Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Heloísa Maranhão


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was keep. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 20:14, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Heloísa Maranhão

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Fails WP:NOTABILITY; article fails to establish why she is notable – there are millions of writers and not every one merits a Wikipedia page. Just a single source listed on the page, and hardly any other mentions online Jkaharper (talk) 19:03, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Women,  and Brazil. Shellwood (talk) 19:28, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. A search of Google Scholar turns up dozens of scholarly works about Maranhão. Most of them are in Portuguese, which I can't read, but she's clearly an important Brazilian writer. pburka (talk) 20:28, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:AUTHOR#3, it appears she has a collection of works with multiple periodical articles analyzing her work. e.g. via GScholar: A trajetória de Rosa Maria Egipcíaca e o silenciamento cultural dos africanos no romance de Heloisa Maranhão Letrônica. jan-mar2020, Vol. 13 Issue 1, p1-11. 11p. (translation via WPLibrary: "The trajectory of Rosa Maria Egpcíaca and the cultural silencing of Africans in Heloisa Maranhão's novel."); "Tempo e Espaço no palco giratório do romance histórico de Heloísa Maranhão" interFACES (from the abstract: "In the historical fiction of Heloísa Maranhão (Lucrécia-1979, Dona Leonor Teles-1985 and A Rainha de Navarra-1986)..."; "O que é um lar? Revisão do conceito histórico de nação em Paradise (1997), de Toni Morrison, e em Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz (1997), de Heloisa Maranhão" (a doctoral thesis; from the abstract: "The comparison between Toni Morrison's Paradise (1997) and Heloisa Maranhão's Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz (1997) shows how these two novels create metaphorical images of home as a way of revising the official history of national formation."); later published; História e literatura: Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz (re)escrita no romance histórico contemporâneo História e Cultura (abstract: "This article is inserted in the debate on the relations between History and Literature, departing from the critical reading of some fictional and historical elements permeating Rosa Maria Egipcíaca da Vera Cruz: the amazing story of a black princess between prostitution and sanctity, a contemporary historical novel by Heloisa Maranhão."); CORPO NEGRO: ENTRE A HISTÓRIA E A FICÇÃO. O CASO DE ROSA MARIA EGIPCÍACA DA VERA CRUZ, Em Tese; and per WP:AUTHOR#1, she appears to be widely-cited, e.g. LA BARCA DE LOS MARGINADOS NAVEGA HACIA UN PUERTO CENTRAL: LA NOVELA HISTÓRICA CONTEMPORÁNEAY LA BÚSQUEDA DE LA INTEGRACIÓN DE LOS EXCÉNTRICOS, Revista Iberoamericana; at 5 pages into a GScholar search there are still further results to review. Beccaynr (talk) 20:54, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep My Portuguese is minimal, but I did notice that she won the 1982 Prêmio APCA de Literatura. A google search in Portuguese yields many results that don't show up in an English langauge search. Vexations (talk) 22:38, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * How does one "do a Google search in Portuguese"? Google is Google. If you hit in a person's name, articles of all languages appear (unless you're using a different alphabet e.g. Arabic). The results that come up for her on a standard Google search are minimal at best. Mostly just carbon copies of her Wiki page. --Jkaharper (talk) 12:15, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. There was another source, the Dictionary of Women Worldwide which the nom removed claiming it was not a RS. I don't understand the rationale for that, or for this nomination. I have reinstated the reference.Dsp13 (talk) 10:11, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I deleted that. The url just linked to the front page of encyclopedia.com, so it looked like someone had made a source up. Jkaharper (talk) 10:20, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
 * The link works for me. In the future, I think it's important to disclose that you removed sources when you nominate pages for deletion. pburka (talk) 16:01, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
 * The link works now because you've changed it to the correct one. It didn't before... --Jkaharper (talk) 12:12, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I didn't change anything, and I checked the link from the history: it works. Even if it had been broken, the removed reference should have been disclosed at AfD. Please remember to AGF and refrain from accusing editors of making up sources without evidence. pburka (talk) 12:23, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per WP: AUTHOR. Bookworm857158367 (talk) 19:10, 20 June 2022 (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.