Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Lee Jepsen


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The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:06, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Mary Lee Jepsen

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Jepsen was Miss Nebraska. That is her only semi-notable accomplishment, and that alone is not enough to demonstrate notability. The statements about her performance at Miss America probably do not rise to adding to her notability, and they are entirely unsourced. The only source on the article at present does not even related to her at all, it is a directory that shows that her borther was a semi-accomplished athletie in Nebraska. My search for sources showed up a picture in the John F. Kennedy papers of her giving a baton to a presidential aid to give to Caroline Kennedy. This article is an example of why we should not keep articles on minor people who have one thing that brings them close to notability. John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:50, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete. I recall we had a discussion about writing up some sort of [Wikipedia:Notability (beauty pageants participants)]], and I found Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Beauty_Pageants from last year. I agree with the final comment there (Winners of Miss State or Miss State USA are not automatically notable), and I support deletion as this fails GNG. However, I'll also point out that we accept some other professions, like sportspeople, and call them notable even if they fail GNG, but have participated in sport events that IMHO are no more significant that such regional beauty pageants. Such double standards should be discussed further, at project-wide level, IMHO. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 19:00, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete - This is almost unsourced as the citation doesn't mention Jepsen at all (there is a broken inline URL citation to missnebraska.org) and mention of her brother is borderline OR (how do we know they are siblings). With a better citation about the pageant, I think it is BLP1E, and is better deleted or as a redirect to Miss Nebraska (the relevant info is already on that page so no merge is necessary)., can I ask what you mean by, "This article is an example of why we should not keep articles on minor people who have one thing that brings them close to notability."? I'm very interested in "minor people" and am curious if you could elaborate. Feel free to reply on my talk page, if that would be more appropriate. Thank you, Smmurphy(Talk) 23:50, 27 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete -- nothing stands out about this pageant winner & reads like a tribute page. RE: other areas: I'd say that's the problem with various SNGs that get pushed through by people passionate on the topic. Luckily, in the area of pageant contestants the consensus has evolved to the point that it reflects the ability (or inability) to build NPOV articles on the subjects. A state-level pageant win alone is almost never enough to sustain a BIO article. K.e.coffman (talk) 02:00, 1 January 2017 (UTC)


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