Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marilyn Gayle Hoff


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) –CaroleHenson (talk) 03:33, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Marilyn Gayle Hoff

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I could not find any articles already in Wikipedia to link to this article, nor content in Hoff's article to update other articles with links -- and is thus an orphan. As lovely as she sounds, the article does not seem to be notability guidelines. –CaroleHenson (talk) 14:45, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Withdrawn by nominator based upon the discussion below and the work of. Using procedure from WP:WDAFD.–CaroleHenson (talk) 03:30, 18 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Authors,  and Women.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:49, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Keep per sources identified below satisfying WP:NAUTHOR. Newspapers.com turns up 22 clippings of op-ed pieces and letters to the editor which MGH wrote and got published in The Taos News and The Santa Fe New Mexican. (Searches in ProQuest and EBSCOHost mostly duplicate that.) The one hit that jumps out in JSTOR is the one-paragraph Library Quarterly book review of Bring out Your Own Book: Low Cost Self Publishing which she co-authored. But that isn't enough for an entire article about her; very little biographical information is available beyond the brief bios she submits with her bylines. Does not meet WP:BASIC, let along WP:NAUTHOR or WP:GNG. Cielquiparle (talk) 17:01, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Per the Nom. Pahiy (talk) 19:04, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - Book reviews also include Kirkus Reviews (Rose), Publishers Weekly (Free Ride), Library Journal (Free Ride, via EBSCOhost), BookList and Lambda Book Report (Free Ride, abstracts via ProQuest), Lesbian Tide (Dyke Music, via EBSCOhost), and she has an entry in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 (p. 217). Her co-authored book about self-publishing is also discussed in context in "Media Report to Women", Reveal Digital (via JSTOR). There are additional sources in the article that are not easily accessible but are not self-published nor self-authored and suggest further support for WP:BASIC notability may exist, in addition to WP:AUTHOR. Beccaynr (talk) 19:26, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sexuality and gender-related deletion discussions. Beccaynr (talk) 19:30, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment Orphan status is not a basis for deletion, but I de-orphaned the article based on her education and teaching experience. Beccaynr (talk) 19:55, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Cool. Have changed !vote above in light of sources found. (Yes, I didn't search Google hard enough, also not with the name variations and book titles.) Will try to come back to this later this week if needed, but in the meantime this is plenty to work with! Cielquiparle (talk) 21:43, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * It was actually DuckDuckGo that led to Kirkus and PW, but the name variations also helped find more on the WP Library. :) Beccaynr (talk) 21:56, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per Cielquiparle and Beccaynr.  Gamaliel  ( talk ) 23:51, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Weak keep thanks to work of Beccaynr. I also found her listed in ""Marilyn Hoff." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2012. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000046208/LitRC?u=sfpl_main&sid=ebsco&xid=c2cc843a. Accessed 17 Nov. 2022." and there was a review of Dink's Blues in "CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Sept, 1966, 520" although I don't have access to the actual review. Note that she is usually listed as "Marilyn Hoff" so adding her middle name may make searching more difficult and I wonder if it should be included in the article title. Lamona (talk) 01:49, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I also found reviews for Dink's Blues in Kirkus Reviews, The Ladder (via EBSCOhost), and Library Journal (citation only, via Gale). Thank you for the additional sources, and I have started adding information from the Gale profile. Beccaynr (talk) 03:30, 18 November 2022 (UTC)


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