Zachrd99
I have made drastic changes to the page, aiming to make it more educational and removing much of the accomplishment information. I have pulled this template from similar colleagues in her industry (i.e. John Gray).
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles, or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion debates. Otherwise, it may be difficult to create consensus. If you oppose the deletion of an article, please comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. Hairhorn (talk) 03:12, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, bear with me, I'm relatively new. I would like to rewrite this page entirely to make it more encyclopedic. I would use the John Gray page as a bare bones model. I think something simple outlining the contribution to solution oriented therapy and a quick reference to relevant accomplishments unique to her field. Any advice how I could make these changes without having them pulled right away? Thanks.
- First, you must find independent, reliable sources that provide significant coverage of the subject (see the verification policy and the reliable sources guideline). This generally means the subject must have been written about in newspapers, journals, or books (not most websites, as they are considered self-published sources and are discouraged). Trivial coverage (a simple mention that she will be at a conference or that she wrote book X) is not enough to meet the inclusion criteria. If most coverage is on a theory or practice that she developed, then it might be appropriate to have an article on that theory or practice and not on the individual. Feel free to work on the article right now, but you must not remove the deletion tag; the discussion lasts 7 days. People often change their minds on whether the article should be kept if enough reliable sources are added during the discussion period. Good luck! Karanacs (talk) 14:10, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
I've made considerable changes to the page to adhere to Wikipedia's policies. Also, in terms of "deserving an article", Weiner-Davis is the co-author of solution focused brief therapy, and is one of the few to NOT currently have their own page, and relatively has contributed more to the field than any of them.