. I understand why (coverage as a bright line for notability etc. etc.) but I'm not thrilled with the outcome in this case. Hobit (talk) 19:50, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- While it may be an interesting article to read, most of the sources (at least when I went through them last night) are not what we would consider reliable sources. (For example, wordpress and medium, and sources she wrote herself, are not reliable sources for blps) Natureium (talk) 20:05, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
References
- Keep Come on, she has an h-index of 13 (that is, 13 publications that have been quoted at least 13 times) in physics, where people don't publish a paper a week like the biomedical people seem to do. Ubiquity has said it nicely - I get the feeling the only real reason for deletion is that she is female. Wikipedia is not really known for representing non-male scholars very well... --WiseWoman (talk) 20:21, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Her most widely cited works (of which she is one of numerous co-authors and not the first author) are cited 26, 23 and 21 times, which isn't high for a field like physics. H-index alone isn't necessarily a very good indicator of notability. --Tataral (talk) 21:22, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- The median number of citations for physics papers is somewhere near 10: https://physics.bu.edu/~redner/pubs/pdf/PT.pdf . Astronomy papers are not cited much more often: https://astrobites.org/2017/10/27/success-in-astronomy-some-surprising-strategies/ . That is comparable to many other fields. e.g psychology - http://geekpsychologist.com/how-many-citations-does-a-typical-research-paper-in-psychology-receive/ . And you seem to be simultaneously saying "Sarah Tuttle's papers have not been cited that much"; which is, again, not true; and "citation metrics alone isn't necessarily an indicator of notability". Those arguments contradict one another. Michaelbusch alternate (talk) 22:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Why are those arguments contradictory? I see no reason why they couldn't coexist. Tataral is saying that the citation argument is not a great one to begin with and doesn't help Tuttle anyway. Not contradictory at all. Lepricavark (talk) 22:26, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I didn't say that; I referred specifically to h-index. --Tataral (talk) 22:30, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Right. And that's not contradictory. I get really tired of the strawman arguments from editors who are convinced that their cause is just and that they therefore don't have to be fair to editors who disagree with them. Lepricavark (talk) 22:37, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I didn't say that; I referred specifically to h-index. --Tataral (talk) 22:30, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that covers notable people. Most journal papers aren't highly cited and aren't particularly significant. A median number of citations, or slightly more, doesn't confer notability. Noone said "citation metrics alone isn't necessarily an indicator of notability". I specifically referred to h-index, which is just one particular (somewhat arbitrary and as most agree, flawed) method of citation metrics. Her total number of citations, for papers that she co-authored with dozens of other people, is around 400 or something like that. That's ok for someone in an entry-level academic job in a science discipline. It's not enough to earn her a place in an encyclopedia, based on citations. --Tataral (talk) 22:30, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I understand the criteria for notability. I agree that citation metrics, like the h-index, are not by themselves sufficient for notability. I suggest only that it does not make much sense to bring up the citation count of her papers at all, if you say that they are not relevant. Instead of saying, for example, "notability should not be assessed on the basis of h-index". Michaelbusch alternate (talk) 22:48, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Tataral did not bring up the citation count. Tataral was replying to someone else who brought up the citation count. This can be seen very easily by reading the post to which Tataral was replying. Also, you still are not quoting Tataral correctly. Lepricavark (talk) 23:01, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- The claim that I have said citation counts "are not relevant" is patently false. I've said no such thing. The only thing I said about citation metrics was that "H-index alone isn't necessarily a very good indicator of notability". Notice the "h-index", "alone", "necessarily" and "a very good" parts of the sentence. Citation counts are clearly relevant in a discussion of a scientist's notability. H-index is not the same as citation counts. I also didn't say we should ignore h-index completely, only that having an h-index of 13 isn't in itself proof of notability. --Tataral (talk) 23:32, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I understand the criteria for notability. I agree that citation metrics, like the h-index, are not by themselves sufficient for notability. I suggest only that it does not make much sense to bring up the citation count of her papers at all, if you say that they are not relevant. Instead of saying, for example, "notability should not be assessed on the basis of h-index". Michaelbusch alternate (talk) 22:48, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Why are those arguments contradictory? I see no reason why they couldn't coexist. Tataral is saying that the citation argument is not a great one to begin with and doesn't help Tuttle anyway. Not contradictory at all. Lepricavark (talk) 22:26, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- The median number of citations for physics papers is somewhere near 10: https://physics.bu.edu/~redner/pubs/pdf/PT.pdf . Astronomy papers are not cited much more often: https://astrobites.org/2017/10/27/success-in-astronomy-some-surprising-strategies/ . That is comparable to many other fields. e.g psychology - http://geekpsychologist.com/how-many-citations-does-a-typical-research-paper-in-psychology-receive/ . And you seem to be simultaneously saying "Sarah Tuttle's papers have not been cited that much"; which is, again, not true; and "citation metrics alone isn't necessarily an indicator of notability". Those arguments contradict one another. Michaelbusch alternate (talk) 22:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Please take a look at the list of articles created by Natureium, who initiated this AfD and who I believe is a woman. Your comments about her motives are a personal attack that could not be more inaccurate. Please don't accuse people of misogyny without a very good reason. It is very difficult to have these conversations when editors carelessly cast aspersions. And this type of behavior creates a chilling effect on good faith contributors who don't want to run the risk of being accused of misogyny by someone who does not know anything about them but has a battleground mentality. Lepricavark (talk) 21:51, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Her most widely cited works (of which she is one of numerous co-authors and not the first author) are cited 26, 23 and 21 times, which isn't high for a field like physics. H-index alone isn't necessarily a very good indicator of notability. --Tataral (talk) 21:22, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep disclaimer, I made this page (which, incidentally, is why it is being nominated for deletion). Passes WP:GNG. Additionally, Tuttle created the first screen-printed PLED, which is notable in its own right.
