Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deborah Houlding
I think the guidelines need to be made clearer before we can make an informed judgment as to notability. Specifically, we need to answer the following question: ''Do magazines, journals and other publications published by a pseudoscientific community qualify as reliable sources?'' I can't find anything in the guidelines that answers this question definitively. The article has a number of sources. Many of them are independent of the subject. But are they reliable? Under , they must have a reputation for accuracy and fact-checking. These sources may have such a reputation, but if they do that reputation is held among people who adhere to the pseudoscience and ''in the context of a practice deemed by the guidelines to be pseudoscience''. Common sense tells me that we ought to be looking for sources independent of both the subject and the pseudoscience to establish notability; are there books and articles by people who don't practice astrology but who are writing, say, a history of astrology that reference the subject? This to me would provide a much more forceful claim to notability than a demonstration of his/her celebrity among adherents of the pseudoscience
— User:Batard0, 09:42, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:RS (Wikipedia:Reliable sources)