Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Percy Jackson


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. -- Cirt (talk) 00:10, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

Mary Percy Jackson

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Seems to be a non-notable person the books in the bibliogrpahy seem to mostly be vanity press so obscure I can't find a website for it. The Resident Anthropologist (talk) 02:14, 1 October 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Google search gives 25k+ results. Also, she was awarded the highest civilian award in Canada. Geeteshgadkari (talk) 15:00, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * DELETE this mind-numbingly insignificant article. It is interminable and says nothing of note.  She was born, she grew up, she moved around, she became a doctor, she got married, blah blah blah blah blah, she lived and worked a long time--and in all of her years she never did one notable thing--at least not by WP standards.  Yaaaawwwwnn.  It reads like a piece of genealogy, of interest only to her descendants.  Well, we're not related to her, so we can scrub it off the face of the Earth without any guilt whatsoever. Qworty (talk) 06:05, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep there appear to be plenty of sources available to show notability. In any case, is it possible to win the Order of Canada without having done anything notable? This seems unlikely. On another note, the above comment by Qworty strikes me as uncivil, and not an appropriate way in which to discuss an AfD. -- K orr u ski Talk 09:41, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Qworty should read the biography on the Alberta Order of Excellence website, which is listed as a reference. This woman physician is notable, and she won major awards in Canada as a result.  That being said, the current version of the article certainly needs a re-write.  Any editor with good knowledge of Canada could improve the article with just a bit of effort.  There are also outstanding sources listed in the bibliography that could become references. Cullen328 (talk) 15:16, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment - Smacks of a memorial and needs to be sourced. No opinion as to notability, although content is sufficient that I would be leery of a rash deletion. —Carrite, Oct. 8, 2010.
 * Keep. Let's see. She's got lots of prestigious awards, a book of her letters, a film about her, scads of references. What more do you need? Clarityfiend (talk) 22:57, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Obvious keep She has a school named after her. She won several national awards. She was notable enough to have her letters published. It's true the article is too chatty in style and could use a pruning, but that is no reason to delete; she clearly passes WP:GNG. --MelanieN (talk) 23:29, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
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