Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gertrude Rachel Levy

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (talk • mail) 03:52, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gertrude Rachel Levy

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Poorly sourced biography of a writer, whose only stated claim to passing WP:AUTHOR is that she and her work existed. As always, a writer does not get an automatic free pass over WP:AUTHOR just because her works have directory entries on WorldCat -- but there's no reliable source coverage about her or her work being shown here at all, with the only listed reference being a single glancing namecheck of her existence, as a personal influence on the speaker's ideas, in an interview with a different writer that's primarily about something otherwise unrelated to her. I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody can locate more reliable sourcing about her than I've been able to (I can only deep-database Canadian topics as a rule, while for everybody else I'm strictly at the mercy of the Google) -- but neither the substance nor the sourcing here are enough to deem her notable as written. Bearcat (talk) 18:19, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. XOR'easter (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. XOR'easter (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I had no trouble expanding the article from Google Books, and showing the influence of Levy's works. A Google Books search is one of the minimum requirements under WP:BEFORE. It turns out, also, that she was an associate of Henri Frankfort in his archaeological work in Iraq, referenced as G. Rachel Levy or just Rachel Levy, in the 1930s. In the post-war period she was in London, working for an Institute, usually as G. R. Levy. She was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. According to one reference her brother had a ranch in British Columbia. There is no reason to be deleting the article. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:48, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There's now a dab page at Rachel Levy, as well as the range of redirects, to make that version of her name usable - previously it redirected to a bomb victim of that name. PamD 16:36, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep @Bearcat:, it was only necessary to click "JSTOR" on the tool bar to see reviews of and citations to her book The Gate of Horn: A Study of the Religious Conceptions of the Stone Age, and Their Influence Upon European Thought that make it clear that she passes AUTHOR had an impact on scholarship in her field. Wikipedia:Deletion is not cleanup. With thanks to User:Charles Matthews for the WP:HEYMANN, I suggest that you withdraw this nomination.E.M.Gregory (talk) 12:45, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep More than enough reviews in JSTOR to pass WP:AUTHOR and, I'd say, WP:PROF#C1. (For a pre-Internet scholar in the humanities, GS is going to be useless.) Fellowship in the Society of Antiquaries of London counts toward WP:PROF#C3 as well. XOR'easter (talk) 16:17, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. XOR'easter (talk) 16:17, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Article now contains enough reviews for WP:AUTHOR, per improvements by XOR'easter. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:39, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Snow keep per WP:AUTHOR. Thank you Charles Matthews. Hmlarson (talk) 23:45, 10 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. As above, Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 03:13, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:AUTHOR.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 08:38, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, piling on the snow here, meets WP:NAUTHOR with The Gate of Horn and The Sword from the Rock receiving plenty of reviews (each meet WP:NBOOK and could have standalone articles), let alone her other publications. Coolabahapple (talk) 11:12, 14 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Passes WP:Author. Xxanthippe (talk) 01:05, 15 May 2018 (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.