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Arts and Entertainment Work Group

The Arts and Entertainment Work Group is a working group of members of the Biography WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of biography articles.

Biography (arts and entertainment) articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	7	18	37	87		2	151
FL			3	3			6
A			1	1		1	3
GA	9	39	85	434		82	649
B	54	156	427	1,392		3,246	5,275
C	17	182	841	7,857		17,731	26,628
Start	3	95	1,158	26,816	12	63,693	91,777
Stub		16	325	30,923	6	44,675	75,945
List		4	5	185	1	166	361
Category					35,069		35,069
Disambig					31		31
File					457		457
Project					7		7
Redirect				469	1,703		2,172
Template					931		931
NA				1	1		2
Other			1	26	88		115
Assessed	90	510	2,883	68,194	38,306	129,596	239,579
Unassessed				11		177	188
Total	90	510	2,883	68,205	38,306	129,773	239,767
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,035,862			Ω = 5.18

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1. I am ready to work on the biography articles of Indian or Biography actors Jogesh 69 (talk) 15:00, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
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Paneb

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 speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) PharaohCrab speak𓀁 works𓀨 20:45, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Paneb (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Paneb is only notable in the context of the Papyrus Salt 124 and most of this page is copied from the Accusations against Paneb section of said article PharaohCrab speak𓀁 works𓀨 13:40, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Artists, Crime, and Egypt. PharaohCrab speak𓀁 works𓀨 13:40, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Keep - It's interesting that this person has been documented for so many centuries; well over 3,000 years and into the present 21st century. The three existing are reliable sources. A super quick WP:BEFORE search on Google Books in English find many sources that include information about his life [8] all from reliable presses like Cornell University Press, American University in Cairo Press, British Museum, Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Journal, Journal of the Egyptian Archaeology, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, University of California Press, and more. If one were to do a search on JSTOR or on Egyptian Google, they would probably find more. As far as the lifting of content from another Wikipedia article, that problem can be fixed by giving proper attribution, and editing. It's not a reason for deletion (AfD is not for clean up). Policy wise, I'd say he clearly meets WP:GNG and WP:ANYBIO and WP:BASIC. Netherzone (talk) 16:38, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: History and Archaeology. Netherzone (talk) 16:44, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, it is a notable topic that deserves coverage on Wikipedia but not on its own page because it is really just a subtopic of another page that already contains all of the information on Paneb's page except for a tiny and unnecessary popular culture section. PharaohCrab speak𓀁 works𓀨 17:08, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

• Merge Keep: this article and Papyrus Salt 124 are really just treading the same ground (and, as noted above, this one seems to be in lage part a copy-paste of that one). We do have articles for people like Ea-nāṣir, Enkhelyawon and Eritha who are known only from a few relatively passing mentions on ancient tablets, but those all have at least two different tablets in question, so we can't just have one article that covers the person and the tablet. Here, one or other of the articles needs to go. On looking further, this isn't true -- we have mentions in scholarship to other monuments he erected, and to other sources about his family. See also here, p. 138: The career of the chief workman Paneb has been the subject of several studies. Paneb clearly has an evidential life that's bigger than Papyrus Salt 124, and therefore merits an article that's independent of it. This particular article still needs a lot of cleanup, per Netherzone above, but that's not an AfD matter. UndercoverClassicist ^T·C 17:20, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

  I was not aware of those other places he may be attested to. but Paneb does seem to have been a semi-common name of that period, for intense TT211 is a tomb for a seemingly different workman at Deir el-Medina named Paneb and one of your souses also mention a certain "Paneb II". If you can confirm that this Paneb is the same one attested in those other ancient sources then I will be conversed that the article should stay. PharaohCrab speak𓀁 works𓀨 17:52, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

  @PharaohCrab If you have JSTOR or EBSCO or library access, there is a 13 page peer-reviewed academic journal on him that you can read. I added it as a citation. It's on Paneb I not his son Paneb II. Netherzone (talk) 19:26, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

  Also, if you have access to SAGE Journals, you can read the entire 13 page article, here: [9] Netherzone (talk) 19:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

  It does appear that you are indeed correct and a few ostracons, papyri and steles from this time do mention a chief workman named Paneb who is almost certainly the same as the one here. I now believe that the article should not be deleted and instead be cleaned up to not be an exact copy and rely more on other ancient sources about his life. PharaohCrab speak𓀁 works𓀨 20:36, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

