Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grace Alekhine


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The result was   keep. Mojo Hand (talk) 01:51, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Grace Alekhine

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Though she is the wife of a notable chess player, notability is not contagious and Ms. Alekhine is not notable of her own accord. She was mentioned in two reliable sources as an above-average painter, but I would disagree that such coverage could be called "significant", and she appears not to have done much else with herself after those mentions. Besides those two sources, the article's references consist largely of genealogy links, which do not establish notability, and sources about her husband. Pokajanje &#124; Talk 23:09, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Comment. The subject seems to have had a somewhat notable career as an artist under her birth name, which should therefore also be searched on - . Her artistic career seems to have been at its height between 1903 and 1914 - she was best known as a painter of theatrical scenery, but was also a miniaturist who exhibited at the Salon de Paris at least twice. Also, she was in her late 50s when she married Alekhine, and seems to have had three or four husbands before him - I have not traced any further sources under any of these names, but they may exist. She definitely has some notabiliity independently of Alekhine, though, on what I have seen so far, I feel unable to come up with a definite !vote either way yet. PWilkinson (talk) 20:11, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 06:14, 4 April 2016 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep. Just add a banner asking for more references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VanEman (talk • contribs)
 * Keep, nice source coverage for when combined with . &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:59, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 07:59, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep As Grace Wishaar, she had already achieved notability, as is evidenced by sources provided in the article. Mduvekot (talk) 14:45, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. Extra sources found and added to the article by User:Mduvekot show notability. PWilkinson (talk) 22:10, 18 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep Additional sources show notability. People need to stop using AFD when all that's necessary is cleanup. Smartyllama (talk) 17:36, 19 April 2016 (UTC)


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