Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carole Boston Weatherford


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The result was Nominator Withdrew. NAC. Schuy m 1 ( talk ) 13:03, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Carole Boston Weatherford

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Appears to fail WP:BIO. I had gone through the history of the article an noticed there were other editors that questioned her notability. Rockfang (talk) 01:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Nominator Withdraw. Someone can close this.--Rockfang (talk) 06:00, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. The subject may qualify for inclusion for two reasons: her books have won awards, and she took a controversial position on Pokemon. OTOH, that latter controversy has made the biography the target of Pokemon fans. It's been quiet recently, but it has been the target of BLP issues in the past. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 01:13, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep author of books, several (passing) news hits, some notoriety from the Pokemon thing. JJL (talk) 01:20, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure "author of books" is a valid reason to keep an article on an author.--Rockfang (talk) 01:42, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep There are plenty of sources for her, and reviews for her books, among 303 gnews hits.AUTHOR'S SUCCESS A LONG TIME COMING (from 1995). New York Times review of book which won a Caldecott Honor, this about another book that won another national award,another NYT review (capsule), p.392, unfortunately restricted, almost certainly is a bio of her in Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and Young Adults By Barbara Thrash (from alphabetical order, her presence in the index, and the 'see also' at the bottom of the the page linked). John Z (talk) 02:21, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Very strong keep as winner of several major awards, with hundreds of relevant gnews items. from dozens of major reliable sources. Can;'t imagine why the nominator didn't bother to do even the most trivial of basic searches. Please see the WTR:AFD for my suggestion of how to prevent this in the future. we need to switch the Wikipedian reflex on seeing an inadequate article from "how can this be   deleted" to "how can this be fixed" -- we already have just that as WP:Deletion policy, not we need to change our practices. But then, the editors writingthe article didn't seem to have considered the possibility of general notability either. DGG (talk) 05:11, 27 September 2008 (UTC)


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