Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Margret Kopala


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The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 15:17, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

Margret Kopala

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Poorly sourced WP:BLP of a writer and policy analyst who has no claim of notability strong enough to exempt her from having to have much better references than this. Five of the seven footnotes here are primary sources that are not support for notability at all (the unpublished private archives of a theatre company, IMDb, her own self-published website about herself, etc.) -- and of the just two footnotes that are actual reliable sources, both are just tangentially verifying stray facts about other things or people named in this article, without mentioning Margret Kopala's name at all in conjunction with them, all of which means that none of the sources are establishing her notability. As always, people are not automatically entitled to have Wikipedia articles just because it's possible to find technical verification that they exist -- the notability test requires having media independently establish the significance of her work by doing third party journalism about it, and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from that. Bearcat (talk) 14:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 14:01, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 14:36, 26 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Weak delete per nom, wasn't able to find much beyond a few bylines and a few articles that quoted her as a "policy analyst." Agree that there should be many more sources about her, if they exist. Caro7200 (talk) 14:58, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:GNG and WP:JOURNALIST. I searched Canadian newspaper databases and found lots of editorials she has written, but these are not WP:RS. There were also lots of "Letters to the Newspaper" in response to her writing, but do not fulfil C1 of WP:JOURNALIST because they are not her peers. I was unable to find profiles on her life or reviews of her written work from her peers from Google, JSTOR, NYT, ProQuest or Academic OneFile. Z1720 (talk) 22:53, 29 September 2020 (UTC)


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