Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Penelope Trunk


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The result was No consensus, defaults to Keep. NawlinWiki 04:25, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Penelope Trunk
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Delete: Challenged PROD. Copying my reason for PROD below: Doesn't seem to satisfy any of the guidelines at Notability (people). No reliable published secondary sources about the subject that I can see (her web site has a list of press coverage, all of which seem to be articles about other things that quote her in passing), no independent biography, no awards or honors, no widespread name recognition, no widely recognized contributions or endorsements. Looking at the list of guidelines for creative professionals, she doesn't seem to satisfy any of those either. At best, she's a blogger and columnist with one recently published book; I don't think this cuts it.

The editor who removed the PROD commented that if there are reliable source references to her blog, she may be notable, but no one has yet come forward with any. SparsityProblem 21:02, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. As Adrienne Roston, played professional beach volleyball; passes WP:BIO for athletes right there. As Adrienne Eisen/Greenheart, published award-winning fiction that has been professionally reviewed. As Adrienne Greenheart, pursued an accomplished but probably non-notable dot-com career. As Penelope Trunk, columnist for top outfits including TIME and Yahoo! Finance. It's a problem to search on all four names but there's enough there to pass WP:N. --Dhartung | Talk 06:25, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Delete per nom. Needs secondary sources, which may eventually appear. But right now there's just not enough for notability. Ward3001 03:12, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Weak Keep. Trunk wants to be the Ann Coulter of career advice by writing columns filled with resoundingly stupid career advice. She has advised women to show more skin at work, take off from work when one feels like it and don't tell your superior, date one's coworkers, invite your boss to your myspace page, etc.  One article about this can be found here.  I'm not sure whether she honestly believes her own advice, or whether she just writes the things she writes to get attention.  Honestly, I don't think she would be notable, except for the fact that Yahoo! has made her their career advice columnist, and that she dishes out advice that will often result in career suicide, which garners her a lot of attention.  Her Yahoo! gig passes the threshold for notability, in my opinion, albeit just barely. 64.190.140.138 15:01, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually it was "invite your CEO to facebook", not myspace.


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