Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mariannette Miller-Meeks


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 05:34, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

Mariannette Miller-Meeks

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I see two possible reasons for notability per WP guidelines here: the failed run at political office (usually not good enough for us) and her position as "the first woman president of the Iowa Medical Society." Of course there is some coverage on her political run, but nothing major; on the second part, I find no independent coverage of her attaining that position and cannot, therefore, conclude that it confers notability on the subject, automatic or otherwise. The article is pretty bloated with plenty of puffery and peacock terms. and seems edited with some COI issues. On the whole it is insufficiently sourced to even establish some basic facts (as another editor noted here and what references and mentions there are do not, in my opinion, establish notability. I would like the community to decide and what appears to me to be a resume. Drmies (talk) 04:57, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
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 * Comment: At first, thanks for informing me personally. I tried to wikify this article, but it surely needs more work. As I stated on its talk page, IMHO the the first woman in a position of a state-wide organisation of Iowa ( If Riga is only a small community, is Iowa really bigger? ) is notable. Nevertheless I need to confess: while changing the external inline links into refs, I only searched if Miller-Meeks is mentioned in them, not what the sources state. The politician part don't interest me at all, and I don't know if she is notable as the loosing person (although she is wikilinked from a election article). There are only 3 or 4 papers mentioned on google scholar search (is this important/notable?). All in all I'm not really sure if she need a article, but it was there, so I tried to help a bit. Greetings and happy editing. Sebastian scha. (talk) 12:39, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Sebastian. As you can see from the history, I tried doing that myself, but after working on it a while, and browsing around for references, I didn't see the notability required for a WP article. Drmies (talk) 18:50, 22 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. B.Rossow talk contr 18:20, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Passes neither WP:PROF nor WP:POLITICIAN. The Iowa Medical Society appointment is not enough to meet WP:PROF criterion #6. A search on HPoP using “MJ Miller-Meeks” turns up 15 papers, with 109 citations, and an h-index of 4. Most widely cited paper has 39 citations. As for the political angle, the GNews coverage is sizeable, but: “Just being […] an unelected candidate for political office, does not guarantee notability …” (from WP:POLITICIAN).--Eric Yurken (talk) 03:01, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Does not yet appear to achieve notability for work on opthalmology. Neither does political activity. Xxanthippe (talk) 05:53, 26 September 2009 (UTC).
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