Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Claire Dobelle


 * 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   Delete. لenna vecia  16:07, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Claire Dobelle

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In the category for non-notable pages since September 2007. Highest Heights (talk) 16:37, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Businesspeople-related deletion discussions.  --  Fabrictramp  |  talk to me  21:19, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:03, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. The article claims 4 emmys and a Murrow award, which would be notable, but doesn't give sources for them, or the years they were won. A search of both those sites for her name came up with nothing. I checked the article on Hodding Carter (the notable host of the show) and it doesn't mention the emmy's or Murrow award, which I find odd.Niteshift36 (talk) 06:10, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 00:24, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge after a severe trimming to cover the verifiable information. This confirms she is his wife, and was a PBS producer.  I can find no evidence for a primetime emmy and the emmy site doesn't provide a search mechanism for other types.  A Google search yielded nothing useful.  At this point, without further details, the emmy awards are unverifiable.  There are multiple edward r. murrow awards as evidenced by the disambig page.  I cannot find her as a recipient on any of them.  -- Whpq (talk) 18:14, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to what? Niteshift36 (talk) 05:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * D'oh! - Merge to her husband's article, William H. Dobelle -- Whpq (talk) 10:16, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Weak keep The article is a bit of a mess, but there are strong indications of notability. 20 million donation to University and taking over operations of a major company and rest of career. I think notability can be established. ChildofMidnight (talk) 06:31, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * ChildofMidnight, we can't keep things because we "think notability can be established", we have to actually establish it. Your "week keep" should be disregarded by the closing editor. Drawn Some (talk) 13:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm sure that the closing admin is capable of making a decision without such prompting. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:08, 14 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete as non-notable due to lack of sources. Not being able to verify claimed awards is very disturbing and violates WP:VERIFY in a BLP. Donating an inheritance doesn't buy a place in Wikipedia.  To establish notability we need significant in-depth coverage in independent reliable sources or meet one of the other criteria at WP:NOTE and associated guidelines. Drawn Some (talk) 13:26, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. I would have thought that anyone who had personally won an Emmy award would have the fact recorded on the Internet, but a Google search for '"Claire Dobelle"+emmy' only finds Wikipedia mirrors. Also a Google News archive search for just her name only gets a passing mention in a local newspaper obituary for her husband. I don't see any notability here. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:20, 14 June 2009 (UTC)


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