Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Essie Honiball


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:18, 4 December 2018 (UTC)

Essie Honiball

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Little known fringe figure who promoted an unorthodox fruitarian diet. There are no reliable sources that mention Essie Honiball or her fruitarianism. Skeptic from Britain (talk) 03:44, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
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 * It's an old article, with lists of sources at the bottom of the page.  gBooks makes it clear that she wrote in Afrikaans, but also that she is discussed in other author's books Page probably just needs sourcing.[[User:E.M.Gregory|E.M.Gregory] (talk) 23:30, 27 November 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment But what sources? You have not listed any because there are not any. None of the books on Google books are reliable sources. They are mostly either her own lectures or self published books. There is a total of two other books that mention her but only in a single sentence, it is not enough to establish notability. Skeptic from Britain (talk) 01:13, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
 * She is quoted in two books, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession, (Morris Krok's Fruit: The Food and Medicine for Man relates how he attended a fruitarian lecture with Essie Honiball, author of I Live on Fruit. Asked what one should eat, the answer is: “Fruit, of course.”), and Perfect Health: The Natural Way ("Essie Honiball, who had lived on fruit and nuts for fourteen years and...").E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:36, 30 November 2018 (UTC)


 * However, I ran a Proquest archive search on her and got zero results. Delete.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:36, 30 November 2018 (UTC)


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