User talk:Kimmaklyn

Hi, Kim. By now you've probably discovered that I have deleted the articles you submitted to Wikipedia - the one about Ms Clark-McDowell, and the two about the organizations she founded.

The thing is... although you provided sources to support the statements you made about the organizations and about Ms Clark-McDowell (and that was very well done), you didn't say anything about notability. About why Ms Clark-McDowell is any different from the hundreds of other people who start ministries, help the poor, etc. The organizations are notable because Ms Clark-McDowell started them, Ms Clark-McDowell is notable because she started these organizations? I'm sorry, no. It doesn't work like that.

And the book that Ms Clark-McDowell wrote, that doesn't go for notability, because she got it published by Tate. The problem with Tate is not that they're a Christian publisher, it's that they're a vanity press. I'm not saying that (having had something published by a vanity press) means that a person is not notable, just that it does NOT mean that the person IS notable.

I regret the inconvenience, and hope you understand. DS (talk) 15:45, 13 December 2010 (UTC)