Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary van der Valk


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The result was delete. ✗ plicit  06:43, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Mary van der Valk

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Article created by user named the same as the subject and mostly written by a single-purpose IP; most info on the page is completely without a source. The given references are just two book database/purchasing sites and a blogpost written by the Berlicum library, nothing reliable. Meets no criteria of WP:NAUTHOR as I could not find any professional reviews of any of the mentioned works in English or Dutch (though it is entirely possible I missed something in Dutch) or anything about the author specifically. All of the Authority control entries have zero or very little info. I even went searching on the things mentioned on the Wikidata entry - this site which is used as a source for many of the statements contain no prose at all, while the "Iedereen Leest" site has no mention of her. The "Berlicum Children's Jury Award", mentioned in the article, is cited to the aforementioned blogpost (in Dutch which calls it "Berlicumse Kinderjury"), which states that the book was awarded it by six children from three primary schools (Google Translate) -- certainly not a significant award and indeed there is essentially no other mention of "Berlicum Children's Jury Award" or "Berlicumse Kinderjury" on the internet. ev iolite  (talk)  01:56, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
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Delete Does not meet WP:NAUTHORand the citations are weak. Created by user named User:Mary van der Valk. The article has been tagged for improvement since 2013, with no substantial improvements made. I can't find any reliabe sources for biographical information on this author. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 21:01, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete Created by the subject, and notability is not proven. She doesn't even have an article on the Dutch wiki either. GhostDestroyer100 (talk) 19:34, 13 October 2021 (UTC)


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