Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey


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The result was delete. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 12:05, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

Eleanor Silliman Belknap Humphrey

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This seems to be a bit of somebody's family history. There's really no indication here at all of notability by our standards. Most of the material is unsourced, and most of the rest of it is not supported by the sources cited – she is not mentioned in either this source or this one, for example. She appears to have been born, to have married, and to have died – but neither her date of birth nor her date of death is sourced; there's no source even for the name used as the page title. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:53, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - Nothing in the article really suggests rising to more than temporary, local significance. A search for sources reveals almost nothing beyond a passing mention in a book about art. Hugsyrup (talk) 13:04, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete I can find plenty of coverage on Newspapers.com - of social occasions, holidays, returns from holidays, weddings, etc. There are sources which confirm that she donated works to the Speed Museum, and one mention of an exhibition of her own art works - in the social section, not a review of the art. There is also an obituary - "Old Post Editor's Widow, 88, Dies". None of this coverage establishes notability, though. If she were notable, then such sources could confirm her date of death, parents, places of residence, that she was a graduate of Vassar, etc - but I don't see any evidence that she meets any WP:SNG, and there is not enough coverage to meet WP:BASIC. I also note that the article was created by someone with the same surname, so I suspect a WP:COI in its creation (and the same person created the articles Edward William Cornelius Humphrey, Humphrey-McMeekin House, Lewis Craig Humphrey, William Richardson Belknap, Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, W. B. Belknap, Morris Burke Belknap (the elder), Morris B. Belknap, Edward Porter Humphrey, Alexander Pope Humphrey - possibly all are notable, possibly not). RebeccaGreen (talk) 13:09, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Subject fails WP:GNG., who has been using Wikipedia for her own genealogical vanity projects for years, has cited primary sources many of which are created by dilettantes and stuffed into archives. Imagine if my descendants donated print-outs of every Wikipedia talk page I edited to some storehouse and then used URLs from that to make me notable. It's ludicrous. As pointed out, even the sources provided are often mere mentions or routine newspaper clippings, like the announcement of a wedding. Mitzi's Smithsonian source seems to be a donated portrait, which Mitzi has used to prop up an entire section of three paragraphs glowing about her relative. The only reason Mitzi hasn't been banned from Wikipedia for CoI editing is that she isn't writing for a business.  Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 13:11, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Created almost 4 years ago, the page has fought the good fight but it's time for it to go. WP:BASICMaskedSinger (talk) 18:32, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Merge/Delete Perhaps a summary of this information can be merged into the Humphrey-McMeekin House article. Its inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places is significant, and the article is stub/start class. Also, Louise Mead Tricard's book American Women's Track and Field may be a good reference for improving Women in sports articles, but Eleanor may not be notable enough to mention. Tea and crumpets (talk) 00:29, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete Member of the community at that time but not really much else. Address is there.   scope_creep Talk  22:28, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Kentucky-related deletion discussions. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 10:04, 7 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Notability in one's community is not enough to pass Wikipedia's notability standards. There are other, more appropriate, places to publish one's family history. Best, GPL93 (talk) 13:17, 8 July 2019 (UTC)


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