RationalWiki:Articles for deletion/Ijeoma Oluo

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1. Pet project from ages ago that remains a stub and was never missional. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 17:23, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
2. Unless there's a reason that she's missional for any crankery or if she's the target of cranks (which the article doesn't mention), seems to not be missional. Techpriest ^{(I am Alpharius! / / / )} 18:26, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
3. Not missional in its current form-Hastur! (talk) 20:19, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
4. The two quotes take up nearly half the page. Not a good sign. Spud (talk) 06:44, 1 September 2020 (UTC)
5. --Hedvigsen^{Skreonk here} 08:59, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Merge/redirect

1. Move to draft space. —cosmikdebris ^talk stalk 18:26, 31 August 2020 (UTC)
2. Draft. She herself has some notable writings(and maybe the facebook suspension is relevant in discussing they way social justice politics are handled on social media) but it would need a lot of work to become worthy of mainspace.-Flandres (talk) 18:29, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Goat

• It seems missional or else we have to be removing critique related to social justice from the wiki. The article itself being useful, I can't say for sure since it's so short but I don't think it's a useless article per se. --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 17:26, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

  Sure, we need some social justice stuff. What we don't need are crappy stubs on random bloggers who have said things about social justice. Chef Moosolini’s Ristorante Italiano^{Make a Reservation} 17:32, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

  Is this a random blogger? Or is the article dressing up this person as more than just that? --It's-a me, LeftyGreenMario! 17:38, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

  She's hardly a random blogger; she's had a book published by Hachette, had articles in various well-known publications[1], and has a ridiculously overly referenced Wikipedia page[2]. The RW article doesn't really prove her relevance, although both as a humanist and a writer on race she may well be on-mission. --Annanoon (talk) 11:38, 2 September 2020 (UTC)

  I did some digging at that last one (the Wikipedia page). Take care to not think that a lot of references is grounds for her needing a page here, since I would argue it doesn't. Rather, the overreferenced material seems to be the result of an AFD request that went nowhere, where some people started digging up references to make her pass notability guidelines. Furthermore, the quality of her Wikipedia page is frankly on the low end, with a lot of slanted writing (not always bad on RW, but is always bad on WP), which to me suggests that it's written by a fan. Unless she's notable for having been on the receiving end of a hate campaign from the cranks we cover or if she holds moonbat beliefs or something similar like that (and nothing I see in her WP article suggests as much), I don't think we need an article on her. As it is, her page is just a simple advertisement that doesn't tell me anything I can't gleam just as easily from her WP page. Techpriest ^{(I am Alpharius! / / / )} 10:45, 7 September 2020 (UTC)