Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thordis Loa Thorhallsdottir


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The result was keep. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 🐱 14:43, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Thordis Loa Thorhallsdottir

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Résumé-toned WP:BLP of a politician, notable only as deputy mayor of a city. This is not a role that confers an automatic WP:NPOL pass on every deputy mayor of every city, so the notability test she would have to pass is the reception of significant press coverage that's substantive enough in depth and volume to make her a special case. But seven of the eight footnotes here are either blogs or self-published primary sources which do not count as support for notability at all, and the only one that's actually a properly reliable source is just a short blurb verifying that she won a non-notable award. So the one blurb is not enough press coverage to get her into Wikipedia all by itself, if all of the rest of the sources are junk -- and nothing stated in the article is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have much better sourcing than this. Bearcat (talk) 13:13, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politicians-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 13:13, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Iceland-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 13:13, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Þórdís readily meets the basic criteria for the notability of people: 'people are presumed notable if they have received significant coverage in multiple published secondary sources that are reliable, intellectually independent of each other, and independent of the subject'. (See WP:BASIC). A quick search of the Icelandic newspaper repository timarit.is, for example, produces 218 hits, many of them substantial articles focusing on Þórdis and independent of her. It's worth adding to this that while the entry could be much better referenced, three of the existing references are to proper journalism: this, this, and this. The problem with this entry is not that its subject isn't notable, but that the entry needs to be improved. Alarichall (talk) 13:30, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Thsmi002 (talk) 12:56, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 10:05, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak keep WP:NPOL allows "Major local political figures who have received significant press coverage" and I think she comes in under that. Bondegezou (talk) 16:17, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment A search on Google on Icelandic websites alone turns up several thousand hits with her name with newstories about her political and business career along with her work as the deputy mayor of Reykjavík. Dammit_steve (talk) 23:36, 22 June 2019 (UTC)


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