Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joyce Roop

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was - no consensus - SimonP 14:43, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Joyce Roop
This is a one-line sub-stub on a lawyer. The entire article is: Joyce Elaine Roop (1952-1995) was an attorney and environmental activist. Not notable, and not long enough to warrant keeping. Harro5 22:37, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete memorial. --Etacar11 23:31, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Read it again. She was front page news once. (comment by User:66.245.226.92)
 * Provide a verifiable reference. --Etacar11 00:19, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Boston Globe obituary, January 30, 1995. (comment by Wellreadone)
 * I don't see that in their achives. --Etacar11 00:27, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Search it on Lexis. As a lawyer for Ralph Nader, she forced the coal fired power industry in the Northeast to spend more than a billion dollars on scrubbers. (You live up there, don't you? Your air is cleaner because of Roop. Doesn't that deserve a Wikipedia?)
 * Please sign your comments with four tildes, Wellreadone.--Etacar11 00:39, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What is a "Fourtildes"?

By the way, the Globe's obituary search only goes back to 2001, which is why you didn't find it. Roop was in the news a lot back in the 1980s, testifying in Congress and suing the utilities over acid rain.

Thanks for the tip. My first time on Wikipedia, so I have much to learn.


 * Four of these: ~. Check out WP:SIG --Etacar11 00:51, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wellreadone 00:52, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

By the way, how does one "vote" on deletion? Can't figure out what that means.
 * If you are new, your vote may be given less weight. Anyway the standard formula is Keep or delete . Check out the Guide to Votes for deletion too. Kappa 01:01, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * KEEP Wellreadone 01:13, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC) (I am the author)


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