Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christmas Abbott


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The result was   delete.  MBisanz  talk 23:04, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Christmas Abbott

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Fails notability standards. The person is simply a crewmember, nothing more, and has attracted a brief spurt of media mentions because of their gender; however, the statement on which her claim to notability is based - being the 'first female NASCAR crewmember' - is doubly wrong. First, as noted in the contested PROD, in 2003 a team in the Truck Series utilised an all-female pit crew at a race. While it was a publicity stunt (the basis of the contesting), it still happened, regardless of the reasons behind it. Secondly, while I cannot find a WP:RS for it, in a Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup) Series race, NASCAR's top series, at Dover in 1980, Jimmy Ingram's daughter, Lynn Ingram, acted as his crew chief. (non-RS: ). The claim is nebulous and, honestly, unverifiable (as records were not kept for who was on crews for many, many years), and the person fails WP:NPEOPLE and WP:NSPORTS. (It's also worth mentioning that the Snowball Derby is not a NASCAR-sanctioned race, making the claim itself WP:CRYSTAL.) The Bushranger One ping only 01:19, 21 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. One brief blip of press notice doth not lasting notability make. I'm not sure what the big deal was anyway, considering all the female NASCAR drivers there were years before her lesser media-asserted "accomplishment" (see List of female NASCAR drivers). Clarityfiend (talk) 04:09, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
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