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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 01:49, 17 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Kathy Westmoreland

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Totally unsourced BLPs should not exist. Jtrainor ( talk) 00:32, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply

• delete No sources, so no indication of notability, let alone the questioned accuracy of all the rest of it. Andy Dingley ( talk) 00:36, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• comments The text at the article feels copyvio, but googling a sample of text leads me only to Wikipedia-ripoff sites. Kathy Westmoreland's website is http://www.kathywestmoreland.us/ , but skimming through the Wayback machine, I don't see copyvio text there. Argyriou (talk) 00:46, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• Delete - Apparently attempts to inherit notability from Elvis. Even the additions by the (alleged) article subject don't add anything that suggests independent notability. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 01:22, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• Comment. I added a couple of references - these were first-page-of-Google finds and would have been seen by the nominator if he'd carried out a check per WP:BEFORE. Curious to know why they didn't add them instead of nominating. Anyhoo. I'm not totally convinced about Westmoreland's notability, but she might well hit the mark if there's offline sources from the 70's. Seven years as backing singer to a massive icon must've generated some coverage, so I'm not !voting either way just yet. Dylanfromthenorth ( talk) 01:32, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply

WP:NOTINHERITED. It doesn't really matter if she was Elvis' backing singer, the only question is what independent attention has been paid to her. Andy Dingley ( talk) 01:40, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Thank you for your statement of the obvious, if you read what I say you'll see that I already understand that perfectly clearly. Dylanfromthenorth ( talk) 02:16, 8 January 2016 (UTC) reply

• Weak keep I find lots of mentions. There's a 3-page chapter on her in this book: Williamson, Joel, and Donald L. Shaw. Elvis Presley: A Southern Life. , 2015 G-books. She worked with Steve Martin and there's a bit about her in this book about him: G-books. This author of this book interviewed her and her name appears over a dozen times: The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley By Alanna Nash. It's all still very much in the shadow of Elvis, but it is verifiable. Note that her own book, which does get quoted and cited some, and was probably ghost-written, only appears in less than 2 dozen WorldCat libraries. If this is deleted, I won't be surprised. LaMona ( talk) 04:24, 9 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Bands and musicians-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:28, 12 January 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 16:28, 12 January 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete and draft & userfy for now as this is not seemingly enough to satisfy the applicable notability guidelines. SwisterTwister talk 05:53, 14 January 2016 (UTC) reply
• Delete as non notable singer - Userfying's useless as it was created by an IP in 2005, Delete is the only sensible option here.... – Davey2010 ^Talk 00:24, 15 January 2016 (UTC) reply

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