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Fairview Art Collection

Fairview Art Collection (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Relies excessively on local newspapers, rather than state/national titles, to assert notability, and the state newspaper source listed doesn't mention the art collection (and I can't find any more that add to its notability in Wikipedia terms). There has been much promotional editing relating to its founder over the years; see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Wazdanny. Graham87 (talk) 05:56, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. This was recently nominated for speedy deletion by Duffbeerforme and speedied by me, but restored when there was disagreement whether the SD was appropriate Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:24, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. Doesn't make WP:GNG. BlookyNapsta (talk) 08:42, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Visual arts, Museums and libraries, and Australia. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 12:02, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
• It seems the listings & coverage make the house notable. Convert to an article on that. The collection seems more doubtful, with only two artists with articles mentioned. Johnbod (talk) 13:16, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Re the listings: the Subiaco Local Heritage Survey is localised (i.e. based on the local government body that manages a small part of the Perth metropolitan area) and the house is not on the List of State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Subiaco (if it was that would definitely confer notability). I can't find much on the National Trust designation except that it was classified by them at some point, but it turns out that we do already have an article about the broader Chesters' Subdivision Conservation Area. Graham87 (talk) 15:21, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
    • Since this isn't something I know a huge amount about, I've asked for more comments at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western Australia#Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fairview Art Collection. Even to me this feels like borderline canvassing though because I know that people watching that page might not be kindly disposed to this article due to the history here (which is why I didn't notify them before), but I'm not sure what else to do in this case. Graham87 (talk) 15:33, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
      • Hmmm it seems that the National Trust list of classified places isn't publicly available but there are about 1700 of them. Graham87 (talk) 15:38, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
        • Despite the name, the National Trust list of classified places doesn't appear to be an official government or state listing body, so I don't think being on their list is like a UK listed building or US Historic building, a do-it-yourself job it appears Jimfbleak - talk to me? 16:10, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
          • • Oh, well, probably delete then. Johnbod (talk) 17:23, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
• Comment - I was going to say that the house itself may be notable, but it appears not. It seems the article was mainly used to promote the artists in the collection (by sock puppets), but it's doubtful the collection itself is notable outside of its local community. Will do a little poking around on the internet before !voting. Netherzone (talk) 16:50, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

David Patchen

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David Patchen (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Artist, not much in the way of reliable sources. Most edits are either done by himself, or single use accounts. Feels like a vanity page. Granted I don't know enough about glass blowing and art museums to know if he qualifies for WP:CREATIVE (substantial part of a significant exhibition, won significant critical attention, been represented within the permanent collections of several notable galleries or museums). Nswix (talk) 21:48, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Delete: No Getty ULAN listing [10], mentioned here [11], but that's hardly enough. Last AfD was almost 20 yrs ago and not much more for RS seems to have turned up. I don't see notability, lack of sourcing. Oaktree b (talk) 16:44, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Raimo Dietrich Nagel

Raimo Dietrich Nagel (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:NARTIST. No evidence that subject is notable enough for a standalone article, and coverage from reliable sources is clearly insufficient. CycloneYoris ^talk! 09:42, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Delete: Zero hits in Gnews, nothing in the Getty ULAN [12]. One RS as an "artist on the rise", rest are catalog listings... Person is only 19, likely TOOSOON. I don't see notability. Oaktree b (talk) 14:27, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete per Oaktree b - far too soon. Bearian (talk) 13:30, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Edwin Howard (architect)

Edwin Howard (architect) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Fails WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 20:31, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Redirect to Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics#Events summary – As WP:ATD. Svartner (talk) 20:43, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Keep – The coverage found by Beaniefan looks adequate for WP:SIGCOV. Svartner (talk) 17:10, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Keep. Olympedia (150+ words) is SIGCOV #1, then there's a good deal of mentions in the New York press of his time, including 1 2 3 4 + 5. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:15, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
  • @Svartner: BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:59, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
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• Redirect per Svartner. BlookyNapsta (talk) 10:06, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
  • What's wrong with the sources presented? BeanieFan11 (talk) 16:59, 18 December 2025 (UTC)
• Keep. I've expanded the article and also added a source. It's hard to find digitized materials from a hundred years ago (!), but the fact that people are still writing about him/his work today says a lot. William Frenaye has a similar case. Barseghian Lilia (talk) 14:00, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Nick Jennings (artist)

Nick Jennings (artist) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Lack of significant coverage warranting a BLP article. Go D. Usopp (talk) 10:37, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Keep His major animation and directing roles in several notable TV series makes him meet NARTIST, specifically point 3 about creating or playing a major role in co-creating a "significant body of work", which Jennings did. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:33, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
• Comment - I'm finding quite a few hits for him on Google Books - in books dealing with animation and cartooning. But because of Google Book's @%$#&! "snippet view" I'm unable to determine which of these might constitute WP:SIGCOV. The Emmy award is a notable award, so I'm wondering if that is enough for a pass of WP:ANYBIO or if it would be considered WP:BIO1E/WP:BLP1E. Netherzone (talk) 18:25, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Left guide (talk) 11:45, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Keep - I've added two new citations, and more content. Still working on trying to unlock the book references so I can read what they say about Jennings. However, I'm convinced that he is notable based on his long history of producing and directing, the awards, and his work as a mentor to others. Netherzone (talk) 15:35, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Keep per above - WP:NARTIST is met. ~2025-41587-03 (talk) 14:06, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Elizabeth H. Frisch

