Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deirdre Eberly Lashgari


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Jovanmilic97 (talk) 14:10, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

Deirdre Eberly Lashgari

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Not enough coverage to pass WP:GNG, and she doesn't meet WP:NSCHOLAR.  Onel 5969  TT me 15:22, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete does not pass the notability guidelines for academics.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:49, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable academic. Fails WP:PROF.  Also, WP:NOTMEMORIAL.E.M.Gregory (talk) 23:03, 18 December 2018 (UTC) will revisit.E.M.Gregory (talk) 20:18, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep #1 of WP:ACADEMIC is "The person's research has made significant impact in their scholarly discipline, broadly construed, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources." Under Notability_(academics) is the point "For scholars in humanities the existing citation indices and GoogleScholar often provide inadequate and incomplete information. In these cases one can also look at how widely the person's books are held in various academic libraries (this information is available in Worldcat) when evaluating whether Criterion 1 is satisfied." Lashgari's book Violence, Silence, and Anger: Women's Writing as Transgression (1995) is held by 469 libraries, according to Worldcat. The Other Voice: Women's Poetry in Translation (1976) is in 712 libraries, Women Poets of The World is in 281. (I think it is very significant that books from 1976 and 1995 have not been deaccessioned, and are still in so many libraries.) WP:ACADEMIC #4 is "The person's academic work has made a significant impact in the area of higher education, affecting a substantial number of academic institutions." The article says (at the end of the section Works - very badly placed, it should be in the lead para): "Her pioneering work and leading contributions changed the literary curriculum at Berkeley and other institutes and universities in the United States of America and has normalized the presence of women's voices and writings as part of the syllabus in such departments." The reference for that is an obituary in The New York Times and Claremont Courier. So there is definitely evidence that she meets WP:ACADEMIC. The article could be improved to better show that, but that is not a reason for deleting it. RebeccaGreen (talk) 16:32, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per RebeccaGreen.  Uninvited Company 20:56, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per sources found by RebeccaGreen.E.M.Gregory (talk) 21:16, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sources show sufficient notability. --Michig (talk) 07:21, 23 December 2018 (UTC)


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