Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Virginia McLaurin


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The result was keep. – bradv  🍁  05:40, 17 August 2019 (UTC)

Virginia McLaurin

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Fails WP:GNG and is full of shameless promotion. She is just a local volunteer who is older then most others. Sources in the article are WP:ROUTINE coverage like had bed bugs in her apartment and used the media to get free help, and did something quirky around a President, but notability is not inherited per WP:NOTINHERITED. The article also tries to build her up by tying her to segregation, women's suffrage, and MLK's assassination despite her having nothing to do with that stuff. Newshunter12 (talk) 17:45, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
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 * Keep: WP:SIGCOV exists. She received the President's Volunteer Service Award - danced with the Obamas. and McLaurin received a volunteer community service award from Mayor Vincent C. Gray in recognition of her volunteer work. (The awards do not qualify her for WP:ANYBIO) but the woman managed to make herself notable through longevity and getting into international news [BBC so the article passes our GNG with [[WP:RS]] https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/virginia-mclaurin-109-birthday-harlem-globetrotters_n_5a9ee9a3e4b0d4f5b66b0ca2 Huffington Post ]. The writing in the article may be promotional however WP:NOTCLEANUP [ Wm335td (talk) 20:31, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * All of the coverage of her is WP:ROUTINE bed bug stuff or WP:ONEEVENT news features centered around some jiggling she did when meeting a president. None of that is sustained WP:SIGCOV of her life or deeds. She is an ordinary woman who happens to live in D.C. which is full of prominent people, some of whom she happened to have met or get awards from as countless others do, but she doesn't inherit their notability. Newshunter12 (talk) 20:45, 9 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete This is a horrible example of presentism. Nothing she has done rises above routine.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:30, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per GNG (BBC, ESPN, Washington Post), but needs serious cleanup and trimming. — JFG talk 04:26, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * @JFG The BBC "source" is just a video only notable and recorded because it had a president in it, not her, the ESPN article is a short little opinion fluff piece, not hard WP:SIGCOV of her, and the Washington Post article is a fluff feature only in existence because she did something quirky around a president, which is where the bulk of "her" coverage comes from. She and her bed bugs are not notable, Barrack Obama is. Newshunter12 (talk) 04:38, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I've done all the cleanup I could. Found more in-depth coverage at The Independent, and removed some bad sourcing. Re: only in existence because she did something quirky around a president, it's not our business to opine on why a person gets coverage; all that matters is that she did get coverage in multiple independent RS, hence it's still a Keep. — JFG talk 06:36, 10 August 2019 (UTC)


 * Keep Meets WP:GNG. 172.56.28.248 (talk) 14:57, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
 * banned sock struck. -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:42, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Per WP:GNG and WP:SIGCOV. 71.161.233.35 (talk) 18:40, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Significant coverage, in reliable sources independent of the subject. Not only for her dance with the Obamas, but also before and after that. The article could use some additional articles to beef it up, but as is, the subject is already sufficiently notable. David in DC (talk) 16:07, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep as noted above, she won a major award for volunteerism. Her meeting with the Obamas became an Internet meme and she got lasting, significant coverage. Bearian (talk) 16:23, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is enough coverage. Szzuk (talk) 18:30, 16 August 2019 (UTC)


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