Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shelley Powers

This strikes me as a vanity. I'm not sure she is significant enough to have an article either. It reads like a resume.--Esprit15d 16:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep but needs to be restructured to focus more on her work as an author and less, as per nom, as a CV. --Whouk (talk) 16:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Though it is frowned on to edit one's own entry, I have attempted to 'Wikify' the existing entry, as well as preserve a neutral POV. Note that this entry resulted from the following article. Shelleyp 17:35, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, mostly for the reasons that SethF outlines below. Shelly is an influential and talented writer. --Darrylv 17:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - voter Darrylv has one edit, this AFD. Samw 14:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, she is one of the most insightful tech writers around.

• Keep. Wikipedia would be a weak tool indeed if pages like this one on Shelley Powers weren't included. Vanity has nothing to do with it.

• Keep. It's awfully late at this point to start complaining about short biographical articles on popular bloggers and technologists. If Marc Canter, Kevin Drum, and Kevin Marks all merit entries, then so does Shelley Powers. Radgeek 19:44, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - Shelley is an influential writer and programmer and a very skilled photographer. Kevin Marks 20:27, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - User Kevin Marks has less than 50 edits, but an edit history since April 2005. Samw 14:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Meets guidelines for Wikipedia:Criteria_for_inclusion_of_biographies: "Published authors, editors, and photographers who have written books with an audience of 5,000 or more". Also passes "Google Test -- Does the subject get lots of hits on Google". Seth Finkelstein 20:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Commment - User Seth Finkelstein has less than 50 edits, but an edit history since Sept 2004. Samw 14:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Shelley's a well-known technologist and blogger who has written Practical RDF for O'Reilly along with several other computer books. She also, if I'm not mistaken, belongs to the group that created RSS 1.0. Rcade 21:34, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. She's a published author who has sold enough books, and that's sufficient per the guidelines, as Seth pointed out above. DoriSmith 22:48, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - User DoriSmith has 6 edits, but an edit history since Sept 2005. Samw 14:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Published author. Doug Pardee 23:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - User Doug Pardee has less than 50 edits, but an edit history since 2003! (That must be a record for fewest edits per month for a still active account!) Samw 14:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep - WP:BIO states authors with sales of 5,000 merit inclusion. She has an Amazon rank of ~120,000. IMHO, all O'Reilly Media authors deserve a Wikipedia entry. Samw 04:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - I took the liberty of commenting on possible sockpuppets on this AFD and IMHO they are all real users: or someone is patiently taking months to build up sockpuppet accounts. I don't know who Shelley Powers is but she obviously influences "lurkers" on Wikipedia. Shelley, well done! Samw 14:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Comment - Thank you, Samw. I'd like to say it's taken years of training to be able to do this, but in actuality, I've had this ability from birth.Shelleyp 15:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. She is a well-known technology author, an articulate advocate for women's presence and visibility in technological fields, and a popular weblogger. These clearly fit the Wikipedia:Criteria_for_inclusion_of_biographies. Akma
  • Comment - User Akma has had 6 edits, but an edit history since June 2005.

• Keep. Being a published author is enough, and all those other things only help her case. Paul Morriss
  • Comment - User Paul Morriss only has 1 edit, this AFD. Samw 14:19, 21 December 2005 (UTC)