Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marion L. Starkey


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The result was withdrawn. North America1000 20:31, 11 August 2017 (UTC)

Marion L. Starkey

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Source searches are not providing enough coverage to qualify an article. Does not appear to meet WP:BASIC or WP:AUTHOR. North America1000 09:05, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep as WprldCat lists over 3,700 library holdings which is enough for the significance criteria cited in WP:Author. Nomination gives no clarification whether they searched offline or in archives, since this subject is from such a time. SwisterTwister   talk  13:57, 10 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Keepnotability exists×Jacob20162016 (talk) 14:15, 10 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 09:09, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep, meets WP:NAUTHOR, frankly, i am surprised, nay shocked,, that you would nominate Starkey for deletion (maybe some trouting is in order), if ever an author should be kept based on one work (let alone other books that she wrote) Starkey meets the grade. Her 1949 book The Devil in Massachusetts has received numerous reviews, just take a look at UNZ.org  here with reviews by Saturday Review, The American Historical Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, The Forum, The American Mercury and The Nation. Also, Arthur Miller was inspired by The Devil in Massachusetts to write The Crucible  (Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds) - "As Miller recalled in his his memoir, "as though it have been ordained, a copy of marion Startkey's The Deveil in Massachusetts fell into my hands."" Esther Forbes reviewed it for the New York Times from Esther Forbes: A Bio-bibliography of the Author of Johnny Tremain, and there are plenty more reviews out there in googleland. Also, as admirably pointed out by  above (Coola, are you trying to receive a barnstar or something?:)), WorldCat (a good indicator of possible notableness) shows a large number of library holdings of her titles including for this one over 1700 holdings and numerous editions, and finally, not sure but, is The Devil in Massachusetts studied at US unis/colleges? while googling for  book reviews i came across some sites that offer to provide an essay/paper on it, anyhoo, a more general author book review gsearch also brings up reviews of her other titles ie. The Cherokee Nation reviewed by Pennsylvania History here and Kirkus here. Coolabahapple (talk) 20:05, 11 August 2017 (UTC)


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