The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's
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The result was delete. ♠
PMC♠
(talk) 17:39, 28 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete. Simply being a staffer at the White House is not an automatic inclusion freebie that exempts a person from having to clear
WP:GNG — which is especially true when the article doesn't even say what her title was. But there's nowhere near enough sourcing here to get her over GNG — there's one obituary in her hometown newspaper, one
primary source government report and the publication details of a book she wrote herself. So it might be possible to get her over
WP:AUTHOR as a writer of a book, if that were sourced to media coverage about the book rather than metasourcing the book to itself, but nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to be sourced properly. In addition there's a likely
conflict of interest here, as the creator's username is "Lawrence S Guthrie".
Bearcat (
talk) 16:10, 21 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Weak delete Tulsa world gave her a substantial obituary. The Washingtin Post gave more of a blurb. I can't find much else and nothing about the book.
FloridaArmy (
talk) 14:36, 23 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete Non notable person, fails basic criterion for inclusion. We cannot build article based on single obituary since Wikipedia is not
WP:MEMORIAL –
Ammarpad (
talk) 20:33, 24 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:NOTMEMORIAL. The article was almost certainly created by a family member.
...William, is the complaint department really on
the roof? 16:55, 25 March 2018 (UTC)reply
The article's creator has joined the discussion on the article talk page. They've noted some additional sources with coverage such as New Wave : State Flag in DC a Tad Off Color" (Tulsa Tribune, 11/1/1988, p.1) by th
Joan Biscupic,
this one and
this one.
FloridaArmy (
talk) 22:23, 26 March 2018 (UTC)reply
Keep. The Tulsa obituary is a major one, and other sources in the article and discussed at Talk page do add up. I think it is useful for Wikipedia to answer the question "who is Helen Guthrie" as her name appears in various places, and she is interesting. Editor
User:Bearcat and others are providing education to the article creator, about COI and valid sources, which is fine, at Talk page of the article. The creator has been participating in edit-a-thons. Besides the basic validity of the topic IMHO, it would be disruptive to the development of that editor to entirely delete their contributions and also the educational discussion at the Talk page.
We ought to formalize some policy that is newish-editor-friendly, where they get a pass on an AFD automatically, at least for a one-year period, for a topic that is marginal and not blatantly a copyvio or BLP. The topic could go onto some central list to be revisited in a year.
However in this case I do think the topic is notable without cutting any break that way. --
Doncram (
talk) 00:38, 27 March 2018 (UTC)reply
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