Further, I don't think it is fair that someone who makes claims like "Do you really think that 50% of all notable people are women? I suppose if you're a man you may have never noticed that notable men have outnumbered notable women for all of history. Natureium 20:10, 3 May 2019 (UTC)" should be able to call for women's biographies to be deleted. The decision of who is notable enough for Wikipedia should not be made by people who are biased. Jesswade88 (talk) 21:27, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- I am removing the quotation as I have apparently misunderstood, I apologise Natureium. I am still voting keep as I think that Tuttle is notable - very few scientists maintain an academic and public engagement record like this - and even fewer succeeded in both solid-state and astrophysics. Jesswade88 (talk) 23:14, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It is being nominated for deletion because the nominator thinks it does not comply with our notability requirements. That you created it is irrelevant to the nomination. - Sitush (talk) 21:30, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Oh, it's relevant. Let's not play pretend. Leviv ich 21:33, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- ... I don't think you understood what I said there, but regardless, none of what you said is a reason that the article would be within notability guidelines. Natureium (talk) 21:40, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- The persona of the creator is not an argument to keep or to delete, unless (sometimes) the creator is a sockpuppet. I can think of an isolated exception to this, 10 or so years ago, when an admin (PMDrive1061) nuked all articles created by one highly disruptive contributor following a discussion at ANI but that wasn't through the AfD process. An appeal to sentiment at AfD carries no argumentative weight at the point of closure, so there is no point in mentioning it. - Sitush (talk) 21:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Not an argument to keep or to delete, I agree, but that doesn't mean it's not relevant. Wade's articles have come under extraordinary scrutiny lately. It's not a secret. Leviv ich 21:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It is routine and legitimate for an editor, seeing the creation of a series of pages on non-notable subjects by an editor, to look through the editors previous page creations and nominate those that fail WP:GNG for deletion. this is how Wikipedia works.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:07, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Sure, it happens often and there's nothing illegitimate about it (I do it myself), but that doesn't mean we should pretend it's not happening or that it's not relevant. For example, it would be insulting to an editor for me to pretend I wasn't putting their edits under the microscope, when I was (science pun intended). Leviv ich 22:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Not an argument to keep or to delete, I agree, but that doesn't mean it's not relevant. Wade's articles have come under extraordinary scrutiny lately. It's not a secret. Leviv ich 21:52, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- The persona of the creator is not an argument to keep or to delete, unless (sometimes) the creator is a sockpuppet. I can think of an isolated exception to this, 10 or so years ago, when an admin (PMDrive1061) nuked all articles created by one highly disruptive contributor following a discussion at ANI but that wasn't through the AfD process. An appeal to sentiment at AfD carries no argumentative weight at the point of closure, so there is no point in mentioning it. - Sitush (talk) 21:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- It is being nominated for deletion because the nominator thinks it does not comply with our notability requirements. That you created it is irrelevant to the nomination. - Sitush (talk) 21:30, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per XOR'easter and WiseWoman. Sometimes, I'm not sure what my colleagues want out of articles. This discussion encapsulates much of what frustrates me about deletion discussions: editors !voting delete arguing two sides of the same coin, and both sides forgetting the underlying purpose of Wikipedia. On the one hand, the argument that this is a perfectly well written, well sourced, verified, factual article about somebody interesting is met with pointers to essays like WP:MASK and the suggestion that the argument is essentially WP:ILIKEIT. However, our purpose here is to write an encyclopedia: a collection of interesting, verified knowledge. So it matters that the article meets that purpose. On the other hand, the nomination and much of the analysis isn't a WP:BEFORE search, but rather an analysis of the current sources and claims in the article. So we are judging it by how it's written? Or not? In determining notability, we should be looking at the state of the sourcing, not the state of the article. So, of course it won't meet WP:GNG. Few astrophysicists will meet GNG unless their names are Hawkings or Tyson. That's the whole reason we have WP:NPROF, right? The subject meets NPROF 1 and 7. Why is an h-index of 13 too low? That's 13 works cited 13 times each. That's a lot more impact than professional wrestlers, models, and many other BLP subjects. I'm not aware of any rule or precedent that h-index 13 (or having a few papers cited 25 times each) is too low for NPROF 1 (maybe I'm wrong about that). Another sign of NPROF 1 and 7 impact are the sources. In 2015, Metro UK published her twitter rant. [38] Medium published her "Statement of Solidarity". [39] She wrote a piece in Medium in 2016 [40] that was referred to in a Forbes article ("...what Sarah Tuttle reports on Medium..."). In 2017, she co-wrote another piece that was posted on
Medium'sThe Establishment [41], which was referred to by the Washington Post. [42] Same year, she was quoted in the Seattle Times ("Experts answer your burning questions..."). [43] In 2018, she was quoted multiple times in Gizmodo. [44] [45] and Inhabitat [46] I know there's more out there, but I stopped looking. Lots of Google Scholar and Google News search results (for the astrophysicist, not just the name) establishing her impact within and outside of academia. And it's a well written article. So keep. Leviv ich 21:33, 3 May 2019 (UTC)- Levivichich, a useful thing to know when discussing notability is the difference between an article in Forbes, actual articles are assigned by editors , written by professional, paid journalists, and edited before publication, and columns. Forbes has an enormous stable of volunteer columnists who write and post at will - like the columnists at HuffPost. These are not WP:RS and not used to establish notability. Also, being quoted by a journalist as an expert is not WP:SIGCOV.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- WP:SIGCOV is a WP:GNG concept, and as I said, it's not a GNG issue, it's an WP:NPROF 7 issue. The smaller mentions, and the quotes, show an impact outside academia. (And just because it's a blog doesn't mean it's not an RS. I'm good with Forbes, Medium, Washington Post and Seattle Times as showing impact outside academia in this instance.) Leviv ich 22:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- The Forbes item is by Ethan Siegel, a scientist and science writer who is wiki-notable in his own right, and thus it meets WP:NEWSBLOG. XOR'easter (talk) 23:44, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- WP:SIGCOV is a WP:GNG concept, and as I said, it's not a GNG issue, it's an WP:NPROF 7 issue. The smaller mentions, and the quotes, show an impact outside academia. (And just because it's a blog doesn't mean it's not an RS. I'm good with Forbes, Medium, Washington Post and Seattle Times as showing impact outside academia in this instance.) Leviv ich 22:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Levivichich, a useful thing to know when discussing notability is the difference between an article in Forbes, actual articles are assigned by editors , written by professional, paid journalists, and edited before publication, and columns. Forbes has an enormous stable of volunteer columnists who write and post at will - like the columnists at HuffPost. These are not WP:RS and not used to establish notability. Also, being quoted by a journalist as an expert is not WP:SIGCOV.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:17, 3 May 2019 (UTC)E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Small detail: I think The Establishment was an online magazine whose archives are now hosted on Medium, not a thing run by Medium itself. XOR'easter (talk) 22:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Fixed, thanks! Leviv ich 22:25, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Fails WP:PROFand diligent searching has failed to produce sources that meet WP:GNG Possibly a case of WP:TOOSOON for this physicist at the assistant professor stage of her career . E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:51, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Weak keep. Recent improvements to the article make a plausible case for WP:PROF#C7 "substantial impact outside academia"..."may be satisfied, for example, if the person is frequently quoted in conventional media". It's not relevant for this that she's relatively junior, or not as heavily cited as one would expect for a more senior academic. And although the Kavli Fellow is not the kind of fellowship that passes WP:PROF by itself, it is also indicative of a certain level of prominence. But my keep is still only weak because the sourcing is weak. Most of the sources are by her, quote her, name-drop her with little detail, or are primary. For a non-weak keep of #C7 I'd prefer to see more independent sourcing of her and her role in science communication. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:15, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per XOR'easter, WiseWoman, Levivich. Sarah Tuttle's work meets WP:NPROF Criteria 1 and 7; and the current version of the article reflects that with links to five reliable independent sources that discuss both her engineering & astronomy research and her activism. Disclosure: I know Sarah professionally. When I say her work has had a significant impact on astronomy, I speak from my own knowledge (that does not count as an independent source) -Michaelbusch using alternate account Michaelbusch alternate (talk) 22:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC).
