Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jennifer Speake

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 keep. Evidence has been put forward of the subject meeting NAUTHOR, and has not been rebutted. Vanamonde (Talk) 19:28, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jennifer Speake[edit]

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Extent of notability unclear. Seems to be an accomplished but non-notable editor. - Mooonswimmer 14:21, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Women, United Kingdom, and Canada. AllyD (talk) 14:31, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: what Speake has accomplished makes her notable imo. (Though I should declare an interest as the WP editor who created a page for her.) The reference books which she has edited are extremely prominent in libraries (see her worldcat page) and regularly used as wikipedia sources (there are ~130 links to her page). Dsp13 (talk) 14:33, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Sources provided amount to a forum post about her father that mentions her birth, a marriage announcement, an article about her husband that mentions her in passing, and a PDF about someone she worked with. Unless better sources can be found, there is nothing here to demonstrate notability. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 14:34, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Probably delete - on the one hand, the subject of the article appears to have been the author or editor of some popular reference works, specifically dictionaries of English idioms and phrases. But that doesn't appear to be enough to infer notability here. The usual standard of the GNG doesn't seem to have been met. Even just considering WP:AUTHOR in isolation, there's not enough to meet any of the criteria. It's just too thin. JMWt (talk) 15:02, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Good points made by Escape Orbit. I've added further references (reviews in journals, and an award won by her book on travel writing. Dsp13 (talk) 16:12, 19 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I have added multiple reviews, for multiple publications, of her work. Her work is quite widely reviewed, though I have had trouble finding details about her life. DaffodilOcean (talk) 11:09, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - per WP:HEY and WP:AUTHOR#3. Details about her life are not necessary to establish her notability as a creative professional, and this has been discussed in recent AfDs, e.g. Lalita Iyer and Rimi B. Chatterjee. Beccaynr (talk) 15:34, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I agree the details are not necessary, I should have been clearer that I was posing that search as a challenge for future editors. DaffodilOcean (talk) 15:38, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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.