Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

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The result was keep‎. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:07, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

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Non-notable author. a large number of references provided (or at least, formatted as references) but as far as I can tell they are all either self-published or contain only trivial mentions of the article subject. The excessive amount of inane personal biographical information seems designed to cover the basic fact that this author is non-notable. Jdcooper (talk) 23:56, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete No sourcing found for the author, not very much of anything found. Sources used are orange or red, or not registering for reliability. Rather extensive PROMO it seems. Oaktree b (talk) 02:47, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Most reviews are about her Star Wars works, from Fantha. Screen Rant has a name drop, but that's about it. Oaktree b (talk) 02:49, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors, Bands and musicians, Women, Science fiction and fantasy, and California. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:06, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, 9-time Pegasus Award nominee, 3-time winner - http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/groups/bohnhoffs.html. But yes, needs some serious WP:PROMO cleanup. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:10, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep First off, yes, the article needs a major cleanup to remove all the promo language. But along with winning the Pegasus Award three times, Bohnhoff has been a finalist for both the Sidewise Award and the British Science Fiction Award along with publishing novels with major publishers and a large number of stories in magazines such as Analog, Interzone, and other places. In addition, I've found reviews of their work in Science Fiction Chronicle, Dragon Magazine, a starred review in Library Journal (linked here), and multiple reviews in Publishers Weekly (see links 1, 2, and 3) and Kirkus Reviews (see 1, 2, and 3). All of that shows that Bohnhoff meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines, per WP:Author.--SouthernNights (talk) 23:33, 24 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:AUTHOR and the reviews identified by SouthernNights. pburka (talk) 00:15, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:AUTHOR and the reviews and other critical attention identified in this discussion; the Internet Speculative Fiction Database also shows, e.g. for The Meri, a review in Locus; same for Taminy; 2nd place Analog Award for Shaman; 2 reviews for The Spirit Gate. Beccaynr (talk) 04:45, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per sources identified. Always open to rewrite for improving articles but keep in mind if a reasonable source published details, then that is the level of mention in Wikipedia, not arbitrary decisions in Wikipedia culture of what to include (i say culture vs policies because individuals may decide what they personally want to include but policy is another matter.) Smkolins (talk) 11:32, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the votes above, as the author clearly has some notable accomplishments and pro reviews. But clean up severely, TNT even, because the personal trivia and fan/self-cruft are downright ridiculous. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (TALK|CONTRIBS) 14:58, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Per sources provided, this just meets WP:AUTHOR User:Let'srun 21:44, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Subject meets WP:NAUTHOR. MrsSnoozyTurtle 09:15, 28 July 2023 (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.