Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jacqueline Priestman


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The result was merge to Street light interference phenomenon. Valid AtD with even one of the deletes supporting this Star   Mississippi  01:53, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

Jacqueline Priestman

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WP:SINGLEEVENT. – Ploni (talk) 13:47, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and United Kingdom. Ploni (talk) 13:47, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 14:47, 18 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete Everything I found on Google covered the same basic information about her (her ability to collect static electricity on her body), plus some sites I believe are irrelevant to her. As this article is about a person with a major role in a minor event, the name of the person should redirect to the article on the incident, because the individual is only notable for that incident and it is all that the person is associated with in the source coverage. But, the event does not have enduring historical significance and will not likely impact the future. --LPS and MLP Fan (Littlest Pet Shop and My Little Pony Fan) 20:40, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Merge to Street light interference phenomenon - there is a 2004 Guardian source in the article, as well as a 2000 The Sunday Telegraph source in the WP Library, via ProQuest, "When people and machines don't get on ELECTRICITY" that mentions "Michael Shallis, a science tutor in Oxford, made a four-year study of 600 people exhibiting extremes of bioelectricity, and published the results in The Electric Shock Book in 1988. One woman studied by Shallis was Jacqueline Priestman of Sale, near Manchester, who had ruined 30 vacuum cleaners, five irons and two washing machines in 10 years." The 1985 New Straits Times source in the article focuses on her, but seems questionable as a source. The sources seem to clearly indicate this is not a single event, but also do not appear sufficient to support a standalone article. Beccaynr (talk) 21:40, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Completely agree about no enduring historical significance and will not likely impact the future. Also not enough to make her notable. I think content about her could be added to the Street light interference phenomenon article, does that count as a merge? Chronotime (talk) 15:08, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Per WP:ATD-M, Articles that are short and unlikely to be expanded could be merged into larger articles. Also, the diversity of sources over time and the broad geographical scope seems to be more clear if this BLP is merged into its larger context. Beccaynr (talk) 15:40, 19 May 2022 (UTC)


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