Talk:Daniela Gioseffi

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An author friend, Annie Finch, a widely published poet and professor, alerted me that someone marked this article for deletion yesterday. I do not understand why, as it was up for a very long time until I referred to it in a message that went out to a WOM-PO listserve just yesterday. It was put up by my student Dorothea, a professor and women's studies scholar who lives in New Jersey. The external links were checked and all accurate, and it contains no unobjective material and offers many reputable links for verification.

Perhaps, it could be shortened rather than deleted, as my students work would all be in vain and she worked very hard on it, without my prompting. Indeed, I hardly know her personally and she is a professor of American Literature and Women's Studies who is currently ill with breast cancer. She felt that my work in peace and social justice, my American Book Award, PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, New York State Council for the Arts grants in writing, World Peace Foundation Award, and many books and essays in the service of Women's Studies, eleven to be exact--especially WOMEN ON WAR, a feminist classic in print since 1988 and reissued by The Feminist Press, 2003 to rousingly positibve reviews--made me worthy of an article. The New York Times called it a book that should be translated and read in every language of the world, and it was translated into European languages and issued in Europe as well. They are books of INTERNATIONAL WRITINGS that contain OTHER women of the world.

I confess I did some editing for accuracy, especially adding some external links and references for verification, but I did not put this article up myself. Several students and readers had input to Dorothea's article, especially for its feminist importance. Perhaps, taking it down would constitute what is called "revisionist history" among women of accomplishment. There is nothing in the article that is not factual, but there might not be time, within five days, for enough people to reply. Dorothea herself will not return to her computer until next Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007, as she is having a surgical procedure for beast cancer. It seems cruel and unfair to destroy her vigorous work on this factual article when she cannot defend her work, and it is all factual and has several internet links to prove it's verifiability. I am included in FEMINISTS WHO CHANGED AMERICA, from Illionois University Press, 2006. I am a pioneer writer, one of the very first Italian American women writers to be widely published on the American literary scene. This is all verifiable. Daniela Gioseffi is 66 years of age. My writings are published by large and university presses, for over forty years, Doubleday/ Dell/ New English Library, Harper Collins, Touchstone Simone and Schuster, BOA Editions, Ltd. Anchor/Doubleday, The University of Illionois Press, Oxford University Press, and tanslated into German, Japanese, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and other languages and also published in Europe and the East. Thesebooks wherein I am included also include Novel Laureats like Tony Morrison, and well known "ethic: authors like Maxine Honk Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and many other women writers with "ethnic" names, so wouldn't it be cruel to destroy all the work my students and readers put into this article? Why, I find no discussion but this that I post today. Perhaps, it can just be shortened instead if someone out there does not find me worthy at 66 for inclusion. Indeed, my students were motivated to include my many works and long career on Wikipedia, when they heard I was diagnosed with a weak heart and might not be around, alive much longer. Do I have to wait for death to make me worthy of a Wikipedia enty. I know people from around the country visit this article for information and links to other factual articles.  I could find no discussion as to why this article was put up for deletiion. Was that done by some vindictive person who was jealous of the entry when I posted it upon a listserve for the first time, at Wom-Po just yesterday--prior to when the notice for deletion appeared? Isn't it strange that it was never posted for deletion until yesterday? It was up for many months without that threat. Five days is not sufficient time for the author of the article to defend it, so I defend it for her as she is incapacitated until next Tuesday when she hopes to post justification for it. I would like to see just one reason why it should be deleted, as all of the references are external, accurate, and reputable, and exist online.--along with the many books, 78 to be exact, that come up when I am searched at Amazon.com/ and the thousands of entries that come up when my name is Googled. ON PREJUDICE and WOMEN ON WAR are classic books that are used in unversities all over the world, to this day, in Germany, Vienna, the UK, and Japan, etc. long after there publication. ON PREJUDICE; A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, Anchor/Doubleday, 1993 was the first international text against prejudice and it exists in other languages than English, as does WOMEN ON WAR, a feminist classic. Since these books by this author are of important sociopolitical content, perhaps, the Wikipedia community should think carefully before deleting this article so painstakingly put up by students of the works, professors, and world readers. The call for deletion smacks of some isolated, vindicative person's opinion. 70.107.4.206 16:42, 7 November 2007 (UTC) In defense of Dorothea's vigorous work for Women's Studies.

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Tagged the article. It is written in a promotional tone; contains excessive detail; needs reorganization; needs copyediting; is inadequately sourced; and is overly lengthy for its subject. SunCrow (talk) 07:44, 14 December 2019 (UTC)