Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melissa DeRosa


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The result was keep. Geschichte (talk) 22:50, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Melissa DeRosa

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"Secretary to the governor" is not a position that comes close to meeting WP:NPOL, even if the governor is controversial. KidAd •  SPEAK  16:32, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, against deletion. Clearly meets criteria. "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage." The position she has is described as the most powerful non-elected office in New York. Massive press coverage. "Secretary to the governor" is NOT a low-level secretarial job, and we shouldn't mix it up with this (which may have happened?). Her job has been described as  overseeing the daily government operations for the State on New York. And, she meets WP:General Notability Guidelines: significant coverage, reliable sources, the author is independent on the subject and "significant coverage in reliable sources creates an assumption, not a guarantee, that a subject merits its own article." She has been described as the "spearhead" of the Cuomo sex scandal coverup. Mwinog2777 (talk)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 18:59, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
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 * Keep I have revised the article and plan to continue working on it, but including what I have found, it appears that per WP:NPOL, she is a Major local political [figure] who [has] received significant press coverage per the footnote to that section, A politician who has received "significant press coverage" has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists, e.g. Melissa DeRosa named New York’s first female secretary to the governor, (NY Daily News, 2017), Cuomo Promotes Chief of Staff, Melissa DeRosa, to Be His Secretary (NYT, 2017), DeRosa recalls sexual harassment, urges women to speak up (Politico, 2017), How Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa Is Leading Cuomo's Coronavirus Response (ELLE, 2020), Who Can Say ‘No’ to Cuomo? His Top Aide, Melissa DeRosa (NYT, 2020), Melissa DeRosa was on the rise, then the last two months happened (City&State, 2021), Cuomo report spotlights role of top aide Melissa DeRosa in trying to contain sexual harassment crisis (Washington Post, 2021), but this significant, in-depth coverage also supports WP:GNG notability. Beccaynr (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep: Passes WP:GNG. A considerable number of the reliable sources cited in the article give her WP:SIGCOV. Curbon7 (talk) 23:47, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep Regardless of her official title, DeRosa has garnered significant coverage due to her role in Cuomo's controversies. { [ ( jjj 1238 ) ] } 16:27, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep for reasons given above. Also worth noting that, according to NYT, she "was the most powerful appointed official in the state". The title doesn't need its own article, but I think she clearly does. Cpotisch (talk) 04:41, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep, as she meets GNG thanks to significant press coverage.Jackattack1597 (talk) 10:51, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep per GNG. She's not a "secretary" who types letters. In New York, her job is equivalent to chief of staff. Sundayclose (talk) 15:02, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Comment Technically, the role of Secretary to the Governor appears to be a position above chief of staff in New York, i.e. Cuomo Promotes Chief of Staff, Melissa DeRosa, to Be His Secretary (NYT, 2017). Beccaynr (talk) 15:13, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Agreed, this is correct. This, which I have copied from Executive Chamber of Eliot Spitzer, confirms this:
 * "Spitzer was responsible for appointing his Executive Chamber. These appointments did not require the confirmation of the New York State Senate. Most political advisors report to the Secretary to the Governor of New York, while most policy advisors report to the Director of State Operations, who also answers to the Secretary to the Governor, making that position, in practice, the true Chief of Staff and most powerful position in the Cabinet.[1] The literal Chief of Staff is in charge of the Office of Scheduling and holds no authority over other cabinet officials.[2]" — Preceding unsigned comment added by JLo-Watson (talk • contribs) 11:16, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

UNTIL she resigned, Derosa was among the highest paid and most influential appointees in NY’s executive branch. She resigned abruptly about a week ago after the New York Attorney General’s investigative report revealed that she was the center of a political and sexual harassment scandal involving Governor Cuomo. The editor that suggested deletion needs to know that in American federal and state government offices, just as with the secretary of state of the United States, Derosa was not a ‘secretary’ in the sense of somebody who types dictation. she is at the center of a major scandal that resulted in the governor of the fourth largest state in the United States resigning under a cloud and under threat of first impeachment of a NY governor in over 100 years. She belongs in wikipedia with her own listing more than many. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.144.113.65 (talk • contribs) 09:34, August 12, 2021(UTC)
 * KEEP, Secretary to THE governor in NY is the one of the highest policy advisory positions in the NY governor’s executive chamber. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Chamber_of_Andrew_Cuomo


 * Keep As others have said, the term "secretary," in this context, is a significant political position, and recent press coverage has been more than significant to cover WP:GNG Niftysquirrel (talk) 14:24, 12 August 2021 (UTC)


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