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This person does not appear to meet WP:GNG or WP:NARTIST. Of the sources in the article, three are from Wellesley College, where Frisch taught, and thus not independent coverage. The banner at the top of the 21centuryantiques.com article says they were "commissioned to represent" Frisch, so that's definitely not independent coverage either. My search on Google does not turn up any better sourcing. My search on Newspapers.com does turn up a few hits, with the two best matches I found being from The Day: a 1980 obituary and a 1962 profile of an art exhibition at Wellesley College. All the other hits I looked at were passing mentions ("Frisch exhibiting here on this date" type blurbs). Overall, I'm not seeing enough to establish notability. Zeibgeist (talk) 02:59, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Comment. She has works in the collection of one notable museum. That's not enough for WP:ARTIST but one more like that might be. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:49, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

  It's worth noting that the museum in question, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, is run by the institution she taught at. Zeibgeist (talk) 06:56, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

• Comment, slightly curious one here; was she related to Theresa Grace Frisch who taught at Wellesley at the same time? Theresa Grace was an expert in mediaeval art and is a published author, making it easier to justify an article about her. Did Elizabeth Holmes Frisch actually publish academically, or just teach painting? Elemimele (talk) 10:45, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete: Coverage is limited to primary and institutional sources no independent reliable sources establish notability per WP:N and WP:NARTIST CONFUSED SPIRIT(Thilio).Talk 11:29, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Jean-Pierre Baldini

Jean-Pierre Baldini (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Unreferenced BLP. Google search returned no news or books, and websites do not show any sigcov outside of just auctioning his works. Article history shows little useful referencing and mostly just promo. JacobTheRox^{(talk | contributions)} 11:34, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Delete. Fails WP:NARTIST. Aneirinn (talk) 11:39, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
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Delete per nom and WP:NARTIST. Revolving Doormat (talk) 14:02, 13 December 2025 (UTC)

Delete I am not finding any reliable sources for information to improve this article. Fails WP:NARTIST. Previous, now deleted, citations did not support the statements made. --WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 00:20, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

• Delete - one possibly unreliable citation is not enough for a BLP. Ping me if you find and add three better sources. Bearian (talk) 01:53, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

  When I first saw it, I was about to ask to speedily delete it, but I found national sources and websites like mutual art that shows his sales, so Keep it AnAstronautsPhotographsFromSpace (talk) 21:50, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

  he got good news coverage AnAstronautsPhotographsFromSpace (talk) 22:05, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

  Any links to RS? JacobTheRox^{(talk | contributions)} 18:28, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Madeline Pendleton

Madeline Pendleton (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Tagged for notability and neutrality for four months, since September. Fails WP:NBUSINESSPERSON and WP:AUTHOR: Tunnel Vision clothing does not stand out commercially among other businesses since its foundation in 2014, and her only book has not won any awards or been included in bestselling lists. NoonIcarus (talk) 16:49, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Comment: I looked through the book Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (source 5 in the article), but I could not find any mention of them on any page nor in the extensive index which lists out every person and company written about in the book. death pact (again) 19:13, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

I have added a failed verification tag accordingly. --NoonIcarus (talk) 19:16, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

The source appears to have been cut from the book. It's still listed in Google Books, but in the copy I purchased later after writing the article has it removed from the same page. Considering there haven't been any significant new sources for the individual and this one has been removed, I don't oppose deletion unless someone wants to come in and do more research. Illinois2011 (talk) 13:10, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Delete: no WP:SIGCOV. Marquardtika (talk) 18:46, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Francisco de Santiago Silva

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Unref article, I couldn't find evidence he meets WP:BIO / WP:GNG. Boleyn (talk) 10:02, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Delete: No coverage in Gnews, Gsearch doesn't bring up much. Not listed in the Getty ULAN [13]. Died almost 20 yrs ago, I'd think there would be something published in that time if the artist was notable. Oaktree b (talk) 16:55, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete: lack of enough SIGCOV to suggest notability, tried searching so far and have yet to get enough SIGCOV sources.Lorraine Crane (talk) 15:58, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
• Keep: User @Moscow Mule added several news sources. I added six more sources, including magazine, newspaper and thesis. This should be enough to show SIGCOV. I'll try to expand the article in the future using these sources. — Itzcuauhtli11 (talk) 17:53, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
• Keep: @Itzcuauhtli11's last few edits pushed it over the line, I think. Moscow Mule (talk) 18:41, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Keep: Considering recent edits, now he meets WP:GNG Nagirakitan (talk) 14:31, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Keep per WP:HEY. More sources can be added from Google book search. --SaTnamZIN (talk) 07:50, 16 December 2025 (UTC)--SaTnamZIN (talk) 07:50, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
• Keep as per WP:HEY. Bearian (talk) 12:07, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

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Christina Wodtke

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Previously discussed in 2004, where it was a resounding keep. However, I don't think the subject meets current criteria for notability.

