Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tara Reade


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was merge to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. Once one discards the obvious one-edit SPAs, the comments that do not reference any policy at all, and the large number of WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS comments, mostly about Christine Blasey Ford, there is a consensus that this should not exist as a stand alone article, but there is not consensus to delete it. Black Kite (talk) 18:50, 17 May 2020 (UTC)

Tara Reade

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This article seems to run foul of WP:ONEEVENT. Ms. Reade's allegations are already detailed at length in the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. There is no need to restate them here. This article should be deleted or merged into that article. This page was a redirect until today, that should be restored. Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 19:28, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions.  Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 19:34, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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 * Keep - Guideline page wp:SINGLEEVENT lists cases where sufficient independent coverage within reliable sources exists regarding individuals known mostly for one event, their thereby meriting treatment in their own biography. (Notes: Reade's biographical section was removed from the sexual assault allegation article due editors there's belief it's extraneous to event-article's focus. A merger discussion regarding Tara Reade and Joe Biden sexual assault allegation also has been initiated.)--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 19:40, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete – This appears to be the sixth attempt or so to rename the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation article. Everything relevant about Reade is already included in the allegation article's background section. Also citing WP:ONEEVENT per Darryl Kerrigan. Nice4What (talk · contribs) – (Thanks ♥ ) 20:00, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:ONEEVENT and perhaps WP:SALT as well. She has no notability beyond the allegation. DiamondRemley39 (talk) 20:20, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge – No Notability beyond this one event. I checked the references section in the article, and this is what I found:
 * Ref 9 and Ref 15 – web archive of her own domain from April 2019; image-heavy CV-style page: "Non-Profit Consultant-Available for Projects"
 * Ref 16 – a 3-sentence bio at Women's Int'l Perspective from 2009, which mentions surviving domestic violence
 * Refs 1-8, 10-15, and 17-26 are about the sexual assault allegation.
 * Except for brief CV-like info, it is very difficult to find anything that is not about this event. Should be merged. Mathglot (talk) 20:24, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been noted on the Talk:Joe Biden sexual assault allegation page.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 20:52, 8 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:BLP1E. Most of the content of this article duplicates the material in Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. The scant biographical information that is relevant to her sexual assault accusation and noteworthy can be merged back into that article, provided that there is consensus to do so on that article's talk page. - MrX 🖋 21:10, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete as it stands, if you take out the "allegation of misconduct" section (which already has its own article), there's nothing notable about her. Classic case of WP:BLP1E. Jauerbackdude?/dude. 21:22, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge/Delete No notability outside Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. This page has been heavily discussed and there is not consensus to have a second article about Reade, duplicative of the allegation. Reywas92Talk 21:23, 8 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Reade was not notable before the allegation. Merge back to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation.   petrarchan47  คุ  ก   21:24, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - changing because the delete arguments convinced me. 02:41, 9 May 2020 (UTC)  Redirect  - to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation - she is only notable because of the allegation. Atsme Talk 📧 22:21, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge article Joe Biden sexual assault allegation into this article. I am reading "one event" and it tells: "If the event is highly significant, and the individual's role within it is a large one, a separate article is generally appropriate. The assassins of major political leaders, such as Gavrilo Princip, fit into this category...". Yes, indeed. To put it simple, is she famous? Yes, very much so. She claimed something outrageous (aka "notable) in spring of 2019. She did the same in 2020. Is it one event? I do not think so. A couple, at least. Saying that, probably the best solution would be to merge article Joe Biden sexual assault allegation into this article, not the other way around. My very best wishes (talk) 01:11, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Saying a senator grabbed your junk 26 years ago is not as significant as killing a world leader, just a slow news month, cabin fever is rampant. Nothing she did in 2019 was notable, article arrived last month. Only noteworthy background to that one event, the rest. InedibleHulk (talk) 02:24, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, she is person notable for only one "event". However, this is not really an event, but just an accusation made by the person Therefore, I believe it is more appropriate to have this page about the person, rather that a page about notable, but questionable accusation by the person. My very best wishes (talk) 21:09, 10 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete - Notable for one event. Article appears to be created in an attempt to rename or remove the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation article. Cjhard (talk) 01:56, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Article appears to be written to shift attention away from Joe Biden and towards Tara Reade. Reade is only notable for the allegation and is not notable otherwise. 