Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alberta Martin

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The result was keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 05:09, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alberta Martin[edit]

Procedural nomination. Expired prod with rationale:

Non-compliant with WP:BIO. Appears that she was briefly, wrongly thought to notable, but isn't. No sign of the media coverage mentioned below.

I'd tend to agree with that but I don't think the deletion would be entirely uncontroversial so I'm bringing it here. Pascal.Tesson 05:41, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Mentioned by New York Times here [1], and an August 2004 edition of History Today [2]. Being a long living confederate widow is considerably notable, since many long living people are reported by the press.--Alasdair 06:11, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep - June 2004 Headline: "Civil War continues to fascinate 139 years later as widow comes forward." So what do you think the newspapers are going to do? Of course, write about every detail of this woman's life and then when that is exhausted, write about the Civil War and its aftermath from her perspective, write about her family, the people she knew from her perspective, her thought and views, etc., ect., etc. They will have writtenabout it from Maine to California and it will have been picked up overseas and they will write about it over there, too. And will they stop writing about it? It fills copy and sells newspapers, so they will have wrote story after story over time about this topic. There is more than enough reliable source material out there for this topic to meet WP:N. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 07:04, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Keep - She was also well covered in the book Confederates in the Attic, and her funeral was covered by major media.--Bedford 13:34, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. She was married to a guy much older than her, and then she married his grandson. Is that not kinda like incest? Anyway, keep per everyone else.-h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 20:54, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. A New York Times obituary is evidence of sufficient notability. Gamaliel (Angry Mastodon! Run!) 01:39, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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