Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michelle McNamara


 * 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 delete and redirect to Patton Oswalt. The article's subject is found to lack notability. &mdash; Coffee //  have a cup  //  beans  // 21:18, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Michelle McNamara

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Biography of a writer with no strong claim to passing WP:AUTHOR, and very little reliable source coverage to support it. Her main career accomplishment as a writer was the launching of a website (which is not an automatic notability pass in and of itself), and the references here are covering her only for her death (and even then only in the context of "wife of famous comedian dies", rather than "person who's notable in her own right dies".) Which means that nothing here is substantive enough or sourced enough to warrant a separate biographical article as a standalone topic. Delete, or redirect back to Patton Oswalt (which is what this was originally, until being spun off as a standalone article.) Bearcat (talk) 17:30, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, or redirect back to Patton Oswalt as per rationale by @Bearcat. In the interest of transparency, I was the one who created the McNamara redirect to Oswalt. Quis separabit?  19:53, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Everymorning (talk) 21:15, 27 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep if Camille Cosby can have a page then so can Michelle McNamara.--Dr who1975 (talk) 19:53, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Patton Oswalt as there's nothing particularly solid for her own article. SwisterTwister   talk  23:36, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Patton Oswalt. Not enough in-depth coverage from independent reliable sources to warrant their own article.  Onel 5969  TT me 13:22, 3 May 2016 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.