Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amy Welborn


 * 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. Courcelles 00:03, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Amy Welborn

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Contested prod. Only reference on the page is an blog article she wrote. Non-notable blogger DJSasso (talk) 23:08, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Surely needs better sources, but she appears to be a notable blogger, with numerous Ghits. Whether there's enough there to meet encyclopedic notability is another matter. JNW (talk) 23:20, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Google hits don't mean a thing, and counting them is neither research nor a useful thing to do for AFD. What AFD, and indeed Wikipedia as whole, requires in support of this article are multiple, independent, reliable, published works documenting this person's life and works in depth.  The article cites none, and when a request was made for some on the article's talk page back in 2006, it was answered with nothing more than yet more autobiography. Uncle G (talk) 00:32, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:49, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep I suspect nobody made much effort to answer these issues before now. Some of those Google hits were for interviews-- I've added five-- which support notability. These aren't sources that I'm familiar with, but I believe most of them qualify as reliable, and some offer enough biographical content to more fully flesh out the article. JNW (talk) 01:11, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep - based on new sourcing, and my quick review of sources returned by google news, scholar, and books, there are plenty of reliable source mentions, some significant. One of two USA Today sources calls her "...author of numerous books and a columnist for Catholic Newspapers, wrote one of the best-known Catholic blogs, Open Book..." (which seems to be a direct assertion of notability).  She seems to be a fairly prolific author on the national scene, and her stories and comments are widely cited in news reports and discussions of blogging and the things she's blogged about (which would satisfy WP:AUTH).  - Wikidemon (talk) 05:30, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
 * KEEP: This was a highly reckless nomination. A simple search unveils countless non-trivial reliable sources. Passes WP:GNG. Protector of Wiki (talk) 06:53, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
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