Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Janis Menken


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The result was delete. j⚛e deckertalk 14:43, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

Janis Menken

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BLP for wife of Alan Menken. Was the subject of a documentary when she was an 18 year old ballet student, but I didn't find any significant coverage of her independent of her husband. Article author also wrote her IMDb bio. -- Finngall  talk  18:01, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete: Checking out the citations. The cites provided do not back up the claim that she won a Tony award (though her husband Alan was nominated in 1994).
 * NY Times 1984: brief mention (as Janis Roswick)
 * The Invisible Art of Film Music: A Comprehensive History: Brief mention of her marriage, page 369
 * NY Times 1994: not mentioned in this article at all (2-page article)
 * NY Times 1986: Brief mention that she's married to Alan, the subject of the article
 * People: Brief mention that she's married to Alan, the subject of the article.
 * There's nothing further to be found via Google search under either last name (Roswick or Menken). To sum up, there's not the in-depth coverage we need to establish notability for this person. -- Diannaa (talk) 00:59, 20 June 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete per above and as the product of long-time-banned and New Rochelle-obsessed User:Jvolkblum. Wknight94 talk 16:08, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Reply I opened Sockpuppet investigations/Emma 1984 based on this article and others surrounding the Menken family.  Article author was blocked for sockpuppetry, but the group of socks was determined to be unrelated to Jvolkblum.  -- Finngall   talk  15:56, 29 June 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JAaron95  &#40; Talk &#41;  14:51, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * FYI, the stub A Dancer's Life appears to be a WP:COATRACK article to bolster the notability of Ms Menken. The film is notable in its own right, imo. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 13:23, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete - I think there's a stub in there somewhere, but the sources found lack significant coverage of her, not her husband. My biggest problem is that this is so badly written and edited, that it needs to be deleted and started from scratch. For example, there are So Many Oddly Capitalized Words and has such poor sourcing that normal editing processes won't fix this mess. Bearian (talk) 11:54, 1 July 2015 (UTC)


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