Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alison Leslie Gold


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Hopefully someone will perform the cleanup that most editors here agree that the article needs. Randykitty (talk) 16:00, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Alison Leslie Gold
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I nominate this article for delection on the grounds that it reads like a promotion piece, and that the subject matter lacks notability. -Wwallacee (talk) 10:40, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
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 * Keep Meets WP:AUTHOR notability guidelines, through adaptations (#3) and awards, no doubt also with reviews of her works. AfD is not about the quality of the article, though I don't see this as promotional (the quotes in the section "Recognition as a Holocaust chronicler" are evidence of WP:AUTHOR #1: "The person is regarded as an important figure"). RebeccaGreen (talk) 15:04, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * leaning delete. She sometimes gets quoted by journalists, and one or two of her books have been cited in other people's books, but I'm not seeing WP:SIGCOV of her.  Or of her books.  51% of page created by User:AuroraMax109 who looks like an SPA. Page certainly reads like PROMO.E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:26, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep as a clear pass of WP:AUTHOR. The article needs a lot of work, but the subject's work (as creator or co-creator) is well-known and reviewed in multiple independent periodicals, which is what WP:AUTHOR requires to establish notability for an author. The Clairvoyant was reviewed in Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, Chicago Tribune, James Joyce Quarterly, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The New York Times Book Review, and others. Devil's Mistress was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly, among others. Anne Frank Remembered was reviewed in the Chicago Tribune, Publishers Weekly, Houston Chronicle, The Globe and Mail, and (separately) The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review, among others. Bakazaka (talk) 01:03, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - per WP:AUTHOR. Article do indeed need some re-writes and additional information but that is not a reason for deletion.BabbaQ (talk) 01:30, 12 December 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.