2600:100C:B24F:7C9A:A082:6472:C500:175 (talk) 02:02, 9 May 2020 (UTC) — 2600:100C:B24F:7C9A:A082:6472:C500:175 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Delete - As I previously wrote at Talk:Joe Biden sexual assault allegation when not aware of the discussion here, "Tara Reade does not meet Wikipedia's notability criteria for biographies (see Notability (people)), while the subject of the allegation does meet the general article criteria. That means we should stick to the subject and only discuss those parts of Reade's life that are related to the allegation by the body of reliable sources on the subject (see WP:BALASP). The rest of Reade's biography is not suitable for its own article." Zloyvolsheb (talk) 02:18, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - per ONEEVENT, and per SPADE you can see from the talk pages of this article and Joe Biden that this is just a bad faith attempt to draw negative attention away from Joe Biden. Kolya Butternut (talk) 03:15, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge article Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. Alternatively could go the other way (merge Tara Reade into Joe Biden sexual assault allegation). --The Cunctator (talk) 03:34, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. She is not notable enough to have her own article. Rreagan007 (talk) 06:40, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - (weak) It’s no longer ONEEVENT - there’s 2019 and then there’s 2020. Also, it seems like she’s made herself into a PUBLICFIGURE by seeking media reporting and giving interviews.  The suggestion to merge the sexual assault article here makes sense, that one may be getting into BLP details.  Cheers Markbassett (talk) 07:41, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - almost falls under the criteria for WP:ONEEVENT to the letter. Strip the allegations against Joe Biden out of the article and there's nothing left. Glen 10:39, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete and merge to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. -- Valjean (talk) 15:00, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep and merge content from Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. The allegation article is full of content that exceeds any reasonable interpretation of its scope for that article title. This article Tara Reade can and should include all the surrounding information - background, her treatement by the media, the circumstances of the 2019 allegation and its reporting, and additional detail not related to the 2020 allegation.  SPECIFICO talk 16:10, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Procedural question to those !voting delete (tipp'dhat: "Delete or merge") - Ought WP delete all unique content at this blp without merging any? – or ought it be anticipated that any of its unique content be merged?--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 17:56, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * See my comment above. I believe any content related to Reade in the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation article should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, with consideration of the body of reliable sources that focus on the allegation as per WP:BALASP. "Unique content" about Reade may be factual and verifiable but not suitable for inclusion. We can't just decide that we need to include paragraphs of her biography somewhere or other because we think it makes for good reading if Reade herself is not considered notable and if few, if any, sources about the allegation present that information. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 20:03, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes. Yet also, of course, per wp:SINGLEEVENT, it's possible for individuals to be considered notable for our purposes despite their primarily being so due to one event.--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 20:16, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * In any case, as a practical matter, the choices before us include:
 * - A. - delete (eg/ Zapruder film [but no Abraham Zapruder blp]; [no Rodney King blp)
 * - B1. - merge Joe Biden sexual assault allegation into Tara Reade (Cf.: Juanita Broaddrick; Karen_McDougal)
 * - B2. - vice versa
 * - C. - keep (Clarence_Thomas_Supreme_Court_nomination & Anita Hill; Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_nomination & Christine_Blasey_Ford)
