Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Katy Deacon (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  04:31, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Katy Deacon
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Main contributor recently indeffed for promo. Person's claim to fame is winning 2 awards. Both awards are minor pro-diversity titles focused on encouraging women in STEM rather than being het result of a specific outstanding achievement. These received some coverage including a short profile in the Independent and some local press, but I don't think this coverage is significant or sustained enough to warrant an article. A BEFORE turns up that she has continued her career as a civil servant but has not reached any elected positions.

There was a previous nomination which closed as no consensus. My take on the existing coverage is that:

1. Although the outlets are independent and reliable, I don't think the coverage was significant (they are short, uncritical profiles in Katy's voice without any secondary commentary) or sustained.

2. I don't think the awards in question meet the bar of "well-known and significant award or honor". Although the awarding bodies are large in both cases, the actual awards are nothing like the degree of prestige required for WP:NACADEMIC or WP:NARTIST.

BrigadierG (talk) 22:10, 6 February 2024 (UTC) Relisting comment: Relisting, not eligible for Soft Deletion Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 23:36, 13 February 2024 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  23:37, 20 February 2024 (UTC) Relisting comment: Final relist. We could use a few more opinions here! Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz Read! Talk! 22:59, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, Women, Engineering,  and England. BrigadierG (talk) 22:10, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete I agree the awards aren't really notable, and seem early career. There is some independant coverage, but not convinced it's quite enough for WP:GNG (but I could be convinced otherwise.) Doesn't meet WP:NPROF. -Kj cheetham (talk) 11:57, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete Fails WP:NPROF and WP:SIGCOV. The narrative of the article is disjointed and extremely weak as a result. Indeed, it is rather unclear what this person did to deserve a standalone article—lots of "has worked in [field]" and "worked with [general description of a massive technology], etc. Anwegmann (talk) 02:52, 28 February 2024 (UTC)


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