Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Susan Lynch (pediatrician)


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The result was   keep. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 23:15, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Susan Lynch (pediatrician)

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No independent notability; is the spouse of a sitting governor. Fails first point of Notability (people).  Horologium  (talk) 19:14, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 23:16, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to her husband's article; if I remember rightly, this is standard practice for non-notable spouses of notable people. Nyttend (talk) 23:28, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep She has quite a bit of coverage specifically about her and her activities; I added half a dozen Reliable Sources to the article. She appears to have achieved notability. --MelanieN (talk) 04:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notability is not inherited. But that does not mean the converse - that anyone related to a notable person who wouldn't otherwise be notable should be deleted - is true. Frequently we have these grey area cases where a person only becomes famous because of their spouse, but through that they start doing notable things and getting coverage in their own right. I think this is one of those cases where notability has become more than inherited.--Mkativerata (talk) 04:59, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Although there is no inherent notability for the spouse of an American governor, neither is there a bar against such a person having an article. Some spouses shun the public light, while there are others who see it as the opportunity to become the spokesperson, or even the champion, of a particular cause-- and, in doing so, become notable under WP:GNG.  Dr. Lynch falls in that category.  I would vote for getting rid of the red-white-and-blue template that goes with this article.  Mandsford 13:38, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep She is notable for being the national co-chairperson for the Hilliary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign and almost one-half of the spouses of sitting governors have articles here on Wikipedia (I understand this is not inherent, but there is a precedent established). Whoisjohngalt (talk) 15:36, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I thought that too, since about half of the links in that template of governor's spouses at the bottom of the page were blue. But I was mistaken; quite a few of those bluelinks turn out to be redirects to the governor's page, not freestanding articles about the spouse. Only a dozen or so have their own articles. A spouse has to earn notability - as I think Susan Lynch has done. --MelanieN (talk) 01:08, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
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