Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jody-Anne Maxwell


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The result was   keep. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 21:46, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Jody-Anne Maxwell

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Only claims to fame are winning national spelling bee and hosting a local quiz show. Lacks significant coverage in 3rd party sources. RadioFan (talk) 12:36, 27 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Speedy Keep. Winning National Spelling Bee demonstrates notability; winner typically receives substantial TV/print media coverage, if only briefly. Hullaballoo Wolfowitz (talk) 15:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment if the spelling bee is the only significant claim of notability, this impresses me as an example of WP:BIO1E.--RadioFan (talk) 17:45, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Reply. Then where's the article on the year's spelling bee, to merge this into? More important, my impression is that, by consensus, winning a notable award of honor "trumps" BLP1E.


 * keep Notable champion. Meets WP:BIO. No different than an athlete who won a national championship whom we would keep. JoshuaZ (talk) 02:35, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Speedy Keep. That this young woman won illustrates that the Scripps spelling bee is the equivalent of not just a national championship, but an English-speaking North American championship. Also, this young woman from Jamaica winning in 1998 (first non-US resident, first person of African descent) got her even more press and public attention than the typical Caucasian-American or Asian-American winner.  When you combine the American newspapers, the Caribbean publications, and an American book, I think she's received plenty of significant coverage in 3rd party sources. Decafdyke (talk) 01:28, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Please add these sources to the article.--RadioFan (talk) 01:32, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Reply Done, but I put several as "external links" at the bottom, as I think they are duplicative of sources already cited and are not necessary or appropriate to the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Decafdyke (talk • contribs) 02:08, 30 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. No matter how many times you write about one event, it's still one event. Niteshift36 (talk) 04:59, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep per my comments at Articles for deletion/Sai R. Gunturi. Note for closing admin: If Articles for deletion/Sai R. Gunturi is closed as keep, this probably should be as well as it was split out because Maxwell is more notable than the ones listed there. --Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:49, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Education-related deletion discussions.  —Philosopher Let us reason together. 22:51, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.