Existing sources in the article:

• Albers, Michael J.; Mazur, Beth (2003-01-01). Content & complexity: information design in technical communication- The relevant section is just "Christina Wodtke (2001) described a model of information architecture that consists of three parts: content architecture, interaction design,and information design. The latter 'concentrates on both organizing information for comprehension but also concerns itself with [GUI] design,' with content architecture describing more structural aspects (described best by Morville & Rosenfeld, 1998)." (p.29) and an additional citation on page 26.
• "Christina R Wodtke's Profile/Boxes & Arrows/Slideshare/Lanyrd - not independent. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 22:33, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
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Narhar Ambadas Kurundkar

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Cited to only works written by the subject. Contains zero independent sources. Not clear this person passes WP:NACADEMIC, WP:NAUTHOR, or WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 14:46, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

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Delete per nom. Tioaeu8943 (talk) 18:25, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Kuladhar Saikia

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Fails WP:AUTHOR. Regional Sahitya Academy is regular practice. SaTnamZIN (talk) 09:20, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

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C. Dawud

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managing editor (not even editor-in-chief ) of a local malayalam news tv. 90% of the sources are from the same 'news tv' channal as he is their employee. Wikipedia does not allow even an artcile for president of a youth political wing. An english artcile for a managing editor of a local news tv channal in kerala, is truely promotional and not notable figure. دثلميح (talk) 03:49, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

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•  Comment: very close to WP:TNT. Bearian (talk) 13:12, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Al Kingsley

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This article is supported almost entirely by passing mentions or primary sources. The most notable coverage was a single review of a book he wrote, everything else is a primary source or brief. I searched online and he only appeared on non-reliable sources, like personal websites and podcasts, or in pieces he wrote himself. aaronneallucas (talk) 00:14, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Delete per nomination. Enervation (talk) 07:37, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. There is not enough here or out there for this to meet WP:GNG. Aneirinn (talk) 10:37, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

  Certainly Keep I found him on Forbes and multiple other prominent news places so end the thing he got both the significant coverage and was notable enough with high achievements and awards, I just added those to the references AnAstronautsPhotographsFromSpace (talk) 23:33, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

• Delete - "prominent" does not mean reliable sources. Bearian (talk) 06:32, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Prasun Chatterjee

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Adjunct (aka additional)Additional Professor described in a page with WP:Peacock. No evidence of a pass of WP:NPROF with an h-factor of 17, a total of 990 cites and multiple authors. No significant awards and no WP:SIGCOV, just minor mentions. Ldm1954 (talk) 00:01, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Keep: The nomination seems to hinge on a misunderstanding of Indian academic titles. Calling an "Additional Professor" at AIIMS an "adjunct" is just factually wrong; it’s a senior, permanent faculty position that's essentially tenured and sits just below a full Professor in the hierarchy. Jībanmṛta^message 20:07, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

  The initial title was based upon a Google search, so appears to be wrong. However, his title can be anything from assistant to full professor and does not matter as it is not relevant to WP:NPROF. His peer recognition by citations and awards are too low for WP:NPROF. Ldm1954 (talk) 21:56, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

• Delete. Reads as promotional. Fails to meet WP:NPROF. Nothing particular in sources for the subject to standout. RangersRus (talk) 15:19, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete, while at first glance there seem to be a number of major news publications covering the subject, on closer inspection they all clearly run afoul of WP:NEWSORGINDIA, most of them are either extremely promotional, unbylined or both. As such, they are likely paid news and therefore are not secondary. Devonian Wombat (talk) 23:08, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Tim Molnar

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I'm unconvinced that this guy passes WP:BIO. Pretty much all of the sources that actually mention him are advertorials or actual advertisements. Anything else that I've found in a BEFORE is ... the same. Black Kite (talk) 19:23, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

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I’m not convinced the coverage here is primarily advertorial. The Colorado Public Radio article is independent reporting from a major public media outlet with editorial oversight, not sponsored content. Likewise, Great Day Colorado (KDVR Fox 31) is a standard news and lifestyle program produced by a major network affiliate, not an advertisement or self-published piece.

There is also independent print coverage from the Boulder Daily Camera, a mainstream regional newspaper, which documents the publication of Molnar’s book. While some sources are lighter-weight, the presence of multiple independent news outlets providing coverage suggests the subject does not clearly fail WP:BIO. Bookworm454 (talk) 17:39, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

The Boulder Daily Camera piece merely reprints the blurb from Molnar's book and his bio. It literally says nothing that Molnar hasn't written. Black Kite (talk) 20:24, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

For clarity, while some sources involve appearances or interviews, that does not necessarily make them advertorial or advertisements. There is no indication that these segments were sponsored, self-published, or authored by the subject. Editorial interviews and guest appearances are common forms of independent coverage, even if promotional in tone.

