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BLP with incredibly weak sourcing, consisting of USENET posts, web comics, unattributed and unpublished PRIMARY material, etc. Does not meet WP:AUTHOR or GNG. Tgeairn (talk) 15:03, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. NorthAmerica1000 15:30, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I did some quick research, and can find only various Christian blogs that mention this woman, most of whom seem to not think very highly of her. I couldn't find even one reliable secondary source that covers any of her supposed "best-selling" books. LHMask me a question 16:15, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete As per nom. A few mentions on assorted blogs but that's about it. Fails WP:GNG with no significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject and fails WP:AUTHOR no multiple independent periodical articles or reviews about her. Theroadislong (talk) 16:21, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete for lack of coverage, much less significant coverage, in reliable sources. Fails WP:NOTEBLP fails WP:AUTHOR. The book The Gifts of the Body (Harper-Collins, 1994) is by a different Rebecca Brown. --Bejnar (talk) 18:43, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I agree with Tgeairn. Two of the current sources are self published and the third is a comic strip that is not RS does not mention the BLP as author. Even if it did it would still not be notable. Same as other editors, I also was unable to find any RS on this BLP. --Crystallizedcarbon (talk) 20:28, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per above - No evidence of notability, Fails GNG. –Davey2010(talk) 20:34, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Not notable per above. Despite having been a watcher of this article for several years, I cannot disagree with the above arguments and would not be upset if this article was simply deleted.Legitimus (talk) 21:50, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete fails GNG. - Cwobeel (talk) 23:22, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: While this article is based on lousy sources (although I will quibble with those who say that a comic book is inherently one of them; had it actually contained the information that it was based on Brown's stories, it would have been a perfectly fine source for the claim it was supporting), there are better sources to be found on her. I leave it to others to evaluate if they are good enough, but here are a couple of the strongest ones Google Books finds:
Well, it depends upon what one considers significant. Lure of the Sinister pages 196–198 contains a great deal about her delusions; and Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions page 616 shows why she lost her medical license. But overall they don't add up to significant coverage. --Bejnar (talk) 06:03, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Starting from the links in a Watchtower page that I decided was not RS, I found she has quite a few mentions in books, particularly on the impact of US evangelicals on the "deliverance" movement in Africa and in African diaspora communities, and at least two news mentions about her books and speaking. I created a Reception section using these, but could doubtless have found more book references, especially - I see above that others have. I believe she meets GNG and that the article now demonstrates that. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:21, 30 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Mere mentions like that in African Christianity: Its Public Role and Exporting the American Gospel: Global Christian Fundamentalism don't add much. The coverage in the Jamaica Gleaner is much more substantive, although I still seems to me that the total does not add up to the level of WP:NOTEBLP or WP:GNG coverage required, but YMMV. --Bejnar (talk) 15:49, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]