Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sally Bishai


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The result was Delete, consensus is that the article fails the relevant notability guideline. Davewild (talk) 21:29, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Sally Bishai

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Non-notable webmistress, v-blogger and blogger. I ran into the article on a recent AfD for X Culture Magazine, a weblog she founded. The AfD resulted in no consensus, the Keep voters citing Bishai's resume, and it struck me to actually research it. I wound up filing a prod, which was removed without comment by an SBA created today. Beyond that ...


 * (1) Neither of her two self-published books crack 2.5 million on Amazon.com's sales rank, which is beyond lousy;
 * (2) None of the works listed on her filmography have IMDB listings, even by the generous standards of that site.
 * (3) The Alexa traffic ranking for her xculturemag.com site is ... 10,146,215. I have never seen anything that low on Alexa.  I may have measurably improved the traffic by surfing over to look at it.
 * (4) The lead Google hits for Bishai are her own website, this article, a blogsite for her film work, Xculturemag, the lulu.com entry peddling her wares, several more blog sites to which she has posted, the Youtube link to her film clips ... conspicuously missing are any legitimate reliable sources.
 * (5) Despite the article's academic claims, she has only two Google Scholar citations; one for her self-published book, and one for a listing that turns out to be part of a group acknowledgement in a classmate's master's thesis.

No doubt Ms. Bishai is a perfectly pleasant young woman, but despite what appears to be energetic self-promotion, the world just hasn't taken much notice of her.  RGTraynor  03:21, 14 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Merge and redirect to X Culture Magazine for now. this local profile was the only coverage I found (she has a number of articles with her byline in Google News Archive), and it's not even a proper review of her book East Meets West (and she's also written a couple of times for the same paper, so it isn't even wholly independent). --Dhartung | Talk 03:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Err .... X Culture Magazine redirects to Bishai.   RGTraynor  03:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I suppose one or the other is potentially notable, but not both. Delete, then. --Dhartung | Talk 18:02, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - as per RGTraynor; nothing to indicate achievements worth documenting in an encyclopedia. Few sources other than self-published. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 06:49, 14 March 2008 (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.