Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saxon Henry


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The result was   delete. Mkdw talk 20:56, 28 December 2013 (UTC)

Saxon Henry

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Promotional article for author of borderline notability. The two books are in less than 200 libraries each. Writing articles for magazines is not usually considered enough for notability unless they win major awards. The promotionalism consists of: putting the list of publications written for, in the lede, (and then repeated in the article); a paragraph of name-dropping of the notable architects discussed in her book, which amounts to link-spam; a highlighted quote on her book,  from an unnamed source that appears to be a book jacket;  another highlighted quote, from an airline's in-flight magazine; half the articles listed in detail are written for another in-flight magazine; her non-notable poetry is listed in detail, as are her insignificant memberships in trade organizations.  DGG ( talk ) 18:51, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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 * Delete The book reviews are conveniently available at the W. W. Norton website: Of these I was able to find three online: Residential Architect, Architects + Artisans and Miami Herald but I think we can assume the others exist, Norton is a reliable publisher. Are these enough? Well the Miami Herald is brief and it contains a promotional aspect, and Architects + Artisans is a single-person blog site. I'll discount Delta Sky as a "sky mall" type of marketing piece, "The Decorating Diva" sounds like a blog. I'm unable to find what Luxe Interiors is, and Modernism could refer to Modernism Magazine but the magazine is now defunct so can't verify. So that leaves a single reliable and verifiable source: Residential Architect. Now moving on to the sources listed in the article. The majority of them are sources by Saxon not about Saxon so those can't be used to determine notability since we only look at sources about a person, not by a person. The only one that looks promising is 944 Magazine but unfortunately the site is down and there is no Wayback Machine cache. So after sifting all this through the notability screen there is a single source that shows notability, Residential Architect, and that is not enough. --  GreenC  21:14, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
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