Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Starrett


 * 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 soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. Liz Read! Talk! 23:26, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

Mary Starrett

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Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. Being a staff member of a minor political party, or a local broadcaster, or a local officeholder, or an unelected candidate for a major office is insufficient for presumption of notability. All of the sources currently cited in the article are either WP:PRIMARY, non-WP:RS-compliant, or merely routine campaign coverage. A WP:BEFORE search on multiple search engines produced no more than a (very) small handful of local news items about the subject, not nearly enough significant coverage in reliable secondary sourcing to satisfy the standard notability criteria. Sal2100 (talk) 19:54, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics, Politicians, News media, Conservatism, Women,  and Oregon. Sal2100 (talk) 19:54, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. It looks like the subject has been elected to the Yamhill County Board of Commissioners in 2014 and 2018. She's gotten coverage for that in The Newberg Graphic, a small local paper with a circulation of less thank 5k (articles here and here). She got coverage from The Oregonian for her stance on vaccines and masks during the coronavirus (here). The News-Register also covered that (although the article doesn't have a byline), and they have a circulation of about 10k (article here); so did the Oregon Capital Chronicle (article here). Other local affiliates do as well, but I think it turns into churnalism at that point. Besides that, there's not much else out there. NPOL states local politicians can be notable under the following description: "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage." I do not think, at this time, the subject meets the "major" and "significant" bar part of that description. The coverage seems to mostly be from very local papers, about a local politician, without sustained and lasting coverage. I am not married to my assessment, however, and anyone wanting to discuss can ping me and I'll be happy to discuss. --Kbabej (talk) 20:36, 12 July 2022 (UTC)


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