Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janet Kennedy (designer)


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The result was keep. Liz Read! Talk! 06:32, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

Janet Kennedy (designer)

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Not notable. An obituary in The Guardian doesn't push us past WP:BASIC "significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources". She worked for a company who made kids' clothes. Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:57, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Artists and Fashion. Alexandermcnabb (talk) 09:57, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Women and United Kingdom.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 10:03, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep Coverage in the journal Textile is substantial and provides sufficient information to sustain a bigraphical article. Vexations (talk) 12:05, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep She doesn't just work for a company that made kids' clothes, she had a durable impact on children's fashion, and South East England arts and crafts. I'm sorry if the first version didn't fully convey this, and will add further secondary sources. e_mln_e (talk) 12:05, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep or at very least, merge to Clothkits Clothkits is definitely notable and had a huge impact on British fashion in the 1970s-80s. It sounds like Janet Kennedy and Clothkits were so intermeshed and merged that it may make sense for their articles to be in the same article, unless she also had a significant career outside the company. It wasn't just kid's clothing by the way - loads of adult clothing too, I had a teacher in primary school who ALWAYS wore Clothkits stuff! I do look forward to seeing how the article grows and expands, but I don't think it should be deleted. Mabalu (talk) 16:09, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. GNG is met by multiple substantial reliable independent sources. The tagline on the Guardian obituary makes the notability clear: "Print designer for Clothkits whose sew-it-yourself patterns defined the look of 1970s childrenswear". Espresso Addict (talk) 02:38, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per the Guardian and Textile sources. Skynxnex (talk) 15:19, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep. On the contrary, an obituary in a major national newspaper has generally been held to equate to noability. -- Necrothesp (talk) 10:20, 8 June 2022 (UTC)


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