Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shakira Martin


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The result was keep.  MBisanz  talk 01:39, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

Shakira Martin

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This person's greatest achievement is winning one national beauty contest, although I cannot find clear guidance on this I do not believe this makes her notable. PatGallacher (talk) 17:44, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep passes GNG. Significant coverage in numerous reliable sources.  --- PageantUpdater (talk) 17:46, 27 April 2017 (UTC)

Keep My reasoning for creating the article was simply because she had appeared on the August 2016 Deaths page as a red link. Unless the Recent Deaths page is now including non-notable people, it should be kept. Silent sovereign (talk) 22:13, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Delete neither winning a pagent or dying should merit a wikipedia page. Legacypac (talk) 08:24, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
 * An opinion not based on policies or guidelines. Consider WP:GNG which she passes, easily.  --- PageantUpdater (talk) 08:42, 1 May 2017 (UTC)

Keep her "greatest achievement" was not winning a beauty pageant, nor dying, but deploying the celebrity therefrom to advocate for assistance and research of the plight of those afflicted with a disease that is mostly inherited by Black people (thereby disproportionately afflicting those with less resources and access to care than is typical of chronic disease-sufferers in the First World, and eliciting less largesse for research and relief for the same reasons). Her looks made her, literally, a more attractive and more effective spokesperson for this charitable cause. Her death as a victim of the disease, ironically, also raises sickle cell anemia's profile and enhances her efficacy posthumously. That she has garnered less First World press than reflects the celebrity as a positive role model she enjoyed among Blacks is to be expected (I first heard of her on a rap radio station). She's been dead less than a year: Give her reputation the time and opportunity to reverberate that it deserves. FactStraight (talk) 14:56, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


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