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The result was delete. Courcelles (talk) 01:42, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Tania Peitzker

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Not notable. Promotional autobiography of individual lacking coverage in independent reliable sources. duffbeerforme (talk) 12:00, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions. Grahame (talk) 02:47, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Purge but keep (tentatively) - if you remove the autobiographical crap, the advertisements for her companies, the fluff intended (apparently) to market her as a speaker, etc., there may be a salvageable stump remaining. --Orange Mike | Talk 15:08, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Peitzker has left a series of comments at WP:HD regarding this situation. They are reproduced below without comment from me.
bio information

Would you mind also adding these additional citations for all the claims made in the entry about me?

  • no less than 4 interviews in established mainstream media in 2014:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent-business/county-news/simplicity-the-secret-to-getting-27659/

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent-business/county-news/ibutcher-to-raise-the-steaks-24647/

http://www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/content/news/farm_shop_to_install_artificially_intelligent_bot

http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/south-west/126379-/

  • on my writing as journo for Times Higher was cited by international study (quite a few actually) because of my contributions to the THE World Rankings of universities:

The Italian CIMEA (NARIC-ENIC) welcomes the reforms, while recognising that the higher education system in Italy is faced with a challenge implementing such a radical transformation. Their system currently has limited diversification in qualifications, rigid curricula, a very high drop-out rate, high graduate unemployment and limited internationalisation. They are changing an elite to a mass higher education system; moving from a centralised system to financial, organisational and curricular autonomy of institutions (CIMEA, 2004). This makes the reform all the more needed. In relation to the new world ranking of universities, Ince and Peitzker (2004) note that ‘perhaps the most striking feature of the European top 50 is the invisibility of southern Europe… This is ominous for these countries’ prospects in the continent-wide knowledge economy of which European and national planners dream.’ Italy is clearly taking this challenge seriously in the hope that, quite apart from international rankings, their number of graduates and their employability will increase, and their graduates’ age will decrease. This would lead to a considerable rise in productivity and fall in unemployment among young adults (CIMEA, 2004).

https://www.naric.org.uk/naric/documents/contributions/Comparative-Study-of-New-Bachelor-and-Masters-degrees-Germany-Italy-and-UK.pdf

  • plus other articles cited in African and Swiss journals that I wrote originally for the Times Higher Education Supplement (now THE)
more bio information

Broadcasting & reporting

From 1989 to 1990 in Australia, she became known for the country's first regular radio show devoted to female composers of classical music from around the globe, "Why Not Women?". The monthly radio programme was broadcast live on the public radio station for classical music, 4MBS in Brisbane, Queensland, and was created in collaboration with the International League of Women Composers (ILWC) in New York, USA.[6]

During this intensive period of community and volunteer work in broadcasting, Peitzker pioneered the establishment of the first Australian archive for the original recordings of contemporary compositions and historic classical music by women composers from around the world, most of which the American ILWC had sent to 4MBS in the 1980s and 1990s.

She was also the initiator of a live, free public concert featuring the acclaimed Brisbane composers, Mary Mageau and Betty Beath, whose classical music was performed by local musicians in the auditorium of the State Library of Queensland. The concert took place through Peitzker getting sponsors, State Government patronage and organizing the performances by other volunteers, as an extension of her work as a community broadcaster at 4MBS, then based on a local university campus.[7]

In the early 2000s, Peitzker was a regular correspondent for the London-based Times Higher Education Supplement, now THE, reporting on R&D and tertiary education issues from Berlin, Zurich and the United Nations' departments in Geneva. She also featured in a supplement of The Wall Street Journal Europe as a guest writer for Business Education, specifically MBAs offered in the EU compared with American Masters of Business courses.[8]

Academic achievements and publications

Peitzker was awarded a PhD in 2000 by the University of Potsdam for her Cultural Studies analysis of the twentieth-century Australian author, Dymphna Cusack.[9] The ebook publication of this doctoral work was released by kindle on Amazon in September 2015.[10]

In 1998, her doctoral research won the inaugural "Australia Award" of the International Federation of University Women in Geneva, Switzerland. The IFUW prize and grant had been created especially to acknowledge Peitzker's first empirical study and poststructuralist analysis of the internationally known humanitarian Dymphna Cusack, who had been a widely respected public cultural figure throughout the Cold War in Europe.