That said, there are multiple independent news sources cited. BessM4468 (talk) 19:47, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

There is literally nothing that is a detailed secondary news piece about Molnar, as opposed to an interview with him. Black Kite (talk) 20:24, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

So, not really. The CPR News piece by Elaine Tassy is a reported article that references a separate on-air interview, it's not a Q&A. This is a legit secondary news source. The Boulder Daily Camera article is independent newsroom reporting on new Colorado book releases, also not an interview. The SXSW listing reflects selection by an external editorial program, not advertorial content.

These are all secondary to name a few. I get that much of the coverage is interview-based, but it’s not accurate to say there’s literally nothing beyond that. Bookworm454 (talk) 21:56, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

Just to repeat what I said above, the Boulder Daily Camera piece merely reprints the blurb from Molnar's book and his bio. It literally says nothing that Molnar hasn't written. The CPR piece is definitely the best (and probably the only usable) source in the article, but even that is simply an interview written as a story. Black Kite (talk) 12:00, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Runit Debbarma

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Except for the third citation from his self-published book and the fourth citation of a blog, none of the other sources offer independent information about the author. Most of the references seem to originate from self-published material or from obscure, little-known publishers. The awards listed in the infobox cannot be verified through any reliable sources, and a general online search turns up no credible or mainstream mentions of the author. This strongly indicates that the subject lacks notability. In other words, the article reads more like self-promotion or paid publicity than a neutral entry. Too much personal information was added, which clearly indicates that the article’s author is closely connected to the subject, and this information is not available in the public domain. Despite deletion warnings and maintenance tags, the author removed the tags without providing any proper explanation. Khorang 17:13, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Delete - those citations are not enough for a BLP. Ping me if you find and add three better sources. Bearian (talk) 12:09, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
• Comment The author of this article has been repeatedly deleting/removing the tags without any explanation. And renaming his edit summary as 'references', whereas he is only adding 'categories'. (ambiguous summary). Khorang 07:23, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete - fails WP:GNG at first and then WP:AUTHOR. --SaTnamZIN (talk) 09:08, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete I removed two refs that don’t support the article content. The claim of notability seems to rest exclusively on his winning a prize. I’m doubtful that the prize alone would be enough for that, but in any case the claim is unsourced. Not enough for a BLP. Mccapra (talk) 11:04, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete – Fails in WP:NAUTHOR. Svartner (talk) 11:42, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
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  @Illusion Flame: I got the same message and took a look at the matter. It seems the bigger concern was that the article creator was disruptively removing deletion templates. TornadoLGS (talk) 19:59, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

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David Belbin

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Not notable, fails WP:BIO. Popcornfud (talk) 14:31, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Comment. So far I've found a couple of pieces about him in the Nottingham Evening Post [14] [15], short reviews of What You Don't Know, Bone & Cane and The eBay Book in The Guardian [16] [17] [18], a paragraph about Bone & Cane here [19], a review of his memoir here [20] and a little bit of coverage of his children's and young adult books here [21] [22]. Still working my way through some of the other children's and young adult books. At a minimum this should probably be redirected to What You Don't Know (David Belbin novel) though. MCE89 (talk) 15:30, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
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• Weak keep. I found an astonishing number of works with one source about them, and far fewer with two for NBOOK than I would really have expected. I notice, though, that several of these are in series -- e.g., Bone & Cane and What You Don't Know are in the same series, which makes for 4-5 reviews of that series, and there were 12 books in the Point Crime series which combined have at least a half-dozen reviews. There are varying views on how the notability of individual books contribute to the notability of a series as a whole, but I think there's a reasonable case at least for the Bone & Cane series. With Love Letters also notable, and so much material in general, that pushes me in favour of having an author bio to home it all.

A full breakdown of what we have, per book:

• • Avenging Angel: Several mentions of the book being taught in a school: [23] [24] [25]
  • NBOOK? Bone & Cane review from MCE89 (a bit short) review from MCE89 (looks great) appears to be something in this magazine
  • City of Crime: a profile review
  • Denial: review from MCE89
  • Don't Mention the Night: review from MCE89
  • The eBay Book: review from MCE89 brief mention another passing mention
  • Final cut: brief notice
  • Haunting Time: first review from MCE89
  • NBOOK!! Love Lessons: a profile analysis in a journal article!! passing mention in this article discussed in this review of a scholarly book! and the book itself is definitely sigcov!!
  • Shoot the Teacher: first review (by a child) second review (also by a child) brief adult review
  • Suspects: a profile
  • NBOOK? What You Don't Know: review from MCE89 The blurb quotes "Joan Smith in The Times" but I haven't been able to locate/verify that this was a published review; if it was, that would be NBOOK here too.

