Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Gail Trimble

List of sources indicating notability of Gail Trimble
A number of sources have been presented in the discussion, by myself and others, that indicate Trimble's degree of notability as more than someone getting just her fifteen minutes. Because the debate has become quite long, I am centralizing some of those references here on the talk page so that people can have a look at them.
 * 1) "The intellectual powerhouse that is Gail Trimble, captain of Corpus Christi's all-conquering University Challenge team, has divided the nation like no other figure since Margaret Thatcher". Self-evident claim of notability.
 * 2) . Coverage of Trimble outside the mere context of the event, and doesn't having the Times write an article about your engagement make you notable?
 * 3) " "Gail Trimble, the extraordinarily knowledgeable captain of the Corpus Christi (Oxford) team which won the latest run of University Challenge, a BBC quiz show, has stimulated a series of debates". Again, reference to her broad impact.
 * 4) "She has become a media sensation". If nothing else, proves the extent of coverage.
 * 5) "I'm sure everyone is by now familiar with Corpus Christi College and their all-conquering captain Gail Trimble". Once again, bold claim of notability by a major publication.
 * 6) "In a week dedicated to celebrating the nimble-witted Gail Trimble". A week, that's at least more than fifteen minutes.
 * 7) "Gail Trimble can draw in the viewers in a way that Cristiano Ronaldo can only dream of." Again, she's a big name.

The above is just a small sampling of the vast coverage out there at the moment, and some quotes I find particularly notable. It should be noted that the most recent of those quotes come from this morning, so even more than a week after the final episode of University Challenge, she's still getting covered. The quotes above also come from nearly every major newspaper in Britain, and if there's any particular paper you're interested in, I could drag it up too. Cool3 (talk) 21:28, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * From the Daily Star (perhaps not authoritative, but symptomatic and informative): "'Gail Trimble has left the fellas a-tremble after her stunning solo performance on University Challenge.... But not everyone is a fan. We told yesterday how Gail, who has been described as the cleverest student ever on the show, was at the centre of an online love-hate debate. While some Brits are embracing geeky Gail, others have labelled her “a horse-toothed snob”, “smug”, “patronising” and a “hateful know-it-all who ruins the show with her better-than-thou attitude”....'"
 * Ghmyrtle (talk) 23:09, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Surely the more sources you find which refer only to the one event, the stronger you make the case that it is the event rather than the person which is notable? Anna Rundell (talk) 23:54, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Surely you don't think that an article about her getting engaged is about the same event as her team winning University Challenge. Similarly, I think you'll find even by just looking at the titles, that the focus of most of the articles above is Trimble and the stir she has created, not University Challenge. Cool3 (talk) 00:00, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * How about this indicator of notability: "Having committed one of pop's cardinal sins by being perceived as too clever, Franz Ferdinand are in danger of becoming the Gail Trimble of the music business..."  Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:19, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Proposal at WT:BIO
I have made a proposal for a notability standard for gameshow contestants at Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(people). THF (talk) 19:03, 2 March 2009 (UTC)