Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patience Bacon Miller


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The result was delete. Davewild (talk) 20:59, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Patience Bacon Miller

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This subject does not meet WP:BASIC. Furthermore, there are significant problems in verifying content in the article, as is being discussed on its talk page. North America1000 13:00, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete Their only claims of notability are that they were the "first recorded woman physician and surgeon in America" and "founder of Northampton, Massachusetts"- neither of these has a reference. If they were the first recorded person, why can no-one find this record? Fails WP:GNG as a result. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:05, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment The claim that she was a physician is found in various genealogy texts, like, but it's just a mention in the midst of a large list of "begats." So there is a reference but it is scant. LaMona (talk) 22:00, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. North America1000 13:19, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Massachusetts-related deletion discussions. North America1000 13:19, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
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 * Delete for lack of verification and the extraordinary claim. The period being discussed is one without "physician surgeons" in general. Surgery was still generally done by the "barber surgeons" before the Civil War. Physicians were still generally medical and avoided surgery. This is even excepting the gender problem, which would have been tougher in that field than nearly any other. Also, umm, isn't this locating her in Virginia Dare territory? Hithladaeus (talk) 13:26, 29 May 2015 (UTC)


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