Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tami Sawyer


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The result was keep. RL0919 (talk) 23:11, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Tami Sawyer

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Résumé-like WP:BLP of a county commissioner, not properly referenced as passing WP:NPOL #2. As always, county commissioners are not "inherently" notable just because they exist, and instead get articles only if they can be shown to have significantly more nationalized notability than most other county commissioners -- but this makes no such claim, and is referenced almost entirely to primary sources that are not support for notability at all rather than WP:GNG-worthy coverage in reliable sources. The only other plausible notability claims here are that she was a non-winning competitor in a baking reality show competition, and that her name has appeared in various listicles, neither of which are automatic notability freebies either. Nothing here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have a stronger notability claim, and better, more independent sourcing for it. Bearcat (talk) 13:57, 29 May 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗  plicit  14:14, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Tennessee. Bearcat (talk) 13:57, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions.  Spiderone (Talk to Spider) 14:48, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - I think there's evidence of notability. Bearian (talk) 19:23, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Delete Non-notable politician, non-notable contestant. Oaktree b (talk) 01:54, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep per WP:BASIC - there is national coverage in The New York Times (2021) related to her leadership of "a campaign to remove statues of Confederate leaders around Memphis", in HuffPost (2019) for her political career, and several days later in HuffPost (2019) related to her past offensive tweets (some were also covered locally, 2). She also appears in the film Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America (reviewed by e.g. Variety 2022, NY Times, 2022, RogerEbert.com, 2022 (mentions her), Hollywood Reporter 2021, WSJ 2022). I have not been able find more than verification of the documentary of her mayoral campaign (Youtube) in addition to the film festival award cited in the article. Other aspects of her career can be verified in local coverage, 2, 3, 4, 5. The article can be revised, and expanded with sources focused on her and her career. Beccaynr (talk) 01:55, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep as she meets WP:NBASIC. Beccaynr dug up some good sources. I'd add this in-depth piece from the Knoxville News-Sentinel. Her Confederate monuments/remains removal work also got coverage by the Associated Press. The mayoral race got more than just routine coverage in this AP piece. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 20:32, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep in light of all the additional sources identified, many of them national. I've also added an article from Memphis magazine which profiles her along with other "2018 women of achievement". This article just needs a bit more work. The baking reality show is trivial, but what makes her more than "just" a typical local politician is her role as a civil rights activist, and in any case there is more than enough significant coverage to justify keeping it. Cielquiparle (talk) 05:53, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


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