Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tara Westover
Wikipedia goes by its own criteria not willynilliness:Wp:N: "A topic is presumed to merit an article if (1) It meets '''either''' the general notability guideline below, '''or the criteria outlined in a subject-specific guideline''' e.g., wp:PROF, etc. listed in the box on the right." ... "On Wikipedia, |notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. For '''people''', the person who is the topic of a biographical article should be "worthy of notice"https://web.archive.org/web/20110528053924/http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861683928/notable.html "Notable". Encarta. Archived from http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861683928/notability.html the original by Internet Archive. or "note"https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=notable American Heritage Dictionary definition Retrieved 17 January 2015 – that is, "remarkable" or "significant, interesting, or unusual enough to deserve attention or to be recorded" within Wikipedia as a written account of that person's life. "Notable" in the sense of being "famous" or "popular" – although not irrelevant – is secondary."Wp:Basic: "People are presumed '''notable''' if they have received significant coverage in multiple published What constitutes a "published work" is deliberately broad. Wikipedia:No original research#Primary, secondary and tertiary sources|secondary sources that are Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable, intellectually independent of each other,Sources that are pure derivatives of an original source can be used as references, but do not contribute toward establishing the notability of a subject."A ton of secondary sources specifically about this author's upbringing, young-adult academic acomplishments, ravingly reviewed book on the list of #1 NYT Best Sellers for non-fic 2018. "The New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2018
— User:Hodgdon, 09:28, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)