Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katherine B. Hoffman


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The result was Withdrawn. I appreciate efforts of those to source and expand this beyond its initial form. only (talk) 16:56, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Katherine B. Hoffman

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Does not appear to be notable. Her "highest" title that I can see was "Dean of Women" at FSU. Nothing provided that suggests she passes WP:GNG or specific guidelines for academic. While her obituary appears in the New York Times, it seems to be more of a "human interest" type piece in a series of NYT articles on people who have died due to COVID-19. only (talk) 10:50, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions.  Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  11:40, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions.  Megan Barris   (Lets talk📧)  11:46, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Florida-related deletion discussions. TJMSmith (talk) 13:25, 3 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep per WP:BASIC based on the extensive coverage over decades by the Tallahassee Democrat and the in-depth obituary in the New York Times. Here's a sampling of what I found in a quick search: 1962, 1964, 1970, 2007, 2014. TJMSmith (talk) 13:30, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per sources identified by TJMSmith. Spicy (talk) 13:54, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. Human interest stories may have lower standards of fact-checking per WP:NEWSORG, but I don't see evidence of that for NYTimes obituaries, even in the COVID era.  Another obituary of depth appears in the Tallahassee Democrat  and a shorter piece appears on ABC .  The coverage of her honorary doctorate is also solid, per the source provided by TJMSmith and also the FSU story on it .  She also got some incidental coverage around the 2016 election for this, see e.g. .  Overall, including the  substantial NYTimes obit, this looks like a solid keep. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 15:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems to have sufficient independant significant coverage. -Kj cheetham (talk) 16:37, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep flawed nomination. Nothing in GNG says anything about exclusion of human interest stories, it's about coverage only, not about the reason for the coverage. So we have no valid deletion rationale. And an NYT obituary almost always (maybe always) translates into notability by Wikipedia standards. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:45, 3 August 2020 (UTC)


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