Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary McQueen


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The result was speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) ‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__ IncompA 11:29, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Mary McQueen

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Article fails WP:GNG, and after looking for more sources outside of the one, I was unable to find any. It should be noted that this one citation is straight from the New Zealand government. IncompA 09:12, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: People and New Zealand. IncompA 09:12, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Snow close I suggest you withdraw this nomination, . Dozens of AfDs have found, without fail, that people with a DNZB entry are indeed notable. They did include a single-digit number of "representative" bios in their collection as explained at Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, but this is not one of them.  Schwede 66  09:20, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Huh, interesting. Could you maybe direct me to some of these past AfDs? I'd like to see the reasoning as to why people with a DNZB entry are notable. I'm not on the hook quite yet. IncompA 09:50, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Stuartyeates wrote a few thousand of those DNZ bios about 10 years ago. Just look through his talk page archives; he gets a notification every time one gets put up for AfD. You'll find dozens of those notifications and as I say, they have all been kept.  Schwede 66  10:45, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. So they are notable simply because of the biography. Welp, I suppose I SHOULD shut this one down after all. IncompA 11:28, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep there are two book-length source with significant coverage listed in the 'Links and sources' of her biography. Since McQueen was not involved in the New Zealand Government, the DNZB is an independent source. Stuartyeates (talk) 09:26, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * My research shows a couple mentions of her in books and scholarly sources. I'm not entirely sure it's WP:SIGCOV, but my sense is this article can be adopted and expanded. SportingFlyer  T · C  09:41, 4 August 2023 (UTC)


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