Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lucy Mae McDonald


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The result was delete. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:54, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Lucy Mae McDonald

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Notability concerns. No references in the article, and no claims of importance or significance. An elementary school in Texas is named after her, and the school district's biography is probably where the information comes from. power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 18:46, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete exceptional claims require exceptional sourcing, and so we cannot claim first African-American superintendent in the US without actual sourcing.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:36, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
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 * Comment, Jet has a mention of McDonald here but more is needed. Coolabahapple (talk) 22:52, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete No effective references.  scope_creep Talk  15:35, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment Searching using her married name, Lucy McDonald Davis, reveals some additional sources such as New Ellis County black Hall of Fame capturing attention and an index entry in Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph. Google Books preview doesn't show me the actual text at page 294 of the University of Texas Press book, so I am unable to evaluate how significant this particular coverage is. 24.151.50.175 (talk) 17:37, 14 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete unfortunately. Both Halls of Fame are strictly local - one for Ellis County, and one for Dallas County. The Jet article has a bit of info about her, but is mostly "no comment, no photo" from her. She was superintendent of one school district, which seems to have covered one town, with (according to the Jet article), 1,100 students. It seems to be the Dallas County Hall of Fame which says she was the first African-American school district superintendent in Texas - contemporary sources, like Jet and a Californian paper (which has a one para report of her appointment ), don't say that. Her obituary was published in the Dallas Morning News, so is again very local, and has info from friends, colleagues and family. I can find scraps of info in other digitised newspapers - she was a member of the Alpha Xi Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority ; she had a master's degree, and was principal of Dunbar High School before being acting superintendent ; she was president of the Ellis County unit of the Texas State Teachers Association ; she started at Ferris Colored High School in 1934, and got its name changed to Dunbar School in 1935 ; she was also involved in church choirs. I've searched under "Lucy Mae McDonald", "Lucy McDonald Davis", "Mrs Tony Davis" and "Mrs Anthony Davis", and I don't find enough coverage or recognition for her to meet WP:GNG, WP:ANYBIO or WP:BASIC, or any other notability guidelines. RebeccaGreen (talk) 13:32, 19 December 2019 (UTC)


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