Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rita Burak


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The result was keep. I think substantial work on this article since the nomination addresses the nominator's concerns. Liz Read! Talk! 22:10, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Rita Burak

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WP:BLP of a government bureaucrat, not properly sourced as having any strong claim to passing our inclusion criteria for non-elected government officials. The notability claim here is that she's "current chair of the board" of a public corporation, except that's outdated as she left that role almost 15 years ago (and even weirder, she left that role before this article was even created, meaning it was already wrong about her "current" status from day one) -- but the referencing isn't getting her over WP:GNG for it, as it consists of one entry in a "who's who" (which has long been deprecated as not enough to carry notability all by itself) and a bunch of primary source "staff" profiles on the self-published websites of her own former employers. And even on a ProQuest search for older coverage that wouldn't Google considering how long ago she left the Hydro One role, I'm finding a lot of glancing namechecks of her existence as a giver of soundbite in coverage of other things, but no real GNG-building coverage about her as a subject. There just isn't anything here that's "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have much, much better referencing than I've been able to find. Bearcat (talk) 20:34, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Businesspeople, Women,  and Canada. Bearcat (talk) 20:34, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - I have found many sources, in books and the newspapers, on her work as cabinet secretary under Mike Harris, a politician from Ontario. These are now in the article, and I invite to consider if this now well-sourced enough to withdraw the AfD nomination. DaffodilOcean (talk) 12:17, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - thanks to improvements by DaffodilOcean Mujinga (talk) 22:22, 24 November 2022 (UTC)


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