Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diane Engber

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 02:26, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diane Engber

Diane Engber (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Stx16gn and 66.162.225.68 made a number of edits to this article, gushing about Ms. Engber. Ordinarily, I would just remove those statements to make the article more balanced, but as it is, the article doesn't seem to make a good case for notability. Many significant assertions go unsourced, and the few sources that are provided are unconvincing. For instance, a "Donor Honor Roll" is provided as evidence that she is "on a plateau of feminist writers and teachers". (Disclosure: She was my high school English teacher, but this deletion nomination has nothing to do with that.) – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:31, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

• Delete, no attribution of notability to independent sources; fails WP:BIO. --Dhartung | Talk 05:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:BIO, no reliable sources to establish any form of notability. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 06:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletions. -- Pete.Hurd (talk) 06:36, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete fails WP:BIO, as stated -- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:04, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Fails WP:BIO. As the nomination states, assertions are not supported by sources. The claim that the subject "is one of the premiere teachers on African and South American literature" is supported by a NWSA Journal article penned by Engber herself. The assertion that she was "a promoter of the internet back when there were apprehensions" - in the late 90s! - is supported by a single, short piece Engber published in a July 1998 edition of The Cincinnati Post. Victoriagirl (talk) 18:50, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as per above. --Crusio (talk) 19:01, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, this seems to fail WP:BIO and evidence suggests but does not confirm that Mrs. Engber may have made the article herself. Beaucage.Peter (talk) 21:32, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per Victoriagirl. Pete.Hurd (talk) 06:02, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Unfortunately, the one published article in NWSA Journal is not enough for notability. DGG (talk) 06:09, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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