- And, as a note regarding much of the discussion on this page: The extent of gender bias on Wikipedia is extremely well-documented and not subject to dispute. That includes gender bias in articles being suggested for deletion, as noted above. As one way to address that bias, editors should default to keep for articles about people who are not men. Michaelbusch alternate (talk) 22:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- We're all well aware of the gender gap and the vast majority of us would love for it to be reduced. But creating, and fighting aggressively to save, articles about non-notable individuals is an extremely poor way to fight the gender gap. And when such articles are brought to AfD, it is really frustrating to see the efforts that are made to derail the nomination. Often, these efforts consist of unwarranted attacks on the motives of the nom and the delete !voters. We're volunteers who are acting in good faith. Don't treat us like that. Lepricavark (talk) 22:58, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- And, as a note regarding much of the discussion on this page: The extent of gender bias on Wikipedia is extremely well-documented and not subject to dispute. That includes gender bias in articles being suggested for deletion, as noted above. As one way to address that bias, editors should default to keep for articles about people who are not men. Michaelbusch alternate (talk) 22:16, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hear, hear. It would also be useful editors participating in these discussions would learn basic stuff, like what constitutes a WP:RS.
- Seconding Lepricavark. I've not voted on this particular AFD for a reason - I don't know the first thing about science (I've never worked so hard in my life as for that C in geology freshman year). But I find the sort of attitude expressed in this comment troubling. Yes, the gender gap exists...and yes, we need to do everything we can to reduce/eliminate it. But an article must be able to stand on its own merits, whatever the subject. If it cannot do so, it should be deleted...whatever the subject. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 00:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Here's what really frustrates me. Contrary to the assertions made by several editors in this thread (and Sarah Tuttle herself on Twitter), there is no evidence of anyone !voting delete here simply because the subject is a woman. On the contrary, several editors have very plainly !voted keep because the subject is a woman. Furthermore, there is an editor (Netoholic) currently hauled before the kangaroo court of ANI for over-zealousness in pursuing the deletion of articles that happened to be about women. If the articles were not about women, there is almost zero chance that Netoholic would be facing the kind of sanctions that he is facing. Yes, there is a problem of gender disparity on Wikipedia, but some of the editors fighting that problem have also resorted to fighting good faith editors who do not need to be fought. Unwarranted complaints of "institutional misogyny" have a chilling effect upon good-faith contributors who do not want such rhetoric directed at them. Part of me would like to get involved in the task of improving articles about women. I'm not a great article writer, but I would be glad to offer my WikiGnoming skills. But I'm not sure it's worth it. Lepricavark (talk) 01:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- You have no idea how much Michaelbusch's statement sets me off. The article stands on its own merit or not. That is all I'm considering. I have had conversations with male Wikipedia editors who will not get involved in AfD if the target is female, because they are worried about repercussions and optics. Sgerbic (talk) 04:47, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Here's what really frustrates me. Contrary to the assertions made by several editors in this thread (and Sarah Tuttle herself on Twitter), there is no evidence of anyone !voting delete here simply because the subject is a woman. On the contrary, several editors have very plainly !voted keep because the subject is a woman. Furthermore, there is an editor (Netoholic) currently hauled before the kangaroo court of ANI for over-zealousness in pursuing the deletion of articles that happened to be about women. If the articles were not about women, there is almost zero chance that Netoholic would be facing the kind of sanctions that he is facing. Yes, there is a problem of gender disparity on Wikipedia, but some of the editors fighting that problem have also resorted to fighting good faith editors who do not need to be fought. Unwarranted complaints of "institutional misogyny" have a chilling effect upon good-faith contributors who do not want such rhetoric directed at them. Part of me would like to get involved in the task of improving articles about women. I'm not a great article writer, but I would be glad to offer my WikiGnoming skills. But I'm not sure it's worth it. Lepricavark (talk) 01:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Seconding Lepricavark. I've not voted on this particular AFD for a reason - I don't know the first thing about science (I've never worked so hard in my life as for that C in geology freshman year). But I find the sort of attitude expressed in this comment troubling. Yes, the gender gap exists...and yes, we need to do everything we can to reduce/eliminate it. But an article must be able to stand on its own merits, whatever the subject. If it cannot do so, it should be deleted...whatever the subject. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 00:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Hear, hear. It would also be useful editors participating in these discussions would learn basic stuff, like what constitutes a WP:RS.
- Delete. That wordpress "article" is pure puff. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 22:18, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Would you mind clarifying this, please? The only instances of the string "wordpress" in the article are a link to her CV and a page that is only used to cite her place of birth. Neither of these are what the arguments for WP:PROF#C1 and WP:PROF#C7 made by the "keep" !voters are based upon. XOR'easter (talk) 23:39, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep along the same lines as David Eppstein. The combination of research work, together with the Kavli fellowship which indicates notability within her age group, together with Tuttle's outreach work (which should include social media these days – the TrueSciPhi list here gives some indication) tips the scale for me. I would have preferred to be able to rely on the simpler NPROF criteria such as prizes or fellowships, but without those, and taking into account the combination of C1 and C7, my best estimate is Keep. Markus Pössel (talk) 23:34, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep, per WP:IAR, if anything. The encyclopedia would not be substantially improved by deleting this article. In any case, removing an article about a woman scientist seems hardly a priority while there are 72 entries in Category:Japanese female adult models, 186 in Category:American female adult models, or 89 in Category:Penthouse Pets, with much worse sourcing than this. In another example, there are 17 entries in Category:Penthouse Pets navigational boxes. You get the point. Checking these BLPs out and nominating some for deletion would be more productive than spending community time removing articles on academics, even jr ones. -- K.e.coffman (talk) 00:20, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- We do not keep a page for these reasons. The page we are discussing currently for Sarah Tuttle is all we are considering. Sgerbic (talk) 04:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep I added a new citation to one of her articles, providing further evidence of her meeting WP:PROF#C7 standards for notability. ~Eliz81(C) 00:22, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep along the same lines as David Eppstein. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:18, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per Markus Pössel and Levivich. Additionally, it's a waste of time and effort to try to appease editors who are worried about being accused of misogyny. Closing the gender gap isn't about your feelings, so please stop derailing the conversation around these efforts. --nonmodernist (talk) 02:38, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Is it really a waste of time and effort to avoid attacking editors simply because they !voted to delete an article that happens to be about a woman? It seems to me that it would take absolutely no effort to not make personal attacks. This is not about feelings. This is about basic decency. Lepricavark (talk) 01:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- While a few personal attacks have been lobbed by a minority of editors, the majority of discussion around closing WP's gender gap has been about Systemic bias. Those derailing the conversation by publicly hand-wringing that they can't get involved in anything to do with women for fear of being attacked are enacting a derailing tactic (in anti-racist work, the corresponding tactic is called white women's tears, but I'm not sure anti-misogyny work has coined an equivalent term). Yes, I agree that we can and should discuss here without personal attacks; we can also do it without editors performatively claiming that the Big Bad Feminists are hurting their feelings. --nonmodernist (talk) 12:02, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- I would argue that the conversation is derailed by the editors who make the baseless accusations of sexism and misogyny, not the editors who complain about the baseless accusations of sexism and misogyny. You try to carry on a normal, productive conversation with someone who replies with strawmen and personal attacks and then tell me who is at fault. Lepricavark (talk) 16:53, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- While a few personal attacks have been lobbed by a minority of editors, the majority of discussion around closing WP's gender gap has been about Systemic bias. Those derailing the conversation by publicly hand-wringing that they can't get involved in anything to do with women for fear of being attacked are enacting a derailing tactic (in anti-racist work, the corresponding tactic is called white women's tears, but I'm not sure anti-misogyny work has coined an equivalent term). Yes, I agree that we can and should discuss here without personal attacks; we can also do it without editors performatively claiming that the Big Bad Feminists are hurting their feelings. --nonmodernist (talk) 12:02, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. When the National Academy of Sciences says you're notable, then you're notable. There are plenty of independent sources in the article, besides, so deleting this article is ludicrous. jps (talk) 06:06, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep May as well openly vote, considering I spent yesterday at ANI defending myself against claims by the Usual Suspects that I called someone a sexist on this page without, you know, ever using that word; along with having my personal pronoun ridiculed, because people who do that will get a slap on the back for being so bold for taking personal pot shots at the "unhinged" social justice warrior. The conduct on and around this AfD shows that right now Wikipedia is as bad a hostile s**thole of a non-collegiate environment it has ever been. Newbies have no chance and should be warned that they are likely to be called a meatpuppet, and should only be open about who they are if they expect to have their social media accounts investigated by the self appointed Wikipedia keystone cops. My comments about what is now a huge notice at the top of this AfD were deleted from this page, because that's now normal. The notice implies that the subject of this BLP is asking others to vote here. The allegation is not correct, not based on the evidence of the BLP subject's actions, not fair; it is a hostile way to treat the subject. --Fæ (talk) 06:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Do you actually have a rationale, rather than another rant? - Sitush (talk) 07:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Enough with the PA's and assumption of bad faith the ANI said " We do expect more of all our editors than to engage in personal squabbles.". Stop misrepresenting users actions NOW.Slatersteven (talk) 08:13, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep 17 sources added since deletion nomination, now easily meets WP:NPROF criteria 7, "the person is frequently quoted in conventional media as an academic expert in a particular area." EllenCT (talk) 08:23, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep along the same lines as David Eppstein Duncan.Hull (talk) 08:33, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
MedCircus (talk) 08:51, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Any problems still remaining can and should be solved, rather than have the article deleted. I note the recent edits and the improvement thereof. I am surprised that the subject's Twitter stream is part of this discussion because that has nothing to do with notability. It seems to indicate a personal dislike, which should not enter into this decision.
- The reason is now covered by the template at the top of this page. It's just that one person won't let it go. We should probably add the Womeninred twitter feed to that template - the sudden influx of !voters here is somewhat surprising. OTOH, perhaps no different from a delsort notice provided they're not SPAs etc. I would note that whilst David Eppstein said weak keep, those referring to him are saying an unqualified keep, which seems a tad inconsistent but hey-ho. - Sitush (talk) 09:29, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe you should publish your evidence in a proposed a ban against WiR participants contributing to AfDs on women BLPs, rather than just using this page to imply that the project is canvassing for votes? I am sure lots of people would help review the evidence rather than passively read theories. --Fæ (talk) 09:37, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- No one wants such a ban. That is a strawman and you know it. Lepricavark (talk) 01:02, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Several requests for evidence to support the serious claims of canvassing were made and the issue discussed at length here. Zero verifiable, factual evidence of canvassing this AfD was produced by anyone. Those allegations published without evidence fail WP:ASPERSIONS and the allegations should always be treated seriously, not liberally used or repeated in AfDs and potentially bias those discussions or in the long term unfairly damage the reputation of WiR contributors. --Fæ (talk) 08:58, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Oh, those are the aspersions on this page that you're worried about? Natureium (talk) 12:23, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Several requests for evidence to support the serious claims of canvassing were made and the issue discussed at length here. Zero verifiable, factual evidence of canvassing this AfD was produced by anyone. Those allegations published without evidence fail WP:ASPERSIONS and the allegations should always be treated seriously, not liberally used or repeated in AfDs and potentially bias those discussions or in the long term unfairly damage the reputation of WiR contributors. --Fæ (talk) 08:58, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- No one wants such a ban. That is a strawman and you know it. Lepricavark (talk) 01:02, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe you should publish your evidence in a proposed a ban against WiR participants contributing to AfDs on women BLPs, rather than just using this page to imply that the project is canvassing for votes? I am sure lots of people would help review the evidence rather than passively read theories. --Fæ (talk) 09:37, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete Fails GNG and PROF. If this level of notability is the standard, the gender gap of scientist biographies will explode. ConstantPlancks (talk) 09:26, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep. This isn't some random, she's head of a lab[47] and has received media attention. For those worried about covering someone who is "just" an assistant professor, we've got at least 350 others![48]. The media regards her as an expert[49][50][51] and she got attention for her response to Tim Hunt[52][53] and for political organising.[54] Makers blog listed her among "5 Groundbreaking Female Scientists You Need to Know".[55] I think this adds up to Tuttle being notable. I note the article for her UW colleague Mario Jurić is not receiving similar scrutiny - stop hounding Jess Wade. Fences&Windows 11:10, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- 350 is arguably not a huge number. Note that, just on the first page of those results, there are several who are notable as other things - film producer, politician, musician etc. Andrew Lane (film producer) and Bryan Carrott will do as examples. Johnbod (talk) 11:31, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Meets NPROF-C7 and GNG, per any reasonable scan of the refs on the article. --Tagishsimon (talk) 11:56, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep The additions to the article since this nomination for deletion demonstrate that NPROF-C7 is met and therefore the person meets an accepted criteria for notability of academics. The rules say if an academic meets any one of the criteria they count as notable. So this person is notable by that rule. Reflecting on the comment on the page on notability for academics ""Average Professor Test": When judged against the average impact of a researcher in a given field, does this researcher stand out as clearly more notable or more accomplished than others in the field?", this person meets those criteria because of (1) such an early patent (only a year out of BSc); (2) leadership of a lab and major instrumentation projects which are significant within her field of academia (for this we need to find some independent sources, but that's a call for more sources, not deletion, and is irrelevant anyway because NPROF-C7 is met); (3) profile and activism