Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alice Goffman
A glance at the article's sourcing, which includes a lengthy profile of Goffman in last week's New York Times Magazine establishes that Goffman easily qualifies under . She is notable because she wrote a book that has started a major war within academia; a major intellectual firefight with battlelines drawn: journalists, lawyers, and Law Schools on one side, social scientists and political activists on the other; and a series of minor skirmishes on her Wikipedia page - of which this is the latest - although not the first effort to delete or discredit the page on the part of Nom https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Goffman&diff=696338847&oldid=696228036.  The fuss is over what standards should determine what constitutes evidence, over how transparent and verifiable sources should be, and even over the line between fiction and nonfiction, advocacy and scholarship, and the nature of truth.  Battles now being fought via anonymous emails, on academic listserves, in print, by online publication and, perhaps inevitably, on Wikipedia.   I want to thank Nom for his courtesy in notifying me, since I did not start the article, although I have been active in editing it
— User:E, 17:08, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)