Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lavinia Norcross Dickinson

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The result was keep. SNOW keep, notability established. Tone 14:31, 17 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Lavinia Norcross Dickinson

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Relationship to sister does not confer notability per WP:INVALIDBIO. SD0001 (talk) 17:09, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 17:15, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. RebeccaGreen (talk) 17:33, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Relationships to notable people often result in enough being written about their family members that those family members also become notable; note that WP:INVALIDBIO qualifies the invalidity with "unless significant coverage can be found on A". While there is currently only one source in the article, there are more that can be added, including Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work [1] and Emily Dickinson: Personae and Performance [2]. Even in a 1945 publication, Ancestors' Brocades: The Literary Discovery of Emily Dickinson, the Editing and Publication of Her Letters and Poems, it looks like there is a lot on Lavinia [3] - and, as the article says, "Lavinia "Vinnie" Dickinson was instrumental in achieving the posthumous publication of her sister's poems ... Despite promising her sister that she would destroy all correspondence and personal papers, Vinnie sought to have her sister's poetry edited and published". A lot more about Lavinia herself, her relationship with Emily and other family members, and her role in publishing Emily's poems, can be added to the article. RebeccaGreen (talk) 17:28, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete A quick search engine search does not bring up much, a lot of Wikipedia page clones, and a few pages that adds nothing to what's already here, does not appear to be notable in her own right Seasider91 (talk) 17:36, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Sewell's biography devotes a chapter to Lavinia. Her role in the complicated publication process of her sister's poetry is well-recorded in publications like Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. StarryGrandma (talk) 18:13, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - It appears that a proper WP:BEFORE was not performed. A JSTOR search under "Vinnie Dickinson" turns up tons of stuff, as does a Google Scholar search. Netherzone (talk) 23:03, 10 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Please don't forget to create redirects from other forms of names: I've just made Lavinia Dickinson and Vinnie Dickinson. PamD 11:45, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And added her to Dickinson (name). The article has been around for 11 years, but no-one made these navigational aids till now. PamD 11:49, 11 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Her efforts to disseminate the greatest poet of her generation's work has been itself the subject of scholarly work, and is almost always mentioned in classrooms across the English-speaking world as the test case of a relative saving the written work of an extremely famous writer that was supposed to be destroyed. This is not merely some writer's younger sister; she is the exemplar of an editor of one of the greatest writers in the English language; the subject is clearly notable herself. Bearian (talk) 17:09, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Wiki-notable for her achievements, regardless of those achievements pertaining to her sister's work. XOR'easter (talk) 18:02, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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