 * --Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 20:16, 9 May 2020 (UTC)--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 21:14, 9 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Per, the only content unrelated to the allegation is essentially a brief CV. I do not believe that Reade's CV should be included in the allegation article, so I favor "delete" over "merge". userdude 20:14, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * You understand that means we remove the 2019 stuff, the story of her attempts to be heard, her off-topic discussions with people who did not mention assault when interviewed by journalists, and a lot of the "commentary" not related to assault. I think all that is significant encyclopedic content for a Tara Reade article. It's not on topic for the sexaul assault allegation.  SPECIFICO talk 20:36, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * If by "2019 stuff" you mean her previous allegation of inappropriate touching, then it belongs in the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation article as background for the "2020 stuff" -- because it is discussed in relation to the sexual assault allegation by a lot of sources, it should go there. We should look to reliable sources for guidance on what to include. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 01:28, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I think that's greatly complicating the matter, however. Half of what's currently in the allegations article is really off-topic. In the Tara Reade article, all the circumstances and history would naturally come within the topic.  SPECIFICO talk 02:34, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Reade's attempts to be heard and the "2019 stuff" belong in Joe_Biden_sexual_assault_allegation and Joe_Biden_sexual_assault_allegation respectively, and as far as I can tell it is already there. The "off-topic" content may be appropriate for a Tara Reade article, but per WP:BIO1E WP:BLP1E I do not believe having a Tara Reade article is appropriate. userdude 21:35, 10 May 2020 (UTC); edited 00:48, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm seeing a general trend towards keep in recent comments, so I feel the need to expand on my delete rationale. As other users have pointed out, this appears to be an example of WP:PSEUDOBIOGRAPHY. Applying the general test: the article appears to fail criterion 1; passes criterion 2; may pass criterion 3. The reason the article may pass criterion 3 is Reade's 2019 accusations; however, the 2019 accusations fall under the purview of Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. I am not dead-set on my delete !vote, but I have not seen evidence that the article passes criterion 1 of WP:PSEUDO: Do any reliable sources cover the individual themselves as a main or sole focus of coverage, or is the person mentioned only in connection with an event or organization?. The only example of coverage of Reade that is unrelated to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation is Mathglot's Ref 16. userdude 18:59, 13 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep because I can only imagine the news articles after this article is deleted Red   Slash  20:56, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * WP:NOTCRYSTALBALL, or echoes of it. Mathglot (talk) 22:11, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable, and the one event for which she is covered already has an article. Einsof (talk) 22:48, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:ONEEVENT, as mentioned above Zoozaz1 (talk) 23:03, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. article effectively covered over at Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. Starzoner (talk) 23:16, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - Guideline page wp:SINGLEEVENT lists cases where sufficient independent coverage within reliable sources exists regarding individuals known mostly for one event, their thereby meriting treatment in their own biography. There is ample precedent for this set, such as Christine_Blasey_Ford Barrettsprivateers (talk) 04:57, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:ONEEVENT and perhaps WP:SALT, until she gets her Fox “news” job. Gleeanon409 (talk) 05:27, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * WP:NPOV Your partisanship is not an argument to salt articles you find inconvenient 177.237.42.174 (talk) 16:49, 12 May 2020 (UTC) — 177.237.42.174 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Please don't make triggering comments about sexual assault victims. It's gross and makes wikipedia a hostile place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.168.189.62 (talk) 08:44, 12 May 2020 (UTC)  — 67.168.189.62 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Moved to Keep and merge Joe Biden sexual assault allegation into this article, which has been transformed into a good biography. Gleeanon409 (talk) 20:38, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete/Merge per WP:ONEVENT.  Volunteer Marek   08:53, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is essentially a redundant fork of Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. -- Netwalker3 (talk) 12:29, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify: this should be deleted without merging, because any merge attempt would inevitably overturn consensus on Joe Biden sexual assault allegation in multiple ways. -- Netwalker3 (talk) 04:44, 11 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete. Consistent with WP:ONEEVENT and let's face it, allowing this article to remain is step one; step two will be merging the sexual assault article into this article which will divorce the name "Joe Biden" from the story. EdJF (talk) 15:25, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:ONEEVENT. Her role is very significant within the one significant event. Banana Republic (talk) 18:10, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep I'm amazed by the double standard between this article and for example the article about Christine Blasey Ford, which was created at the time of Kavanaugh' sexual assault allegations. There's enough coverage within reliable sources to write a factual separate article. --Deansfa (talk) 18:15, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Christine Blasey Ford does not derive her notability from the accusation she made. To do so would belittle her professional accomplishments, being a notable person primarily for her work as a professor at a prestigious university. Mr Ernie (talk) 10:30, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Christine Blasey Ford absolutely derives all of her notability from the accusation she made, and the proof is that she didn't have her own article until she came out publicly with her allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. To keep her article but not Tara Reade's is a double standard. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.237.42.174 (talk) 13:01, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * It would have been credible if the article was created before Kavanaugh's controversy. It wasn't. Christine Blasey Ford became a national figure because of Kavanaugh's controversy. --Deansfa (talk) 14:09, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Are you trying to imply that Ford is somehow objectively more important than Reade because of her social class? I think I am reading your comment wrong, but the argument I am hearing is as follows: even though Ford only became a public figure because of her Kavanaugh accusation (evidenced by her lack of page prior to then), because she is associated with a prestigious university she merits a page, unlike Reade who is a nobody and should not have one outside the allegations page. There are two things I see wrong here: first off, is the flagrant classism such an answer displays. It emphasizes that even though neither woman had a page prior to their accusations, the elite woman deserves to be acknowledged as a human outside of the case itself, while the non-elite woman does not. This leads to my second dispute with your post: the implicit idea that someone getting a page is a merit of some kind. It's not. You don't earn a wikipedia page. It's not "belittling" to not have a wikipedia page. The vast majority of people who do important work will never have a wikipedia page; it does not mean they are not important, it simply means that they are notable by wikipedia's technical definition. I'm a little disturbed by the implication that you think Ford doesn't deserve to be "belittled" yet Reade *does* deserve to be "belittled" because she is not important enough by your standards--which again, have nothing to do with notability, only social class.67.168.189.62 (talk) 08:37, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Though Reade may not have reached the level of national notability that Blasey-Ford has yet, it doesn't seem likely that media coverage of this allegation is going to slow down any time in the near future, and as such, details of Reade's personal life as well. I just don't see the point of deleting this article or redirecting it when it's very clear that there is becoming more and more to add to it with each passing day. Instead, what I suggest is that the article on the Biden assault allegation should be changed to an article about the various accusations of sexual misconduct he has received over the course of his political career, with the longest section being about Reade. 2600:1702:10A0:6DA0:D958:BA51:AC1A:8BAB (talk) 21:27, 10 May 2020 (UTC) — 2600:1702:10A0:6DA0:D958:BA51:AC1A:8BAB (talk) has made few edits outside this topic.
 * Comment: I've previously !voted, but wanted to add that this article fits the definition of a pseudo-biography to a T. The brief #Biography section has 22 references (footnotes 8–29); have a look at them. Even for biographical detail apparently unrelated to the "one event", such as, say, "resides in Nevada County" (note 8), her mother's date of death ("2016" – note 16), or "testified as an expert witness" (notes 22 and 23) are all from sources about the Biden assault allegations. The only exceptions are SPSes, or CV-like mini-bios (e.g., "earned a law degree" – note 29, possibly also a SPS). Mathglot (talk) 22:33, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Absolutely Keep This is a story in current news and has been for a couple of months, particularly since April 8. To eliminate Reade's identification from wikipedia would do a great disservice to our readership, remember, the reason we are doing this.  We should provide answers to questions like; "Who is this person?"  Perhaps some Biden supporters would love to find excuses for this story to go away, at least until he can get elected.  Step one, make the accuser / victim go away.  Serving their politically based interests is not neutral.  Blanking any content for political purposes is improper. Trackinfo (talk) 01:27, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * The reader is already informed about who Reade is in the article on the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. However, she is otherwise not a notable individual, and telling people about various unrelated elements of her private life, like where she lives now, is silly when Reade has complained about harassment and doxing. As Mathglot wrote above, we are looking at a "pseudo-biography" as per WP:PSEUDO. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 03:09, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I assume you and everyone here votes based on their understanding of policy and guidelines. Did you really intend to spend the last four sentences of your Afd comment (starting, "Perhaps some Biden supporters...") ascribing partisan political motives to those who interpret the guidelines differently than you do? As someone who has 13 years and 100k edits, you're undoubtedly familiar with WP:CIVIL and WP:AGF. And probably even WP:RUC. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:59, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I have to agree an enormous amount of bad faith in your statement above. I assume following your logic that you're in favour of creating an article for every single Trump accuser? Assuming everyone here has a political motivation is contrary to WP:AGF. Glen 08:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes, every Trump story should be told as best we can. That is our job. Personally, I don't like that these kinds of stories keep showing up about our politicians, but they do.  We shouldn't report innuendo fabricated by bloggers.  When it gets into major media, then we should report it.  That is our policy.  What I see is every time a legitimate story is durogetory to one faction or another faction, it is swarmed by partisans trying to hide it.  Not just this article, most.  Each time we give credence to these arguments, each time an article is deleted, we are allowing wikipedia to get censored.  You encourage these political factions to hire operatives to do it more.  Yes, 100K edits and 13 years, I have been fighting a long battle against censorship. Trackinfo (talk) 20:34, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Further to my nomination above, I think this article may also run foul of WP:REDUNDANTFORK and that merging Joe Biden sexual assault allegation into this article would ignore discussions there and consensus against moving the article to include Tara Reade's name.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 03:35, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - For the reasons stated above (particuarly by Hodgdon's secret garden and DiamondRemley39). <span style="text-shadow: 4px 4px 20px lightskyblue, -4px -4px 20px black;font-weight:bold;">May His Shadow Fall Upon You ● 📧 14:37, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, she only known for this single event. Have article on event.--KasiaNL (talk) 07:51, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BLP1E. There has been no notability demonstrated outside of the allegation she made. Mr Ernie (talk) 10:30, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * cmt - For !voters unfamiliar with wp:ONEEVENT, please note that it reads "When an individual is significant for his or her role in a single event, it may be unclear whether an article should be written about the individual, the event or both …. However, if media coverage of both the event and the individual's role grow larger, separate articles may become justified...If the event is highly significant, and the individual's role within it is a large one, a separate article is generally appropriate.--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 18:18, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - Elizabeth Short is only notable for a single event, yet she has her own page. All the protests are being made in bad faith. Gruffbenji (talk) 01:40, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * There is no article on Elizabeth Short, there is one on the Black Dahlia. And as that article notes, it is about BOTH "Elizabeth Short and her murder".  Here we already have an article about Tara Reade's allegations, so it isn't really the same thing.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 02:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - Shame on anybody who wants it deleted. That's right - I said SHAME. AllThatJazz2012 (talk) 01:52, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and .  I would remind you all to WP:AGF.  I would also invite you to reconsider your comments and have a look through the talk page and archives at Talk:Joe Biden sexual assault allegation to have some context about what is happening here.  There have been numerous discussions there about starting a "Tara Reade" article, moving that article to a title which included her name (which was ultimately defeated) and the scope of that article.  You are under no obligation to get involved there or to read the numerous and longwinded discussions there, but you might want to be careful throwing around allegations of "bad faith" and "shame" if you aren't prepared to do so.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 02:08, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: Of course, re-naming the allegation article would only happen with a decision to merge it into this article. A merger the other way would not do so and neither would, per wp:ONEEVENT, keeping this biography as a companion article to it.--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 16:43, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Sure, but as you well know there were also discussions about inclusion of information in a biographical section there which some editors cautioned could dox her or perpetuate a WP:POV, by including irrelevant details to suggest she was not being honest. That is one of the problems of a pseudo-biography whether a stand alone article or a section within another article. If this just becomes a place to talk about her different pen names (and suggest there is something sinister about that), engage in speculation about the meanings of her blog posts, air unverified cheque fraud claims, etc... well then this is really just a WP:POVFORK which might avoid some of the scrutiny that is taking place at Talk:Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. This is one of the reasons we are not supposed to make biographies for people who are only notable for one event particularly when there is already an article about that event.  And probably why you were discouraged from doing this before you created the article.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 17:13, 12 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep - There is no point in deleting this page, None.  