Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Sabrina Ward Harrison

--Cato 21:42, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Sabrina Ward Harrison
This is obviously a copy & paste from some quote website and as such it is a copyright violation. I also question the notability of this person. The wikipedia page for this person is quite bare and has been tagged to identify the importance of the person. — UDScott 16:24, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 17:00, 14 September 2007 (UTC) Extended to 17:00, 21 September 2007 (UTC) as there is no consensus. I'm abstaining.--Poetlister 17:27, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote extended once more for 2 days, until 19:00, 23 September 2007 (UTC), because of (A) current no-consensus (which taken literally would leave the copyvio notice in place) and (B) very recent major changes that others may not have noticed yet. I ask previous voters who have not updated their positions in light of the changes either to reconfirm deletion, explicitly approve the new version, or suggest whatever other option they feel appropriate. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 18:35, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete, unless evidence of notability is provided, and properly sourced and formatted quotes are provided. ~ UDScott 16:24, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Phaedriel's version of the page. Thanks for working on it, Phaedriel! ~ UDScott 19:00, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as the entry's present form is mostly likely a copyright vio. Delete unless subjects notability is established, an intro that reflects notability, and remarkable quotes from verifiable reliable sources are added. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 18:34, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Now Keep since remarkable verifiable quotes were found. FloNight&#9829;&#9829;&#9829; 11:17, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - the current format of the page is clearly unacceptable. However, the subject is notable. She is the author of at least five books, three of which have been published by Random House (under their Villard imprint). --Ubiquity 23:49, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep with reservations I have no doubt about her notability (39500 ghits though only about 564 are unique), though there may be a copyvio.--Cato 20:48, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as copyvio. --Aphaia 17:28, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * And also to move a way to Talk:Sabrina Ward Harrison/Temp as replacement. Thanks, Phaedriel! --Aphaia 03:06, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete in its present form, as copyvio. —LrdChaos (talk) 18:01, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 14:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per revised page by Phaedriel. - InvisibleSun 02:16, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete. - The anonymous author likes to create pages, but doesn't seem to care much about form or content. UDScott did a nice job of repairing his or her page on Felix Frankfurter, but since no one seems to want to step forward for the page under consideration, and since the author seems to never revisit a page after its initial creation, I think we should delete it as copyvio. --Ubiquity 04:00, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. per nom and others -- Herby talk thyme 10:23, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unless original, pithy, sourced quotes added to a new subpage per the copvio banner instructions. I'm sure Harrison is arguably notable. The U.S. Library of Congress lists three of her books: Spilling Open (1999), Brave on the Rocks (2001; includes a foreward by Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank), and Messy Thrilling Life (2004). Amazon.com ranks Brave above 500K, and the other two and her The True and the Questions: A Journal above 100K, which easily defeats a rough notability dismissal rule-of-thumb of below 1 million. The real problem is that no one so far has shown any interest in creating a non-copyvio collection of quotes. My hasty attempt using Google Book Search to find the two quotes from the original WQ article that I thought at least minimally quotable failed, and I'm afraid that, beyond posting a Google News Search link to w:Talk:Sabrina Ward Harrison to help them there, I don't have the time or inclination to do any more work on this myself. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 19:01, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep Phaedriel's newly created version (i.e., move it into place over the copyvio version). By the way, I've changed copyvio to create (in the future) the subpage replacement article at "ARTICLE/Temp" instead of "Talk:ARTICLE/Temp". This will allow separate discussion of the evolving new article prior to going live. Please see Template talk:Copyvio for my detailed rationale. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I must confess I didn't notice this VfD until Jeff posted his research above, that proves the notability of this person (the awful entry at Wikipedia notwithstanding). Thus I decided to try my luck at finding more quotable material from her and appropriate sources. I was a little surprised at the respectable number of hits her quotes have, and tho it took me a while to put the info together, I think I was able to create an acceptable alternative entry: see here. I'd dare to say that, between Jeff's work and mine, we may be able to safely keep this entry now. Comments are most welcome. Phaed r i e l  - 22:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for tackling this, Phaedriel! ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * NP, dear Jeff - and thank you for your excellent research :) — Phaed r i e l  - 03:09, 21 September 2007 (UTC)