Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee Barnes (cook)

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The result was Withdrawn. Thanks all for the sourcing deep dive. I withdraw the nom. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 18:10, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lee Barnes (cook)[edit]

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Failing to meet WP:NCREATIVE and WP:GNG. 2 sources are passing mentions, the other is a single paragraph, nothing more from WP:BEFORE searches. -- Amanda (aka DQ) 23:44, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 23:59, 28 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Some decent coverage here: [1] and here [2]. Don't have time to do a full BEFORE search at the moment. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 11:17, 29 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:GNG. She lived prior to the Internet, so sources are mostly books and newspapers. Bearian (talk) 00:36, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep per Bearian, in addition to the book sources there are some good articles on newspapers.com. SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 14:08, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Ms. Barnes is featured in many news articles during the time she had her restaurant, and taught cooking around the country (see newspapers.com).--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 21:50, 3 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Soft keep My analysis of the current sources is as follows:

Tulane Archives - Notable and useful

Newspapers.com AND Newspapers.com2 AND Newspapers.com3 - I cannot see. If the article is actually about the subject, it could be useful

Google Books - I could not open this source

"New Orleans Cuisine" - Seems like this could be a decent mention. I can only see one page on Google Books, but the mention seems to surpass triviality.

Baltimore Sun - Obituary, routine news coverage. Does not confer notability, most people have an obituary.

WWNO - Some okay coverage

So far, the sources as provided convince me to give a soft keep. I couldn't find anything else on my 19 page google search, but I think the sources as provided just push the subject over the edge into notability. Ikjbagl (talk) 06:28, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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