outside of academia (for verification see references in the article) which meet NPROF-C7. KarenLMasters (talk) 13:58, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Regretful Delete Some of the "sources" are with regard to claims unrelated entirely to her notability as an academic (which appears to be the focus here). And one is entirely self-written which should have been excluded from the start. One source describes her as "Sarah Tuttle is a noisy white Jew and a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle." In short, the "added sources" actually muddy any claims for notability. I do this as one who has !voted "Keep" fairly often on AfDs, so this is a carefully considered position here. Collect (talk) 14:21, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- How does having a piece published, or being described as "a noisy white Jew and a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle" muddy claims for notability? And which sources are unrelated entirely to her notability as an academic (doesn't every source cited in this discussion so far state that she is an astrophysicist)? Leviv ich 16:36, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- did you read who wrote the NAS piece in the first person? And some of the other cites? They are not of first-class quality at all, and cites which are unrelated to the official notability of a person do not add strength to that person's notability. I avoid most Delete !votes by the way. This one was one where I cold not avoid it with a straight face. And I find many of the Keep !votes seem more focused on "outside issues" and not this single BLP and the general notability requirements. And, yes, there are a slew of much weaker articles, but that is not really a reason to be given a lot of weight by the closer. Collect (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- The cites in the article are poor quality = reason to delete? I'm confused by that argument. Who cares how many bad cites are in the article? That speaks to the article, not to whether the subject of the article is notable. What about the cites put forward in this discussion (not in the article), like the ones Fences&Windows posted above, or the ones I posted above, tending to show NPROF (not GNG) is met? Leviv ich 17:52, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- The cites are, in some cases, ludicrously poor. Articles which have to resort to such poor cites, including SPS paragraphs treated as though they were vetted by the NAS, do not impress me. Clearly you do not seek genuine strong cites? Collect (talk) 19:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- No, I think we should focus on the state of available sourcing, not on the state of the article. So even if an article theoretically has terrible sourcing (I'm not saying this one does), it could still be a !keep if sources are available that support notability. In this case, I'm suggesting that instead of looking at the sources in the article, which do not impress you, you look at the sources raised in this discussion that I and others are saying establish notability under (take your pick) NPROF 1, 7, or GNG. Because I think you may have a different opinion on the notability of the subject if you evaluated the subject and not the article. Leviv ich 00:17, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- The cites are, in some cases, ludicrously poor. Articles which have to resort to such poor cites, including SPS paragraphs treated as though they were vetted by the NAS, do not impress me. Clearly you do not seek genuine strong cites? Collect (talk) 19:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- The cites in the article are poor quality = reason to delete? I'm confused by that argument. Who cares how many bad cites are in the article? That speaks to the article, not to whether the subject of the article is notable. What about the cites put forward in this discussion (not in the article), like the ones Fences&Windows posted above, or the ones I posted above, tending to show NPROF (not GNG) is met? Leviv ich 17:52, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- did you read who wrote the NAS piece in the first person? And some of the other cites? They are not of first-class quality at all, and cites which are unrelated to the official notability of a person do not add strength to that person's notability. I avoid most Delete !votes by the way. This one was one where I cold not avoid it with a straight face. And I find many of the Keep !votes seem more focused on "outside issues" and not this single BLP and the general notability requirements. And, yes, there are a slew of much weaker articles, but that is not really a reason to be given a lot of weight by the closer. Collect (talk) 17:43, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- How does having a piece published, or being described as "a noisy white Jew and a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Seattle" muddy claims for notability? And which sources are unrelated entirely to her notability as an academic (doesn't every source cited in this discussion so far state that she is an astrophysicist)? Leviv ich 16:36, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep: I have read carefully all the arguments for and against and must agree that this person is sufficiently notable for Wikipedia. If we were assessing the notability of a man with similar achievements, I would also support keeping the article. I hope we don't have to go through such lengthy discussions in future.--Ipigott (talk) 15:25, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep NPROF-C7 applies here. Relic Keeper (talk) 16:28, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per David Eppstein and others. It is pretty clear to me that this is a WP:POINTy AfD that has specifically targeted this article because the subject is a woman. Not only do I concur in Eppstein's rationale, I must note the application of our notability criteria: As always, the SNGs supplement GNG. The two sets of criteria are to be read together, not one as a "gotcha" to negate the other. Montanabw(talk) 17:02, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Wow. I'm finding that really offensive. I'd ask that you either prove (or at least provide evidence) that this was nominated for sexist reasons or that you remove the claim. Hobit (talk) 22:30, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- If you find this really offensive, this might be a good time to reflect on what it is about this statement that you see reflected in yourself that makes you feel personally insulted by this. But in any case, if you're somehow unfamiliar with the history and haven't actually read enough of the comments above to figure it out for yourself: a female editor, Wikipedia-notable for creating biographies of women, felt stalked by another editor who was repeatedly tagging her creations for notability and taking them to AfD. This issue came to the attention of WP:ANI, which ultimately came to the conclusion that there was not yet enough of a pattern of activity to take any action. But as a consequence of this discussion, other editors who saw it took it on themselves to pore through the article creator's other hundreds or thousands of biographies of women, identify a half-dozen or so that could be attacked as non-notable, list them on ANI, and start nominating them for deletion. This specific AfD was one of those. So it was specifically targeted because its subject was part of a collection of biographies of women. The "sexist reasons" part is your own invention, and not what Montanabw said. My own impression is that the nominator feels that some culling would make Wikipedia's collection of biographies of women stronger, which is sort of the opposite of a sexist reason. Regardless, that's where we are now. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:25, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe Hobit finds the statement really offensive because it is really offensive. This AfD has been a real eye-opener for me regarding the permissive attitude taken toward baseless implications and direct charges of sexism and misogyny. It's impossible to have a productive discussion about the article when so many !keep editors are more interested in attacking the !delete editors with accusations and insinuations. I guess this does not bother you because it isn't happening to you personally. Lepricavark (talk) 00:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- If you find a neutral, factual, and accurate description of a sequence of events (in this case, the sequence of events that led up to this AfD) to be something that can be "really offensive", then maybe editing a site where we aim to be neutral, factual, and accurate is not for you. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- The "really offensive" comment is Montanabw's statement that
It is pretty clear to me that this is a WP:POINTy AfD that has specifically targeted this article because the subject is a woman.
In your own comment above, you stated the following:My own impression is that the nominator feels that some culling would make Wikipedia's collection of biographies of women stronger, which is sort of the opposite of a sexist reason.
