Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uma Parameswaran


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The result was keep. Star  Mississippi  03:10, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Uma Parameswaran

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Semi-advertorialized article about a writer, not properly sourced as passing WP:AUTHOR. The only attempted notability claim here is that her book "won several [unnamed and unsourced] awards for short fiction", which isn't an automatic notability freebie in and of itself -- "writer notable because award" only attaches to major literary awards on the level of the Governor General's Awards or the Giller that get media coverage to establish the notability of the award, not to non-notable small-fry stuff, but the Asian Heritage in Canada source ascribes the book with the "New Muse Award" and the "Canadian Authors Association Jubilee Award", which are both minor awards that aren't notability clinchers. And for sourcing, two of the three footnotes here are primary sources that are not support for notability at all (i.e. a "staff" biography and a Q&A interview in which she's talking about herself in the first person), and the only marginally acceptable one (Asian Heritage) isn't enough all by itself to claim that she would pass WP:GNG in lieu of having to have a more significant notability claim than just winning non-notable awards. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have much stronger notability claims, and much better sourcing for them, than this. Bearcat (talk) 17:00, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 17:00, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment I find this article about her: but it's paywalled. That's about all I can find, nothing in GScholar (seems to be a rather common name though). She's the subject of more than a few chapters here: . Unsure of notability...Oaktree b (talk) 17:49, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
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 * Comment - my initial online search finds: So far, yet so near (The Hindu, 2013, "Anu Kumar examines the works of two early Indian English writers, Uma Parameswaran and Victor Rangel-Ribeiro."), The Raman wife effect: lively recollections (The Hindu, 2014, "If you have ever wondered about the life of a cerebral celebrity, then Uma Parameswaran’s biography on Lokasundari, Sir C.V. Raman’s wife would qualify as a breezy read. The author is Raman’s grand-niece."), A review of Maru and the Maple Leaf (Montreal Serai, 2019, "Uma Parameswaran, a retired professor of English (University of Winnipeg) and well known author with a special interest in women’s literature and South Asian culture, has cleverly crafted her recent novel around the writings and experiences of Maru, an Indo-Canadian woman from Winnipeg."), The Problem of Immigrant and Nastalgia (sic) in the Novel of Uma Parameswaran’s "Dear Deedi, My Sister" (Contemporary Literary Review India, 2019). I plan to also review the WP Library. Beccaynr (talk) 19:26, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:AUTHOR#3 due to the multiple reviews of her works, e.g. via the WP Library, Pereira, L. E. (2019). Between Two Cultures: Uma Parameswaran’s Sita’s Promise. Language in India, 19(3), 82–85 (EBSCOhost); Quilting a New Canon: Stitching Women’s Words Uma Parameswaran. (1999). NWSA Journal, 11(2), 199–201 (JSTOR); Rao, S. N. (2002). What Was Always Hers Uma Parameswaran. World Literature Today, 76(1), 136. (JSTOR); Gerein, J. (2003). Mangoes on the Maple Tree Uma Parameswaran. World Literature Today, 77(2), 91. (JSTOR); Perry, J. O. (2003). Sisters at the Well Uma Parameswaran. World Literature Today, 77(1), 96–97. (JSTOR); Hariharan, B. (2000). Kamala Markandaya Uma Parameswaran. World Literature Today, 74(3), 585. (JSTOR); Rao, S. N. (1999). Sons Must Die and Other Plays Uma Parameswaran. World Literature Today, 73(2), 344. (JSTOR, includes some career information); Kaushik, M. (2016). Negotiation of Home and Homelessness: The Immigrant in Uma Parameswaran’s Poetry. South Asian Review, 37(1), 117–130. (EBSCOhost); Uma Parameswaran: A Cycle of the Moon. (2011). World Literature Today, 85(5), 73. (JSTOR, capsule); Niven, A. (1986). The Commonwealth in Canada: Proceedings of the Second Triennial Conference of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Uma Parameswaran. Research in African Literatures, 17(3), 435–439. (JSTOR, includes career information); Hashmi, A. (1985). The Commonwealth in Canada: Proceedings of the Second Triennial Conference of CACLALS, 2 vols UMA PARAMESWARAN. Journal of South Asian Literature, 20(1), 250–252. (JSTOR); McLeod, A. L. (1984). The Commonwealth in Canada: Proceedings of the Second Triennial Conference of CACLALS Uma Parameswaran. World Literature Today, 58(4), 669. (JSTOR); Perry, J. O. (1989). Trishanku Uma Parameswaran. World Literature Today, 63(3), 537. (JSTOR); Mitchell, P., & Khankhoje, M. (2003). MANGOES ON THE MAPLE TREE (Book). Herizons, 17(2), 35. (EBSCOhost); The sweet smell of mother's wilkwet bodice (Globe and Mail, 2001, via Gale); Robbins, W. (2002). THE SWEET SMELL OF MOTHER’S MILK-WET BODICE (Book). Herizons, 16(1), 36. (EBSCOhost); Uma Parameswaran (Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, 2007). I have not yet reviewed ProQuest. Beccaynr (talk) 20:01, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Also via the WP Library: Raman Effect Minimal (The Indian Express, 2011, via Gale); The Great Man & His Aberrations (Tehelka, 2011, via Gale); The other side of science (The New Indian Express, 2013, via Gale). Beccaynr (talk) 20:15, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * via ProQuest, e.g. Mittal, B. (1998). Exploring the immigrant experience through theatre: Uma Parameswaran's Rootless but Green Are the Boulevard Trees. Canadian Theatre Review (94) 1998, 32-5. Retrieved from ; Mendis, R. (1989). Parameswaran, Uma. (Trishanku) // Review. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 21(2), 147-149. Retrieved from ; Dabydeen, Cyril. (1990) Parameswaran, Uma. (Trishanku) // Review. Journal of Canadian Poetry Vol. 5: 98-100. Retrieved from ; Jussawalla, F. (1990). Asia & the Pacific -- The Perforated Sheet: Essays on Salman Rushdie's Art by Uma Parameswaran. World Literature Today, 64(1), 200. Retrieved from ; Pandey, M. S. The Trishanku motif in the poetry of Sujata Bhatt and Uma Parameswaran. In (pp. 225-38) McLeod, A. L. (ed.), The literature of the Indian diaspora: essays in criticism. New Delhi: Sterling, 2000. pp. xvii, 289. Retrieved from ; Bhattacharya, Swagata. (2021) Re-defining 'Can. Lit.' or 'Indian Writing in English'? English Writings and the Indian Diaspora in Canada. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 44, Iss. 2: 191-198. Retrieved from. Beccaynr (talk) 20:55, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep due to the very convincing explanation by Beccaynr CT55555 (talk) 20:50, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
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