Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bonnie Lyons


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The result was   keep. Kevin (talk) 04:11, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Bonnie Lyons

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Non-notable writer and professor. Does not meet WP:AUTHOR or WP:ACADEMIC standards. Warrah (talk) 03:06, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  — Eastmain (talk • contribs)  06:21, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  — Eastmain (talk • contribs)  06:21, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. I added some references and reviews. I think she now passes WP:AUTHOR. The fact that she's a full professor is a strong hint of notability. - Eastmain (talk • contribs) 06:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. She has around 50 GS cites for her literary criticism, I don't know how to judge the reputation of her poetry. Xxanthippe (talk) 07:05, 6 February 2010 (UTC).
 * Comment. She is a legitimate, respected literary critic and promising new poet. She has been published widely in literary magazines as well as 3 books of poetry.  Can we take this notice down now?
 * "legitimate, "respected" and "promising" are not sufficient for wp:notability. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:03, 7 February 2010 (UTC).

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 01:25, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep per Eastmain's expansion. LotLE × talk  19:12, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep (though not a very strong keep), She is a Full professor at U Texas San Antonio, which is a research university, though not a major one. She teaches literature, not creative writing, and so  inclusion under  WP:PROF must be judged on that. (anyway, she is not notable as a poet: one of her two books is in 3 libraries, the other in 7). She has a  dozen article on other American Jewish writera, but one  one relevant book of scholarship, a biography of Henry Roth, ISBN 9780815405160 .  It was published by a minor publisher only,  is only 182 pages long, and is held in 278 WorldCat libraries , , a moderate number for a work on n important contemporary  author. There is only one other English language book specifically about Roth (most are about Roth in comparison with other writers, because of the small amount of his published work),   held   in  600 libraries  .  There is one third party GoogleNews reference to the book (and to her), an article in the San Antonio Express-News . There are about 50 direct and indirect references to the book in G Scholar, the most relevant being "Bonnie Lyons, whose excellent Henry Roth: The Man and His Work is the only book-length study of the author, depicts David as undergoing three stages of initiation described by Mircea Eliade and as manifesting a renewal of the tradition of Jewish mysticism" in Modern Fiction Studies  ("only" because it was before the other book on Roth was written) . I suppose she therefore counts as an authority in her field on Roth.  `    DGG ( talk ) 04:47, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. On the strength of that informed, intelligent research DGG's conclusion has my respect. Opbeith (talk) 20:31, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
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