Istandwiththesilent  04:56, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * No point except for the fact that Wikipedia policy supports it. Rreagan007 (talk) 16:29, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Note - There has been canvassing on Reddit here, as was previously noted by in an edit summary.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 16:01, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - If Christine Blasey Ford has her own article so should Reade. Its well sourced and highly relevant today. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 10:59, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:ONEEVENT. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 13:31, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per TDKR Chicago 101 --Franz Brod (talk) 14:28, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Also here: . Ironically I'm a Chapo Trap House fan, and argued over a month ago to keep Reade's allegation from being disappeared from the relevant page, but a bunch of Chapo participants have come here to take up arms because we're all Biden supporters who make policy-based arguments in bad faith. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 16:12, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Wow Reading those threads I guess it explains all the random users and IPs that have come out of the woodwork with Keep votes and no actual reasoning beyond  because. Glen 16:54, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Non-cogent arguments ought be discounted, including as well any !votes-for-deletion above inexplicably citing wp:ONEEVENT as a blanket proscription(!)--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 17:19, 12 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. None of her other life activities have been notable enough to warrant an individual article. Arbor to SJ (talk) 20:00, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep - We have enough news coverage to make a good article on this person. In fact, this is a good place to keep material that was deleted from Joe Biden sexual assault allegation due to being peripheral to that topic. There is strong precedent on Wikipedia for including articles on alleged sexual misconduct victims with major media attention, such as Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Gennifer Flowers, etc...Worldlywise (talk) 22:05, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * In those cases we had no article dedicated to the event (each particular woman's allegation); instead biographical articles were created long after the accusations emerged. In Reade's case, this (pseudo-)biographical article was created after the article on the allegation, Joe Biden sexual assault allegation, was created based on the current news coverage and to avoid overwhelming the Joe Biden article. So, different situation. The Tara Reade article is essentially redundant, unlike the others. In addition to redundancy, that raises the issue of WP:POVFORK. If we had no article on the allegation, I would support a biographical article about Reade, but as we already have that article the appropriate step was to get consensus for a title change. That was suggested at several points but no consensus formed (see Talk:Joe Biden sexual assault allegation/Archive 5), so this additional article was created out of a redirect, bypassing the process that should have been used. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 22:45, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
 * By way of correction. Although to-date the present case involves solely inquiries of a journalistic nature, in the past when there have been some manner of formal Senate committee vettings (see Clarence_Thomas_Supreme_Court_nomination and Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_nomination), WP includes both "event" entries along with companion BLPes of the accusers (see respectively those for Hill and Ford).--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 17:11, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Please see WP:OTHERSTUFF. Each biographical article is judged on its own merits in its own context. For example, Anita Hill is also notable for having been inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame; she has received multiple awards and an enduring prominence. So far Tara Reade's article is a pseudo-biography that repeats the information in the original article Joe Biden sexual assault allegation and adds some non-notable details that consensus has omitted from that article. Zloyvolsheb (talk) 17:33, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * user:Zloyvolsheb, consensus within each situation is determined independently of that within another. Citing wp:CONSISTENT, we see that inasmuch as other alleged victims-not-averse-to-their-becoming-public-figures (who've likewise received not just news but feature-article coverages by the Times, Post, New Yorker, Atlantic, and the like) have biographical articles, I agree with your "support of a biographical article about Reade," as well. Yet, citing wp:OTHERSTUFF, our support is able to be independent of whether editors at "Joe Biden sexual assault allegation" come finally to the consensus for basic biographical info about Reade's inclusion there.