Deletion of Frances Fox Piven

Comment: Publisher's blurbhttp://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1725 states, "Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at The Graduate Center, CUNY", so she meets guideline 5 of . Her work makes her . The positions she has taken make her a lightning rod, and, unfortunately, that lightning has struck in the form of Glenn Beck. Some of her positions have been taken out of context: her subtle description about nonviolent protestors using violence, for example. The death threats are troubling, but the tiff with Beck does not seem notable, WP is not a diary for talking heads, and the whole controversy surrounding Beck should be removed. I would keep the article, but delete other information that is not relevant such as her religion. Although she wants her marital status suppressed, a marriage to coauthor Cloward would be relevant
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ACADEMIC||WP:N)

Comment: Seems that the subject conspicuously passes about 3 criteria in . There are articles on far more controversial individuals that are maintained perfectly well &ndash; admin tools are in place to do so
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:PROF)

Comment: Even if the policy seems to support keeping, this is one of those rare occasions when we should |ignore all rules in favor of basic human decency. Piven has been the subject of a concentrated hate campaign that has resulted in death threats. If the AFD fails, and we absolutely ''must'' have an article on her, the Beck crap should be trimmed down to maybe three sentences (Beck repeatedly criticized her, she received death threats as a result, she responded in Guardian's Comment is Free). One good source to use might be ''Campaign and election reform: a reference handbook'' (2008) by Utter and Strickland; there's a good bio of Piven in this book starting on page 181. Unfortunately not all of this section is available on Google Books
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules (WP:IAR)

Comment: snow keep'''. Piven clearly merits an article; the issue here is essentially giving |due weight to a |recent campaign of harassment by a prominent shock jock; I'm thinking about one sentence, though if coverage of her work is much expanded (to at least 1 good-sized para per decade), two might be OK
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:UNDUE||WP:RECENTISM)

Comment: The Subject is some one I admire greatly, I think her flame war with GB should be kept to minimum and smacks of  and extremely  for a career of her length. American Sociological Association Career Award for the Practice of Sociology is no small achievement and throws her way over the line of  to simply delete. While do no harm is our principal the simplest thing is to abide by  and  remove portions of the article that violate them
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Recentism (WP:RECENTISM||WP:UNDUE||WP:ACADEMIC||WP:RECENTISM||WP:UNDUE)

Comment: Looks like she passes for  (not to mention her extensive bibliography and awards won) well before the very recent circus that has been going on
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ACADEMIC)

Comment: It's been established that subjects of Wikipedia articles such as Sally Boazman and Jim Hawkins do not get to veto content in, of the existence of, articles about themselves. The responsibility of the Wikipedia community is to ensure that  is adhered to, and articles are written in such a way that they meet . The mechanism for correction of errors has been described above, and that mechanism should be used where appropriate to do so
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP||WP:NPOV)

Comment: With a GS h index of around 30, a Distinguished Professorship, many honors and collections of her papers by a university she passes rof by many miles. Often, when such clear passes are brought to AfD, there is some grumbling about time being wasted, but there are extra issues involved here. The current version of the BLP seems NPOV, I suggest it be fully protected for a year to give the kooks time to move on to something else
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Portal (WP:P)

Comment: Though I sympathize with anyone on the receiving end of Glenn Beck's obsessions, I am old enough to remember Frances Fox Piven's work going back at least 43 years.  Simply stated, she is a notable figure in history.  This article should be kept not based just on her work as an academic, but primarily as a prominent social and political activist of what used to be called the "New Left".  A Google News search shows that she has received in-depth coverage in reliable sources consistently, year after year, decade after decade, since at least 1967.  Wikipedia is not censored, but at the same time, we have to comply with policy on |biographies of living people.  The article should be kept but protected, and |undue coverage of Beck's unhealthy fascination with her should be trimmed way back
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:BLP||WP:UNDUE)

Comment: Subject preferences and the difficulty of maintaining a proper balance of topics in a BLP would be valid considerations in a borderline case, but this is not a borderline case. Giving Beck and his followers the power to shut subjects such as this one out of Wikipedia would itself be a violation of 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (WP:NPOV)

Comment: the notion that an article on Professor Piven could be deleted is preposterous -- Protonk is right, it would be more plausible to shut the whole thing down.  Since the delete voters are not even attempting to argue that she is not notable (and she quite obviously is, per several criteria of  as well as other standards -- she was '''PRESIDENT OF ASA''', ffs), I would say this one can be closed as snow keep.  I'm tempted to comment further on the delete votes but probably could not do so within the bounds of 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:ACADEMIC||WP:CIVIL)