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Nomination of Wilbur Braithwaite for deletion
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Katie Millar
I hope I am not going over some line. Reviewing the issue, I think the article on Ms. Millar is not really passing GNG. The big issue is that winning Miss Utah and competing in Miss America are not two separate events, but one event over time. Miss Utah is the qualifying round to Miss America, all Miss America competitors for the last 80 years or so are winners of competitions in the 50 states, DC or Puerto Rico. If we have a Subject guideline, people should not be deemed notable for coverage of actions that are covered by the subject guideline, unless they get especially good coverage. So coverage in papers published in the state in which they win never qualifies. Thus at best we have one article that might add towards a passing of GNG, but that is disputed. However since GNG requires multiple sources, no matter how we interpret the one AP story, it is not enough on its own to show that Millar is notable, and publications in the state that she was a state level winner in are not going to be enough either. I figure posting this on your talk page is removed enough from direct editing on a subject that might in some way be considered related to religion that it is doable. Basically I think to qualify for notability we either need reliable source in-depth coverage in indepdent publications outside the issue of the beauty contest totally, or multiple independent, in-depth stories created in newspapers outside the state where the state level win was, and the later need to be coverage that does not run into not news problems. I just realized I was also the creator of the article on Kayla Barclay, and the person who nominated that article for deletion. To be fair Millar did receive a slightly small amount more coverage than Barcaly, but unless there are some publications that discuss her more than has been shown, we do not have enough to show notability. I think you made the right call on this.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:08, 12 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your insights. I like your summary of qualifications for notability, it is a template that makes sense and I can follow. I didn't catch you were the creator of both pages. I just noticed what seemed like an inconsistency. Speaking of inconsistency, for some reason more Miss USA than Miss America contestants from that year have Wiki pages. I haven't checked but I would guess the same situation is going on for other Miss USA and Miss America contestant pages, with the subjects not meeting GNG not only for 2007 but other years as well... Jacobkhed (talk) 01:01, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * There are a lot of these. At one point people got frustrated with me for trying to nominate in their view too many for deletion too fast. There have been some arguments that being Miss whatever in some states makes one notable. However no one has shown sustained coverage over time for this fact. On the other hand I can show that winning Miss America not only leads to much more wide spread coverage, but for example the Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint history chooses to have articles on the two members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who won the Miss America pageant, but does not choose to cover any just state level winners. Oddly enough that is not even one of the listed sources for the article on Sharlene Wells Hawkes. I suspect that article could be a lot more robust.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:21, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * For starters Wells Hawkes needs to be put in Category:American expatriates in Mexico. The article explicitly states that was one of the places she was mainly raised. Even if I did not have some of the topic blocks I currently have, I would probably hesitate in editing this article since I personally knew her brother, sister-in-law, and at least one of her nieces. I do remember an article in the BYU newspaper in about 1999 discussing the decision of the university to stop having home coming queens, and siginificantly quoting from Wells Hawkes about this decision. Not the type of thing that would add towards passing notability, but if findable it might in some way be incorporatable in the text.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:35, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Sheri Dew wrote what appears to be a biography of Wells after she won the Miss America Pageant. As far as I can tell this book is not even mentioned in the biography of Wells, let alone incorproated in the article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:37, 13 October 2021 (UTC)