Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irene Aldridge


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  06:55, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Irene Aldridge

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Delete. Advertorially toned WP:BLP of a writer, without the reliable sourcing necessary to satisfy WP:GNG. The only claim of notability discernible from this article as written is that she exists, and the only "references" provided are the WorldCat directory entries for two of her three books. As always, Wikipedia is not a free public relations platform on which a writer is entitled to have an article just because her existence can be verified; she must be the subject of enough media coverage to pass our notability criteria. Bearcat (talk) 18:59, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Do not delete. Revised and updated to emphasize relevance, include the worldcat reference for the third (very influential) book, now in the second edition with a separate Chinese version. Aldridge is the first famous woman quant, and there are too few women profiled on Wiki as it stands today. She is the top quant in the area of trading automation, that is becoming the definitive standard of the finance industry.Angelo1122
 * WorldCat directory entries count for exactly zilch toward demonstrating notability on Wikipedia, because every single book ever written by every single writer who ever wrote a book has one. It takes reliable source coverage in media to distinguish a notable writer from a non-notable one, not just the ability to verify that her books exist. And as for whatever the bleep a "quant" is, being a "top" one would still only constitute notability if reliable sources were writing about her topness, and not just because you assert that she's a top one of those without sourcing that claim properly. Bearcat (talk) 04:40, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:GNG  { MordeKyle }  &#9762; 20:28, 24 January 2017 (UTC)


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