Other finds: there's surely a goldmine in the PhD dissertation he wrote about his own books (to be used as WP:ABOUTSELF of course, not for notability); this piece on library lending has some background info on him; this advice article he wrote could flesh out the article.

If anyone finds second reviews for 2-3 more of those books above, that would push me over to a strong keep. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:56, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

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Christine Howser

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Fails WP:AUTHOR with no reviews of her book. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:03, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Weak delete. No NAUTHOR pass for sure, but I found a few rather long profiles of Howser: one, two (continued here), and three (continued here) However, these feel like WP:BLP1E coverage, hence my leaning toward "delete".

The book itself doesn't pass WP:NBOOK. The profiles all mention the book as upcoming, but don't actually give any commentary on it. There are six sentences on the book in this article, but I wouldn't consider it quite enough for one of the two NBOOK sources needed (and there isn't second one at all). So, no opportunity to re-factor this into a book article.

As for other sources, there's a fun opportunity for WP:CITOGENESIS with the book American Family and Parenting Writers, which reproduces (and cites!!) the current Wikipedia article. She apparently published four times in Circle Magazine under the name Rhiannon Skye: [26] [27] [28] [29]. One of those tells us she is also known as Christine LeVan! However, I can't find any coverage of her under those names. ~ L 🌸 (talk)

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Pam Blackwell

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I propose that this article be deleted under the General Notability Guideline. The article does not demonstrate that Pam Blackwell meets the standard of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources.

Rationale

Insufficient independent sourcing The article does not cite any reliable, independent secondary sources that provide substantial biographical coverage of the subject. The only reference is to an archived webpage of her own professional organization, which is a self published primary source. Self published sources cannot establish notability (Wikipedia, 2024a).

No significant coverage showing enduring notability There are no books, newspaper articles, academic publications about her, or other independent sources that examine her career or influence in depth. Routine mentions or listings do not satisfy notability under the General Notability Guideline (Wikipedia, 2024b).

Promotional tone and reliance on primary claims Much of the article repeats claims taken from the subject’s own organizations, teaching materials, or institutional affiliations. Without independent verification, these claims cannot demonstrate notability. Promotion based on unverified or primary material does not qualify a subject for a standalone biography (Wikipedia, 2024c).

Lack of independent verification of achievements Items such as an NEA Fellowship, her novels, her meditation institute, and her roles in psychological or spiritual organizations are mentioned in passing but are not supported with independent sources that confirm their significance. Without independent sources establishing the importance of these accomplishments, the subject does not meet inclusion criteria.

Does not meet notability for authors, academics, or educators Notability guidelines for authors and academics require multiple, independent, secondary sources providing in depth discussion of the subject’s work and influence (Wikipedia, 2024d). These are not present.

Because the article does not provide significant, independent coverage that demonstrates notability, relies almost entirely on primary or self published claims, and does not meet the standards for biographies of authors, educators, or academics, it should be deleted.

References

Wikipedia. (2024a). Reliable sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

Wikipedia. (2024b). Notability guideline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability

Wikipedia. (2024c). Autobiography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography

Wikipedia. (2024d). Notability (academics). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics) Michael-Moates (talk) 18:40, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

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Please don't write your deletion nominations with an LLM. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:09, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

@PARAKANYAA - I am not using an LLM. I have a Google Doc template that I use and I plug and play the right pieces of information that are applicable. Remember to "Wikipedia:Assume good faith" without evidence to the contrary. Using a template for people who are neurodivergent such as myself to help expedite processes and make sure that my submissions are compliant is not against the rules. I use this plug and play google doc to make sure I am compliant with Wikipedia rules as I don't always remember everything. Michael-Moates (talk) 19:19, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

• Delete - Fails WP:NACADEMIC. The claims about her made in the article just don't ring true. If you check the Library of Congress link, she seems to be the source there. This seems to have no verifiable sourcing. — Maile (talk) 20:18, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. Her books are published by Onyx Press of Salt Lake City which, judging from [30] and the last archived copy I can find [31], is Blackwell herself under a different name. Being self-published is not in itself evidence of non-notability, but unless there are independent and reliably published reviews of her books (significantly less likely for self-published books) she is not going to be notable through them. I strongly suspect that her teaching activities are similarly a one-person operation, again unlikely to have independent reliable and in-depth coverage, we have no evidence of such coverage, and there is little to nothing else in the article that looks like a claim of notability. See also the related Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/California Southern University on a for-profit institute from which she claims to have a doctorate. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:01, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
• Delete Could potentially meet NAUTH but her works are published by a press that has published few books beyond her own, so it is not independent of her. Her college degree is from a for-profit private school. I don't find anything substantial about her in newspapers, Google or Scholar. Lamona (talk) 18:29, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

