Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dianne Herrin


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The result was delete. J04n(talk page) 15:56, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Dianne Herrin

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As far as I see the only claim of notability is that she is a mayor of a town with the population of 18K. It does not seem to be sufficient to keep the article. Ymblanter (talk) 08:25, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Delete, fails WP:POLITICIAN. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 10:52, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Do Not Delete, Dianne Herrin is the mayor of West Chester, PA, the county seat of Chester County, PA, and is also an inventor with a patent. I believe there is sufficient sources to support that Dianne Herrin is a person of note. Florgio (talk) 08:08, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Having invented something with a patent on it is not an automatic notability freebie on Wikipedia, if your only source for the fact is a WP:ROUTINE listing in a patents database. It becomes notability only if and when media are writing and publishing content about her and her invention, and not before. Bearcat (talk) 04:32, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Comment, hi, mayors like Herrin are usually found not to be notable, she needs something else (and more than the patent), cheers. Coolabahapple (talk) 01:24, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neither being a smalltown mayor nor having invented something is an automatic notability freebie in the absence of much stronger reliable source coverage about those things than this article shows any evidence of — three of the seven footnotes here are unnecessary repetitions of the same primary source (her own campaign website) that cannot support notability, the invention is sourced to a patents database rather than media coverage, and the media coverage of her mayoralty consists of the election results themselves and her initial swearing-in as mayor — but to consider a mayor notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia, what we need is substantive career coverage of stuff she actually did in the mayor's chair, not just the election results tables themselves. Bearcat (talk) 04:32, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete being the mayor of a county seat is not a claim to notability. I'd be surprised if we have any articles on any mayors of Mount Clemens, Michigan. We lack enough sources of coverage to show she is notable as a mayor. The patent claim is even less a sign of notability. My father has about 20 patents, and is no where close to being notable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:31, 5 January 2018 (UTC)


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