In 2012, Australia's largest independent publishing house Allen & Unwin created a national revival of Dymphna Cusack, whose work had been largely out of print for decades, making her a "forgotten author".[11] A year before, Cusack was included as one of only eleven authors to be given a brass plaque on the Sydney Writers' Walk of fame at Circular Quay.[12]

Plays, poetry and writing

In the field of drama, Peitzker wrote and directed Life with Marion (1990) which ran for two seasons ; one at the Metro Arts Theatre's dance studios and another at the University of Queensland's Cement Box Theatre. Life with Marion deals with ideas of love, religion, health and family. Peitzker later wrote Gargoyles dealing with themes of spirituality, gender, migration and ageing and the four act, epic drama written in verse, Crux, which is a metaphorical, mystical work set in an antipodean colony.

A number of her poems were published in journals as well as recorded and performed by local multimedia artists then broadcast on radio. Some of her early work was inspired by the "Old Town" of Launceston, Tasmania where she lived for the summer of 1991, after she had been selected during national auditions in Sydney to be the inhouse playwright for the University of Tasmania's Theatre Faculty in Hobart.

The University of Queensland Library has acquired and collected her published material as well as her unpublished manuscripts, including the poetry collection "Palinode - Poems from Brisbane and Nuremberg 1990 - 1995" and the novel Salamandra, or a Tale of a Last Survival, set in Geneva, Berlin, Brisbane and Cairns. These texts, recordings, manuscripts, academic papers and correspondence are held in the "Tania Peitzker Collection" in the Fryer Library's Australiana archives at the University of Queensland.[9]

Peitzker began publishing her work on Kindle and Amazon in 2015.

yet more bio information

I would like to request further edits to add supporting evidence and neutral reliable sources about my notability as a "creative professional" and published "author":

  • Fryer Library is a university archive for Australian Special Collections. They paid me around $2 000 back in 1994 for my papers, academic work and playscripts that had been performed and broadcast, as well as the unpublished literary manuscripts. They have been collecting my papers and works since then - the librarians have entered the reference for the "Tania Peitzker Collection" independently of me this week.
  • I was a correspondent for prestigious international university newspaper https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/ I wrote many articles and features for THES now called THE from Berlin, Zurich and Geneva. I interviewed Nobel Prize winners, Education Ministers, Vice Chancellors of unis but above all, innovative researchers about knowledge transfer issues and achievements ie. improving society through applying their knowledge to commerce and industry.
  • Many of these articles were then cited by other publications and higher ed organisations around the world, especially as I was a contributor to the highly regarded Times Higher World Ranking of universities. As one example see this article archived "Swiss to balance gender scales" (my article is half way down the page) http://www.readabstracts.com/Education/Equality-but-not-for-poor-Swiss-to-balance-gender-scales.html and another citation of my research here in the US www.math.utah.edu/~davar/ps-pdf-files/Ranking.pdf
  • I am consolidating all my unpublished work by publishing it on kindle, please see http://www.amazon.com/author/taniapeitzker Note I obtained the grade Magna cum Laude for my doctoral dissertation on Dymphna Cusack for which I won an international award in Geneva from the International Federation of University Women, the "Australia Award".

Hope that helps the community make a fair decision, especially taking note of the fact that women writers, women journalists and women academics are culturally underrepresented in society because we do not have the same access to mainstream publishing & channels of recognition of our achievements and cultural contributions...

