Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vanessa Holloway


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The result was delete. Jenks24 (talk) 04:49, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Vanessa Holloway

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Fails WP:GNG and WP:ACADEMIC. Her academic position is not notable; I searched Google Scholar and found nothing at all; I could find no reviews of her books, which may not be surprising since both were published in 2015. The preface to one of her books describes her as a "young" academic, maybe it's just WP:TOOSOON for her to have an article here. MelanieN (talk) 21:57, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete: I did an independent search.  Does not meet WP:GNG, not even close, at this juncture.--Milowent • hasspoken  03:54, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Here is one review of her book by Lesser, Emma, and Matthew W. Hughey. Review. “Getting Away with Murder: The Twentieth-Century Struggle for Civil Rights in the U.S. Senate / Vanessa A. Holloway” Ethnic and Racial Studies — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mavericktx (talk • contribs) 13:35, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Her books were not both published in 2015. The first one was published December 15, 2014 and the second one was May 8, 2015. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mavericktx (talk • contribs) 13:41, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for that! Here is a link to the review: --MelanieN (talk) 14:54, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

Will you please kindly remove the page issues link on the top left corner of her page? She is a burgeoning scholar and has a new book about civil rights forthcoming with the University of Alabama Press titled, Discrimination in Agriculture: The USDA and Black Farmers' Elusive Quest for Acreage and Land Tenure in the Post-Civil Rights Era.

Please keep her page and remove the page issues link. Many thanks to wikipedia for support! So now when people google search her or her books, there is an article entry here for her as a scholar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mavericktx (talk • contribs) 03:18, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete Does not (yet) meet wp:nacademic. May later. Zero cites on her books, no articles retrieved in G-Scholar (one possible essay in a book of essays). LaMona (talk) 03:23, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

When will her article entry be deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mavericktx (talk • contribs) 10:22, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
 * This discussion was listed on October 16, so it will remain open at least until October 23. At that point an administrator will decide if there is a community consensus to keep it or delete it, or if the discussion should be extended. I understand your wish to have an article here about here, but Wikipedia has to have standards for who it has articles about. In her case the standards can be found at WP:ACADEMIC or WP:BIO. Even if she doesn't meet those standards now, it is quite possible that she will meet them a little later, when her career is more developed and other scholars have taken more notice of her. --MelanieN (talk) 14:31, 20 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete. WorldCat shows low holdings of all her books, which is expected, given that she seems to be an early-in-career scholar (Medgar Evers College lists her as an adjunct lecturer). A book review in a low-impact, discipline-specific journal like Ethnic and Racial Studies is considered to be average scholarly accomplishment (as opposed to a review in a high-impact, general-interest periodical, which would be much more significant). Finally, there's no WP:RS support. Archetypical case of WP:TOOSOON. Agricola44 (talk) 15:47, 20 October 2015 (UTC).
 * Delete I've looked here there and everywhere but I have run out of ways to save this article, so I'm afraid it has to go. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:20, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per above, agree that a case of WP:TOOSOON, a search brought up these as well - Africana Studies Department Newsletter, 2014 under Alumni News mentions publication of her 1st book, and this  - The City University of New York announcing the book launch with a mention of it being nominated for Benjamin L. Hooks National Book Award but not enough to meet WP:GNG. Coolabahapple (talk) 17:33, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom and above editors. Search did not turn up anything to suggest they meet either WP:GNG or WP:ACADEMIC.  Onel 5969  TT me 02:11, 24 October 2015 (UTC)


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