Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sheena Knowles


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The result was   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 05:58, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Sheena Knowles

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fails WP:CREATIVE. written at best 2 non notable books. gnews merely confirms she wrote these books but nothing more about her as a person. . LibStar (talk) 02:21, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.  --  Bduke    (Discussion)  23:19, 2 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep Author of the 1989 Australian Childrens Book of the Year National award. Gnangarra 03:47, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - won national award of merit. Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:29, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep - Per Cas and Gnang - and gnews is hardly the criteria to judge an australian author - SatuSuro 12:44, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment is one award that is not well known "significant critical attention"? Was this well reported in media? It would advance notability if this was true or the books she wrote were notable. LibStar (talk) 17:32, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It was in 1989. Finding Australian online newspaper archives from that time is nigh on impossible. Jenks24 (talk) 05:14, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 19:50, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
 * really? google news have Australian major newspaper Sydney Morning Herald back to at least 1918. . LibStar (talk) 05:28, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, it is interesting to note that it is far easier to find references in Australian newspapers pre-1950/60. Although some (very few) Fairfax Media (by that I mean The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald) articles can be found via google news archive from the '80s, it can hardly be considered comprehensive. Also, many other main Australian newspapers are not covered at all by gnews in that time period. See, for example, News Corporation, of which I'm fairly sure none of their 1980s articles can be accessed via google news archive. Jenks24 (talk) 11:47, 4 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Week keep - if she actually won the award, then a strong keep, but it was only shortlisted for the award, not the winner. The 2nd book seems to be part of a school curriculum, so is that enough to satisfy WP:NBOOK or WP:AUTHOR?  Not sure.  Agree with Jenks24 that online coverage of the 80s in Australia is extremely poor - the National Library has digitised newspapers up to the 1950s, but there is a black hole with sporadic coverage by google news in the 60s-90s before the 2000s are reasonable well covered by the current paper archives... but whole states and areas are still missing, so Ghits are not the only requirement.The-Pope (talk) 02:36, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
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