Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jean Robinson


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The result was nomination withdrawn as the article has seen cleanup and referencing improvement. Bearcat (talk) 19:17, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Jean Robinson

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WP:COI biography of a politician not properly referenced as passing WP:NPOL #2. As always, mayors are not handed an automatic notability freebie just for existing, and even the claim that she was the town's first woman mayor still isn't a notability boost in the absence of reliable source coverage about her in media -- but this doesn't cite a single WP:GNG-worthy source, and I had to strip a large linkfarm of inappropriate offsite links to primary sources (photographs, the self-published websites of people or organizations named in the body text, etc.) that aren't support for notability. This article, further, existed for 12 years as a very short stub before being expanded with a lot of unsourced and non-notability-building family trivia, in a wholly inappropriate tone and format, by her own grandchildren beginning last year, but at no point in its entire existence has the article ever cited any GNG-worthy sourcing at all. As I don't have access to any database in which I could retrieve British media coverage from the 1950s and 1960s, I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody can actually salvage it with proper sourcing -- but in this form it requires the WP:TNT treatment, as nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt it from actually having to have any legitimate referencing. Bearcat (talk) 22:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 22:01, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep I found: 50 years since Blackpool's first female Mayor was appointed: Here's to you, Mrs Robinson (Gazette, 2018) and Blackpool's first woman mayor honoured with plaque (Gazette, 2020), which helps support WP:BASIC notability. Beccaynr (talk) 03:00, 5 November 2021 (UTC) I also searched databases I can access through the Wikipedia Library but did not find anything more, so I currently suggest a Redirect to List of first women mayors (20th century) unless additional notability-supporting sources can be found. Beccaynr (talk) 03:37, 5 November 2021 (UTC) update !vote Beccaynr (talk) 14:19, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep. Recipient of the CBE, which we have always held to satisfy WP:ANYBIO #1. See here for longstanding consensus on this issue. Yes, it's an appalling article, but her notability is clear. And yes, she definitely had the CBE. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:08, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep I've rewritten the article using the sources which Beccaynr found, plus some short articles in The Guardian from her mayoralty. Warofdreams talk 19:46, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the cleanup, gang. As promised, I'm withdrawing this since the current state of the article is now much better. Bearcat (talk) 19:17, 11 November 2021 (UTC)


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