Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alexa Lemley


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The result was   delete. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:36, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Alexa Lemley

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Questionable notability, relies on the "Indiana Artisan" awards, which I wouldn't consider notable, for a source, definitely needs better sources for a BLP, borderline advertising at times. Specs112  t   c  19:39, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep Hi, I was making a page for a chef. This article is not biased and has plenty of credible sources, where I got the information from. I followed the guidlines, using well known sources. Please do not delete my page. I would like help to know what I have done wrong. Thank you so much! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kmartindale (talk • contribs) 19:46, 21 June 2012 Preceding comment by author transcluded from Talk:Alexa Lemley.
 * Delete, per nominator. Insufficient coverage to establish notability; the cited award was presented by a non-notable publication so is itself non-notable. The intimate picture of the subject and her partner was uploaded by the article creator and cited as their own work, so there is an apparrent connection and conflict of interest. RichardOSmith (talk) 20:12, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. The only reliable source that seems to confer notability is the "Indiana Artisan" awards piece.  I looked closely at that and they've given it out 175 times in two years, which seems a bit … less than perfectly notable to me.  You can receive this award for making fudge and, like the subject, marshmallows; not really within my personal definition of "artisan".  On the other hand, this award is juried -- although I was unable to discern exactly who's on the juries.  From the website, the "Benefits" of this award are all about the marketing of local products and so I have to think that this is more advertising than anything else.  The article states that having been chosen as an "Artist in Residence" at the Indiana State Museum -- for being a chef? -- is "a chance to promote her locally based products", without any other mention of why this designation was given or to how many people, and it's stated that this is based on the "Indiana Artisan" status.   Also as noted above there is a strong flavour of self-promotion; her stated ambition is "Global domination of the gourmet candy market," and this seems like a step along the way.  All things considered, I think this is yet another attempt to market this person's food products.  No doubt they are excellent, but I suggest she is not yet sufficiently notable for Wikipedia; perhaps if there were some reliable sources of arm's-length third-party expert opinion that were unambiguously not connected with the promotion of local businesses and that were outside her home area.  Ubelowme (talk) 20:52, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Insufficient evidence of notability. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 23:09, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 12:30, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
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 * Delete I'm sure she's a nice enough person, but personal pages for some minor local celebrity (which may even be overstating things) is not what this site is for. See WP:NOT. You need to be famous before getting an article here, not create an article here as a step to try to become famous. DreamGuy (talk) 22:33, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - At this point, I don't see wikipedia's inclusion guidelines being met. The best source I could find was this Indy Star article. -- Whpq (talk) 16:32, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete, looking like it's getting ready to snow. Sources found are insufficient to meet Wikipedia's notability requirements.    19:27, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - it fails WP:GNG. Many facts are unsourced and others are sourced poorly. The article also doesn't seem to have any notability.  →TSU tp* 20:34, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.