Talk:Meredith Sue Willis

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I added a notability tag to this article because it doesn't quote references by independent sources and appears to be written by the subject herself. The page is little more than a bibliography, and if it is not revised with relevant sources or content, I will nominate it for deletion.

Spacemoth 11:07, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is Weak on living writers
While I'm not a great Wikipedian, I adore getting information here. Some time ago, I noticed that Wikipedia was weak on living American writers, an area I know fairly well. I began putting in stubs for New York poets like Ron Padgett and essayists like Phillip Lopate, feminist/Jewish writers like Edith Konecky, and Appalachian writers dead and alive like Davis Grubb and Mary Lee Settle. These are all important people in the field of literature. Among the living writers I included was myself. I intended gradually to add information about all the writers I've been putting in-- and hoped that some of my less Internet-active colleagues would also add information! But now, since seeing this threat of deletion, I added more to my own first. If Wikipedia intends truly to be inclusive, which is what I love about it, it has to include literature and literary novelists, essayists, and poets. Even if they put in their own information! Meredith Sue Willis 26 November 2006

Removed notability tag
I removed the notability tag from this article, because several published works concerning this author are cited in the "Commentary" section. At least with regard to the referenced publications of the Main Street Rag, Appalachian Journal, and the Iron Mountain Review, these sources appear to be bona fide articles written or published by independent entities. As such, they meet the criterion set forth in WP:BIO that the subject of the article "has been the primary subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the person," which is described as the primary qualification for notability of biographical articles. --Ryanaxp 18:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Work needed
Several of the links provided lead nowhere. They need to be checked and updated. Text needs editing to maintain a neutral point of view and in-line citations added to support the text, particularly the unreferenced puff statements such as "A well-known speaker...". Subject has had a hand in developing this page and it would be preferable if it was improved by someone else. Subject is clearly notable and sources for the text are readily available. I need to move onto other things now and don't have time to do more than the small amount of referencing I have done so far.--Plad2 (talk) 17:44, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

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