Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maitha Al-Khayat


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The result was delete. Daniel (talk) 00:50, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

Maitha Al-Khayat

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a writer, not properly referenced as passing WP:AUTHOR. As always, every writer is not automatically entitled to have a Wikipedia article just because her work exists -- the notability test requires certain specific quantifiable achievements, and a certain specific quality of reliable source coverage about her in real media to support them. But after removing two invalid circular citations to the Arabic Wikipedia, three of the four footnotes left are primary source directory entries on the self-published websites of her own publisher, a literary festival and a directly affiliated organization for children's writers (none of which are reliable or notability-making sources at all) -- and the only source that comes from a real media outlet is just covering her in the context of giving a Zoom chat during the covidified 2020 version of a book fair, which is not "inherently" notable enough to clinch inclusion in Wikipedia all by itself. And the only stated notability claim is that she once won a minor award that isn't a free pass over WP:ANYBIO -- the extent to which any literary award counts as a notability-making achievement for a writer depends on the ability to show that it's an award that gets media coverage in order to establish its notability, not just on the ability to technically verify it in the writer's own self-published PR. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to be referenced much, much better than this. Bearcat (talk) 16:34, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:34, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United Arab Emirates-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 16:34, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 14:57, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete not even close to meeting our inclusion criteria.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:34, 4 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete Though the subject is a member of the "Board of Directors of the Emirates Board on Books for Young People", It lacks significant media coverage for a Wikipedia entry at the moment. Luciapop (talk) 11:23, 7 March 2021 (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.