  Some more: I do not find her listed as a fellow on the NEA page. I do not find any mention of her in any of the Sacred Hoop sites (of which there are many). Being an associate member of Sandplay is just a paid professional membership, so zero in the notability count. She is listed as the principal/contact of the Morning Star Project in the nonprofit locator but the group seems to be defunct and I haven't found other information. Although the Western Sandplay site was supposedly archived, the wayback machine does not have it so there's no way to confirm that reference. The article says she is a director, but no proof. I did find a reference for the musical and added that. I do conclude that we cannot meet BLP requirements. Lamona (talk) 00:11, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

• Keep under WP:NAUTHOR. I did a deeper search for coverage of her writing and I think there's enough:
  • Review of Ephraim's Seed in the Mormon Deseret News. Two joint reviews of Ephraim's Seed and Jacob's Cauldron: The Daily Herald and Salt Lake Tribune. Her Millenial series is one of five Mormon novels contrasted with Left Behind in this scholarly book chapter.
  • Reviews of her play in Deseret News and The Daily Herald (twice!). According to the gbooks previews, there is also discussion of the play in this book about Mormon theatre, which calls it another notable musical during this period.

She certainly appears to be an author with a niche, but the inclusion in two different books about Mormon literature pushes it over the line for me for notability. Incidentally, the Daily Herald book review also says she got an NEA fellowship in the 80s. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 01:31, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

This doesn't change the fact that the books are self-published as The Deseret News states: EPHRAIM'S SEED, by Pam Blackwell; self-published; 397 pages. The policy page on using self-published works also says this about self-published works and notability: Self-published sources are seldom useful for demonstrating the notability of any subject. I don't know the answer to this but I think it's best to try to establish notability outside of the self-published books. Lamona (talk) 23:05, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

But the reviews of her books/play are not self-published, they are normal newspaper reviews & academic coverage. In other words, I'm not saying we use the books as sources to prove Blackwell is notable; I'm saying the sources about the books prove the books/play are notable, and an author with multiple NBOOK passes typically passes WP:NAUTHOR#3 for their body of work. A self-published book can meet WP:NBOOK, it's just rarer, and I think this is one of those cases. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 02:34, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

@LEvalyn By this argument, any restaurant, hotel, artist, etc that gets a review by a critic would be considered to be notable. So if 2 food critics review a small restaurant and write an editorial about it... that makes the restaurant notable? Docmoates (talk) 03:26, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

I am not an expert regarding the notability expectations for restaurants (WP:NCORP?), but the SNG for written works is WP:NBOOK, which states that a book is considered notable if it has has been the subject of two or more non-trivial published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself. This can include [...] reviews. From there, WP:NAUTHOR allows someone to be considered notable for their body of work, provided that such work [has] been the primary subject of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews. Identifying multiple works that each have multiple reviews is thus a conventional way of demonstrating the notability of an author. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 03:36, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

• Keep per LEvalyn. Additional coverage can be found at newspapers.com[32][33]("In the End: ...") Kelob2678 (talk) 23:27, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

  (Just for strict accuracy, these are two of the sources I linked— the Daily Herald and Salt Lake Tribune articles about her first two books— so I don’t think it’s “additional” coverage exactly.) ~ L 🌸 (talk) 23:45, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

  I didn't check the sources you linked, I just assumed they were fine. These sources also discuss her, so I thought they count towards WP:GNG. This is why I didn't think they were already present among the sources you provided. Kelob2678 (talk) 00:04, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

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• @Docmoates: since you asked for clarification on my reasoning over at my admin election page, but the monitors thought it best for the discussion to remain centralized at AfD, I thought I'd respond here. First, I am quite perplexed that you say I am only citing two reviews? I provided six reviews and two scholarly books. Perhaps that is the source of a misunderstanding?

To spell out my underlying logic from the top: NAUTHOR makes persons notable if they have a significant or well-known work or collective body of work; unusually, this SNG criterion does not require coverage of the person, only of that "work or collective body of work". There is certainly ambiguity in how to interpret "significant or well-known", but a common standard is "at least notable", and the more works there are the less "significant" each one needs to be. To evaluate NAUTHOR, therefore, I tally up how many individually notable works they have, ie how many pass NBOOK; for that, the simplest path is to provide two reviews per work. Generally, if there's only one notable work we have an article on just the work and discuss the author there as "background", while if there are 3+ dissimilar works an author bio is warranted (for navigational reasons if nothing else). With exactly two notable works, things can shake out in a few different ways, generally influenced by the organizational principles of WP:PAGEDECIDE. I hope this overview better clarifies the process of applying reviews → notable works → notable author. It is standard for AfDs on authors.

