I believe what caused the more in-depth examination was the creation of a brand new, otherwise unlinked category for the book, which drew the attention of a very different group of editors than the ones who pay attention to works of fiction.  You've got the category-interested editors looking at the article, instead of the fiction-interested editors. 
 
It's just a notability tag, it's already been removed, and I'm sure folks will be able to find some more reviews about October (novel). 
 
I don't think it has anything at all to do with the fact that the author is a woman.  As best I can tell, the only person comparing this novel to Cussler books is you. 
 
Risker/Anne


On 22 July 2014 13:39, Kathleen McCook <klmccook@gmail.com> wrote:
The reason I asked to discuss here is to ascertain whether or not there seems to be a different set of notability standards by gender.

I encourage students to contribute to Wikipedia.
But when notability is an editor's decision with so many exceptions...how do you encourage?

Really, I am careful and if a book by a brilliant woman like Zoe Wicomb causes notability queries..how, on earth, can this gender gap be addressed?

Here is Ms. Wicomb's prize announcement at Yale.
http://windhamcampbell.org/2013/winner/zo%C3%AB-wicomb





On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <dancase@frontiernet.net> wrote:
 
On what basis in Clive Cussler notable? 
That he’s a regular denizen of the bestseller lists in many countries who’s had works adapted into major motion pictures (To be honest, I think we should say that “all published works by authors who have their paperbacks displayed prominently in the racks near the front of bookstores at airports are notable Smile“).

Well, I don't know. I had never heard of Cussler before today (don't spend a lot of time in airport bookshops), but I did look at a couple of his novels' Wikipedia articles, and they didn't indicate significance any better than the October article. (One of them had a single, ephemeral reference; the other had 7 that seemed pretty thin.)

I can see how Kathleen would be frustrated by what surely appears from her perspective to be a double standard.

Pete
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