Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jill Whalen (3rd nomination)


 * 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. Two relistings have not generated any further input. Apart from the nominator, the calls have been for keeping the article, and the arguments, that her work has seen significant coverage in newspapers such as Boaton Globe and Wall Street Journal, has merit. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:41, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

Jill Whalen
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Has been quoted in a couple sources, but none of the sources are specifically about her. Everything is WP:PRIMARY and I couldn't find anything else. Previous AFDs in 2011 and 2012 closed as "no consensus" Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:46, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 16:46, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
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 * Comments I tidied it up a bit and then went to look at what could be decent sources, but but WSJ and Boston was paywalled. Can anyone comment if there is good coverage there?
 * There's a lot of book talking about her in Google books, but then she is a SEO expert, so this might just be really good marketing. Would welcome comments about their quality. For example, what's the result of your WP:BEFORE analysis User:TenPoundHammer, did you review all of this and discount it?
 * Even google scholar has stuff about her, but I am blocked by paywall: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1431525

CT55555 (talk) 17:35, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:56, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Comments The 2007 Boston Globe article is available via ProQuest, and a quick look reveals sections of the WP page are copyvio from that article. I have edited the Wikipedia article to address that problem. That being said, the Boston Globe article is WP:SIGCOV as most of the 1140 words in the article are about Whalen. I added in a few more citations, but there is more to be found. DaffodilOcean (talk) 16:54, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's the newspapers.com clipping to the Boston Globe article . DaffodilOcean (talk) 21:13, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - there are multiple by-lined articles about Whalen and her work, the Boston Globe article I provided above is but one example. The article includes multiple other examples (i.e., Wall Street Journal, Inc. magazine). In the mid-2000s she also appeared in books guiding people on how to use the internet, back when books were published on the topic. DaffodilOcean (talk) 11:44, 9 April 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:31, 8 April 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   10:45, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep The Boston Globe article and the Wall Street Journal combined provided sufficient independent, reliable coverage to satisfy WP:GNG. CT55555 (talk) 10:32, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.