- 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The result was withdrawn and speedied as I subsequently rediscovered the existence of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Violet Edwards (politician) from 2021, which was about the same person, by the same creator, and was virtually the same article apart from a few insignificant wording changes. Bearcat ( talk) 20:49, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Violet Edwards
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WP:BLP of an officeholder at the county level of politics, not well-referenced as having a strong claim to passing
WP:NPOL #2. As always, politicians at the local level of office don't get an automatic notability freebie just because they exist, or even just because they can make a claim of the "first member of an underrepresented minority group to accomplish this not inherently notable thing in one specific county" variety -- officeholders at the county commission level need to demonstrate either that they had preexisting notability for other reasons besides the county commission itself (e.g. having previously served as a state legislator), or that they have a credible claim to nationalized significance that would make them markedly more special than most other county commissioners.
But neither of those things have been demonstrated here, and the sourcing is a mixture of
primary sources that aren't support for notability at all (raw tables of election results, staff profiles and press releases on the self-published websites of directly affiliated organizations, her own LinkedIn, a YouTube video) with a smattering of purely
run of the mill local media coverage that isn't enough to nationalize her significance.
Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have a stronger notability claim than just existing as a county commissioner. If she'd been the first African-American woman ever elected to any county commission anywhere in the entire United States, then there might be grounds for a Wikipedia article — but not just because she was the first African-American woman in one county.
Bearcat (
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15:17, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Alabama. Bearcat ( talk) 15:17, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 15:33, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- 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 withdrawn and speedied as I subsequently rediscovered the existence of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Violet Edwards (politician) from 2021, which was about the same person, by the same creator, and was virtually the same article apart from a few insignificant wording changes. Bearcat ( talk) 20:49, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
Violet Edwards
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- Violet Edwards ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log | edits since nomination)
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WP:BLP of an officeholder at the county level of politics, not well-referenced as having a strong claim to passing
WP:NPOL #2. As always, politicians at the local level of office don't get an automatic notability freebie just because they exist, or even just because they can make a claim of the "first member of an underrepresented minority group to accomplish this not inherently notable thing in one specific county" variety -- officeholders at the county commission level need to demonstrate either that they had preexisting notability for other reasons besides the county commission itself (e.g. having previously served as a state legislator), or that they have a credible claim to nationalized significance that would make them markedly more special than most other county commissioners.
But neither of those things have been demonstrated here, and the sourcing is a mixture of
primary sources that aren't support for notability at all (raw tables of election results, staff profiles and press releases on the self-published websites of directly affiliated organizations, her own LinkedIn, a YouTube video) with a smattering of purely
run of the mill local media coverage that isn't enough to nationalize her significance.
Nothing stated here is "inherently" notable enough to exempt her from having to have a stronger notability claim than just existing as a county commissioner. If she'd been the first African-American woman ever elected to any county commission anywhere in the entire United States, then there might be grounds for a Wikipedia article — but not just because she was the first African-American woman in one county.
Bearcat (
talk)
15:17, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politicians and Alabama. Bearcat ( talk) 15:17, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Women-related deletion discussions. Shellwood ( talk) 15:33, 28 May 2022 (UTC)