Now you are saying that Montanabw's comment isneutral, factual, and accurate
. You seem to be contradicting yourself. Lepricavark (talk) 02:09, 5 May 2019 (UTC) - And yes, I realize you were responding to me as if I had applied the "really offensive" moniker to your comment that directly preceded mine. At least, that's what I believe you meant. But that is a very poor interpretation on your part, given that Hobit used the "really offensive" moniker in reference to Montanabw's post. And then you repeated the "really offensive" moniker in your reply to Hobit. And then, in my own post, I made it clear that I was discussing Hobit's reply to Montababw's post. You really should have understood what I meant, but apparently you didn't. And then you followed up your misconstruing of my very plain statement with the suggestion that I might not belong on Wikipedia. Lepricavark (talk) 02:20, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- @David Eppstein: you've been active on Wikipedia since my latest reply, so you've had time to respond here. In fact, you've had time to tell Slatersteven that editors should
do the right thing more consistently
Let's have aneutral, factual, and accurate
review: Montanabw made a comment. Hobit called it "really offensive." You replied to Hobit, repeating the words "really offensive" in your reply. I replied to you, again repeating the words "really offensive" as a repetition of Hobit's characterization of Montanabw's post. You replied to me as if my use of "really offensive" was actually related to part of your comment, which was a misinterpretation. On the basis of this misinterpretation, you suggested that I might not belong on Wikipedia. I replied and corrected this misinterpretation, and as of yet you have not acknowledged your mistake. When are you planning to do the right thing? Lepricavark (talk) 17:50, 5 May 2019 (UTC) - I always try to do the right thing. That is not the same as doing what other adversarially-minded editors tell me to do. In this case, I believe that the right thing to do is to stand by what I said, and (after this one comment) to stop responding to your or others' provocations here, in order to let the AfD discussion return to its proper topic, the notability of Sarah Tuttle. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:30, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- If I said what I was thinking based on an honest reading of your post, I'd get blocked. But you can misrepresent what I say and then suggest that I don't belong here, and you don't even have the decency to admit you were wrong about any of that. Unbelievable. And the really sad part is that you almost certainly aren't the only one who thinks there is nothing wrong with what you've done. I'm not surprised that you've ended up painting me as the bad guy, but I defy you to give one good reason for doing so without misrepresenting what I've said in this thread. You didn't seem so interested in discussing Tuttle's notability when you were personally attacking me a couple of days ago. Lepricavark (talk) 02:47, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- The "really offensive" comment is Montanabw's statement that
- If you find a neutral, factual, and accurate description of a sequence of events (in this case, the sequence of events that led up to this AfD) to be something that can be "really offensive", then maybe editing a site where we aim to be neutral, factual, and accurate is not for you. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:00, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Maybe Hobit finds the statement really offensive because it is really offensive. This AfD has been a real eye-opener for me regarding the permissive attitude taken toward baseless implications and direct charges of sexism and misogyny. It's impossible to have a productive discussion about the article when so many !keep editors are more interested in attacking the !delete editors with accusations and insinuations. I guess this does not bother you because it isn't happening to you personally. Lepricavark (talk) 00:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- If you find this really offensive, this might be a good time to reflect on what it is about this statement that you see reflected in yourself that makes you feel personally insulted by this. But in any case, if you're somehow unfamiliar with the history and haven't actually read enough of the comments above to figure it out for yourself: a female editor, Wikipedia-notable for creating biographies of women, felt stalked by another editor who was repeatedly tagging her creations for notability and taking them to AfD. This issue came to the attention of WP:ANI, which ultimately came to the conclusion that there was not yet enough of a pattern of activity to take any action. But as a consequence of this discussion, other editors who saw it took it on themselves to pore through the article creator's other hundreds or thousands of biographies of women, identify a half-dozen or so that could be attacked as non-notable, list them on ANI, and start nominating them for deletion. This specific AfD was one of those. So it was specifically targeted because its subject was part of a collection of biographies of women. The "sexist reasons" part is your own invention, and not what Montanabw said. My own impression is that the nominator feels that some culling would make Wikipedia's collection of biographies of women stronger, which is sort of the opposite of a sexist reason. Regardless, that's where we are now. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:25, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Wow. I'm finding that really offensive. I'd ask that you either prove (or at least provide evidence) that this was nominated for sexist reasons or that you remove the claim. Hobit (talk) 22:30, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
Keep per XOR'easter, WiseWoman, Levivich, and creator of the article Mlvandijk (talk) 16:35, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Arbitrary break
- Comment: I would like to remind the commentariat that notability rules on Wikipedia were invented as a way to decide whether or not it is possible to write a high-quality, neutral article on a subject (see WP:5PILLARS). Rules relating to notability, starting with WP:GNG and going into content-specific guidelines were only added as additions to give convenient standards around which to base discussions. The idea was that certain subjects were not notable enough for inclusion because sourcing would be difficult to find to write high-quality work that was "neutral", "verifiable", and "derivative" all at the same time. Owing to early actions of certain vested interests to add problematic content (I won't go into details about this, but you can get a sense for some of these issues from the way WP:FRINGE and WP:WEIGHT are written), notability worked as a convenient reference for those of us hoping to confine Wikipedia to a reference work that did not suck.
- Fast forward to today, more than a decade later, and you have a lot of the active users unaware that this is the history. And the history is important because, crucially, there are other problems that Wikipedia faces that are not addressed by this simple fix. A particular one is WP:BIAS which applies not only to geographical and language-related biases but also documented historical biases in the way sources were created. The community has consistently argued that it is a laudable goal to overcome such biases, thus WP:Women in Red is a celebrated collaboration and not one that has been shut down. The goal is to push content in the direction of inclusion to combat some of the problems that are inherent in the structure.
- The argument for a few might be that Wikipedia should not right great wrongs. I think that this is not a good argument. Wikipedia is, for better or worse, a top-ten website and is in a position to move the needle in the world. Now you might not think that the coverage of women scientists deserves fixing in the real world. I strongly do. I am going to fight for this to be done and I would encourage the community to adopt the cause.
- The best way to do this would be to adopt something similar to strict scrutiny when it comes to discussions such as this. The main goal of Wikipedia should be to provide reliable content on certain topics and not to act as a gatekeeper. Is there a compelling interest served to delete this content? No. In fact there is demonstrable perpetuation of harm in so doing. So don't do it.
