Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Patricia Volonakis Davis

WE received your messages about our article on Patricia Volonakis Davis.Thank you for taking the time to write. I have posted this notice wherever I thought was correct, and hope i have followed the right procedure. I understand your concerns and I tried to address them. Unfortunately for me, I am not tech-savvy at all, so I cannot figure out how to add ll the things you requested - links and other credentials which I think should be added.(Same reason i am having trouble figuring out how to respond to you) I had someone else do it for me who was happy to, because she also thinks Ms. Davis should have a WIKI page. Unfortunately, she emphasized things like Patricia's award, which means little and is not what she is notable for, in my (our) opinion.

Patricia is notable for her e-magazine and podcast, which is unique in that it is the only NON-PARTISAN publication on the web. Other publications, like The Huffington Post, for example, are filled with articles that have only one perspective. Ms. Davis started her e-magazine on the idea that we should all be heard, from all perspectives, as that is the only way to truly open up one's mind and begin a WORLD DIALOGUE. What is the sense of writing only for people who agree with you? The only rule for Harlots' Sauce Radio (her e-magazine) is that when you submit, you must  use facts and not emotions as your basis for your article. Further, Ms. Davis will take fledging writers,poets and photographers, young people like myself, and give them a voice and a high profile platform from which to publish.

Her podcasts are unlike the usual podcasts, too. They all follow the theme of "Something Delicious Out of Limited Choices- people who had bad things handed to them and made something good form them- a woman who has a rare brain disease,and decides it is a good thing because it taught her to appreciate life, a writer who lost his wife two weeks before he was published for the first time,and kept writing in her name, identical twins who lost their father who died in jail,  and made a film about him independently in which they managed to get Ed Harris to star.

Her journalistic work is the antidote to the Bush legacy of separating the United States from the world and also from itself- into two parts- liberal and right wing. Her writers are not just Americans, they hail from New Zealand, Greece, UK, Australia, and more. She works tirelessly to inspire. Her blog on VOX regularly receives hundreds of comments and although she has only written one book, even that book is a perspective on cross-culturalism, feminism and xenophobia. She wrote it so that it reads funny and light, but it is deep and intelligent. Because it wasn't the usual formulaic junk and Ms.Davis is an unknown she had difficulty obtaining a traditional publisher, and so she went with a smaller publisher who believed in the work. That book is now hot all over the internet and is now being considered for several awards. She is so busy, speaking, writing, and promoting other inspiring people and being encouraging and inspiring to others, that she has no idea we, her writers and blog fans have created this page for her. many of us think she deserves it and we wanted to present it to her as a surprise. But, if you think it should be deleted, because she is not yet famous enough, go ahead. However, you might be pleased in six months to see it back up again, put there by someone else, and by then I can assure you, you will know very well who she is. So I ask respectfully, if perhaps you might want to reconsider and have WIKi be the first to truly claim her for what she is?

If I sound like an adoring fan, well, you might be too, if you knew her work. We put this page up so that many will. Please reconsider. Check her e-mag at www.harlotssauce.com, her website at www. patriciavdavis.com and the rest of her substantial online presence. Thank you for your time. NV, JO and others... —Preceding unsigned comment added by NigelVoight (talk • contribs) 03:48, 3 March 2009 (UTC)