Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elizabeth Kean


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The result was redirect to Robert Winthrop Kean. Tone 10:08, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Elizabeth Kean

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This "political spouse and philanthropist" fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. While this person may be genetically linked to famous politicians, notability is not inherited. KidAd  talk  01:28, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:31, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 01:31, 6 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete. Notability is WP:NOTINHERITED, so people aren't automatically entitled to have articles just because they happen to be related to other people who have articles. This doesn't claim that she's ever done anything that would have gotten her over any of our inclusion criteria, however — other than her genealogy, literally the only other thing this says about her at all is that she was a hospital volunteer, which is not "inherently" notable work in any sense. And the only useful source present here (reduplicated as two separate footnotes even though it's the same source) is an obituary, which is not enough "coverage" to get a person over WP:GNG all by itself if it's the only source anybody can be bothered to find — it also cited an Ancestry.com record to support her marriage date, but I've stripped that because we're not allowed to cite Wikipedia content to genealogy databases. She's not automatically notable just because she existed, and neither the sourcing nor the substance on offer here are enough to get her over the bar. Bearcat (talk) 13:50, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 07:30, 8 February 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete being the wife of a governor may be enough on its own to make one notable, although even there I would want to see multiple substantial sources, we do not have articles on all wives of governors, and for good reason. In Michigan there is one governor that the records are not clear enough so it is not 100% clear which of his wives was even his wife when he was governor. wives of governors did not become true public figures in most states until the mid-20th century. I can actually find a full length article on Jason Love, husband of Mia Love, but I am not convinced that is reason to make an article on him. We maybe could say a little more on him than we do in the Mia Love article, but there is no reason for a seperate article. If you read closely, Kean was the wife of a member of the US house of Representatives. That is not a position that confers notability, period.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:53, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment the person who created this article has affilcted Wikipedia with a huge number of articles on non-notable New Jersey politicians.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:54, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Robert Kean.Djflem (talk) 17:37, 12 February 2021 (UTC)


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