Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dana Award


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The result was   no consensus. Stifle (talk) 15:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Dana Award

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Non-notable award founded by non-notable professor with funding from non-notable backer. Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  22:10, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete with haste, permastub, no sources. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 23:35, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep  From their web page "THE PURPOSE OF THE DANA AWARDS is monetary encouragement for work that has not yet been recognized." -- which cerrtainly does not appear promising. However, from their list of winners, it seems that most of the novelists did go on to write published novels found in hundreds of libraries, and one at least is certainly notable, Danielle Trussoni. Oddly, the present article lists only the poets and short story parts of the award, which are harder to check, but spot checking shows some with worlks in multiple anthologies, and therefore probably notable.  GSearching is difficult as there are some very notable Dana's, and numerous awards named after them (the John Cotton Dana Award is the highest award in librarianship).  So far I have only two relevant News Archive refs, and they are neither of them about winners, but finalists : ,  I think we'd need to search under each recipient name. DGG (talk) 01:42, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete There is no assertion that the award has been discussed in secondary sources, or is in any way notable. Johnuniq (talk) 01:54, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep As the creator of the article, first let me apologize for not adding the novelist winners. That was my intention but I was distracted elsewhere.  It's a presigious prize among writers, covered in Poets & Writers, Writers Digest etc. and a number of the writers whose careers it helped launch, like Danielle Trussoni, are rather prominent.  But it is difficult to track down sources, in part because of the unfortunately common name.  If anyone else would give a stab at that over the next few days before we delete the article, I would be extremely grateful.  (As with all of these writing awards, well-known in the field but not beyond, it's very helpful to have an encyclopedic list of former winners, which in this case, it took me some effort to find.) 7triton7 (talk) 21:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand - Vartanza (talk) 12:45, 27 May 2009 (UTC).
 * Comment I've been doing some work on the page, seeing as a number of the writers who have won are now notable, and sources do exist, but I would be appreciative of anyone who would help out. Thanks. (I would also hate to put this effort in if the page is eventually deleted anyway, so if you're thinking of voting to delete, please at least give a shot at rescue first) 7triton7 (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
 * We should certainly Keep this article. Tina Chang, Sam Witt, Jacob Appel and Danielle Trussoni are all unquestionably notable writers/poets. Is there a separate guideline for prizes? B/c these authors' books are in libraries all over the nation. SouthernCritic111 (talk) 12:33, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * comment remember, notability is not contagious. The award does not become notable by having been given to notable people. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  13:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment point well taken. i had never heard of this award before today, while i do know of several of these authors, but the article seems to claim that this award was instrumental in helping make these writers/poets notable. their website basically says they gave Trussoni her first big break. it strikes me that, if this is true for a group of notable authors, it is enough, but that's just one woman's opinion. however, maybe that's not a workable distinction for others.... it's a gray area, isn't it? SouthernCritic111 (talk) 13:58, 29 May 2009 (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.