Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexandria Ashford


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 05:26, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Alexandria Ashford

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Notability - claimed notability rides on having won Prize Americana for Poetry. This is the first year for that award, and it only gets 22 ghits. Prize is a $300 award with a $35 entry fee. This does not appear to be a significant award in terms of attention and respect. Nat Gertler (talk) 04:56, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. No significant coverage to satisfy WP:GNG/WP:BIO. The award does not seem to convey notability. -- Kinu t /c  06:00, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions.  --  Ray  Talk 06:04, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Nominator's case seems to be conclusive. Ray  Talk 06:05, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Actually this award also comes with a 500,000 dollar scholarship... I dont think that we did our research with this one... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thecard1 (talk • contribs) 17:56, 22 September 2010 (UTC)  — Thecard1 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * That's actually irrelevant. what we need is sourced information to the effect that the scholarship is prestigious or otherwise notable. Ray  Talk 18:44, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * And, just to be clear, it's untrue (obviously, a joke attempt). Prize is $300 and the book gets published by a publisher that appears to put out about a book a year. Dubious prestige. --Nat Gertler (talk) 19:48, 22 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete Info: The Prize Americana is something to do with the Press Americana who are responsible for The Poetry Press. (That is, the Poetry Press in question. There appears to be at least one other, but that seems to publish only Wanda Kollar.) If there were references indicating notability, I might change my mind. As it stands, I can't see anything to get excited over. (An explanation of what the heck re-memory and lieux de memoire are wouldn't go amiss, too.) Peridon (talk) 19:58, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
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