User talk:Sonja.foust

List of romantic novelists
I see you are interested in romantic novelists. Welcome to the club -- there are a handful of us working to create articles about our favorite romance authors. We have been having problems with admins removing the red-linked names from the main page, however. If you aren't going to be able to create articles for the people you've added soon, then I recommend you instead add those names to our to do list. It is located on the list's talk page. Thanks for your help! Karanacs 14:57, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Sabrinajeffries.jpg
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Proposed deletion of Elizabeth Amber


The article Elizabeth Amber has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Author with no GNG claims other than mentions in blog articles (most of which are dead) and a listing page on the RWA page (also dead), which everyone gets. Seems the books have been reviewed by the same groups, and in spite of applying some major google-fu I was unable to find any mentions of the book that would support NOTE of any sort. There are also edits by someone who may be the topic.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:30, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

About the prod...
I hate robo-posts, so I'm doing this manually… thousands of books are released every day by thousands of authors. The wiki is not a site about books or authors, and it's not appropriate to list every one. We have to be selective.

So what is the Wiki? It is a site about "notable things", of any topic. What makes something "notable" (or "NOTE")? The general rule is that the world considers it notable if it seems some sort of coverage above the "local" level. A local restaurant becomes notable when it's reviewed in a major national newspaper or magazine, but fails to meet this mark if it's reviewed in the local Metro or a personal blog. An author becomes NOTE when they're talked about outside their local blogrolls. Does that make sense, do you see the distinction?

So then I had to ask myself, is Elizabeth Amber "notable" in this context? The only mentions I can find are her own web site, several self-hosted pages on book sites, and similar pages on romance novel book sites. None of these pass muster in the notability measure. The only reviews of her works are likewise in-universe ones, like the RWA, there's nothing in the New York Review of Books or such, and I couldn't find anything in the newspapers.

So I feel that this author fails to hit the guidelines set out in [|Book Notibility]. If you have other sources (and I did apply some google-fu, and failed), please add them! And please don't be discouraged if the article does fail to pass NOTE, there are a million policies on the wiki these days, it's impossible to know them all, or even avoid them without knowing! Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:30, 4 May 2012 (UTC)