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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:06, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Draft notes

Hi, I have several notes for you, some general and some section specific.

• Make sure that you review the article for spelling and grammatical errors, such as writing out Starwars instead of Star Wars. Basically, just make sure that there are no typos and whatnot.
• All of the sources here look to be primary - in other words, things put out by Klassen or by people or organizations affiliated with her. These can back up basic details but cannot show notability. Awards received by Klassen should ideally be backed up with an independent, secondary source. Be cautious with awards though, as not all awards give notability on Wikipedia. Faculty awards typically don't, for example. What you need to show notability are things like coverage or reviews of her work like this or just coverage of Klassen as a whole in secondary, independent reliable sources.

Now per section:

Personal Life

• Not everything is considered to be relevant to Wikipedia's purposes. For example, it's fine to state that she has a partner and children, but her knitting would be seen as irrelevant to Wikipedia unless she's received a lot of coverage for this or she's covered it very extensively herself.
• The writing should be very to the point and not embellished. I'd write the information about her partner and children as "Klassen lives with her partner and two children in Ontario, Canada." However keep in mind that the book was dated 2014. A lot can change between then and now, so they may not still be together or they may have married. I'd honestly not include this unless you had more sourcing for this.

Publications and contributions

• I'd recommend going for just a basic list of her work as a whole. If she's put out an extremely large amount of work, you'd select the most notable ones - this is more applicable to journal articles, though.
• The article shouldn't mention that the book or her work is used in specific classes - that's seen as a bit irrelevant to Wikipedia. What's important is if her work is very widely used in classrooms akin to how To Kill A Mockingbird is used in many classrooms throughout the US. If it widely used in that manner, it'd be mentioned in more of a "Klassen's work is widely used in classrooms" sort of way. This is pretty rare, however. Also, the notability guideline for an author's work being widely used in classrooms doesn't apply to textbooks, as those are specifically written to be used in classrooms.
• The contributions to other books and journal articles should be listed here in a plain list format. I'd only go into specific depth if there's discussion of her work.
• Be careful with stating where something was published. For example, you stated that one of her publications was put out by Sage, however that's the database hosting the work - the journal article was actually put out by Feminist Theory.

Awards

• This is OK, however I must caution you that this looks to be more faculty and scholarship awards and don't seem to be the type that would be considered majorly notable, such as a Fullbright Scholarship.

I've re-written the publications and contributions to be a more traditional bibliography as an example - now the main things will be tweaking this to fit Wikipedia's writing style and, most importantly, finding that secondary coverage. Offhand I didn't really see much about her, so keep in mind that Klaussen may not pass notability guidelines for writers or academics. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:07, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Chris Klassen

The article Chris Klassen has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Fails WP:NACADEMIC: "Sources" cited are either not independent of the subject or do not provide significant coverage.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. UnitedStatesian (talk) 16:23, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

• I've gone in and added some reviews of her work. Hopefully this will be enough to keep the article. (UnitedStatesian, the other account is my main one.) I would continue to look for more coverage of Klassen and her work in the meantime. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:04, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

  Thanks, but it's not there yet. Please review the nine items at WP:NACADEMIC; is there any one of those that describe the subject? And do sources support that? UnitedStatesian (talk) 18:32, 11 December 2018 (UTC)