Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Merete Lien (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. ansh 666 07:37, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Merete Lien
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This was kept at AfD in 2006, but I believe it does not pass our much-tighter modern notability criteria. I did a fairly thorough search involving a lot of Google translating, and I didn't find a single reliable source that profiled this author or even reviewed a single one of her books. Although she is apparently prolific, WP:NAUTHOR requires that being prolific is not enough for a notability claim; per point 3, a person must be the primary subject of a work discussing their body of work, or per point 4 it has to have attracted significant critical attention. I can find no evidence to confirm either.

None of the foreign-language Wikipedias have much more content, and none of them have any more reliable sources to use. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 01:19, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. &#8208;&#8208;1997kB (talk) 08:15, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete Lien presents a very good analysis of the questions at hand. Being prolific does not make someone notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:27, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Finally revealed, PMC is actually a Norwegian romance writer. -The Gnome (talk) 09:32, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Shh, ikke si det høyt ;) &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 19:50, 20 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete : subject's notability utterly lacks verification. The Norwegian-language Wikipedia offers nothing, either. -The Gnome (talk)`
 * Delete per Nominator's points 3 and 4. No sources which describe her as an author.  Blue Riband► 02:47, 21 July 2018 (UTC)


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