Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mistress Matisse

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The result was Keep. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-16 01:15Z

[edit] Mistress Matisse

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I assume being a columnist passes as an assertion of notablility, so it's not quite a WP:CSD#A7 speedy deletion. However, WP:BIO requires that "the person has been a primary subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the person", and no such sources are cited in the article. Sandstein 11:05, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

• Comment: I'm digging cites at the moment. Here's one, she cohosted a column with Dan Savage.[1] That may satisfy WP:BIO. I'll keep looking. — coelacan talk — 12:25, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Also published in the SandMUtopian Guardian Magazine at least once.[2] — coelacan talk — 12:41, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
• Keep? Keep Search engine test (her name, quoted, Google) yields over one hundred thousand hits, while many are simply blog links, there are some interviews in there (e.g., Rope Weekly podcast 17 Feb 2006 [3], another podcast interview at Odeo about the Folsom Street Faire [4]), and I'm inclined to believe that there must be sufficient verifiable information there on that basis alone.--Joe Decker 14:21, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Podcasts or blogs are not WP:RS. If you find any, could you add them to the article? Sandstein 21:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

If I find anything solid, I'll definitely add it myself, moreover, I know a few folks in the BDSM community in general who may or may not have a better idea of where to look for appropriate sources than I do. --Joe Decker 22:40, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually podcasts may be used for notability. See WP:WEB#_ref-6. It depends on whose podcast it is. I think the blowfish podcast, over on odeo, is notable. I'm not strong on the other. — coelacan talk — 00:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Comment Added reference to a chapter about her and/or her bloggings from the book "The Mammoth Book of Sex Diaries: Online Confessions and Call-Girl Adventures--The Best of the Sex Blogs" to the article in question. --Joe Decker 01:16, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. The collaboration with Savage, the blowfish thing, and especiallly the book, are enough to demonstrate notability. — coelacan talk — 06:02, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

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