Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Margaret Chase


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Margaret Chase
The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) MarchOfTheGreyhounds (talk) 12:29, 31 August 2022 (UTC)


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The subject of this article was a Red Cross worker during WWII. She appears to be best known due to her diaries appearing in the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library. But I don't believe this is enough on its own to grant notability.

While this person (or people with similar names) do appear to have some coverage, I can find nothing substantial. MarchOfTheGreyhounds (talk) 20:05, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

Withdrawn by nominator. While having a diary published or writing memoirs isn't enough to confer Wikipedia notability, DaffodilOcean has conducted some excellent research and editing to prove the subject is indeed notable. Chase's writing received attention in contemporary press reports, which is enough for me. Therefore I'm withdrawing my nomination. --MarchOfTheGreyhounds (talk) 12:29, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People, History,  and United States of America. MarchOfTheGreyhounds (talk) 20:05, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 20:41, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - She is also the author of her memoir ("Never Too Late"). She is mentioned (unsurprisingly) in multiple documents from the US national archive (e.g.  which tells us there are papers in addition to the proofs and copy of her memoirs). She is a primary historical source. The nom.'s rationale is that she is best known for keeping a diary (deemed worthy of accession to a presidential library). Clearly keeping a diary - especially if the diary is published is enough to meet WP:GNG as few would argue that Anne Frank does not meet WP:GNG, and likewise Samuel Pepys, and no doubt others. Of course she is less well known than them (and they are the subject of secondary treatments), but her diary is an important primary historical source and notably accessioned. There should be no doubt that it, and therefore she is notable. I do see that the page is in a very poor state, but the existence of the memoir itself provides plenty of material (primary sourced). Whether she has attracted any biographers, I do not know. She gets a mention here  and is the kind of subject that may well attract the attention of historians. Sources do not need to be in the article to meet WP:GNG. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 20:55, 30 August 2022 (UTC)


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