Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Viveka Adelswärd

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The result was keep‎. (non-admin closure) Shadow311 (talk) 15:41, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Viveka Adelswärd[edit]

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WP:BLP of a writer, not properly referenced as passing inclusion criteria for writers. The attempted notability claim here is a language conservation award, which would be fine if the article were properly sourced but is in no way "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to pass WP:GNG, but the article as written is completely unsourced.
As I can't read Swedish, I'm perfectly willing to withdraw this if somebody who can read Swedish can find enough sourcing to salvage it, but she isn't exempted from having to have any sourcing just because the article has the word "award" in it. Bearcat (talk) 14:51, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and Sweden. Bearcat (talk) 14:51, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Women, and Language. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:30, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. I think the article has been dragged up to the bare minimum, source-wise, and I'm convinced there's more which could be done. I found a couple of longer newspaper sources in the Swedish newspaper database sv:Mediearkivet, which collects a lot of newspaper articles from the last 10–15 years (and some older ones, but coverage gets sketchy). She was one of the hosts of Sommar (radio program) in the early 90s, which is considered quite a big thing. There's a lot of trivial coverage from back then, but at least one article in Aftonbladet from 2 August 1992 which seems promising – the Royal Library of Sweden has a lot of scanned newspaper articles where you can only see very short snippets, but where you need to get to the library or to one of a small number of university computers with access. More work to do, but I think it can be kept with the current amount of sourcing. /Julle (talk) 21:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - as there also is a festschrift for her 60th birthday, satisfying WP:PROF criteria 1c. //Replayful (talk | contribs) 09:57, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - meets WP:PROF. --Rosiestep (talk) 19:57, 15 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep -- Festschrift honoring her work is independent coverage of notability unless demonstratably tainted, which I cannot find evidence of here. -- Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert (talk) 10:24, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Replayful and Mscuthbert. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 10:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
KEEP as Google Books search yields enough coverage for WP:BLP. --Twinkle1990 (talk) 14:13, 16 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep extensively quoted as an expert in Swedish litterature on communication, per GNG. Draken Bowser (talk) 07:26, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: per Julle. Southati (talk) 14:42, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: per Julle and Twinkle1990 -- Robertjamal12 ~🔔 17:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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