--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 18:11, 13 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. Not notable and only known for that article in question. MyPreferredUsernameWasTaken (talk) 00:08, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete for now per WP:BLP1E. It is sufficiently covered elsewhere and can be redirected. I don't agree with the WP:SALT suggestion. Depending on future events regarding the allegations, she may become more notable. Sundayclose (talk) 01:30, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * cmt Is the person notable per wp:N, wp:GNG? In only the case of her TV interview, according to The Hill: .. [Megyn] Kelly's interview with Reade was picked up in 375 local U.S. news television markets and aired in 13 countries. It was shown by major outlets reaching a combined tens of millions of viewers including "NBC Nightly News," "CBS This Morning," NBC's "Today" show and Fox News Channel's "Special Report" and "The Five," as well as international outlets including BBC News in the U.K. and CNBC's "Asia Squawk Box." The interview was also covered in top publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, The Associated Press and The Guardian in the U.K. .. As for the contention that her biography "can be covered elsewhere," such essentially converts to !votes for the contents of the two articles' merger, inasmuch as that, at the present, there is no biographical section (nor mention of Reade's age, residence, education, history as domestic violence expert witness in court hearings, etc.) within "Joe Biden sexual assault allegation."--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 18:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per TDRK Chicago 101. KingSkyLord (talk &#124; contribs) 21:53, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per Christine Blasey Ford. cookie monster  (2020)  755  04:34, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That's not a policy-based argument. Rreagan007 (talk) 07:59, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I will strike my edit then, and come up with a better argument later  cookie monster  (2020)  755  18:55, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation – my earlier argument was faulty. I do slightly agree with Worldlywise but after examining the Tara Reade article virtually most of it is about the allegation and not about who she is independent of the allegation. This leads me to believe this is WP:BLP1E which would better be served in the Joe Biden sexual allegation article. Though we have an article on Christine Blasey Ford, she is independent on her own for her academic work. cookie monster  (2020)  755  18:59, 14 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation per WP:BLP1E. Only notable for that one event, no reason to have this seperate article that is essentially just a content fork. Devonian Wombat (talk) 11:10, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete or Merge Reade is not notable per WP:SINGLEEVENT, though the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation is notable. KidAd (talk) 22:30, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. In my opinion, the intense coverage of Reade and her story merits an exception to 1E, per the multiple precedents mentioned above. The Joe Biden sexual assault allegation article is long (and presumably will only grow) even without Reade's biographical details, and readers are better served if this article is kept and improved, not deleted. Davey2116 (talk) 00:07, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep This article allows us a proper space to explain items of Reade's biography that are critical to understanding who she is/might be, but which would have questionable relevance in an article solely dedicated to the sexual misconduct allegations she has made. This helpfully supplements the article about the sexual misconduct. People's understanding of these claims are better informed when they have information about who is making these claims. Therefore, it is of use to understanding the incident to provide a biography of the individual making the claims. Additionally, WP:ONEEVENT does not strictly rule against making articles about people associated with one notable event, it merely urges consideration and caution with doing so. SecretName101 (talk) 08:51, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * If the information truly is "critical to understanding who she is/might be", then it should be in the sexual assault article anyway, which would make this article redundant to that article and filled with non-critical info on a non-notable individual. Rreagan007 (talk) 15:10, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * That is my concern exactly. To understand the allegations one does not need to know that years afterwards she had a child, nor do you need to know about non-relevant/notable blog posts or essays she wrote.  The long sections about the allegations here are already covered in the Joe Biden sexual assault allegation article.  When you remove that whats left in this article is trivia about blog posts and details about her family, where she was born etc. If something is truely relevant to the allegations she has made, it should be in the allegations article.  If it's not in that article, it is because rightly or wrongly consensus is currently against including it there.  The solution to that is to raise it there, not to create a content fork.