Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Melissa Jackson


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:21, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Melissa Jackson

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Does not appear to be independently notable of her famous relatives and cases. References give only trivial coverage of the subject because she happened to be the judge involved with those cases but do not say anything specifically about her. --Michael WhiteT&middot;C 22:34, 12 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete as non notable, agreed. ThePlatypusofDoom (talk) 22:45, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. /wiae  /tlk  01:52, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep She appears notable to me, and just because the article isn't well written or well referenced, there are other reliable sources available, like an article solely about her and her appointment to the NY Supreme Court in the NY Daily News. Anyone reading about those other cases want to know who Jackson is. Keep with a banner asking for more and better references.VanEman (talk) 04:10, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete She is a local justice, not a member of the "New York Supreme Court", she is a New York City judge. One indepth article in a local paper is not enough to put her over the notability threshold.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:21, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. She is indeed on the NY Supreme Court, see, but New York has a rather ironic way of naming its courts. The so-called "supreme court" is actually just a trial court, the lowest level on the court hierarchy other than lowly municipal courts. It is what most states call "superior court" or "court of common pleas." What most states call the "Supreme Court", New York calls their "Court of Appeals"; that's the highest court in the state. And just to make it more confusing, what most states call the court of appeals (the intermediate appellate court), New York calls "Supreme Court, Appellate Division". Anyway, this all goes to say that being on the "supreme court" in New York means only that she's a plain old run-of-the-mill trial judge. Yes, she's had some notable litigants in front of her, but what judge hasn't? Notability is not inherited from the cases you try. TJRC (talk) 19:26, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete as still questionable for the necessary improvements and I'm not seeing solid notability yet. SwisterTwister   talk  03:52, 20 April 2016 (UTC)


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