Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susie Thomas

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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 ~ trialsanderrors (talk) 13:46, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Susie Thomas

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The article gives no evidence that this person is more notable than many thousands of other academics in London. Prod notice removed by User:Enokblue, but no explantaion given as to why this person is notable. Dorange (talk) 22:51, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete - not notable, no reliable sources to back up the article, nothing special here. Turgidson (talk) 00:17, 29 November 2007 (UTC).
  • Speedy delete, the page is a verbatim copyvio from here: [1]. --Crusio (talk) 08:44, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Masterpiece2000 (talk) 12:51, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Note I reverted the page to a non-copyvio version. --WinHunter (talk) 13:25, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - no evidence of academic notability. Cosmo0 (talk) 21:18, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep while developing more research - The WP article is wholly deficient, but a quick search in Google Scholar reveals that Thomas is, among other things, a literary biographer of Willa Cather (Willa Cather, Rowman & Littlefield, 1990); that book has been cited a number of times ([2]) . Given that no one here has yet discovered this other major contribution, I suggest that we hold for a bit until people have a chance to check her out in the major relevant scholarly databases (e.g., MLA Bibliography). --Lquilter 20:50, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
    • Comment: The 'citations' noted above are instances when Susie Thomas quoted passges of Willa Cather's texts in her book and other writers have also quoted these same passages. They're not citations of Susie Thomas by others. Most academics write books. I don't see that this makes Susie Thomas notable enough for Wikipedia. Dorange 23:23, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
  • delete I see no caim of notability, and no evidence that she passes WP:PROF. Pete.Hurd (talk) 03:18, 5 December 2007 (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.