Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ann Voskamp


 * 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 Speedy keep. Closing own withdrawn nomination as a speedy keep, when all other viewpoints were for keep as well, per WP:NACD. (non-admin closure) - "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (work / talk) 18:04, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Ann Voskamp

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I see a lot of non-independent sources such as interviews and some passing mentions in "best of" lists, but absolutely nothing that meets the WP:GNG as both significant and independent. Tagged for WP:V issues since Feb 2020. - "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (work / talk) 17:10, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Women, Christianity,  and Canada. - "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (work / talk) 17:10, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Her work is discussed in a thesis here:, one discussion in the Religious News Service which we accept as a RS , critical review of her work here:  and a religious magazine: . I think it's at GNG or perhaps AUTHOR. Oaktree b (talk) 18:14, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Meets WP:NAUTHOR, NYT bestseller, large corpus, admittedly with a specific audience. There are plenty of more sources in Google News--if anyone needs me to do the work for them, please ping me. Jclemens (talk) 18:16, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:BASIC and WP:AUTHOR - my online search found a lot of non-RS blog sources, but in Publishers Weekly, there is e.g. Ann Voskamp to Debut a ‘Song-Like’ Children’s Book (2022, begins "Ann Voskamp’s adult nonfiction titles, including One Thousand Gifts (Zondervan, 2011), The Broken Way (Zondervan, 2016), and, most recently, WayMaker (Zondervan, 2022), have sold millions of copies around the world", but is otherwise an interview with her and her publisher), WayMaker: Finding the Way to the Life You’ve Always Dreamed Of (2022 review), Staying Real and Low to the Ground: PW Talks to Ann Voskamp (2016, begins "Ann Voskamp’s debut book about the transformative spiritual discipline of gratitude, One Thousand Gifts (Zondervan, 2011), sold over one million copies according to the publisher, charted for 60 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 20 languages" and is otherwise an interview about her second book with some biographical information), Ann Voskamp: Farm Wife and Publishing Phenom (2012, includes biographical information and some secondary commentary). In Christianity Today, she is the subject of a 2016 profile How Gratitude Made Ann Voskamp an Activist that includes biographical and career coverage, in addition to an interview, as well as 'One Thousand Gifts,' Reconsidered (2011, by a guest blogger, but reprinted in the magazine), Ann Voskamp, Tim Challies, Beth Moore: Dinner and a Defense of Earnestness (2012, by a guest blogger, but reprinted in the magazine). She also has coverage in The Washington Post in 2017: This popular author came to D.C. from Canada to pray for refugees outside Trump’s prayer breakfast speech and The New York Times in 2012 (discussing her involvement in the #1000gifts hashtag on Twitter). In World, there is a 2016 interview and a 2018 report related to "a plagiarism incident" ("WORLD has received a bunch of letters asking about popular Christian writer Ann Voskamp, “Is she a serial plagiarist”? The short answer is “No,”") as well as Globe Trot: Ann Voskamp launches prayer campaign for persecuted Christians (2015). Via EBSCOhost, there is also a review: Gilley, G. E. (2012). One Thousand Gifts, A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are. Journal of Dispensational Theology, 16(48), 85–89; online, there is a brief review from The Presbyterian Outlook (for One Thousand Gifts) and the Englewood Review of Books (for The Broken Way). The article can be further developed; I think further assessment of sources would be helpful, but at minimum WP:BASIC notability appears supported. Beccaynr (talk) 17:04, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Withdraw per Oaktree b, Beccaynr, and these edits by . - "Ghost of Dan Gurney" (work / talk) 20:07, 7 December 2022 (UTC)


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