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The result was speedy keep. The nominator has withdrawn the nomination. (non-admin closure) GSS (talk|c|em) 16:18, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jo Stanley (historian)[edit]

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This article appears to be written in a promotional manner (WP:SPIP), likely by the subject or someone closely related to her, lacks any sort of citations at all, and after a few Google searches, I believe fails to establish notability based on WP:GNG. haha169 (talk) 12:25, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep -- First of all, that the article "fails to establish notability" is not a deletion criterion. Please read WP:ARTN before nominating any other articles for deletion. That being said, this person clearly, clearly passes WP:NAUTHOR #3, since her work has been the subject "of multiple independent periodical articles or reviews." First consider her book "Hello, Sailor!" This was reviewed in The Guardian and the following, which I found in various databases:
• The Observer: Review: Books: It was hard to turn a blind eye to Diamond Lil, Gerty G-string and the other gay sea dogs Observer, The (London, England) - April 6, 2003
• Books: History has never been so oral - Hello Sailor! The hidden history of gay life at sea By Paul Baker and Jo Stanley Independent on Sunday, The (London, England) - March 30, 2003
• The Sunday Telegraph (United Kingdom): The Literary Life Sunday Telegraph, The (London, England) - March 16, 2003
• mentioned in Books of Critical Interest Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jan., 2006), pp. 160-162
• Review: All about Eve? Queer Theory and History in Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 41, No. 1, Jan., 2006
• 'The Sea Is Swinging into View': Modern British Maritime History in a Globalised World in The English Historical Review Vol. 124, No. 510, Oct., 2009

Also, her history of women pirates, "Bold in her Breeches," is probably sufficient unto itself:

• REVIEW OF 'BOLD IN HER BREECHES: WOMEN PIRATES ACROSS THE AGES.' Independent, The (London, England) - May 13, 1995
• Shiver My Timbers! - Books Sunday Times, The (London, England) - March 26, 1995

And so on.. 192.160.216.52 (talk) 13:16, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw, okay, I concede that there are a lot more sources about her then I could find at first. --haha169 (talk) 14:32, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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