Talk:Emily Bazelon

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[edit] Discussion of Notability

Thanks for your msg on Emily Bazelon. What makes her less notable than other Slate contributors is her relative lack of published work--Dickerson and Plotz, for example, have both written books (and Dickerson is notable in his own right for his family connections, etc). I don't want to press the issue, but to my mind, Bazelon just doesn't make the notability cut. FCLymond (talk) 22:38, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I’m sorry to say that I’m not very familiar with Wikipedia policy. The reason I created the Emily Bazelon article was because it was red-linked at the Slate magazine Wikipedia page. I have not been able to find any "published, third-party sources" about her, only articles she herself has written. I took the information for the article from various bios about her that publications she’s been associated with had published such as this.

So I’m not really sure how to proceed with this. Clearly she’s not a very notable person but she has written, at least in my opinion, some notable articles about controversial subjects, perhaps most notably a cover story for the New York Times Magazine about the post-abortion syndrome.

Although probably not a very good argument for keeping her article, but just looking at the other people included in the Slate magazine people category, I would argue that she is at least as notable as some of her fellow Slate writers who have their own articles. Kinggimble (talk) 13:44, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I would argue that her status as senior editor of slate makes her important enough to have her own wiki article. Also if Dickerson is notible for his family connections, surely Bazelon is. ----Watchreader (talk) 21:18, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

I'd vote keep. I just ended up at here because I read Slate magazine often and became curious about its senior editor. - Atfyfe (talk) 03:42, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Per discussion, I removed the notability tag. FCLymond (talk) 12:42, 27 May 2008 (UTC)