Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. Breeze Harper


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The result was   nomination withdrawn by nominator. Bearcat (talk) 23:54, 11 December 2016 (UTC)

A. Breeze Harper

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Comment: Appears to fall well short of Notability_(people) She does seem notable as the VP candidate for the Humane Party, and is mentioned there in that context. Perhaps not as a separate article though. CeilingCrash (talk) 03:00, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Keep: As creator of the article obviously I felt Harper was notable enough for Wikipedia, not only based on her VP nomination but on her academic work and activism. Funcrunch (talk) 06:24, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Question: I certainly don't want to speciously discard your work here, and have no personal beef with this activist (No pun intended.) Can we find sources referencing her that satisfy Notability_(people) or Notability (academics) ? 38.84.134.54 (forgot to log in ...) CeilingCrash (talk) 20:43, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Running as VP candidate for the Humane Party would not alone be enough, but the popular attention that she has received for her activism and the academic attention she has received for her intersectional approach to veganism push her over the notability line. Josh Milburn (talk) 03:22, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
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 * Delete I can't find secondary sources that meet the criteria in Notability (people).
 * "People are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject."


 * I also can't source the claim that she passes the "professor test." I'll change my vote if someone can provide such sources.  Otherwise I find a vote to 'Keep', however well-intentioned, ungrounded in Wikipedia Policy. CeilingCrash (talk) 16:50, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Her work has been a major influence on research subsequently published in Corey Wrenn's A Rational Approach to Animal Rights (specifically, chapter 5) and Critical Perspectives on Veganism (Polish's chapter at least, possibly others; I will be getting a copy, but don't have it yet). She has also become a favourite foil of Gary Francione, and there will be reviews of her edited collection. This piece, by Andrea Plaid, is indicative of what I am talking about: "I’d definitely call Dr. A. Breeze Harper one of the top intersectional vegan theorists today. And that’s not just hype—she most famously did this with her 2010 anthology, Sistah Vegan: Food, Identity, Health, and Society: Black Female Vegans Speak, in which she gathered a community of Black female-identified vegans to talk from their own experiences navigating their many communities and politics. Thanks to this groundbreaking work—and her founding and curating the Sistah Vegan Project website—Dr. Harper is one of the go-to experts on food-based environmental feminism." This indicates the significance of her academic work, even if this might be a corner of academia alien to a lot of Wikipedia's contributors. However, you miss something if you focus solely on her academic work; her activist and political work (as far as one can distinguish the three) also add to her notability. Josh Milburn (talk) 19:08, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep Speedy Keep Fair enough, and thanks for sources.   It is an esoteric area, but I think these sources demonstrate she is impactful in that field. (I.e., passes the 'professor test')
 * Reversing my vote CeilingCrash (talk) 19:21, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Since you have reversed your vote, as the nominating editor, you have the option to withdraw the nomination and close as speedy keep, per AfD procedures. Funcrunch (talk) 21:39, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, will do. CeilingCrash (talk) 02:06, 11 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment: I have alerted WikiProject Animal Rights as articles on veganism are under their scope. Funcrunch (talk) 17:14, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Also alerted WikiProject Women. Funcrunch (talk) 17:23, 10 December 2016 (UTC)


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