Nyttend (talk) 16:26, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete: notability not established; fails WP:PROF and WP:GNG.and WP:ENT. Editor leaving notes above about Peitzker's notability is claiming to be Peitzker herself -- which, if true, clearly violates COI. If not her, it still shows that article has serious COI problems. Quis separabit? 21:41, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. Promotional autobiography. The comments in the information above indicate a lack of knowledge about our notability standards. I see no adequate substantial third party source either in the article on the comments above. Local newspapers tend not to be reliable, and the rest are mere notice. I note she referred to the Bloomber profile as the best proof. These profiles are nonselective and also based on user supplied information and therefore meaningless for notability. The book referred to as v. 1 or her 5 part postdoctoral research work is self-published. Obtaining a PhD is not notability. It is possible that she is notable from her play "Life with Marion" if there's evidence of major reviews--but I don't see that. Being a stringer for THES is not notability. It is possible that she is notable as poet if her work hads been included in a standard anthology, but I see no such evidence. . DGG ( talk ) 23:56, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per DGG's arguments. I'm willing to change my mind if evidence of significant, in-depth coverage of her in independent sources emerges. As of now, I can find nothing. Nor is there anything in the extra material posted by Peitzker at the Help Desk which remotely qualifies as establishing that the subject meets the criteria for inclusion. The subject, like many people who write their autobiographies here, confuses "accomplishments" with "notability" as Wikipedia uses the term, i.e. the requirement that extensive independent "notice" has been taken of the subject's accomplishments as evidenced by others having written or broadcast about the person in depth. Of note are the descriptions in the Finding Aid for her papers at the Fryer Library (most of which were written by Peitzker herself) and in particular, the following for the contents of Box 3, Folder 2:
Wikipedia entry – independent editors have rated me as an “Australian woman writer” and one of only four famous publicists from Australia
That says it all, really. Voceditenore (talk) 08:22, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This edit by the article's creator identifies herself as the subject. The subject then returned under her own name in September 2012 and has extensively edited this article ever since [1]. Between 2008 and 2011, a third editor [2] also added a significant amount of material to the article. It was material which indicates, at the very least, close personal knowledge of the subject. In April 2012, another (now blocked) editor, with a user name identical to one of the subject's business ventures, also added material that indicated close personal knowledge of the subject [3]. Be all that as it may, the primary rationale for deleting this article is that the subject does not meet the criteria for inclusion. Promotionalism can be fixed. Non-notability cannot. Voceditenore (talk) 11:26, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. After I replied to her on the Help Desk, Peitzker has continued a discussion with me on my talk page User Talk:ColinFine, including a lot of citations. Twice Four times now I have explained why the citations so far do not in my view establish notability, though from what she says there may well be published materials in the collection she refers to at the Fryer library which would be valid sources to establish notability. Frankly, I have no interest in wading through the last tranche of references she has posted there: they may establish notability, but she seems deteremined not to understand what we mean by it. --ColinFine (talk) 15:57, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I've waded through the ones on your talk page, ColinFine. I have also waded through the ones from the Help Desk copied above, and conducted my own searches. I never !vote delete without doing so. The only ones that are remotely "independent", although they are all basically press release-based are a couple of articles in a local business newspaper about the subject's crowd-funding efforts for her latest start-up, and a write-up on the Alumni portal of Pottsdam University, again publicising her previous start-ups and plans for obtaining funding. Several of the sources are misrepresented. Two examples:
  • You already have the citation for the Oxford University review of my Cusack work. Here is an additional one from the prestigious, independent, peer-reviewed literary journal SOUTHERLY.
The first was not an "Oxford University review" it was a brief mention of her PhD dissertation in an annual bibliography of works in English studies in the journal of The English Association. The journal is simply published by Oxford University Press. The second is an article by Peitzker herself.
There are multiple instances of this, including, but not restricted to, self-written profiles and additions to user-generated sites masquerading as independent sources. The descriptions in the finding aid at the Fryer Library are written by the subject herself, but even allowing for that and the previous dubious claim about the Wikipedia article which I quoted above, they do not mention any published articles about or press reviews of her short play or stint as a community radio host. It mentions "nomination material for the Australian Historical Association Prize for Australian History". I checked the official website of the AHA. There is no over-all prize. There a series of individual named prizes, none of which have been won by the subject. It also mentions a series of smaller student grant awards which can be applied for, but even the finding aid does not specify having actually received one. In any case, these types of student grants are not significant or notable prizes. Voceditenore (talk) 10:57, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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