Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elsie Finnimore Buckley


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The result was   keep. (Non-administrator closure) Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 03:19, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

Elsie Finnimore Buckley

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Fails WP:BIO and WP:AUTHOR. Could find no significant coverage. Being married to someone notable doesn't confer automatic notability LibStar (talk) 16:45, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep I have no difficulty finding coverage of this notable classicist and translator. For example, the Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser provided biographical details in 1908, including the fact that she was the niece of Arabella Buckley. Andrew (talk) 18:20, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * but does the coverage meet WP:BIO? LibStar (talk) 16:03, 31 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Davey 2010 •  (talk)  17:35, 31 August 2014 (UTC)




 * Keep I am trying very hard to save this article, and have added some information and links. This is, however, a place where the WP requirements meet some unfortunate cultural bias. As a woman working in the 19th century in a "man's" job (translation) she disguised her sex by using only her initials, and most likely eschewed publicity in order to maintain this identity. Some of the works that she translated are clearly important because I can find them cited (with E. F. Buckley as translator) in Google and Google scholar searches. The one book she wrote under her full name (a book of Greek classic tales aimed at young readers) was well-received by some and has been reprinted in whole and in part, although one critic at the time said "The truth is that this is not woman's work, and a woman has neither the knowledge nor literary tack necessary for it." (ref in article). It's hard to achieve notability when you have to keep your head down. LaMona (talk) 14:12, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep – The subject of this article is "worthy of notice" as I interpret WP:BIO. —Diiscool (talk) 15:07, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep – A quick search of JSTOR turns up numerous citations from various authors in a variety of scholarly journals for her French translations. That should be sufficient to establish notability under the first criterion of WP:AUTHOR, even before getting to other  coverage mentioned above. JohnMarkOckerbloom (talk) 17:22, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
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