Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Muriel K. Rand


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The result was delete. RL0919 (talk) 22:33, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Muriel K. Rand

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I PRODed this with the rationale ‘Bio of non notable self-published author. Article created by her son who appears to be using it to promote himself as a composer. No reliable independent sources since 2008.’ PROD was contested by another editor. Please note that the article itself says ‘She has self-published two practical textbooks on classroom management.’ Mccapra (talk) 22:27, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete Nothing in the article supports a claim of notability and no reliable and verifiable sources were found in a Google search to support a claim of notability. Alansohn (talk) 04:43, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete because no claim of notability, nothing significant about this writer for inclusion. KartikeyaS343 (talk) 16:52, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete her text books were self-published. Clear notability fail.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:38, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. This is a badly written article about a professor, a former dean of a school of education, and an expert in early childhood education. It is very difficult to find support for an article about an educator because it is not a high citation area. The comments here make her sound like some minor self-published author. She is author and co-author of two conventionally published textbooks, one in a second edition, and both widely held in university libraries. They don't go away because she later self-published books on classroom management. I can't find reviews for the textbooks, however. StarryGrandma (talk) 23:58, 29 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete the lack of reliable sources is more concerning as this is a BLP. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 04:07, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment JSTOR finds: she was a doctoral candidate at Rutgers in 1991 . She was a consulting editor for the journal YC Young Children . I couldn't turn up any textbook reviews, though. XOR&#39;easter (talk) 00:33, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete No sigh of notability, not enough reliable sources. Nikoo.Amini (talk) 01:03, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:NACADEMIC, WP:NAUTHOR, WP:SIGCOV, and WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 16:30, 5 October 2019 (UTC)


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