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The result was Withdrawn. I appreciate efforts of those to source and expand this beyond its initial form.
only (
talk) 16:56, 3 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Does not appear to be notable. Her "highest" title that I can see was "Dean of Women" at FSU. Nothing provided that suggests she passes
WP:GNG or specific guidelines for academic. While her obituary appears in the New York Times, it seems to be more of a "human interest" type piece in a series of NYT articles on people who have died due to COVID-19.
only (
talk) 10:50, 3 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep per sources identified by TJMSmith.
Spicy (
talk) 13:54, 3 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep. Human interest stories may have lower standards of fact-checking per
WP:NEWSORG, but I don't see evidence of that for NYTimes obituaries, even in the COVID era. Another obituary of depth appears in the Tallahassee Democrat
[1] and a shorter piece appears on ABC
[2]. The coverage of her honorary doctorate is also solid, per the source provided by
TJMSmith and also the FSU story on it
[3]. She also got some incidental coverage around the 2016 election for this
[4], see e.g.
[5]. Overall, including the substantial NYTimes obit, this looks like a solid keep.
Russ Woodroofe (
talk) 15:08, 3 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Keep Seems to have sufficient independant significant coverage. -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 16:37, 3 August 2020 (UTC)reply
Speedy keep flawed nomination. Nothing in GNG says anything about exclusion of human interest stories, it's about coverage only, not about the reason for the coverage. So we have no valid deletion rationale. And an NYT obituary almost always (maybe always) translates into notability by Wikipedia standards. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 16:45, 3 August 2020 (UTC)reply
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