Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dana Cowin

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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 keep. The nominator failed to get support for deletion. Any merge proposal is a matter for post-AfD editorial consensus. TerriersFan 04:46, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dana Cowin

Non notable, fails WP:BLP due to a lack of multiple non-trivial sources about a living subject. Burntsauce 16:53, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Keep and source properly. 15,000 Google results, listed as author of Food & Wine's annual cookbooks for the past several years as well as one apparent standalone, and consulted as an expert by the media on food and wine issues, such as this interview on CNN, this piece from CBS News, this AP article (there on tampabay.com)... and, well, anyone who gets 226 Google News Archive hits is probably going to meet WP:BIO. Tony Fox (arf!) 20:17, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
  • merge to Food & Wine Magazine. One event biographie. - Nabla 22:55, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge being quoted from her official position does not grant notability Corpx 00:43, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
    • I guess it depends on how we look at her. Were she an academic, I think she'd pass easily - that guideline suggests that someone repeatedly quoted in newspapers and magazines would pass the key criteria. Not sure how to approach an editor of notable books, however. I recall a lengthy discussion about another journalist in which his overall body of work swung things towards the keep side. (Then he was zapped via PROD, apparently, but the discussion is more what I'm pointing out.) Someone who edits a major international magazine would seem to carry a substantial amount of notability, to me. Tony Fox (arf!) 01:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • I really wouldnt say that's a major international magazine, at least by readership numbers Corpx 01:17, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
    • Okay, my error on the 'international' thing - I thought they were wider distributed. But, circulation of more than 900,000 is pretty big. *shrugs* Tony Fox (arf!) 03:37, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with Food & Wine Magazine, not really all that notable beyond this one magazine. RFerreira 07:43, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Editor in chief of a major magazine in its field is notable, even by itself (and she was previously executive editor of an even more widely known magazine). DGG (talk) 21:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Merge to both then. In one mention that she formerly was at xxx; in the other that she latter moved to yyy. Both articles would be enriched, and we don't need a pseudo-biography for that. - Nabla 02:56, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment AfD template was removed on August 16 by 76.16.109.18 with no edit summary. I have just now restored it. I have no opinion on the AfD itself. --Finngall talk 05:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Moved this from the log of the 14th to the 17th, to compensate. Nabla 13:35, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
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.