- jps (talk) 16:18, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- @ජපස: would you support amending NPROF-C1 to include membership in groups shown to have "pioneered or developed a significant new concept, technique or idea, made a significant discovery or solved a major problem in their academic discipline"? Major advances are rarely attributable solely to individuals, and haven't been for at least a century. The NPROF-C1 criterion requirement that we have to prove that a singular "person" is responsible for an advance prevents a large proportion of the most prestigious award-winners from meeting it. It's not uncommon for breakthrough papers to have more than a dozen authors, and for good reason. Will you join the cause to allow Wikipedia to recognize achievements of collective efforts? EllenCT (talk) 19:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- You are absolutely right that the current NPROF guideline relies on a great man theory in a way that is more than a little problematic. Perhaps better to remove C1 entirely? I think we really need to provide more general guidance for combatting WP:BIAS in notability discussions. Perhaps a guideline such as WP:STRICT SCRUTINY or something where we say, all else being equal, recognize that historic biases can influence the appearance of notability as it has been leveled at this website. While Wikipedia has a default to keep option, with WP:BLP this often goes the other way for protection reasons (to good effect often, but it's variable as can be seen in situations such as this). Perhaps we should talk about this in a different venue, though. jps (talk) 19:12, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- @ජපස: thank you. I copied our last two paragraphs over to Wikipedia talk:Notability (academics)#Criteria 1 recognition of collaborative achievements where I'm going to let it simmer while thinking it over. EllenCT (talk) 23:01, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- You are absolutely right that the current NPROF guideline relies on a great man theory in a way that is more than a little problematic. Perhaps better to remove C1 entirely? I think we really need to provide more general guidance for combatting WP:BIAS in notability discussions. Perhaps a guideline such as WP:STRICT SCRUTINY or something where we say, all else being equal, recognize that historic biases can influence the appearance of notability as it has been leveled at this website. While Wikipedia has a default to keep option, with WP:BLP this often goes the other way for protection reasons (to good effect often, but it's variable as can be seen in situations such as this). Perhaps we should talk about this in a different venue, though. jps (talk) 19:12, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- @ජපස: would you support amending NPROF-C1 to include membership in groups shown to have "pioneered or developed a significant new concept, technique or idea, made a significant discovery or solved a major problem in their academic discipline"? Major advances are rarely attributable solely to individuals, and haven't been for at least a century. The NPROF-C1 criterion requirement that we have to prove that a singular "person" is responsible for an advance prevents a large proportion of the most prestigious award-winners from meeting it. It's not uncommon for breakthrough papers to have more than a dozen authors, and for good reason. Will you join the cause to allow Wikipedia to recognize achievements of collective efforts? EllenCT (talk) 19:04, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Fails to meet WP:PROF. I'm not really seeing her meeting NPROF-C7, she's had an impact outside of academia, but it doesn't seem to be a substantial one like the criteria actually calls for. - GretLomborg (talk) 04:36, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Can't really argue with that assessment–it's a judgment call, reasonable editors can disagree on substantialness. I feel more generous towards astrophysicists because I think they get noticed less than other disciplines. The bio folks are curing diseases, engineers are putting robots on Mars, but astrophysicists are like, "For a moment we saw a slight shift in the color of a dot in the sky and it was a little different than the shift we predicted. This is major." No one ever cares about the details of their work except when there's a cool picture. I think for an astrophysicist, she's made a substantial impact. Not many get published and quoted in the non-academic press as much as she does IMO. Leviv ich 05:27, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- I don't agree with the claim that astrophysics is noticed less than other disciplines. In my experience of science AfDs I have found astrophysics to be a highly cited field, as much as computer science or biomed. It depends on the quality of the papers of course. Xxanthippe (talk) 06:39, 5 May 2019 (UTC).
No vote should be based on alleged user actions, or intentions or in casting aspersions. Any such vote is a personal attack and should be struck. We are here to discus the notability of the subject, not other editors.Slatersteven (talk) 09:08, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep per Levivichich. Tacyarg (talk) 18:58, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep, but trim down. Looking at the sources, she seems to have enough coverage to warrant an article, but not everything in the articles is cited to reliable sources.StudiesWorld (talk) 19:31, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - largely per Ubiquity's !vote above, there is enough here for the subject to pass WP:GNG. Article is of ggod quality to. As jps stated in the comment above WP:GNG is intended to act to ensure that articles are verifiable and of encyclopedic quality, not to be some bottleneck or gate keeper of content. Inter&anthro (talk) 20:34, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep - it may only be borderline notable, but the quality of the article more than makes up for it. Iamnotabunny (talk) 22:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
- Question - Could somebody, anybody, explain to me why the subject's resume is used as a source about half a dozen times? Or explain why almost half the sources cited are authored or co-authored by the subject; or by the employer of the subject? Particularly since these sources are the ones attempting to establish notability. Mr rnddude (talk) 00:32, 7 May 2019 (UTC) A resume as source, that's among the more ridiculous things I've seen.
- I don't think anyone's trying to use those to establish notability. There's 35 sources; if all of them established notability, nobody would be arguing here. Iamnotabunny (talk) 01:19, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- The resume doesn't establish notability, but it can be an WP:ABOUTSELF source. Leviv ich 01:59, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- If we'd agree that the section entitled "research and career" is where the claims to notability are, then it should be easy to verify notability from the statements and sources in that section. So let's do that:
Tuttle's research applies novel hardware approaches to spectrograph instrumentation design, particularly aimed to isolate star formation regulation in galaxies through emission and infall from the interstellar medium
cited to University of Washington. Sounds good, except that the claim is in her own words, i.e. "I am". Not suitable for notability as the claim is not independent of the subject. No matter, there's much more in that section.During her Ph.D. at Columbia, Tuttle designed the spectrograph for FIREBall, a balloon-borne telescope that is coupled to an ultraviolet spectrograph and designed to discover the intergalactic medium (IGM) in emission
. - cited to Stratocat.ar and an article published in SPIE and co-authored by Tuttle. The first source does not mention her, the second is co-written by her. Again, not suitable because not verifiable and/or not independent of the subject.The FIREBall spectrograph built by Tuttle was the world's first fiber fed ultraviolet spectrograph and placed upper constraints on IGM emission
- cited to two articles published in SPIE and both co-authored by the subject. Not suitable cause not independent.Tuttle served as the lead for the Hobby–Eberly Telescope's VIRUS detector from 2010 until 2012, where she prototyped, finalized and characterized the VIRUS spectrograph
would be a claim to notability. However it is cited to 1. her resume, 2. National Science Foundation, which lists her as a former co-principal investigator for VIRUS2, but nothing about her involvement in VIRUS and 3. A speech presented by Sarah Tuttle herself. Not to mention, anything I find on VIRUS puts Gary Hill and Phillip McQueen front and centre. E.g. HETDEX itself. I can't find anything that even mentions Tuttle.As of May 2019, Tuttle was leading the recommissioning of the KOSMOS spectrograph for the Apache Point Observatory, an instrument originally stationed at Kitt Peak Observatory
- cited to University of Washington which doesn't mention KOSMOS or Kitt Peak Observatory but is also in her own words again, and also to an article published in AAS that is co-authored by Tuttle. Not suitable because source 1 fails to meet verifiability and is not independent of the subject, and source 2 is not independent of the subject.Furthermore, she is leading a team in building a new spectrograph for the Apache Point Observatory 3.5m Telescope.
