These guys don't even bother to do a little info search to see if the
person might have lots of interesting RS info about them.
On 1/6/2017 9:52 AM, Johanna-Hypatia Cybeleia wrote:
It was a bit of a shock to see on Nell Arthur
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nell_Arthur>'s page an imminent threat of
deletion. I wouldn't have thought an article on a First Lady could be so
vulnerable. Somebody is claiming that she has no notability just for
being married to the vice president who became president after her
death. It took me about 5 minutes to find RS for the fact that she was
indeed notable and she had everything to do with getting her husband's
political career going. He could not have accomplished what he did
without her.
smh
So I edited that fact in; in fact, I created a new section headed
"Political career." Now I can remove the deletion threat (just in time
before the ax falls!), but I became alarmed: Which other articles on
women are under this threat? OK, I'm biased: I come from the town named
after her dad. I couldn't just let her slip away.
Below is the text of the notice, one I haven't seen before, and it has
an alarming red-bordered appearance right up on top of the article, not
the talk page.
For equality,
J.Hy
It is *proposed that this article be deleted
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion>* because of
the following concern:
Notability is not inherited, and subject only seems to really be
known for her marriage to Chester A. Arthur
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_A._Arthur>. No indication of
meeting WP:Notability (people)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)> at all.
If you can address this concern by improving
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy>, copyediting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style>, sourcing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_Wiki_Markup/1>,
renaming
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page>, or merging
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging> the page, *please edit
this page
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nell_Arthur&action=edit>* and do
so. /You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise
object to deletion for any reason/. Although not required, you are
encouraged to explain why you object to the deletion, either in your
edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, *do not
replace it
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion#Nominating>*.
The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for seven
days, i.e., after 06:27, 7 January 2017 (UTC).
If you created the article, please don't be offended. Instead, consider
improving the article so that it is acceptable according to the deletion
policy <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy>.
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*Nominator:* Please consider notifying the author/project: |{{subst
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Substitution>:proposed deletion
notify
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Proposed_deletion_notify>|Nell
Arthur|concern=Notability is not inherited, and subject only seems to
really be known for her marriage to [[Chester A. Arthur]]. No indication
of meeting [[WP:Notability (people)]] at all.}} ~~~~|
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