Returning to Blackwell specifically: I argue that there are two notable "works": her Millennial series of novels (for which I found three reviews and a scholarly book chapter) and her play (for which I found three reviews and a scholarly anthology). We could just have two individual articles about the novel series and the play without a bio article. But I think it makes more sense to have just the author bio, with a section for each of her two notable works. Hence, I suggest keeping this article. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 23:30, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

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• I'm leaning weak keep per sources found by LEvalyn, and I've added [34] which discusses the Millenium series and notes her NEA fellowship, which might not be on the main NEA page which lists awards. I can't find the book chapter though that LEvalyn mentioned because the link is for a university I don't have access to (i.e. it would be good to have the title of the article). Nnev66 (talk) 04:06, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

  Apologies, I thought that was a Wikipedia Library link. The chapter is “Contests over Latter-day Space: Mormonism's Role within Evangelical Geopolitics as seen through Last-days Novels” by Ethan Yorgason, in Mapping the End Times, Routledge 2010. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 09:14, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks for the title. From Google searching there does appear to be some discussion of Blackwell's Millenial Series but Wikipedia doesn't provide access. My library has a copy of "Mapping the End Times" but won't be able to get down there until Monday. Nnev66 (talk) 23:29, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

• Delete - one or two possibly good citations are not enough for a BLP. The Deseret paper is essentially an in-house LDS publication with front-page news. Ping me if you find and add better sources. Bearian (talk) 04:30, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete. I do not think there is enough here or out there for this article to meet WP:GNG. Aneirinn (talk) 08:09, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
• Keep close the case, find all news sources I know that many exist and she is notable, search deeply AnAstronautsPhotographsFromSpace (talk) 20:30, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
• Delete Per nomination and comments. Not a close call, fails GNG. Go4thProsper (talk) 16:49, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Keep per LEvalyn, particularly the academic sources identified. NAUTHOR pass. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:59, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Palizzolo Gravina

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Unsourced since 2006. Fails WP:GNG.4meter4 (talk) 05:12, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

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• Merge I’ve linked this article to the relevant article on Italian Wikipedia but that’s of very little help in finding sources. I can’t actually find any in depth coverage of the subject at all. However I believe he passes WP:AUTHOR as he is “regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by peers or successors” and his work is widely cited and authoritative. His magnum opus on Sicilian heraldry is an important authority on the history of the island. For example the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani cites it 29 times. The best solution I can come up with is to merge this article into House of Gravina and redirect, with the merged content focusing more on the book than on the author. Mccapra (talk) 08:05, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

  If the book passes WP:NBOOK another option would be to refactor this into being a book article. That's often a good solution for authors with only one notable book. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 09:12, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

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possibly but though the book is widely used as a reference don’t see any in depth coverage of it to warrant an article with the book as a subject. Mccapra (talk) 22:09, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@Mccapra: Perhaps a merge to Kingdom of Sicily? I would imagine his history would be covering that period of history, the notable families of that kindom (ie the heraldry/families that ran the kingdom) and would be highly pertinent there.4meter4 (talk) 22:33, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

• Maybe refactor as book article, maybe delete. I don't think there's enough here to be worth merging anywhere else; I'm not convinced it would really be WP:DUE at the suggested merge targets. But I did some hunting and the best I found was:
  • "Symbols of Urban Identity in Sicily: Transformations and Hybridizations of Civic Heraldry", with five sentences on him, one analyzing the book Palizzolo Gravina displayed a philological and symbolic sensitivity rare for the period: the author did not merely catalog coats of arms but interpreted their historical sources, formal transformations, and cultural foundations, thereby contributing to the formation of a distinct Sicilian heraldic science and another describing him as an internationally known heraldist (plus some biographical and bibliographical details)
  • According to this non-sigcov list of publications "of interest to demonology", there was a 1972 facsimile reprint of the original, which is the kind of thing that suggests (but does not prove) book notability

Mainly, I find a considerable number of citations to the book (dozens and dozens, all the way up to the present). I think the best "keep" argument would be WP:NBOOK#3 on the basis of Gravina's status as a reference in heraldry, and re-factoring the article to be a book article. I feel lukewarm on the book's notability but would be willing to do the refactor if that seems best. ~ L 🌸 (talk) 02:06, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Comment I’d support refactoring as a book article. Mccapra (talk) 18:37, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

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• Comment Several editors supported refactoring this as a book article. So do it why relist it again? Is that really necessary? Just a comment. Hteiktinhein (talk) 16:57, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

  My guess is that the closers thought it was still ambiguous; I was only lukewarm. If you feel you can provide a strong opinion that would make a consensus more clear. (Incidentally, I remain willing to do the book article rewrite, I just don't want to move the article while it's still the subject of an open AfD.) ~ le 🌸 valyn (talk) 22:11, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

• Merge to House of Gravina. So far, no sigcov has been found. Kelob2678 (talk) 23:59, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

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