Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee

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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 05:53, 22 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee

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Unreliable sources, awards fail notability. GanyuGoat (talk) 05:41, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. Notable cookbook writer. Eating Korean was reviewed in The New York Times and The LA Times, Quick and Easy Korean was a Gourmet selected cookbook (Christian Science Monitor), and Quick and Easy Mexican was reviewed in LA Weekly. A selection from Eating Korean was also included in Food & Wine's Best of the Best Vol. 9: The Best Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year. pburka (talk) 16:28, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - I could not find anything on her photography, no exhibition reviews, and no mentions of the shows listed in the article (just looked for the museum shows); however once I started searching in relation to her cooking and cookbooks, her notability as a writer became evident with multiple reviews in several verifiable reliable sources. I added a review in Gourmet Magazine[1], and removed the junk citations to book sales sites, and will add the citations Pburka found in his research. Clear WP:GNG pass. Netherzone (talk) 16:50, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep she seems to be a successful author, reviewed multiple times in multiple independent and reliable publications. Easily meets GNG, and meets NARTIST for the work as an author, albeit weakly. --- Possibly ☎ 18:28, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination is a bit suspect. The nominator figured out how to AfD an article a mere two hours after their first edit. --- Possibly ☎ 18:30, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly, it is odd, and they knew how to add maintenance tags and speedy tag to this article before the AfD. Perhaps they used to edit as an IP? Whatever... It is clear a BEFORE was not conducted prior to the nom. Netherzone (talk) 20:47, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- The speedy nom was clearly inappropriate, but the user's other edits look reasonable, and this page is/was a bit of a mess. I'm assuming good faith. pburka (talk) 20:55, 15 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, also per WP:BASIC. I started with her website for clues, and found: Two Korean American chefs turn into entrepreneurs (The Korea Times, 2016, biographical, education, career information in addition to an interview), Experimental Korean Fare By a James Beard Nominee at this Low Key Swap Meet (LAEater, 2017, career development, award nomination), The Tortilla Takes a Road Trip to Korea (New York Times, 2010, brief mention with biographical information), How Food Shaped One Family’s Pursuit of the American Dream (America's Test Kitchen, 2020, a podcast styled as a memoir, based on a 2015 essay she wrote for Eater), Korea’s food identity crisis (Kansas Star, 2011, including a focus on her). Beccaynr (talk) 01:13, 16 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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