Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Van Badham

Van Badham

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There's a lot of references in the article but I keep hitting on dead ends. There are wordpress blogs, student newspapers a primary source interview. There does not appear to be enough out there to justify an article on this person, not as a journalist, author, or playwright. There's been a lot of vandalism in the article's past I see but the afd has nothing to do with that, I found this by the RecentChanges link. ValarianB (talk) 13:42, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure whether the above case for deletion is primarily citation-based or notability-based. I don't think either has substance, in that the subject is one of Australia's most prominent playwrights under 50 (see the reference to the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, links to arts organisations, newspaper articles, university sites included in the article - most of which I am having no trouble accessing) and is also a regular columnist in The Guardian (the link to her Guardian profile appears to be intact too). This should satisfy even the most rigorous notability criteria. I will do a thorough audit of the sources, but as I said, most of them seem to be intact, and of high quality/impact, not just blogs etc. AiasBigAndLittle (talk) 22:15, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]