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 15:27, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * If the blp's summary of the subject's allegations are incorrect, the fix is to edit this part of the article. If items of her personal history are inappropriate, ditto. Blanket removal of biographical treatment from Wikipedia seems a roundabout way to address these issues. And if these type of things are content forks (dual treatments of an "identical" subject), WP will need to fix there being what's otherwise considered SUMMARY STYLE tree pairs, such as Zapruder film & Zapruder, Thomas hearings & Hill, Kavanaugh hearings & Ford, and the like throughout the project wherein companion articles either summarize or expand upon content within its partner upon a subject tree. Speaking of trees, a possible decision tree might go like this. Does wp:SINGLEEVENT preclude blp coverage of any individual notable primarily for one event, yes or no? If it does, then no matter what, there can be no blp. If it does not, then this question is no longer relevant. Does wp:PSEUDOBIOGRAPHY apply here? Same thing. If so, no go. If not, go to next question. Does the fact that there is a companion article on Wikipedia covering the event preclude there being a blp, yes or no? Same thing. Next question: Is she notable? Final question: Should there be two articles? (Zapruder/ Zapruder film.) Or, one? (Breonna Taylor's biogaphy being contained within the Death of Breonna Taylor and Neda Agha-Soltan's biography within Death of Neda Agha-Soltan; or else, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery's being contained within his biography and the beating of Rodney King within his, etc.)--Hodgdon&#39;s secret garden (talk) 17:28, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I am not going to argue WP:OTHERSTUFF. Yes, I think she is only notable for one event which is covered elsewhere.  Yes, I think this is a pseudo-biography.  No, I am not going to try to argue about the irrelevant content at Talk:Tara Reade, because I don't wish to spend my time editing an article which should ultimately be deleted and restored to a redirect.  If this article is deleted that would not have been a good use of my time.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 17:46, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Except, as I very clearly said Darryl Kerrigan, not all things important to understanding who the accuser is are directly relevant to the allegations themselves, which makes them inappropriate for the main article on the allegations, and thus the main article will inevitably provide an incomplete picture on who the person making the allegations is. SecretName101 (talk) 22:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * She is only notable for the one event. What information would be key to understanding a complete picture of the accuser and her allegations, but not be relevant to the allegations article itself?  Do you think we need to know that she had a child after, that she has written some blogs?  What information are we talking about here?  Because I tend to think any information which is not relevant to the allegations (the only reason she is "notable") is a violation of her privacy per WP:AVOIDVICTIM and an attempt to bulk up a pseudo-biography.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 18:11, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete And merge with Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. She has no notability on her own. FollowTheSources (talk) 16:22, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 *  Keep or merge - Keep, or merge to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation. --Jax 0677 (talk) 17:45, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable due to the amount of coverage. Also Wiki is supposed to be source of info for popular individuals and this person meets the notability guidelines. There is major interest in her at the moment as people trying to find out her background. Expertwikiguy (talk) 18:14, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep: As others have noted, she meets the notability exception to the one event rule, and her biographic details don't really belong in the Biden allegations page. The fact that her biographic details have largely come from articles about the Biden allegations is irrelevant. I have written and contributed to several biographic articles on Wikipedia and have found many biographic details in news articles that weren't specifically about the subject of the biography. The tangential subject of the source doesn't make the biographic detail unusable. Tara Reade's notability is evolving with the extensive news coverage she has received, and more is expected up to the November election. Deletion discussions are premature at this time. After the election would be a good time to revisit keeping/merging/deleting. Websurfer2 (talk) 21:07, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep While Tara Reade has no notability on her own, she may have a impact on certain states in the upcoming 2020 United States Presidential Election. Besides, this has similarities to the Brett Kavanugh sexual assault allegations in 2018, and considering that Joe Biden is a major presidential candidate, and that Christine Blasey Ford, has her own page, it definitely makes sense to keep. For those of you using WP:SINGLEEVENT as an argument against, it was never ruled out, just needing extra caution. RedRiver660 (talk) 23:05, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
 * STRONG DELETE. . Napoleonjosephine2020 (talk) 04:37, 16 May 2020 (UTC) — Napoleonjosephine2020 (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Merge to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation, zero notability of her own beyond the event that she came up with. What there is to say about her can be said at the allegation article, she is not notable as an individual. Zaathras (talk) 23:41, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge to Joe Biden sexual assault allegation, that is where all of the current notability of the article is coming from. Tara on her own doesn't meet WP:GNG Swordman97  talk to me  00:26, 17 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BLP1E. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-74-former-biden-staffers-think-about-tara-reades-allegations Activist (talk) 17:00, 17 May 2020 (UTC)


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