Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meralda Warren


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The result was   redirect to Jay Warren. m.o.p 04:58, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Meralda Warren

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Artist, local politician, nurse, radio operator, cookbook author. However, almost none of this, including "her conspiracy theory", has received significant coverage in independent reliable sources. Her art means she has been the winner of a minor award, entitling her to "up to £8,000 to spend time living and working in another Commonwealth country", but beyond that there is almost zero coverage. The articles in reliable sources about the sex abuse case on the island, like this one, don't mention her. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 22:01, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. The only references to her art and life that I can find are minor and local. As you mentioned, she seems to have had nothing to do with the Pitcairn sex abuse case, and the news story linked in the article has only one quote from her. The cookbook has very few mentions outside her own sites, none notable. Being a member of the Island Council also does not seem like enough to qualify her for notability.  Graymornings (talk) 22:28, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. I don't know that I have an actual opinion here yet, but would the Pitcairn Island Council not constitute a "a national, state or provincial legislature" for the purposes of the politician notability guideline?  Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 22:42, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I would argue that the British Overseas Territories are not states or provinces by the meaning of that guideline; and also that being an elected politician where the entire electorate is, at most, a few dozen people, cannot confer notability in any case. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 22:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Oceania-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:42, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
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merge and redirect to Jay Warren. Stuartyeates (talk) 06:26, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. Nobody above has addressed the sources found by the Google News, Books and Scholar searches linked in the nomination. Those links are there to be followed, in order to inform the discussion. Phil Bridger (talk) 21:09, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment. This is from a reliable source, and quotes her at some length on the Pitcairn sex abuse case. However, apart from her being the sister of Jay Warren, her connection with the case seems to amount to a few quotes like this one. This and her council position would each seem to count for something towards notability but, even together, perhaps not quite enough - and both are already mentioned in Jay Warren. She also seems to have been getting some recent passing mentions, from a geographically wide range of at least arguably reliable sources, for her craft work - again, it seems to count for something but probably still not enough. On current evidence, I think I'd go for a redirect to Jay Warren. PWilkinson (talk) 21:57, 4 December 2011 (UTC)


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