Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sally Spectra


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) feminist #WearAMask😷 07:27, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Sally Spectra

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Tagged with notability problem since 2016, and a number of other issues since 2012. The current article is pure WP:PLOT. BEFORE shows a number of mentions in passing, but nothing reliable, in-depth and going beyond PLOT or a sentence or two of passing remarks. Still, I have been positively surprised at people rescuing such soap opera bios before, so I am skipping prod and putting it here. Can anyone figure out if this is salvageable? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 04:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here  04:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. Toughpigs (talk) 15:25, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep: Sally Spectra was a celebrated character from The Bold and the Beautiful, with two Daytime Emmy nominations and even a wax figure at Madame Tussauds. There's a lot of information about the character in books and newspapers. These are some of the sources that I used today to improve the article:
 * Soap Opera History by Mary Ann Copeland, Publications International (1991)
 * The Bold and the Beautiful: In Celebration of Twenty Years on Television by Eva Demirjian (2007)
 * The Bold and the Beautiful: Three Decades of Lust, Love & Drama! by the editors of People Magazine, TI Incorporated Books (2017)
 * "Sally Spectra adds plenty of spice to 'Bold and the Beautiful' by Connie Passalacqua, United Media Syndicate (Aug 31, 1991)
 * "What a Gal: Sally Spectra, we salute you" by Leslie Gray Streeter, The Palm Beach Post (Jan 16, 2007)
 * "Soap opera diva debuts in wax at Madame Tussaud's" by Carol Bidwell, Los Angeles Daily News (May 17, 1998)
 * I believe that my additions to the article demonstrate notability. — Toughpigs (talk) 19:53, 13 April 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep, Since I can’t access most sources given, I’m just going to go off what information they provide in the article. The article given to display her reception after the actor’s death does seem a little plot-focused instead of actual coverage, but I think it does contain genuine commentary and counts towards a GNG pass. The character also seems to have gotten coverage for being the first soap opera character to have a wax figure at Madame Tussaud’s, so I think this just passes GNG, even though the rest of the sources are passing mentions and/or in-universe material. Devonian Wombat (talk) 21:01, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep The sources identified and added (nice work !) demonstrate that this subject passes WP:GNG. — Hunter Kahn 12:47, 14 April 2020 (UTC)


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