Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rebecca Greer (2nd nomination)


 * 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   keep. – GorillaWarfare talk • contribs 00:10, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

Rebecca Greer
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No sources demonstrate notability for either her or her work Yaksar (let's chat) 20:21, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:35, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep We had an AfD debate six months ago, and the consensus was "Keep". Nothing has changed. A university maintains an archive of her manuscripts. Why debate again? Cullen328 (talk) 23:01, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The archive is a box of two of her manuscripts, which seem to be kept because she is a published author who is an alumnus of the school--Yaksar (let's chat) 23:03, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Arlene Abrahams of the Associated Press wrote a profile of her that was published in many newspapers in August, 1969. Cullen328 (talk) 23:10, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Which is an article of her talking about being single. I don't see how it demonstrates notability. Nor does it even have an applicable place to be cited in the article, by the way.--Yaksar (let's chat) 23:17, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * To be accurate, the article is a profile of an author who wrote a book about being single. Of course, it can be cited in the article, since it verifies that she got media attention (what we call notability) for the book she wrote about being single. Cullen328 (talk) 00:28, 9 February 2011 (UTC)

I see 1969 book reviews in the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford Courant. Cullen328 (talk) 23:25, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Then add them to the article and explain how they indicate her notability. Also note that book reviews alone are not enough in many cases.--Yaksar (let's chat) 23:29, 5 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep as per the previous AFD discussion. Edward321 (talk) 14:45, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * To clarify (and don't take this as an attack on your vote or anything) I nominated this after reading the first AfD, in which all (both?) of the keep reasons seemed to be based around the existence of her special archive, since further investigation showed that this archive was a box of two manuscripts, something a bit less notable than it would seem at first glance.--Yaksar (let's chat) 16:01, 8 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - her non-fiction book Why Isn't a Nice Girl Like You Married? (1969) was a bestseller and seminal book on feminism. There are plenty of sources already in the article. Bearian (talk) 21:30, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Snow Keep/Speedy Keep. As per the above, and the previous AfD.  No need to further waste peoples' time -- can someone please close this?  Thanks.--Epeefleche (talk) 21:51, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Please note: every single keep argument in the last AfD was based off the existence of a special archive. At the time, I can assume no notice was paid to the fact that this archive is solely a box of two manuscripts. While that's certainly worth mentioning in the article, it in no way is alone grounds for notability.--Yaksar (let's chat) 22:03, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Forty-one years after her book was published, Salon.com published an article that quoted Greer's book at length: I'm dancing naked in my Ugg boots as fast as I can, by Janelle Brown, September 10, 2010, Salon.com. What percentage of books are quoted in the popular media decades after publication?Cullen328 (talk) 00:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - Clearly notable, could use more of the existing refs out there added to article. CarolMooreDC (talk) 01:53, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hate to say it, but that's almost verbatim from JNN.--Yaksar (let's chat) 02:03, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Was not aware of that essay. CarolMooreDC (talk) 03:42, 11 February 2011 (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.