Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nora Gold


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was WP:SNOW keep. BD2412 T 04:06, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Nora Gold

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Semi-advertorialized WP:BLP of a writer and social worker, not reliably sourced as clearing our notability criteria. This is referenced almost entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability at all -- such as her own self-published résumé on her own self-published website, press releases from organizations that she's directly affiliated with, and four instances of her own books being cited as technical verification of their own existence -- and the only source that actually comes from a real media outlet is a Q&A interview in which she's talking about herself in the first person, which is not enough media coverage to get her over the bar all by itself if it's the only real media source in play. As always, people are not automatically notable enough for Wikipedia articles just because their self-created web presence metaverifies itself -- the notability test requires media outlets that she is not affiliated with to do third party, third person journalism about her and her accomplishments, not just her own website and press releases from her own employers. Bearcat (talk) 02:30, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep Known activist and author. I added a WP:RS that was present in an early version of this article that somehow disappeared. There is more out there that could be added as well. It is true that the subject has apparently edited her own article to an extent, but that alone should not be a reason for exclusion. StonyBrook (talk) 04:13, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep: Times of Israel has chosen to run a profile of her, books have won a couple of awards, appears to be notable. Pam  D  16:33, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Known activist and author. I have added more secondary sources regarding her literature. She is a well-regarded novelist in Canada and abroad. If there are more verifiable sources required, then let's edit, not delete.Mcatricala (talk) 16:09, 30 January 2020 (UTC)mcatricala
 * Keep - The subject is an established author who has received three awards, two of which were national book awards, and her books have been released by traditional publishing houses with wide coverage and/or reviews in the mainstream media. I cleaned up the article, as have others, to rid it of the semi-advertorializing, which the nom pointed out. The references in the article as it now stands are from reliable, third-party sources. It passes WP:AUTHOR and WP:BIO and easily meets WP:GNG. -AuthorAuthor (talk) 06:17, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are grounds for keeping the article under WP:AUTHOR, and perhaps even just the GNG, given there is coverage particularly in Israeli and North American Jewish media. The article needs trimming, though, as it contains some ad-like language. PK650 (talk) 22:53, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - With the additional reliable citations added and the awards her work has achieved, this article should meet both WP:AUTHOR and WP:GNG. Additionally with a bit of editing the promotional content could be eventually removed. Edi 7*  (Message Me! • &#128220; ) 08:36, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - The subject meets Wikipedia's requirements for notability and the condition of the page's content is not irreparable, so deletion for irredeemable advertising or promotionalism is not applicable. I have edited it and found more references to improve its quality. If we outright deleted every page that may have been vandalized or edited by an individual or organization connected to it, Wikipedia would be missing many necessary pages.IphisOfCrete (talk) 02:17, 4 February 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.