Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Madge Bester


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The result was   keep.  MBisanz  talk 05:20, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Madge Bester

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Simply being born with a birth-defect is not an assertion of notability. The one source is a news source and wikipedia is not a news site. Thomas.macmillan (talk) 21:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions.   —Thomas.macmillan (talk) 22:21, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Living people-related deletion discussions. --Erwin85Bot (talk) 00:02, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - appears to meet the notability guideline for biographies, as has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable secondary sources. The notability asserted in the article is not that she has a birth defect, but that she is the shortest woman in the world. I appreciate some of the refs were added after the AfD nomination, hopefully they at least partly address the notability concern. Euryalus (talk) 00:12, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 14:11, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. It is unfortunate for her, but the birth defect means she's a record holder and if that isn't enough she's a campaigner for disabled rights which is covered by reliable sources. - Mgm|(talk) 18:57, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep no question that the sources added since nomination now prove her notability in a way that the news article, by itself, likely can't do. Nyttend (talk) 20:04, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm not sure if she would appreciate being told she had a birth defect. Seems kinda cold to word it like that. Anyways, aside from that her state of being a record holder (as covered by mgm) is enough to cover it. Yanksox (talk) 03:08, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Withdraw due to new sources. Whether you want to call it a birth defect or a genetic bone disorder, I wouldn't exactly call it an advantage. Anyway, with the new sources, she seems to have more notability than I originally suspected.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 03:12, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


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