Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thordis Bjornsdottir

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The result of the debate was delete. Johnleemk | Talk 15:06, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thordis Bjornsdottir

Non-notable Icelandic writer. Has one self-published book — the importance of which is exaggerated in the article — and one relevant English language Google hit. I've met her, she's a nice person and I wish her the best. Hopefully we'll have an article on her in the future. - Haukur

As a side note her fiancé survived his AfD. - Haukur 15:58, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

• KEEP - Poet has three poems in legitimate literary magazine Tin House.

• Delete - Haukur 15:44, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep A notable female Icelandic poet. Or to put it another way, very marginal, but here's a chance to counter systemic bias. Dlyons493 Talk 17:38, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

  I don't think we really have a systemic bias against Icelanders. In Category:Icelandic poets there are currently 19 poets (from a nation of about 300,000 people). Admittedly none of them is a woman so I suppose you could say that's one kind of systemic bias. - Haukur 17:50, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. per nom and I don't believe there is a bias against Icelanders either. - NeoJustin 18:36, December 31, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Absolutely non-notable (in fact, I'd never heard of her until my attention was directed to the article), and the article's history suggests anonymous self-promotion or promotion by a friend. Cheers Io 22:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

And if someone wants to include poetesses, it isn't as if there aren't any. Suggestions would include Hulda, Látra-Björg, Skáld-Rósa, Herdís Andrésdóttir, Ólína Andrésdóttir, Theódóra Thoroddsen, Guðný Jónsdóttir frá Klömbrum and Júlíana Jónsdóttir as well as others who escape my mind right now, just to name the some of the older ones. (The young generation doesn't appeal to me, but others would surely be happy to fill in.) Cheers Io 22:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

As for Haukur's side note above, I can't shake the suspicion, that Jesse Ball and Þórdís Björnsdóttir wrote each other's articles. But maybe that's just my character raising its ugly head. Cheers Io 23:00, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.