The result was no consensus to delete. – Juliancolton | Talk 15:42, 9 May 2009 (UTC) reply
French poet, published a dozen books but it's not clear what their notability is. Article created by a J Laroche... Notability not established, and a few searches (including google news on "Jean Laroche" and poésie) does not produce much of anything. I'd be happy to see improvement instead of deletion, but even the French article doesn't help. Nomoskedasticity ( talk) 19:21, 1 May 2009 (UTC) reply
As for your sneer at my other comment, it is a bit facetious to suppose that it doesn't matter for a poet whether they get published by a huge and important press, or by a small literary press, or by a vanity press--just ask the poet or the bookstore or the reading public or the institute where they are trying to get tenure. In fact, your critique of my comment really isn't worth any more words.
If I had found anything more on the French WP, it would have been a different matter. Now, I also checked the Gale Literary Database of Contemporary Authors and their Dictionary of Literary Biography, and both have nothing. In the interest of full disclosure: Don Johnson, in The Appalachian Homeplace as Oneiric House (Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991), does mention Laroche: he cites Gaston Bachelard who cites four lines from a Laroche poem in The Poetics of Space (I hope this isn't a redlink!). If you want to call that significant coverage, then we have really diverging definitions of significant coverage. Again, I find no reason to suppose, in the absence of clear evidence from my searches or from the English and French WP articles, that we are dealing with a notable author. Drmies ( talk) 15:18, 2 May 2009 (UTC) reply
The result was no consensus to delete. – Juliancolton | Talk 15:42, 9 May 2009 (UTC) reply
French poet, published a dozen books but it's not clear what their notability is. Article created by a J Laroche... Notability not established, and a few searches (including google news on "Jean Laroche" and poésie) does not produce much of anything. I'd be happy to see improvement instead of deletion, but even the French article doesn't help. Nomoskedasticity ( talk) 19:21, 1 May 2009 (UTC) reply
As for your sneer at my other comment, it is a bit facetious to suppose that it doesn't matter for a poet whether they get published by a huge and important press, or by a small literary press, or by a vanity press--just ask the poet or the bookstore or the reading public or the institute where they are trying to get tenure. In fact, your critique of my comment really isn't worth any more words.
If I had found anything more on the French WP, it would have been a different matter. Now, I also checked the Gale Literary Database of Contemporary Authors and their Dictionary of Literary Biography, and both have nothing. In the interest of full disclosure: Don Johnson, in The Appalachian Homeplace as Oneiric House (Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1991), does mention Laroche: he cites Gaston Bachelard who cites four lines from a Laroche poem in The Poetics of Space (I hope this isn't a redlink!). If you want to call that significant coverage, then we have really diverging definitions of significant coverage. Again, I find no reason to suppose, in the absence of clear evidence from my searches or from the English and French WP articles, that we are dealing with a notable author. Drmies ( talk) 15:18, 2 May 2009 (UTC) reply