Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sharmi Albrechtsen

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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 no consensus. WP:NPASR Mark Arsten (talk) 01:17, 16 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sharmi Albrechtsen[edit]

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Purely promotional biography about a journalist and a book she's written, with nothing to indicate the notability of the subject. The article in Time Newsfeed has nothing to do with Sharmi Albrechtsen, the article in The Copenhagen Post is about someone else and only mentions Sharmi Albrechtsen briefly and the links to Oprah do not in any way make Sharmi Albrechtsen notable. The impression I get when reading the article is that the subject of it wanted an article about herself on Wikipedia and had someone upload it for her. With one of the reasons for that being that the style of this article is much more polished and grammatically correct than other contributions from the creator of the article (such as this edit summary from Zebra Finch: I have been bred many times of zebra finch, normally its can give good breed from 6 months of their age), a difference in style and language skills that makes me doubt that the creator wrote it... Thomas.W talk to me 15:26, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 16:17, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 16:17, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Denmark-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 16:19, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Sharmi has an entire page dedicated to all the coverage she has received: Sharmi in the Media. This should be enough for her to be considered notable. Mimalman freeway (talk) 18:59, 20 August 2013 (UTC) — Mimalman freeway (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]
  • Keep For a blogger and self-published author (Lulu) she has unusual level of international coverage for her book/blog on Danes and happiness, on Oprah's Life Class[1], BBC[2], German television network ARTE[3], South Korea's OhMyNews[4], House Hunters International (HGTV)[5], Danish lifestyle magazine Mad&Bolig[6]. I can't find any book reviews and none of the pieces are really about Sharmi, except OhMyNews. So there are good and bad here, but I am willing to give her a chance, based on GNG multiple reliable sources. If in 5 or 10 years nothing hew has happened it would be easier delete but don't see the rush to delete yet. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 19:56, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Too many primary sources are on the article with too few secondary sources, so this article needs more support. A few more secondary sources besides OhMyNews above that haven't surfaced yet:

1. http://embrace-yourself.net/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Woman_you_deserve_to_be_happy.291202150.pdf

2. http://dispatch.dis.dk/story/danes-rejoice-life%E2%80%99s-simple-pleasures

3. New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/world/europe/danes-rethink-a-welfare-state-ample-to-a-fault.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

4. http://www.indiaeveryday.in/Video/Search.aspx?q=sharmi Baerdorf (talk) 15:37, 21 August 2013 (UTC) — Baerdorf (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. [reply]

  • None of those links establish any notability what so ever for Sharmi Albrechtsen. The NYT article is about happy Danes in general and doesn't even mention Sharmi Albrechtsen, she's mentioned only in passing in one of the other links and is just one of many names mentioned as references in another. And the Indiaeveryday-link is a just long list of videos containing the name "Sharmi" in the title, mostly music videos with an artist by that name. Baerdorf is a brand new SPA account, obviously created specifically for this AfD-discussion, so I would like to point out that this AfD is not about getting as many "keep" votes as possible (that is it is not a majority vote) but about seeing if the subject of the article, Sharmi Albrechtsen, is notable enough to have an article here (see WP:Notability). Thomas.W talk to me 16:28, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Given that we've already seen two brand new SPA accounts comment/vote on this AfD I want to point out that users who have a conflict of interest (for example being or representing the subject of the article) should state so in their comments. Also please note this quote from Wikipedia:AfD: "Unregistered or new users are welcome to contribute to the discussion, but their recommendations may be discounted if they seem to be made in bad faith (for example, if they misrepresent their reasons)." Thomas.W talk to me 17:05, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, postdlf (talk) 15:50, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:08, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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