- Repeating the previous sentence with the same source, so I've removed it.
- That's nearly it. The last paragraph mentions appearances on a podcast and articles she's authored. Nothing notable.
In 2014, the National Academy of Sciences honored her as a Kavli Fellow
- Doesn't appear significant, two hundred thirty-seven other people were as well. Maybe this meets NPROF #3, but it doesn't look at all like the Kavli Fellowship isa major scholarly society which reserves fellow status as a highly selective honor
when it hands the same honour to 237 other people the same year.
- I can't pull this anyway to meet GNG or NPROF. That's why I've put those two questions up. Make a claim to notability with an independent source that mentions the subject, because I can't find one in the article or online (I spent an hour on VIRUS alone). Mr rnddude (talk) 07:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep because in my opinion NPROF-C7 is met but I respect that some disagree. Horse Eye Jack (talk) 08:46, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Weak keep This individual seems marginally notable in that she has received somewhat more than trivial attention, and it doesn't hurt the project to have an article on her, and someone might be looking for such a collection of information. Also I believe this nomination, knowingly or unknowingly, may effectively be part of an anti-WiR effort. However I am concerned by the calls for outright affirmative action in the AfD process. You can't promote equality by giving certain classes of people an advantage over others - they are all individuals deserving of individual treatment for their accomplishments. If anyone deserves a "hand up" everyone does. —DIYeditor (talk) 07:07, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
Also I believe this nomination, knowingly or unknowingly, may effectively be part of an anti-WiR effort
Can you explain this? Natureium (talk) 13:41, 7 May 2019 (UTC)- That was based on David Eppstein's 00:25, 5 May 2019 (UTC) comment. —DIYeditor (talk) 14:16, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Passes notability. AugusteBlanqui (talk) 17:34, 8 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep In My Opinion, She meets WP:NPROF #C7. I've read carefully all the arguments for and against and must agree that this lady is sufficiently notable for Wikipedia. But some against base on the WP:IDONTLIKE. MyanmarBBQ (talk) 06:08, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Keep Sufficient sources are currently in the article to pass WP:GNG. No idea what state it was in when nominated, but as of now the subject passes GNG easily. --Jayron32 13:09, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- No, That is the point. sources still DO NOT meet WP:SIGCOV. User:Mr rnddude, one of the project's most experienced and fairminded editors, assessed the page on May 7, stating "*I can't pull this anyway to meet GNG or NPROF.... Make a claim to notability with an independent source that mentions the subject, because I can't find one in the article or online." I an many other experienced editos agree with his asessment. No sources have been added since User:Mr rnddude's asessment. What the more expeienced editors on the page agree on is that a subject has to meet WP:GNG, and this one doesn't.E.M.Gregory (talk) 15:56, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- I an editor of equal fairmindedness and experience, unless my clean record, 13 years and 17,000 article edits don't qualify me as such. Perhaps you can tell me how many years of experience qualify one as "experienced enough for their vote to count at an AFD discussion". I have read the same sources, and arrived at a different conclusion. In my assessment, the threshold set out by GNG has been met. --Jayron32 16:29, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- I'd be thrilled to be able to !vote to keep in good faith (I'm very far on the inclusion side, especially for academics), I just don't see the sources. Could you point to the two or three sources you see as meeting the requirements of WP:N? Thanks! Hobit (talk) 19:32, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Sure. I will give a representative, and not exhaustive, number of sources that indicate that people outside of Wikipedia have considered her and her work notable. here is she is part of a panel assembled by the Seattle Times newspaper as part of a panel of astronomy experts. She wrote a guest column here, which is cited later by Forbes (see below), and here you can see one of her articles in the journal Nature was specifically cited for inclusion in a series they did on Women in Astronomy. Her research on gender bias in astronomy, as published in Nature and other places, is cited here in Forbes. These citations, references, and discussions by others (again, I picked some random ones. There's more there. These are representative, not exhaustive), coupled with her various publications and awards, for me is over the threshold. --Jayron32 19:48, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- One of the ways we, as a society, have attempted to redress gender inequality is by producing special eitions focused on women in science. The idea, to give role models to schoolgirls, is a positive one. (A better approach might be to train and pay for math teachers, but I digress.) Another approach is to always make sure to put a woman or several women on comittees, panels, boards of overseers, and so forth. Exhausting for highly qualified women who must serve on what feels like too many committees, but, again, a good idea. What is true, however, is that in certain fields there are so few women that the committees must be filled out with women who are not as accomplished as their fellow panelists/committtee members. It's real, and it's a reason not to equate member of a panel with notable accomplishment.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:38, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- What in Earth does any of that have to do with this article? You've gone into the Chewbacca defense here and I'm not even sure how to respond. Not that you care, I'm sure, but your walls of rambling text will have zero bearing on how the closing admin assess this consensus. Your non-sequitur diatribe will have no bearing on the outcome of this discussion, but I'm sure it made you feel good.--Jayron32 03:24, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- I'm not sure why you are making the distinction as to the reasons why someone would be appointed to a panel or committee. To me, if such a panel would be notable for a man who was sufficiently qualified, it is notable that a woman was appointed to it for any reason. Or if such a panel simply does not contribute to notability, the gender issue (or affirmative action, qualifications, etc.) are just a tangent irrelevant to this discussion. —DIYeditor (talk) 22:54, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Panelists are chosen for many reasons. Being on a panel is not among our usual metrics of notability.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:44, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Are you really suggesting that we take men more seriously as panelists than women? Because thats the only possible interpretation I can make of "What is true, however, is that in certain fields there are so few women that the committees must be filled out with women who are not as accomplished as their fellow panelists/committtee members. It's real, and it's a reason not to equate member of a panel with notable accomplishment.” Perhaps I am mistaken? Horse Eye Jack (talk) 02:46, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
- Panelists are chosen for many reasons. Being on a panel is not among our usual metrics of notability.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:44, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks. We normally don't take sources that are written by the subject or just cite their work. But I do tend to think that's somewhat wrongheaded. I'd say she doesn't meet our traditional sense of inclusion, but I'd be fairly pleased if we extended that sense for academics to sources like you're suggesting. I may start an RfC at WP:BIO on the issue. Hobit (talk) 20:01, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
- One of the ways we, as a society, have attempted to redress gender inequality is by producing special eitions focused on women in science. The idea, to give role models to schoolgirls, is a positive one. (A better approach might be to train and pay for math teachers, but I digress.) Another approach is to always make sure to put a woman or several women on comittees, panels, boards of overseers, and so forth. Exhausting for highly qualified women who must serve on what feels like too many committees, but, again, a good idea. What is true, however, is that in certain fields there are so few women that the committees must be filled out with women who are not as accomplished as their fellow panelists/committtee members. It's real, and it's a reason not to equate member of a panel with notable accomplishment.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:38, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
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