Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacque Batt


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The result was keep. RebeccaGreen saves the day again. Consensus is since very clear. (non-admin closure) Jovanmilic97 (talk) 08:57, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Jacque Batt

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Notability is not inherited. Very little coverage of this former Idaho first lady. Delete as per WP:GNG and WP:NOTMEMORIAL.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:55, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Idaho-related deletion discussions.  Onel 5969  TT me 12:55, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
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 * Comment The article leaves out many details of her life - strange, as the creator has been active on Wikipedia for 5 years. No, notability is not inherited, but was she notable herself? I don't find much coverage in Newspapers.com, but I do wonder if there was coverage in women's magazines, etc. The coverage I have found is mostly in Idaho papers. It includes: a 2 page spread from 1965 about the 99's, a women pilots association, with 3 photos of Jacque Batt and about a paragraph of text about her; she was president of the Canyon County Republican Women's Club in 1971; their silver wedding anniversary in 1973 (marriage date and place, children, etc); she was president of the Idaho Legisladies (wives of legislators) in 1977; when her husband became governor in 1995 and they moved to Boise, their home didn't have a washing machine or dryer, so she did the washing at a coin-op laundry (this was in a 2008 article, and I wonder how the writer knew that - he was contrasting that with the governor of the time's spending in a time of recession); in 1998, "she had worked as a volunteer calling mothers to remind them about their children's immunizations"; her recipes were published in an Idaho paper and in a Michigan paper in 1998; one article from 2013 says that 12 years previously (so in 2001), she helped the next Idaho first lady Patricia Kempthorne found the Pink Tea, an event to raise awareness about breast cancer and the importance of early detection. However, there is a document online from Boise Soroptimists which says "In 1998, Boise Soroptimists participated in Idaho’s First Pink Tea to support breast cancer research and received a letter from the First Lady of Idaho, Jacque Batt." - and there's a scan of the letter, definitely dated 1998, which indicates that it was Batt who founded it, not Kempthorne. She may have "generally stayed in the background of her husband's administration", as a 1999 article said, but the newspaper coverage that exists suggests to me that there was more coverage of her as a first lady, eg in women's magazines, on TV or radio, of her work for immunization, breast cancer research, her recipes, and how she did her housework. In Australia we have one digitised national women's magazine, but I don't know if any have been digitised in the US - does anyone know? RebeccaGreen (talk) 15:29, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comment, . I added the information about the Ninety-Nines and helping to found the Pink Tea, using those sources. I was not able to find the information you mentioned about the Idaho Legisladies or immunizations. Perhaps you have different search results since you are in a different county? Not sure. But thank you for the information! --Kbabej (talk) 17:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   19:45, 28 December 2018 (UTC) Keep. The subject held an official office, that being official First Lady of Idaho. She also was active in founding a charity along with Patricia Kempthorne that served women who could not afford mammograms, and held positions in the Ninety-Nines, a piloting organization. --Kbabej (talk) 17:58, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:NEXIST, probably. As I noted above, the wording of some of the coverage that does exist suggests to me that there was more, in sources that are not available online. (I have added the other sources I found through Newspapers.com.) RebeccaGreen (talk) 04:11, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per RebeccaGreen's arguments, although the article needs some editing to read less like a memorial. signed,Rosguill talk 04:22, 4 January 2019 (UTC)


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