Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alison Morris


 * 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 talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. Pax:Vobiscum (talk) 15:26, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

Alison_Morris
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Non-notable - Wikipedia is not a newspaper. coverage not significant enough to warrant an entire article about the news anchor, who had no page prior to this incident. there is coverage in major publications, but creating an article for this would be like creating an article for every controversy that gets national exposure for a day. StickyEmotions (talk) 19:57, 27 January 2020 (UTC) — StickyEmotions (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:01, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep- She appears as an anchor on a national news channel and has received coverage from multiple sources for her controversial remarks. To prove that this is not a one event only case, she also was profiled by Variety back in July, long before the incident.--Rusf10 (talk) 20:19, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * a profile on Variety is hardly noteworthy enough to warrant its own article, which is why nobody created one back in July. This incident has received coverage in major publications, but it remains to be seen if this is a simple one-day controversy or something more notable.  Wikipedia doesn't report the news, and this anchor seems noteworthy just for this single incident.StickyEmotions (talk) 20:28, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Automated comment: This AfD was not correctly transcluded to the log (step 3). I have transcluded it to Articles for deletion/Log/2020 January 27.  —cyberbot I   Talk to my owner :Online 20:23, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - Up until recently, Alison Morris merely worked for local news stations, but now she's the anchor of a major American news network with a national and even international audience. Most, if not all, news anchors from the major American news networks have articles on Wikipedia. Morris is not a random person who found herself in the midst of a controversy, she is an anchor of one of the most influential news networks in the world. Even without the incident, there would have been more than enough reasons to create a page for her. -- Adriano 7 (talk) 21:37, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Journalism-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 21:01, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep - National news anchor with significant press coverage. --XenonNSMB (talk, contribs) 23:10, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * She deserves to be known for using the N-word. That kind of slip up only means she uses it more than once. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:387:A:7:0:0:0:5E (talk) 00:24, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * She didn't use the n-word. she very clearly said something gibberish that sounded like Nakers.  but that's not relevant to the argument.  it looks like this is going to overwhelmingly be "keep", which is fine, but your argument for why is the only one out of all of these that is invalid.StickyEmotions (talk) 03:28, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Matter of fact, I heard "nakers" BEFORE she ever came out saying that. I'm guessing you've never worked in public speaking before.  I am a bleeding heart liberal who has 'cancelled' tons of celebrities for using racial epithets or saying racially inappropriate things.  but there is no merit to this one and right now, this lady is getting harassed for what is clearly a flub and if you actually listen without pre-conceived bias, you'll hear she did not use the epithet, but rather gibberish due to getting tongue tied and starting to say the wrong team's name.  she's not a sports reporter.StickyEmotions (talk) 03:29, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - She passes GNG. Missvain (talk) 01:31, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Passes GNG, notable even without the Kobe controversy.LM2000 (talk) 01:49, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep for all the reasons stated above.Johnny Spasm (talk) 00:44, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Probably the most truthful statement above is the "she deserves to be known for using the n-word". To me, living in Detroit surrounded by people who use this word with many permutations of meaning on a regular basis, this claim makes zero sense. Secondly, even if it is true, Wikipedia does not have the purpose to right great wrongs. The coverage of Morris is all one event, news cycle type coverage. It does not show long term notability. We should delete this article. We are not a newspaper.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:47, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Passes WP:GNG as the host on a major TV network. KidAd (talk) 04:22, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. XenonNSMB pretty much said it best. (SN: I always get a little suspicious when one of the first contributions from a supposed new user is an AfD.)  Erpert  blah, blah, blah... 18:47, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep for now technically not a BLP1E because she is known for her role as a talking head, and then somewhat infamous for her use of the N word on live television. I think we have enough RS for a keep and perhaps a weak keep. Lightburst (talk) 19:06, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment As I see this, the only reason we suddenly decided she was notable was for saying maybe the n-word on TV, as we didn't have a page for her before that. As JPL says above, this is news cycle type coverage that seems to fall in line with BLP1E. For our subjects we look for sustained coverage. While she did have an article in variety about 6 months ago, that alone doesn't do it for me. My question: will we still be talking about this event 6 months from now? I suspect not. Thus we're going to make a negative BLP over a single reactionary news event? I fail to see the encyclopedic value here. CaptainEek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 18:58, 1 February 2020 (UTC)


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