Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Clare Potter (poet)


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The result was Delete. --MelanieN (talk) 23:26, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Clare Potter (poet)

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Fails WP:AUTHOR. Unable to find evidence she is an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors. No evidence her work has won significant critical attention. Little depth of coverage in reliable sources, except for interviews or self-published works. Magnolia677 (talk) 03:01, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment - I created this stub due to a low-level subtle harassment campaign by an IP apparently stalking (VERY old) Clare Potter-related edits I had made (making "reversions" camouflaged as edits so that I got big fat red notices that my edits had been reverted when the actual edits made appeared legit to anyone else... a real system gamer.) immediately after the blocking of another (seemingly unconnected) IP-range hopper who was definitely stalking/harassing me via reverting random older edits. For some reason they chose to latch onto Clare Potter-related edits for this targeted behaviour. So I created the stub to kibosh their reverts to an edit I'd made to the incorrect link target (to the article for the designer Clare Potter). I have no feelings either way on this subject, I just wanted it to be known WHY the article was created because it is not something I would otherwise have bothered with. So if it's deleted, it's no skin off my nose. Just making sure there's a record as to WHY the stub was created. Mabalu (talk) 09:15, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Wales-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:37, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Poetry-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:37, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:37, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep It's always hard to find sources on poets, and Welsh poets are harder even that most. I did find Potter listed in these web sites: Writers of Wales, Interview, paragraph. I'll note these on the talk page. LaMona (talk) 21:27, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: Unfortunately, even the recently cited notices are not quite sufficient, as one is a WordPress site, and it's darned difficult to assess the strength of the other "national" poetry groups mentioning the poet. Add to that the fact that the poet "performs" her work, and we don't see it as being listed as published in a book yet, and we've got a poet who doesn't pass the current notability guidelines. Again, poets don't generate a lot of ink, so that's a given, but there is a huge puff industry surrounding poetry that obscures the little bit of legitimate (juried/edited) assessment. (The Poetry Foundation and Poetry Magazine hasn't heard of her, but that doesn't mean anything much.) Hithladaeus (talk) 02:37, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 17:13, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails GNG. I am completely confused by message left by creator as to why this was made. Or what "Clare Potter-related edits" are. This article is basically an orphan. —Мандичка YO 😜 17:30, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete google searches yield almost no results, notability can not be established, in spite of this. Kraxler (talk) 17:34, 11 June 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.