Talk:Amara Tabor-Smith

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... Just tonight I attended a Wikimedia session at Columbia University aimed at sharing Wikipedia tools in order to create equity of representation for more marginalized artists - particularly performing artists of color and queer artists. I was focusing on Dance and the first person on my list already had an entry (though it appears not to be considered complete enough), to which I added the name of an artist who just created an award-winning tribute to him. That artist, Amara Tabor-Smith, did not have an entry so I created this one. I was advised at the tutorial to frontload the artist's awards and quotes about her. Because my focus was artists who are already marginalized despite their contributions to the field, this was a difficult but not impossible task. I continue to do research to help add more of what you consider appropriate citations. This entry is not intended to publicize this artist's work, rather to have their innovative work represented in this forum. Please advise... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Palomamcgregor (talk • contribs) 03:10, 18 February 2015‎ (UTC)


 * @Palomamcgregor: I've declined the request for speedy deletion. I think there are enough awards mentioned and newspaper citations that the criterion for speedy deletion due to lack of notability doesn't apply. (I've left a tag encouraging other editors to strengthen the claims of notability and sourcing, though.) I also don't think the tone is unsalvageably promotional. —C.Fred (talk) 03:18, 18 February 2015 (UTC)


 * @User:C.Fred: I will continue to work on citations for this and will look at the tone. Thank you for your assistance and patience. Palomamcgregor (talk) 03:33, 18 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks, @User:C.Fred! To help, I added three scholarly citations (a book, a dissertation, and an article) that describe Tabor-Smith's work and its unique contributions. Lange.lea (talk) 16:48, 20 February 2015 (UTC)