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The result was speedy keep b/c no accurate deletion rationale was provided. As an added note, the improvement and notability tags were added 6 minutes after the creation of the article, then the article was nominated for AfD 5 minutes after that. This didn't allow sufficient time for the article to be improved or even finish the creation process. In addition, a quick search on Google Scholar shows the subject likely meets Wikipedia notability guidelines‎. SouthernNights (talk) 19:29, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Elizabeth Purbeck (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Subjects do not meet criteria for the general notability guideline while not passing WP:NAUTHOR either. The entire article is about the two subjects' works, none of which have articles, and the article clearly states that little is known about the authors at all. Paul Vaurie (talk) 16:28, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Authors and England. Paul Vaurie (talk) 16:28, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

KEEP. Of course I may be biased as I drafted the article and first posted it not five minutes ago. The Purbeck sisters are included in several well-established reference works on women's writing, as noted in the references, which indicates sufficient notability to my mind: They have entries in the following:

• Blain, Virginia, et al., eds. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive)
• Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
• The Women's Print History Project
• "Elizabeth Purbeck": Corvey Women Writers on the Web Author's Page
• "Jane Purbeck": Corvey Women Writers on the Web Author's Page

They are also referred to in at least one piece of scholarship on another author:

• Butler, Cheryl. "Jane Austen, Netley Abbey, and Gothic Tourism." Persuasions Online. Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) 40.1 (Winter 2019). Accessed 2023-08-07.

— scribblingwoman 16:57, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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