Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bonnie Bergin


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The result was   keep. Mark Arsten (talk) 02:28, 13 September 2013 (UTC)

Bonnie Bergin

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Doesn't seem to be notable - Only one of her books was published by a non-self-publishing company; there are few to no mentions of her as either "Bonnie Bergin" or "Bonita Bergin" and what mentions there are seem to be the same repeated profile or on the website for her dog training school, or passing mentions in dog training books (usually as 'she's trying to teach dogs to read, this is cool / funny') Said school may be notable, and the service dog group may be notable, but I don't believe Bonnie herself is. I found claims that she invented the concept of the service dog but I couldn't find anything reliable to back up the claim - it's mentioned here but it isn't really delved into anywhere else except in interviews with her (and how reliable can those be), and the reliability of that site seems shaky at best to me.  T K K ! bark with me if you're my dog! 17:33, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
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 * Keep Bonnie Bergin is credited with inventing the concept of the "service dog", even coining the term and founding the first training program for dogs to assist the physically handicap. Notable via WP:ANYBIO #2 "made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in his or her specific field". Sources exist in a Google Books search, one example -- Green Cardamom (talk) 06:25, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep. Google news archive search makes notability obvious. —David Eppstein (talk) 02:09, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Keep - Articvles like this establish notability. -- Whpq (talk) 16:57, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
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