Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Melissa Miles McCarter

@Voceditenore: Thanks for referring me to the Wayback Machine. I can see how it’s useful if you remember particular links - I found a few websites that Google doesn’t list anywhere during a search. But when you don’t know (or don’t remember) what the original link is, I haven’t found a way on it to search for particular key words. I also didn’t find some sources that I did have a link for- it’s not as comprehensive then as I hoped it to be. I have been writing things on the WWW since 1996 and maybe journals, websites through the years have disappeared. Often you go to it, even with the Wayback Machine, and get GoDaddy pages, etc. In terms of researching books that are offline via Google Books or Worldcat or behind paywalls, they aren’t always searchable to verify the content. There are books that I remember having information about certain people and subjects, but proving it would be difficult without access to that information. I guess this is one of the considerations of historiography- how to access and/or excavate records. It’s even a more challenging when those records don’t have/ or no longer have a physical counterpart and are no longer (easily or at all) accessible. I’m not sure how this figures into the purpose of Wikipedia. I actually hung out with Jimbo (Jimmy Wales) in the early 1990s a number of times and learned about his nascent view for Wikipedia, so it’s interesting to see how his original vision evolved. If you notice, I originally became a user on Wikipedia ten years ago and this page stood for many years without any discussion. Perhaps previous editors weren’t as diligent or it just took years to discover in order to be evaluated. Maybe the standards or application in those standards were more lax and editors are more rigorous. Regardless, I think the discussion of what should be maintained in an encyclopedic context is very interesting. Lissahoop (talk) 03:16, 7 June 2019 (UTC)lissahoop

Why delete it?

I created the page with help from another webpage that I found out was originally sourced from a deleted Wikipedia page but I found notable sources that back up the comments. I asked if I needed to put this in sandbox to work on and was told it could stay up as long as I wasn’t using multiple accounts. This writer has been cited in a number of postfeminist articles and I found out referred to in reference to her writing in mental illness and infertility. I think that her contributions make that notable, I’m researching postfeminism in relationship to trans and disability issues and I was introduced to this author’s work on infertility in terms of disability through the Rhetoric Research Network. I think that’s important for other people who share this interest. - Jenn Morris Jennmorris1 (talk) 03:01, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

I guess I’m not sure what reliable sources you mean - someone mentions newspaper articles not being reliable because they are local - this is a regional author and has 3 newspapers from 3 parts of Missouri. The STL today article was syndicated in over 100 newspapers. They were in the paper version of the newspapers before they were online. But I can keep researching to find other sources if I’m told what reliable is. She has a number of Huffington Post articles online I found, a dissertation, is mentioned in other books and articles online, just in the web search I did. Jennmorris1 (talk) 03:25, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Response to @barkeep49

@Barkeep49: hopefully I’m replying right - I added more sources I hope are reliable plus I wanted to point out that this is a regional writer so it makes sense that the articles would be from Missouri, but I wouldn’t call them local or online, the links are to online editions but it looks like the articles were originally in print and syndicated in other newspapers. Regardless, other Wikipedia pages have a lot less sources and I think the ones I linked are pretty reliable. If you give advice on what else I need to find to be reliable or of noteworthiness I’d appreciate it. Jennmorris1 (talk) 04:27, 4 June 2019 (UTC)